Dropsafe

Has anyone else been experiencing Google StreetView not launching when you drag the yellow man onto the map? # @Tony_1976 just overflew HW. in reply to Tony_1976 # #farn10 B52 just overflew hartley wintney course NW # Dropsafe: NEWS: BBC served with FOIA request re: killing Beebplayer, iPlayer anticompetitiveness http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4233 # @ian_magic_gray So you question…

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The debacle that I wrote-up a few days ago is now hotting up: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/beebplayer#incoming-99637 Tom Adams 12 July 2010 Dear British Broadcasting Corporation, Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like a copy of the following documents: 1. All correspondence with Dave Johnson in relation to beebPlayer, an Android application for accessing iPlayer content.…

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Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/7/95061-youre-doing-it-wrong/fulltext # @adriana872 Yes, but you wouldn't take a spoon into the toilet. 🙂 in reply to adriana872 # Introduction to Web3.0 – somehow I find this apt. http://twitpic.com/24w2sy # Dropsafe: Reflections on Time http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4230 # @pauljakma By HTML do you mean "Non-flash and available…

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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/07/is-time-disappearing-from-the-universe-radical-theory-says-yes.html The team’s proposal, published in the journal Physical Review D, dismisses dark energy as fiction. Instead, Senovilla says, the appearance of acceleration is caused by time itself gradually slowing down, like a clock with a run-down battery. “We do not say that the expansion of the universe itself is an illusion,” he explains. “What…

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@SouthLondonGN hope so in reply to SouthLondonGN # HTC Dream/G1 has been rooted, and #CyanogenMod 6.0.0rc1 installed (FroYo-ish) – so far pretty good. # Tip for #android users – if you have an app you really like, download the APK to keep it, else the market could delist it forever… 🙁 # HUGELY FAIL http://bit.ly/9829U7…

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tl;dr: The BBC have provided ultra-minimal flash-based iPlayer with reduced functionality on the latest Android 2.2 upwards, whilst simultaneously killing “beebPlayer” – a free app that provided (better) functionality on Android versions 1.5 upwards. All folk stuck on older (2.1 and below) Android systems will never have iPlayer again. My context I love the BBC…

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Belgian courts refuse to force 2 biggest ISPs to block #ThePirateBay at behest of Copyright-Piracy Pressure Group http://bit.ly/dhp65w # @ramtopsrac Precisely for which end result are you praying? I'd like to know maybe which side to back… in reply to ramtopsrac # @ramtopsrac So you've no opinion, & you fear that there might be an…

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@darrenmoffat just think of the oppty yr missing to insert Javascript into your emails, so you can marquee your .sig block 🙂 in reply to darrenmoffat # gimp robin is not magnetoreceptive: http://bit.ly/9Txp5p # @pauljakma i read it that if the mask covers the right eye, they lose magnetosense? in reply to pauljakma # @ramtopsrac…

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@r4today sneaky wording for #DAB switchover, Gov't can use iPlayer internet "digital" listening minutes to justify FM switchoff at 50% limit # @r4today "FM will always be available for local" / 2015 FM switchoff target date set by #DAB industry # Anybody know how to find out how many 6Music listeners were Sky/iPlayer, vs #DAB…

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Dropsafe: Science is the Art of the Demonstrable http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4183 # You have to be a coder to see why this is very very funny… or horrific. I'm going with the former, though. http://bit.ly/bAU1Zy # "But journalists don't make errors – they check their sources!" http://www.butireaditinthepaper.co.uk/2010/07/06/aol-in-huge-fail/ # @spufidoo quoi? in reply to spufidoo # After 12…

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Sometime back in 1996 I was in a lovely cafe in Palo Alto, having breakfast with Diffie; Whit slid a stapled printout of an academic paper across the table, and asked me what I thought of it. The paper was: “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”. I remember the scene quite…

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Dropsafe: My friend Bridget discovers the new, anti-competitive approach to schooling http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4176 # "I cannot claim to have seen the final picture – these things are no longer claimable on parliamentary expenses" http://bit.ly/9csi52 # Just so you know, this is how someone is condemned to be stoned to death in the present day: http://bit.ly/bUoOBb #…

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