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'Don't Google Google, Googling Google is wrong', says Google

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I was using the word 'and' not to create a list or to indicate a join, I was saying the word itself and creating a pause afterwards.

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and also chips.

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Childcatcher

Google don't want people googling because of what happened to Hoover. Which places me in a quandary. Do I say I google something (even if I never use google) to devalue the brand or do I follow their guide and never mention them again?

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A comma before an and, my English teacher is spinning in her grave. You only made that mistake once in her class and most of the school could hear some poor sod made that mistake.

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UK's new Data Protection Bill will be 'liberal' not 'libertarian', says digi minister

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Big Brother

Any mention of when he's going to tackle the police's illegal mugshot and DNA databases?

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Samsung mobile launches bug bounty program

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Any chance of a crowd sourced program to get rid of the bloatware?

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Hi Amazon, Google, Apple we might tax you on revenue rather than profit – love, Europe

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Re: @Ledswinger "Its an excellent idea......"

@A Fox, same thing happened with David Prowse who was going to be paid out of the net. Alec Guiness being an old hand (and much more famous) got a percentage of the gross. He made a lot of money from Star Wars but apparently didn't think that much of it.

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BlackBerry admits: We could do better at patching

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Re: Ah well

The problem is getting all of the companies that manufacture all of the components to cooperate when they might not sell that component any more and don't want the hassle of support it. That isn't just an issue for BB, it's a problem for everyone trying to support a phone for more than a year or two.

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Massive iPhone X leak trashes Apple's 10th anniversary circus

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Re: Iphone owners are in the know

Probably apple doing background downloading of the new OS.

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The new, new Psion is getting near production. Here's what it looks like

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This or a new raven ridge PC when they come out? Decisions decisions...

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Gov claws back £645m in BT broadband from subsidy

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Re: Only 4.8m homes in the UK?

The other 18.5m are obviously second homes for expense claims.

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Trollface

Careful blotto, you've have all the neocons reaching for their outrage and indignation at the suggestion that free markets should be sullied and corrupted by such an idea.

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A furious think-tank boss, Google, and an academic 'fired' for criticizing ads giant

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Thumb Up

I am guessing it is not only Apple that is going to put el reg on its blocked number/email list. Well done chap(ette)s.

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Big Tech slams Trump on plan to deport kids

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Re: Don't hate . . .

The whole point of brexit is hate in one form or another.

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We experienced Windows Mixed Reality. Results: Well, mixed

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How would you type code with a VR helmet on? AR with glasses could change how we interact with PCs but I think it will be a long time before the hardware is good and cheap enough and programmers know how to create something that works.

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Snoops 'n' snitches auditor IPCO gets up and running

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Big Brother

Given that the CIA hacked the computers of the US Congress oversight body, worry about that sort of thing is not paranoia.

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NSA enters stage two of its spying revival plan: Getting Trump onboard

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Even if the law isn't renewed, they can keep breaking the law and Trump will pardon them all.

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Trump

Drain the swamp, he is the swamp.

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Police deny Notting Hill Carnival face recog tech led to wrongful arrest

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Re: Masks

Cotton wads in your checks would do it too.

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Deputy AG Rosenstein calls for law to require encryption backdoors

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Re: Essentially that would make US products unbuyable to the rest of the world...

You do realise that Blackberry don't sell phones directly any more? Cooperating with the police in the London riots cost them their teenage users.

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Re: "the California Supreme Court shut down retention of automatic license plate recording data."

The police in the UK have been told holding mug shots and DNA info on ordinary citizens is illegal and they should destory what they have and not collect any more. Guess what they're doing? Exactly as they dam well please and we don't have an one with the nerve to hold the police to account for breaking the law.

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Sony remembers it once made a great little phone

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I've got my n900 in a draw at home. Sounds like what you're after.

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US government: We can jail you indefinitely for not decrypting your data

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Re: partially correct...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-40661680/did-baltimore-police-officer-plant-drugs

Replace drugs with data stick with a password protected file on it. Best part is the stick isn't illegal so if someone sees you an officer has one in their pocket it doesn't look suspicious.

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Why do you think May is so desperate to get out of the ECJ and then the ECHR?

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Possession is not the issue. The crime is committed when they ask you for the password and you won't or can't tell them and you are guilty of a new offense every time you are asked for the password and won't/can't hand it over. I have said many times it is a law that is ripe for abuse.

