Posted by on under internet filtering system, legal material, legal content, internet filter, digg, illegal material, targets, australia | 
Australia's government-mandated Internet filtering system won't allow users to opt out of a filtering tier that targets "illegal" material. But a conservative party is already suggesting that legal material be added to the mandatory tier.
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Posted by on under secd, bil, japan, australia |
If you're traveling overseas to Japan, the UK, Brazil or Australia and try to access Gizmodo, you'll get the local version to that country. Here's how to get the regular US site.
The first method is to manually visit us.gizmodo.com, which will show you the US site no matter where you are.
The second is to go to us.gizmodo.com and log into your commenter account. If you don't already have one, the instructions on how to sign up are down at the bottom of each post page, next to where you comment. As long as you're logged into the site and your cookie is fresh, you'll always be directed to the US site, even if you just type in gizmodo.com.
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Posted by on under research in motion, moti, quarter profit, blackberry |
Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. declined in premarket trading after the BlackBerry smart phone maker cut its third-quarter profit and sales forecasts, citing the effect of the strong dollar and the weak U.S. economy.
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Posted by on under secd, bil, japan, australia |
If you're traveling overseas to Japan, the UK, Brazil or Australia and try to access Gizmodo, you'll get the local version to that country. Here's how to get the regular US site.
The first method is to manually visit us.gizmodo.com, which will show you the US site no matter where you are.
The second is to go to us.gizmodo.com and log into your commenter account. If you don't already have one, the instructions on how to sign up are down at the bottom of each post page, next to where you comment. As long as you're logged into the site and your cookie is fresh, you'll always be directed to the US site, even if you just type in gizmodo.com.
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Posted by on under woomera rocket range, boing boing, dean cox, rocket scientists, craft design, future space, space craft, article comments, jas, helping hand, rolls royce, dean, australia |
Jason sez, "A beautiful entry at the Letters Of Note website detailing a card sent to the Woomera Rocket Range in Australia, 1957, by a little boy named Dean Cox. Dean provided the rocket scientists a helping hand with future space craft design offering his concept of a Rolls Royce Jet Engined-powered two man vehicle- but beyond that, the scientists would have to "put in other details". Turns out 52 years later he's been tracked down (see article comments) and he's still waiting for a reply." TO A TOP SCIENTIST (Thanks, Jason!)...
Tagi: woomera rocket range, boing boing, dean cox, rocket scientists, craft design, future space, space craft, article comments, jas, helping hand, rolls royce, dean, australia
