* Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

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China unbans the Beeb

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Pirate

Lifted

The People's version has been readily available in a format utilised by some of the most widely read people on the planet.

OK maybe it loses something in translation but hey, it IS the People's BBCN

Oregon man stripped by Craigslist looters

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Huntin Fishin Lootin

Ard shur like fer ter see theyem boys tra thayat ayen a layand whur we got gunz.

Oh, wait!

Doh! Stupid NRA!

Cyber attacks target pro-Tibetan groups

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> @ac

Any idea if the dissidents have much space on Opera:

Deleted Messages

By EspenAO. Tuesday, 21. August 2007, 15:45:21

At 1:00 PM CEST today there was an unfortunate incident that resulted in all private messages being deleted from our servers. We are working on restoring the messages as we speak, and we'll get back to you with more information as soon as we can.

http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2007/08/21/deleted-messages?cid=3474600&startidx=150#comment3474600

I imagine Google Groups get a fair bit of said targeting too. They are looking a little pasty atm.

Couple that with the spate of spam eventsd sice the cable outages and we should be looking at pinpointing the focus of conspiracy theories.

But clipping China's wings should be relatively easy, no?

Nobody likes them except the large conglomerates getting into bed with them and being screwed because of it (a self healing sectionally transmitted disease.) So who is going to lose out?

Why would someone toss $1.35m at Wikipedia?

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> Scraping the bottom of the wiki-barrel

The Wiki is a powerful tool for propaganda. It has been used for various US politicians. One of it's editors has been highlighted in Michael Moore's own propaganda as a fellow given to misrepresenting him.

It regularly appears at or near the top of the first page a "search" turns up. I don't doubt that Google could reverse such tendencies but given the owners of Google too are rich and no doubt want to remain so...

Cambridge boffins draw map to Free Our Data

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Happy

Oh MAN! If only.

I make extensive use of weather charts and have to go to European sites to get them. But they have been prepared by the MetO.

I don't mind paying £2.99 for a road atlas and I have never used Tom Tom. But if this goes through I'd be an happy chappy.

HEY!!!

Why can't I have a thumbs up and a smilie face?

Sequoia attack dogs kill review into e-voting discrepancies

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It isn't the vote

The worst thing about US politics is that they have a system of taking bribes paid for by company reps with a spending budget that can only be matched by the likes of Donald Rumsfeld being directors of such companies.

Make Parliamentary "researchers" look positively harmless.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, a politician is going to get in.

Pentagon says sat-smash smithereen cloud almost gone

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Black Helicopters

Missing the bus?

The military were surprised to find that the craft was pulverised? Am I the only one who can think of a more likely alternative?

On contact the fuel ignites and takes the said sat away at a rate of knots. Later, when no one is looking, it comes back to haunt us.

Security researchers show how to hook phishers

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Black Helicopters

Who me? Prove it.

Isn't the problem that lamers and people like me don't know enough to secure their PCs?

Arthur C. Clarke dead at 90

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Flame

The Clarke Orbit. The death on monkeys.

If there is one thing the internet has shown is that a bunch of half temperate monkeys plonking on a myriad keyboards couldn't even come up with the conclusion that the The Clarke Orbit. is an obvious state that applies for any given planet or satellite according to its escape velocity.

That had to be postulated by a genius.

A very boring fatuous one.

Ohio voting machines confiscated in criminal investigation

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> Richest third-world nation on the planet.

After China... a long way after China.

Probably richer than Nigeria. Certainly with a better health service than there, mostly.

Patent Office loses software not a patent case

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@Mark

Maybe the Judge is thinking of emigrating to East Texas.

Everything seems to have gone west these days. Even the right to get the case heard there so maybe by the time he gets there it will be US.

Net think tank: Phorm is illegal

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@Colin x@Graham Wood

You live in Sedgefield?

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@Tesco Clubcard

And of course you can get your negotiables elsewhere.

Korea's P2P pirate goes legal, targets Europe

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Never mind the quality feed the width

Like the BBC there is a certain lack of understanding of the potential in the internets. I vote George Bush should go in and shoot every one of the buggers.

What I would do if I was sock puppet to the USA in chief is tell the bloody fools in the BBC to join forces with the other TV barons and all the UK/EU/World wide ISPs have a joint server pushing P2P with adverts.

