* Posts by Why

18 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2008

UK.gov backs ISPs on charging content providers, throttling P2P

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Save the net!

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/save-the-net/

Cows can't detect earthquakes: Official

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Quantum Effect

clearly they know we are watching.

Terry Pratchett knighted for services to literature

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Well Deserved

enough said.

Max Planck Institute punts 'hot, young housewives'

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Max Planck Institute Desperate for attention

No story here move on...

Ofcom: Where's the broadband beef?

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No surprise

The process to lodge a complaint is 6 months long, easier simply to change the provider.

Google's Schmidt not looking for a new job

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Coat

even Dick Cheney

Scraping the bottom of the barrel ?

yes I have it on already

Iowa: How the vote was won

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Nice Job!

People got to have their say!

Hotmail users bitch and moan about new interface

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Alert

Too many tabs that dont seem to remember your positions

Have to resize everything every time I login.

Give us the old style back!

The True Confessions of an Election Official

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Nice One!

Good job mate !

US court narrows scope for business method patents

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*checks article again*

finally some common sense comming through!

David Tennant quits Who

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Go

Thank god for that.

Finally.

enough said.

BOFH: Fine detective work

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@JIM THE BOSS

They are in the US - so knowing the ins and outs of US law doesnt really help much.

Brilliant Episode.

Must have weekly updates!

US Navy robot kill-choppers to drop auto-snort podules

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Joke

784k!?

The credit crunch must be hitting in - US Military signs a cheque for < 1 Million!

CPS to consider private prosecution over stealth Phorm trials

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Alert

A show for the europeans?

The goverment might just be putting on a show for the european commission to head off any possible investigations or fines from brussels. I dont expect anything more than a clip around the ears for BT or a minor fine if the CPS decide to pursue (Which is likely).

World's largest ad broker targets web games

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500k plays per day

Surely they are dreaming!?

Popular games like Desktop Tower Defense at most get something like 100k-200k plays per day. Not many people are gonna match this criteria.

Where is the evil google icon?

Firm threatens action against CCTV whistleblower

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Black Helicopters

MIA?

Stephens could not be reached for comment in response to LookC's threats at the time of going to press on Friday afternoon (19 September).

Hmm, cant be reached. Is that a black heli...

NASA chief: Europe should have own astronaut ship

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Translation (3)

We just realised we will need to ask the russians/chienese to take our people up. We cant have that!

Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing

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Black Helicopters

@Encryption?

it wont make any difference, encrypted stuff will still get you done over. They are searching for IP as part of the torrent swarm.

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-encryption-myths-071108/