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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,… Read more »

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BBC: Executive salaries frozen
BBC cuts executive salary spending

By politics.co.uk staff The BBC will cut the amount it spends on the salaries of its 650 senior managers by 25 per cent over the next three and a half years. The corporation appears to wish to cut posts, rather than the level of income, with estimates of an 18 per cent reduction in senior… Read more »

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Illegal downloaders could be banned from internet
Illegal filesharers facing 2011 bans

By Alex Stevenson Illegal filesharers could find themselves being suspended from the internet as soon as the summer of 2011. The government’s digital creative industries bill, to be announced in the Queen’s Speech, will contain the previously announced ‘three-strikes-and-you’re-out’ proposals. The bill could become law before the general election, but those persistently downloading films and… Read more »