The original cast (unfortunately without the late Peter Jones), a cameo by Douglas Adams himself..
And for those of you who aren't in the UK, you may appreciate knowing that Radio 4 make their programs available on their website for a week after the broadcast.
Unfortunately they're still in crappy real media format, but mplayer deals with them fine.
About time too:) - i've been looking forward to these for a long time, they were originally due to begin airing in February of this year but some licensing issues with the movie delayed that.
Not quite, and once again, the answer to that is on their website.
Extract from draft Home Office Guideleines on the Sexual Offences Act 2003
8.11 Section 46 creates a limited defence to the offence of "making" an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child, under section 1(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978. "Making" covers, for example, the situation where a person downloads an image from the Internet or copies a computer hard drive. The defence applies where a person "making" such a photograph or pseudo-photograph can prove that it was necessary for him to do so for the purposes of the prevention, detection or investigation of crime, or for the purposes of criminal proceedings.
8.12 This defence is intended to reassure people such as police officers, staff of the Internet Watch Foundation, and staff in ISPs and systems management who have a role in identifying and securing such data for evidential and investigative purposes, that they can do so without fear of prosecution. The creation of the defence is not intended to encourage individuals to undertake their own unauthorised investigations.
Hey, it's amazing what you can find if you bother to read.
I understand that looking stuff up for yourself isn't really the done thing on Slashdot, so let me help you out...
According to their webpage (linked at various other points in the comments as well)
Essentially the IWF provide a hotline for the public to report their inadvertent exposure to illegal content on the internet and then they work with law enforcement agencies at home and abroad to have the content removed and the potential offenders traced.
and
At the heart of the work of the IWF is the operation of the hot-line. Staff receive and investigate complaints about alleged illegal content. This may be a Web site, a newsgroup or indeed online content posted to various areas of the internet. The IWF proactively monitors particular newsgroups which are known as on-line venues for paedophiles. Currently the hotline processes some 400 reports a week.
If potentially illegal content is found to be hosted in the UK then the IWF issue a 'notice' to the hosting ISP to 'take down' the content and the police are invited to investigate the individual(s) responsible for posting the content.
Reading stories like these.... which you obviously didn't.
From the article:
Pierre Danon, chief executive of BT retail, said the company was blocking access to hundreds of sites which had been identified by the Internet Watch Foundation.
and
Websites assessed by the IWF as "illegal to view" under the 1978 Child Protection Act were targeted by BT.
Extension is a very simple addon to the context menu that provide you with the following:
* Opens all links in a selection in new tabs or windows
* Finds and opens link in plain text in a new tab or window
* Opens all links on page in new tabs or windows, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Given that one of those is "News for Nerds" and one is "It's not News,
You want a 24 Bit crayon set
From that HOWTO:
Remember, most women would rather chew off a leg than be rude to a man to his face,
I really want to know what planet whoever wrote this document is from.
Will this joke ever grow old?
Err, this is Slashdot, what do you think?
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(exploding several tons of slow-decaying radioactive material several miles above Florida would probably be a Bad Thing)
Yeah, why waste the energy getting it several miles above Florida.
Explode it right in the centre of the State and we might all wake up to clean inboxes the next morning
Skype do sell a phone which plugs into the USB port on your PC to use the skype network.
I don't imagine a wi-fi one can be too far behind.
Somewhere, in a server room (possibly in the vicinity of Betelgeuse)
...
Techie: Oh, Belgium, Slashdot linked to us
Something tells me their webserver's suddenly developed a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left hand side.
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:) - i've been looking forward to these for a long time, they were originally due to begin airing in February of this year but some licensing issues with the movie delayed that.
The original cast (unfortunately without the late Peter Jones), a cameo by Douglas Adams himself
And for those of you who aren't in the UK, you may appreciate knowing that Radio 4 make their programs available on their website for a week after the broadcast.
Unfortunately they're still in crappy real media format, but mplayer deals with them fine.
About time too
Well, in their defence, didn't one of them state in Fahrenheit 9/11 that they don't even bother to read the text of the laws they pass?
So they may not all be liars, some of them may merely be incompetent morons with the intelligence of the common garden slug.
Welcome to America, where it's Government of the people, by the Corporations, and for the Corporations
And then smash her up with a hammer, warm in an oven for a few hours and have your very own genuine Natalie Portman Hot Grit
of the understatement of the year contest goes to:
"It was probably a mistake,"
"What if everything that we think is needed for life to appear is/was present, yet no life is found?"
You can bet that most of the major religions are hoping for that outcome.
Last I checked this was still the "land of the free".
Just out of curiousity, how many years has it been since you checked that?
Hey, it's amazing what you can find if you bother to read.
I understand that looking stuff up for yourself isn't really the done thing on Slashdot, so let me help you out
According to their webpage (linked at various other points in the comments as well)
and
See, that wasn't too difficult.
In other words, BT can't guarantee that they've covered everything?
Granted, but is that necessarily a valid reason for not trying?
From the article:
and
Are there actually people on Slashdot with enough postings to have mod points who haven't read War of the Worlds?
I use Opera which supports typing "g " to do a google search "z " to do an Amazon search, etc. right in the address bar.
So does Firefox, you can set up keywords to do that for any of your bookmarks.
Dear God man, if you had a boss like that, why would you want to work from home?
Linky
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JumpLink
Why do I get the feeling the Slashdot community may find these of some assistance
or sever the US from the rest of the internet
There are times when I almost wish you'd do that, at least then the rest of us wouldn't get anywhere near as much spam as we do now.