Then anyone who wants to make a digi-song can sign up with them or go it alone or whatever subtle fork there can be to this.

And then any strain on the bandwidth, or whatever any particular ISP finds, can be mitigated with some other work-around.

When the hell will that happen?

Never!

So buggerem hand and shrimp. Let's hear it for the pirates.

Gibson and Activision duel over Guitar Hero

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Judge John. The Sherif of Ward

> Guitar Hero was first released in 2005. Activision claims

> that by waiting so long before voicing a complaint, Gibson

> tacitly gave the publisher a licence for its technology.

I imagine this is assuming that the company had access to the codes?

As for such things being patentable: I gather there is no such thing outside the USA. And even there it only got out of hand because a patent trolling attorney is the son of a local judge in some god-forsaken town in Texas.

Gotta be a John Travolta film in that scenario. Or maybe Al Pacino?

Title: The Man From the Eastern District of Texas.

Tit II: The Hangin Patent Judge.

House of Reps passes FISA bill sans telecom immunity provision

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Oofs of Office.

> Now as all the evidence has been locked away under a permanent

> classification seal by Darth or has been fed into the furnace via a

> paper shredder getting a Federal Court to convict these

> questionable flotsam on hearsay would be well nigh implausible

> to say the least !

It has been mooted one of those mid morning BBC 2 Finance/Political shows that the recession in the USA is likely to cost a trillion dollars or the annual income/GNP/whatever of the country.

But we are going to get plonked deep and dirty too as we import ex cold war country labour (never mind why) without preventing their taking their money back with them.

Couple that with the junk bonds the British banks bought from the US and we have a bigger pit to wallow in than we had in the 1930's.

At least we kept the natives quiet in our day. And if there was any trouble we only had to bomb their women. children, tents and flocks with hand grenades thrown out of biplanes.

This bloody monkey and his ex sock puppet didn't have a bloody clue.

Fortunately, we live in the age of "the internets", so I doubt these secrets will remain secrets once the people who made illicit copies see their time has come.

When you are a chimpanzee you can fool yourself cant fool again shame on me.

****

We have a penguin, a vulture and a Paris Hilton along with various incarnations of BillanSteve, how about a chimp of office? Or would that be too much like Paris Hilton? Something along the lines of:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/bush_finger_32.png perhaps?

(http://www.sumitsays.com/eyecam/archives/2004/11/03/bush_finger.jpg)

MPs get £2k home cinema on taxpayers

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@Thrifty!

I was considering asking what a work station is as it seems a little on the pawky side for such a pig trough of a list.

Then I saw someone had answered it. Just a desk. A vital piece of equipment for an MP, I'd have thought. And the cheapest thing there besides the shredder. How come the shredder isn't office expenses?

I have always thought that Guy Fawkes was the only decent British politician ever. A role model we should strive to emulate in every way and the source of a bloody good party afterwards too.

The only problem is that blowing the gluttonous bastards up would be too easy on them. I would much prefer hanging drawing and quartering them.

BBC's download iPlayer goes titsup

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BBC Crapware

How much do those fools spend on overly expensive and not very good equipment?

Was there anything about their various incarnations of their weather presentation IP on The Register?

It all started in the 1970's when an apparent need was first observed. This was in the days before overhead cameras evidently:

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=FhoUq6PSJJE&feature=related

The BBC's problem in the old days was that they felt the need to present technical stuff. And of course with progress, that meant lots of studio acreage:

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ScfBGh0GQ&feature=related

Something had to give.

So what was the answer? Behold, the green-screen:

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd6DuebHliY&feature=related

You can see the problem straight away, yes, it is an ideal format for presenting technical stuff but do away with the meteorology aspect and there is room for larger maps so people can see where they live.

Free mugs for anyone who spotted the NZ in the above links. Here is an expensive alternative to weather presentation:

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=G3FwLD3ceqc

If you pay careful attention you can see a female presenter wondering where all the petty cash went.

And then pointing to New Zealand. The piss taking kiwi bastards!

Terry Pratchett donates £500k to Alzheimer's charity

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Grace and flavour.

"Personally, I'd eat the arse out of a dead mole if it offered a fighting chance."

Easy when you know that you'll have forgotten you did it half an hour later...

Not so easy if you think you might not get better and end up thinking for the rest of your life, that you just did it.

