I'm pretty sure Virgin isn't rolling out Fibre-to-the-home, just using their existing cable network

Correct. I'm always amazed they've got away with advertising like this for so long. It's coax to the house.
I used them for eight years through the Telewest/NTL merger and the Virgin rebranding while they got steadily worse and worse. I had their 10Mbps/512kbps service which struggled to provide half that most of the time. I suspect they spend more on advertising than they do on infrastructure.
The awful upload speeds (which they no longer even mention), the afternoon & evening 'subscriber traffic management' (bandwidth throttling) and the Phorm debacle finaly convinced me to dump them for Be DSL with whom I get twice the speed despite being a mile from the exchange.

Or having TVs and monitors produce some suitably low level of UVB.

Oops, no it's not. Bugger. It slipped in a flash one to confuse me.

You need to install libavcodec-extra-52. It's working for me now.

I've got chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree installed which includes h264 on Ubuntu Karmic. Still doesn't work.

but was impressed at how quickly I liked the characters

I thought they were all pretty awful apart from Rush and Eli, although Eli did have that godawful 'a man died today' line. *shudder*

Oh, and that math puzzle in the video game thing was just idiotic.

Apparently Apple did something today. Doesn't work for me either.

Nah. He's more like John Klieg, the patent troll from John Barnes' Mother of Storms.

So often the response by politicians to low voter turnout is to propose measures like postal ballots or internet voting (because voting is SO difficult and time consuming) rather than addressing the problem that such a large chunk of the electorate see none of the candidates as worth voting for or the whole process as meaningless, changing nothing.

Given that the PRS are the reason I can't listen to the radio at work anymore, I hope YouTube and Pandora tell them to get lost.

Switch to a (non BT) ADSL provider. I dumped Virgin for Be a few months back due to slow downloads, STM, Phorm etc and despite the fact that I'm only syncing at 10Mbit due to distance from the exchange it still shows Virgin up for the steaming pile of crap that it is.

Why? You know where the link goes. If you don't want to see it then obviously you don't follow the link.

It doesn't need to be 100% for the government's purposes anyway (assuming that the 'think of the children' is just a smokescreen). It's fairly trivial to circumvent anyway. However it'd be handy for hindering instant mass public knowledge of things.

The more the merrier.

Spore (and other EA games) are coming to Steam.
So near.
they've begun selling games priced in local currency for European customers. The only problem? Their conversion rate seems to be $1 per â1.
Yet so far.

*Rehoists the Jolly Roger*