News - Wikipedia offline for 24 hours in protest of SOPA and PIPA

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Wikipedia flexes its muscles in protest of anti-piracy bill.

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But i have essays to do this week!

Remember these things?

http://www.ilovesweethearts.co.uk/bl...01/library.jpg

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

Remember these things?

http://www.ilovesweethearts.co.uk/bl...01/library.jpg

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Yes. I'm hoping whoever took my copy form the library will bring it back tomorrow as expected. :mrgreen:

As a side note; does anyone here have any experience of signing up to a 'journal' website? IS there some specific ones i should look over (namely for philosophy/politics).

SOPA has been completely vetoed as far as I'm aware. It's only PIPA that's still being debated.

@Rupert Murdoch - thievery? Like your assets stealing people's phone messages?

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Originally Posted by Terbinator

Yes. I'm hoping whoever took my copy form the library will bring it back tomorrow as expected. :mrgreen:

As a side note; does anyone here have any experience of signing up to a 'journal' website? IS there some specific ones i should look over (namely for philosophy/politics).

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If you're a student then your university will provide access to most journal websites via the Athens authentication system. You should never have to sign up to a journal unless it's free, the cost of individual papers is often £20+.

If you need to find information about a specific topic you can either use something like Google Scholar (pretty good) or the ISI Web of Knowledge. Not sure what you need, but if you need to simply browse a journal then you'll already know which ones are important. I never bother to browse stuff like Phys Rev because it's so voluminous. Far easier to filter papers on what I'm researching and pick out the ones that look good.

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Originally Posted by Whiternoise

SOPA has been completely vetoed as far as I'm aware. It's only PIPA that's still being debated.

@Rupert Murdoch - thievery? Like your assets stealing people's phone messages?



If you're a student then your university will provide access to most journal websites via the Athens authentication system. You should never have to sign up to a journal unless it's free, the cost of individual papers is often £20+.

If you need to find information about a specific topic you can either use something like Google Scholar (pretty good) or the ISI Web of Knowledge. Not sure what you need, but if you need to simply browse a journal then you'll already know which ones are important. I never bother to browse stuff like Phys Rev because it's so voluminous. Far easier to filter papers on what I'm researching and pick out the ones that look good.

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SOPA has been vetoed by whom? Certainly not by Obama.

Imagine all the students tomorrow not being able to search wikipedia and then thinking about where their library is actually located :-D

SOPA has been "shelved" by Congress. It may come back in a different form later. PIPA is still going ahead.

http://sopastrike.com/

If google joined in the strike, that would be it, the bills wouldnt stand a chance. Its a shame that they cant afford to lose the advertising revenue :(

You can just press escape before the pages have finished loading - leaving all content and preventing the black window to come up :)

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Originally Posted by Badbonji

You can just press escape before the pages have finished loading - leaving all content and preventing the black window to come up :)

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You can but as soon as you click a link/search you are taken to the offline message, I suppose it depends on the speed of your internet as to whether you can press escape at the right time!! :(