More Ketchup my little lawn ornament?

John Denver classic provokes Thai karaoke gun massacre

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Go

Noise abatement.

"since when did killing 8 people become funny?"

When the local plod have a failure to protect and there are one or two locals who have the balls to protest too much. That's when.

If it is true the victims were miscreants then the police were as much to blame as the noisy neighbours.

But I'd have been happy to settle for a spot of arson of the buying a second home in Wales in the good old days variety.

Failing that, shooting out the electricity cables should have done the trick, if that failed to convince an horses head in the bed. Then knee capping, then the ultimate noise abatement sanction.

It seems the victim is going to get done for a lack of foresight:

First, dispose of the evidence, then dispose of the witnesses.

It's amazing how a community can rally around a local hero. Especially one who wears a mask. Underpants over trousers -optional.

Mozilla reaches stage 4 of Firefox 3 beta endurance test

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@Teh Triple

Thames Water can't be worse than OnStream can they.

At least their engineers are their engineers.

Right?

Windows better off closed, says Microsoft

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@Andraž Levstik

""Well they have a point... From some twisted Microsoft sort of world view...

That way nobody else could possibly look at their bitrotten code and figure out how to actually fix everything wrong...""

That's the problem.

They know exactly how to fix everything wrong. That's why I never update their stuff.

Data pimping: surveillance expert raises illegal wiretap worries

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@Steve

Posted onto Firefox.

I have no doubt that an extension will be made ready by the time the bastards have the scam set up.

(http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3281599#3281599)

No doubt Opera will too.

Who knows, maybe even IE. (Joking.)

Wife rings up £11,000 downloading bill

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@Karl Lattimer

I did once wonder what it would be like to have a rewind facility and find out what the jokes were before the canned laughter cut it off.

But I am a little cerebral and require a moment to decide if something is funny. Decidedly slow analogue I know but...

...anyway. I never got around to it. Are they?

Ambitious China firms military and commercial R&D ties

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Coat

What pricks.

"Holly is indigenous to China?"

Eats, shoots and sticks around?

I wonder if they are copying the idea of the NSA eavesdropping by digging up all that cable and splicing in? Other than that, I can't see what the difference is.

They'd both not vote for a moron megalomaniac and get one. Democracy shamocracy, what's the big deal?

Whu.. is THAT my coat?

Wikileaks judge reverses takedown order

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Duh! Amendment.

..."Federal courts lack jurisdiction in cases where both the plaintiff and defendant are located outside the country."

And Judges in the USA don't need to be vaguely familiar with the US constitution.

Is the old fool still working? Here's a "get out of jail, free" heiress.

Court must reconsider Microsoft Excel patent damages

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Flame

How much is enough?

If every copy of XL costs about 10 cents per disk to print and say another 10 to 40 cents to install it on a computer, the inventor certainly is overpaid. But how much profit is Microsoft getting?

Google enters underwater cable business

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Sauron opener.

That spate of cable breakages -wherever they took place, coupled with the US admission that they now have at least 2 submersibles that can patch into optical cable and read everything without anyone becoming any the wiser (including the prezidunce) will give the upcoming generation of users the idea it might be wise to encrypt everything they send.

Which should have a dramatic effect on the cable cutters. I wish I knew a lot more about encrypting and I only visit an handful of sites -mostly forums. It would just be nice to think that the only people who read my rubbish are doing so because they want to.

Sad buggers.

US gov now says Eye-o-Sauron™ border masts are crap

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Alien

Americans?

There was something about the use of the word "American" to describe the colonistas using hi-tech to keep out the natives that just got my gall.

EC jacks up Microsoft fine by €899m

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@Michael

Hilarious?

You remind me of a somewhat infamous Usenet poster. You're not him are you?

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Paris Hilton

Hey first to post the Paris Hilton Thingie.

Or not as the case may be.

But Paris for the EU. Or was it Lichtenstein or somewhere?

Who gets the money and what do they do with it?

Tiscali boss faces board showdown as sell-off rumours swirl

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@ Chad H.

Provided it isn't sold to a spammer.

Watchdog sues US Justice Department over Google chatter

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Unhappy

Anyone for Tenex?

We seem to forget where ex chancellors of our exchequer end up and how many ex PMs get jobs in Pennsylvania Avenue or is that a secret?

