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I arrived in Manila on Friday, got to The Peninsula at 12.30pm. I decided to have a quick read of my book before popping over to Glorietta for some lunch. At about 2pm, I left the hotel and headed over there, noticing a helicopter in the air and sirens. I got stopped by the police, saying there had been an explosion:
At least eight people have died after a suspected bomb attack in the Philippine capital, Manila.
The lunchtime blast shattered windows and sent debris crashing onto cars at the Glorietta shopping complex.
More than 100 people were hurt in the explosion, in the city’s Makati business district.
FMA, I’m glad I like reading.
For international users. Time to find a UK proxy. Been meaning to anyway, so I can listen to the Radio 5 Live match commentary.
Advertising will appear on the BBC News website for users outside the UK, the corporation’s commercial arm says.
The BBC argues that overseas readers, who do not pay the licence fee, should contribute towards the costs.
Probably going to start next month:
We will not be offering highly intrusive advertising and are taking significant steps to manage any potential conflict of interest between advertisers and editorial content to ensure our journalism is not compromised in any way.
We recognise that some users will be unhappy with this change. However in tests and surveys in advance of this change the majority of international users did not express a strong objection and a majority of those surveyed in the UK agreed with the principle of advertising for international users.
In the first phase, advertising will be introduced, probably next month, on selected high traffic pages visible only to those logging in from outside the UK. In a second phase, advertising will be rolled out across more of the site, again only when viewed from outside the UK.
I just hope we get the same news content.
Did you know Gordon Brown had a fake eye?!
OMFG! Backside firework prank backfires:
A man suffered internal burns when he tried to launch a rocket from his bottom on Bonfire Night. Paramedics found the 22-year-old bleeding, with a Black Cat Thunderbolt Rocket lodged inside him, when they attended the scene in Sunderland.
He suffered a scorched colon and is now recovering in hospital, where his condition is described as stable.
A spokesman for the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) said the prank could have been fatal.
Douglas McDougal, from the NEAS, said: “We received a call stating there was a male who had a firework in his bottom and it was bleeding.
“He sustained fairly significant injuries in the fact that there’s huge damage to that particular area.”
Record companies sue unemployed Hong Kong father for Internet piracy.
Seven record companies are suing an unemployed single father of four in Hong Kong for illegally uploading music to the Internet, even though he claims he doesn’t know how to switch on a computer, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The accused, Yeung Chun-choi, 54, suspects that his two teenage daughters were the ones who allegedly downloaded, uploaded and stored illegal copies of copyrighted music from Hong Kong POP stars, the South China Morning Post reported.
The record companies filed a writ against Yeung on Friday in the High Court, the paper said. Along with unspecified damages, the companies want an injunction to stop Yeung from infringing their copyrights, it said. The firms also want him to delete all illegal files, and they want the court to find out how much music he allegedly pirated, the paper said.
Company and court officials couldn’t be reached by The Associated Press for comment on Sunday.
Yeung, a former construction worker, said he hasn’t worked for the past three years because he’s been focusing on caring for his four children, the paper reported. He said he relies on a HK$8,000 (US$1,025) monthly welfare payment to raise his family, the paper said.
The father, whose wife died in an industrial accident in 2001, said the family’s computer was supplied by a social worker.
“I don’t know anything about computers. I don’t even know how to switch it on,” he was quoted as saying.
He said his daughters use the computer to do homework and sometimes he heard music coming from the machine, the paper reported.
The record companies in the lawsuit include Cineploy, Emperor Entertainment, Go East Entertainment, Gold Label Entertainment, Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Hong Kong), Universal Music and Warner Music Hong Kong, the paper said.
I want to know how they found him.
Ah, more here.
I wrote something about this the other week. I’ll dig it out.
Just pisses me off. Go for the big fish or the original uploader, don’t target unemployed guys who just happen to let their kids use a computer however they like.
Time for I2P then:
I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.
It went off the other day on the BBC website for feedback. Apparently the BBC’s Newsnight programme had said something like using Bittorrent made you a terrorist or a paedophile. Apparently that part is not true, but they did equate BT usage with copyright infringement.
The producer has backtracked with an entire article - A bit of BitTorrent bother.
First time I’ve almost seen the word ’shit’ on a BBC website.
The Motion Picture Assn. of America, the leader in the global fight against movie piracy, is being accused of unlawfully making a bootleg copy of a documentary that takes a critical look at the MPAA’s film ratings system.
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