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Comment Re:Math Quiz (Score 1) 112

by buttwidget on Thursday July 03, 2008 @03:28AM (#24040499) Attached to: First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier

So what's this about passing gas? There's a shockwave, and thereby a sound?

BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak 369

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @01:55PM from the kick-their-dog-while-you're-at-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The future of iPlayer, the BBC's new online on-demand system for delivering content, is continuing to look bleaker. With ISPs threatening to throttle the content delivered through the iPlayer, consumers petitioning the UK government and the BBC to drop the DRM and Microsoft-only technology, and threatened legal action from the OSC, the last thing the BBC wanted to see today was street protests at their office and at the BBC Media Complex accompanied by a report issued by DefectiveByDesign about their association with Microsoft."

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