HMRC pays criminal for 'tax dodger' discs

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Boffin

Dearth of an expert witness?

Where is the legally usable proof that will stand up in court?

Regardless of where the records came from or how legally they were obtained or even if they are accurate; doesn't the case depend on co-operation with the bank itself?

Everything else is third party opinion or hearsay isn't it? The tax authorities still have to go cap in hand to the dodgers to see if they can bottle the charges.

Of course, if it supplies names and details, they can use work-arounds such as: Where did you get this and that? and: How did you pay for those? or: Where have these gone? etc.

Doctor Who and the moody Dane

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IT Angle

Ponymous sole

The word has to relate to Hamlet cigars and the commercial that is a story in a nutshell but hyponymous is more like the real fiction tha eponymous.

Not being widely read, did the slaying take place at a specified date or is the idea that sunny days were not synonymous with frosty nights in the goode olde daies?

Wikileaks judge gets Pirate Bay treatment

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Joke

Hired monkeys?

or kiss a chimpanzee's arse and you get peanuts.

US funds exascale computing journey

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Alien

Resistance is futile.

IO problems are belong to dead shunt.

I always thought digital was the dead end of computing. You can fit so much more onto analogue.

Sky Broadband puts the fault into default Wi-Fi security

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@Ramzi Yakob

Sugar's special.

Loss leaders or what? The original SKY malware was the stuff made for them by a certain "entrepreneur" famous for his pig ignorance.

Nothing seems to have changed.

Solicitors fined under Data Protection Act

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@Vladimir Plouzhnikov

We are talking about solicitors going through the mill.

You'll be expecting politicians to co-operate with the police in their enquires next.

Who polices the legal profession? Those who are responsible for the law of course. All of it!

From the weasel who hangs on to the cash from your house till the last minute, to the world leaders who wrote the laws they break.

To the celebrity who doesn't have a clue what the word "law" means but has a "get out of gaol free card" anyway.

Google to build 80,000 foot radio tower?

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@Brent

Any idea how much power that dated hunk of space crystal, Pioneer, was sending out last time they received a signal from it?

March 3, 1972 Spacecraft launched.

March 2, 2002 Successful reception of telemetry. 39 minutes of clean data received from a distance of 79.83 AU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10

Whatever it was at source, 155W at launch, 140W by Jupiter (816,520,800 km 5.458104 AU) it was a lot less by bye bye's. And all decreasing by the square of its distance.

Presumably the equipment used on it was designed in the '60s and built some years prior to launch. Likewise the receivers would have been designed at least, in the previous millennium.

The point is that no matter how many moons they have to launch, these earthbound satellites can do the job. It is just a question of feasibility when other needs are factored in.

But the idea that it can be used as an aid in military communications makes it a certainty. The United States of Americans can't afford to ignore that implication, other countries won't.

The Yanks will need to be in the forefront of such technology just so they can maintain the ability to crush it if the need arose.

(And I am not saying they shouldn't.

How would it be if all the Africans who really need our help, rather than the East Europeans who don't, were able to communicate between pirate ships for instance? And sneak in to stay alive, as compared to everybody else who just want to come here to make their fortune?

We too need to be able to down their comms. It's a tradition.)

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Alien

Databases

Apropos of nothing, anyone here want to give me an hand to compile a database:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.talk.weather/tree/browse_frm/thread/044911dc9305a410/f92a0b2fcd4ef14d?rnum=11&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.talk.weather%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F044911dc9305a410%2F602e810a6e5a50fb%3F#doc_602e810a6e5a50fb

In the spirit of FSF I won't be paying you. (Even if I could.)

Secret printer ID codes may breach EU privacy laws

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@ Ole Juul

Let's get our priorities in order, shall we? Where does it show you how to get a printer to copy currency?

SCO bags $100m to fight another day

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Alien

Never mind the bollocks, feed the chimp.

"No one throws good money after bad, so why throw good money into a fire-pit? Something doesn't add up here."

I was just thinking that they backed George Bush to lose lots of money long before he had dreams of empire and being the Mad Monk ey.

Then I saw that someone else had linked the firm to the Chimp and the people that paid him to bag Iraq and incidentally stop him producing oil there (the only job he has ever been any good at)

"This is top-drawer coin-of-the-realm kind of money put together from the deep-pockets of the Middle East by Stephen Norris, the co-founder and former president of the ultra-posh Carlyle Group, the guy who had Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud salvage Citibank on a cold call and turn a $15 billion profit on mere $590 million equity investment."