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The CPS would probably chance their arm as a fresh offense. If you break a window five years ago and go to jail and you break a window after you get out that is a fresh offense. The same logic will be applied. Asked five years ago and refused, being asked yesterday and not handing it over is a new instance of the same offense. You only have to look at how the police in northern ireland use to use seven day detention for questioning to see how it can be abused. After seven days they'd let the poor bugger get to the street outside then lift him again for another seven days until they got bored or they got what they wanted.

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Bonjour Cardinal. I almost didn't recognise you without your hat.

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And in five years when you are asked again? If you still can't remember or refuse again, it's back inside as a repeat offender.

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In the UK the password law allows for rinse and repeat indefinte jailing if senior officer believes you know the password. They don't have to prove you know it. Wont be long before the police wont be planting drugs on 'suspects', it will be data sticks.

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Best Korea fingered for hacks against Bitcoin exchanges in South

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Childcatcher

Any chance Google could accidently misconfigure something and forget to fix it?

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US Navy develops underwater wireless battery-charging tech

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Re: How is this still a thing?

With some advanced 3D printing technologies it is a matter of time before the navy can make these themselves with what ever power arrangements they can manage.

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From the headline I thought it was going to use chemistry based on sea water to charge itself. That would be impressive. Would solar panels on top and parking it a meter or so work too?

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AMD agrees to drop $29.5m to make Llano go away once and for all

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Waiting for the Zen based APUs, hoping nothing like this rears its head again.

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Bombastic boss gave insane instructions to sensible sysadmin, with client on speakerphone

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Re: Note exactly dangerous, but...

Having seen friends and family go through DLA and then PIP it is obviously designed to force people off benefits regardless of the harm or greater costs accrued elsewhere in the benefit system.

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Windows

The worst I've had is a team leader who one week ordered me to spend more time looking after a critical system as the weekend and the next week ordered me to not record doing it (and therefore not get paid for it).

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Nokia trademark filing reveals name of upcoming drone brand

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Ovni

Not Ovi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovi_%28Nokia%29

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'Driverless' lorry platoons will soon be on a motorway near you

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Diverless lorries might do for getting stuff from a big warehouse to another big warehouse but they won't be able to do deliveries to small shops by themselves.

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Logitech's security cams allegedly suck so bad, this US bloke is suing it

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So, how many of these lawsuits will it take for manufactures to get their act together?

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Reality strikes Dixons Carphone's profits after laughing off Brexit threat

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Samsung has a two year 0% interest offer on the Note8. It's hard to see anyone who is buying it sim free turning that down.

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Despite being totally Megless, HP Inc stands on its own two feet

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Double digit growth, earnings per share beats expectations by a cent (just over 2% in this case) and the share price is down over 1%. What do you have to do to keep the blood suckers happy?

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Samsung gains ground on smartphones

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Know someone who has an S6. The USB port is gone but can still charge thanks to wireless charging so I guess it does have its uses.

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No, the cops can't get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court

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Can't remember the distance but if you're near an airport just get the border police to seize them. No need for warrent or cause then.

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Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs

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Tax the economic activity of the robot to replace the lost taxes from the worker to help reeducate workers for the new jobs that will come along and help with the increased welfare costs in the short term.

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Chinese stealth outfit reckons the smartwatch isn’t quite dead

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I have a Pebble Steel. After two years the battery is starting to show some wear, it needs charging every three or four days now. If it ever broke I'd happily pay £100 for a replacement but the only thing on the market that is similar are second hand Pebbles.

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Re-identifying folks from anonymised data will be a crime in the UK

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A lot of companies will find ways to ship the data out, to the illegal stuff in places like the US were it isn't illegal and ship the results or the decisions taken back to the UK/EU.

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Forget Iran and North Korea. Now there's another uranium source

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Any reports of the common cold we can use to track them down?

Paging Captin Archer.

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VCs to Trump: Don't lock out our meal tickets! Save startup visas!

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Re: Big Idea: The Internet!

The cluster effect kicked in a long time ago in the valley. It is where the VCs and a lot of the talent already are and other companies you might need to form an eco-system with and if you make it slightly difficult for them to do business with you or work for you there are plenty of other companies that aren't doing that.

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Small biz breaks out pen, paper after Brit tax collectors' Digital Form Service goes down

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If it has been down for this long it isn't maintaince any more, there is something broken.

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Trump-backed RAISE Act decoded: Points-based immigration, green cards slashed

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Re: Never got the Points System

Given that he has been lining his own pockets and those of his family at every oppertunity, if he has noticed he doesn't care.

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Microsoft breaks Office 365 sign-in pages ahead of surprise update

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Re: Paginated

Yahoo do the same. I always thought it was so they could show twice as many ads.

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