I love Christmas, and I love Dell computers. When I found out that Dell Outlet UK was using Twitter to announce special deals and offers, I couldn’t resist following them. The savings on offer are just brilliant and some are so low you can’t help wonder “Are Dell even making profit on this?”.
If you want to get yourself a nice laptop or desktop computer in time for Christmas, and save money, check out the Dell UK Outlet store or follow them on twitter here.
“Starting December 4th, Wikipedia administrators noticed a surge of edits from certain IP addresses. These IPs turned out to be the proxies for the content filters of at least 6 major UK ISPs. After some research by Wikipedians, it appears that the image of the 1970s LP cover art of the Scorpions’ ‘Virgin Killer’ album has been blocked because it was judged to be ‘child pornography,’ and all other attempts to access Wikimedia foundation sites from these ISPs are being proxied to only a few IP addresses. This is causing many problems for Wikipedia administrators, because much of the UK vandalism now comes from a single IP, which, when blocked, affects potentially hundreds of thousands of anonymous users who intend no harm and are utterly confused as to why they are no longer able to edit. The image was flagged by the the Internet Watch Foundation, which is funded by the EU and the UK government, and has the support of many ISPs and online institutions in the UK. The filter is fairly easy to circumvent simply by viewing the article in some other languages, or by logging in on the secure version of Wikipedia.”
From Slashdot. Interesting to note that whilst Orange is not on the list, they are blocking access to the article on Wikipedia.
Welcome to the invisible UK firewall that we didn’t tell you about. I think that’s much more worse than the China firewall.