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/502009.htm

In Firefox you have to disable Javascript. (They seem to have the impression if they block you with a giant advert from seeing the screen, you will be really tempted to join up.)

Is this the one where Paris Hilton enters a flying saucer? And SCO sues IBM and Saudi Arabia ends up owning All American Hi Tech.

Well it is the land of opportunity after all but it won't be the land of the freeware for much longer. Here is to interesting times. And interminable soap operas.

How the hell did I get hooked on this shit?

Things were a lot easier when Errol Flynn rode into the rescue and killed all the original inhabitants and everyone else lived happily ever after. And it was all over in an hour or two, too!

That was the best bit. You still had time to go and be Errol Flynn for a few hours before bedtime. Who wants to be a Chimpanzee, FFS?

Students win appeal against cyberjihad convictions

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Stacked evidence?

Are these the same lads you carried a number of articles on a few months back? I can't remember the titles of the articles but there doesn't seem to be a link in the list after the article.

Therefore not?

The so called expert witness for the prosecution hid a lot of stuff and failed to elaborate on items that might show the defendants in a better light.

FBI issues prosthetic pregnant belly bomb alert

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IT Angle

Where did all this anti UnitedStatesandAmericanism come from?

7 years ago we all donated to the New York fire department fund. (OK if we'd know 12 months earlier maybe some of us would have sent in phones that worked.)

30 years ago we forgave them Viet Nam. As anybody could make a mistake.

60 years ago they were Europe's darling and every household in Britain gave a florin for a statue to one of their presidents.

If George Bush died and we were invited to send a turd to to make a pile of shit to bury him in, the fund would be oversubscribed in an hour.

Where did it all go wrong?

Armed police swoop on MP3-packing mechanic

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@ By A J Stiles

But did they check that all the files on his player were properly authorised?

The penalties for copyright infringement can be worse than the penalties for illegal firearms.******

The penalties for not being a terrorist are much worse.

In fact they are much worse than the penalties for being a terrorist. (Unless they ship you to a Cuban Health farm and you die as they water their plants.)

Come to think of that...

If the US destroyed the evidence of their water-boarding... what are they going to do with the witnesses? They can never try them on US mainland soil and they can't release them without finding them guilty after all these years incarceration, can they?

And the Supreme Court has ruled they can't be tried in GITMO...

Glad I don't have an MP3 player.

(I do really but it has two speakers on it and looks more like a pack of..dynah... hmm.)

Firefox 3 beta is live

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Happy

Opera

Opera is an excellent browser my only complaint with them is I missed the edition version6 I think that Bjorked IE only sites.

I wish I could get that or that some hacker wanted Kudos not for herding bots but for doing something valuable for the free world and made a Firefox version do that.

What larks, eh? What lark!

Email pen concept does away with keyboards

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Insouciance

How particularly ironic it is to receive a blank signing in box from The Reg on such a subject.

I have cookies enabled and this is the only computer I use and it's not available to anyone else but does it automatically sign me in each time I set the world right via The Register?

Does it Paris Hilton!

And now I have that flame off my chest, I have forgotten what i was going to say...

Ah yes...

Something trite about using the highest tech on the planet to match forests with power stations.

I'd put Paris on here but I am now a coward by default.

Rogers wraps 'unlimited' mobile browsing in small print

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Linux

XO anyone?

Sounds like Canada is going to get a wake up call when the local yokels get wind of what the one laptop per child can do. It seems like it was designed to break monopolies like the Canadian model.

I gather the designer of the screen for it has left the project to set up her own company producing lap tops. So it won't be long before a saviour comes for their souls.

Might give them a chance to learn English. Start practising guys.

Feds, NASA bracelet space shuttle spies

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Paris Hilton

Huawe?

That was an unfortunate choice of names for a Chinese espionage firm working in the USA.

Fortunately the counter intelligence would have worked hard to not see the blinking obvious.

It's reassuring to think that with counter intelligence there is an active attempt to keep the ball rolling in perpetuity. And I though it was just a bureaux to select presidential candidates.

I might have guessed that no government agency could be that competent. So how do they select presidunces?