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Cops stuff Mumbai thief with 48 bananas

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Mushroom

Bananas ?

Give the criminal Picolax

Icon: how this stuff feels

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Bloke sues dad who shot down his drone – and why it may decide who owns the skies

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@Stoneshop

Cartesian bears, I think

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Unhappy

@Rusty 1

Cockroaches CAN FLY , they just are faster on foot

Icon -my thoughts about roaches.

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Black hole shows off glow-in-the-dark ring after sucking in matter

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Find out whats happening in the sky with www.astronomerstelegram.org

but V404 Cyg maybe going quiet

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EMC's VCE welcomes new president amid '250-plus layoffs at all levels'

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Anagram

HA! Sack cad

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We're all really excited about new smartphones, laptops, tablets – said no one ever

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Re: When good enough is good enough, enough.

How about anti-personnel clouds that hovers 3 feet away from you when switched on; I would buy that!

Intoxicants can most easily be absorbed by breathing; I had a grandfather who worked in a distillery - he said that he didn't need to buy stuff to get drunk, but just go working above the still was enough.

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If you want a USB thumb drive wiped, try asking an arts student for help

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Re: Burn them

Thermite is best!

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Boffins unwrap bargain-basement processor that talks light and current

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Hans Gruber

Is the Die Hard to make?

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Physics uses warp theory to look beyond relativity

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Gravitational Waves

To move through space-time surf the wave, dude.

I'm just hanging out around here waiting for a tube.

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Hundreds of thousands of engine immobilisers hackable over the net

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WTF?

why the mike?

Why would an engine immobiliser need a microphone?

Come to that, why did the watch need a microphone?

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Manchester 'wins' £10m to test talking bus stops

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Re: Shouting into the void

I remember Mancunian bus drivers from when I was a poor student; they had a tendency to slow down near a bus stop and, as you ran to the bus, speeding off into the distance.

There is NO WAY I would jump in front of them.

Icon - Manchester's bus drivers

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Who owns space? Looking at the US asteroid-mining act

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Re: Ownership issue

I presume you are referring to Europa

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Australian cops rush to stop 2AM murder of … a spider

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Re: Eek!

Have you tried a DIY flamethrower or even buy an X15. They are on special offer for black friday.

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Finding security bugs on the road to creating a verifiably secure TLS lib

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Mathematically correct code

I have heard of a few cases of this, but in none of them have I heard that the code will run within a reasonable time.

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Fingers crossed tomorrow morning for Telecity's third repair shot

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Re: Design

I believe that there are rotary UPS systems like the system that you describe with zero start up time (or less than 1 cycle of 50Hz). The diesel is kept warm and with a BIG flywheel the clutch auto engages when incoming power drops.

But these are expensive, large and very hard to retrofit to a building.

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600,000 cable modems have an easy to pop backdoor in a backdoor

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a backdoor in a backdoor

Shouldn't that be called a cat-flap?

Also

Yo dawg, I heard you liked backdoors, so I put a backdoor in your backdoor

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Behold, the fantasy of infinite cloud compute elasticity

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Re: Marketing infinites are not real world infinites

In the our universe the number of electrons to move about is large, but not infinite.

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BitLocker popper uses Windows authentication to attack itself

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Re: There's a race here..

No competition really

Clearly Adobe have the experience of writing really buggy code, and I expect them to keep ahead for the foreseeable future.

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Shadow state? Scotland's IT independence creeps forth

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I strongly object

Some Scotsmen do not have ginger hair; some are bald.

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Roamers rejoice! Google Maps gets offline regional navigation

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Go

maps.me uses openstreetmap

Use maps.me with downloaded map - avoid tracking! Open Source! Detailed API !

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TalkTalk: Data was 'secure', erm, we beat rivals on price. Um, scratch that...

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Scumbag corporation

we REALLY need an icon for it

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Feeble Phobos flaking as it falls to Mars

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Re: Call me ignorant...

NOPE

Solid earth tides also exist. They are of order 10's of centimetres (rather than meters) . They have lower amplitude and are not in phase with the ocean tides, because the continents are just floating on magma.

Even rock will flow if warmed enough and given enough force.

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Facebook conjures up a trap for the unwary: scanning your camera for your friends

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Re: Yeah.. No thanks

Zuck is just copying his Sith Master

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Goodfella's attack smacks Slack chap for whack crack? It's a fact, Jack

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Re: Acting out

Any actor, producer and director that has the staying power of Mr De Niro clearly has some intelligence, and has earned respect.

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Let's get to the bottom of in-app purchases that go titsup

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Re: Youtube is not just for kitten videos

Next to that item on Yotube were (when I pulled it up) "Reacting to my teenage computer" - reasonable enough, and then "5 most brutal prisons in history".

Does the 2nd item say something about Mr Dabbs home life, or the conditions he works under?

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Old TVs

you forgot the high-pitched whine of the flyback transformer; a sound that I remember from childhood

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Linus Torvalds targeted by honeytraps, claims Eric S. Raymond

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Re: Honeypot??

Ah, you have to also consider that after 6 pints of stout it is not only the brain that becomes non-functional - there also also organs that become somewhat non-functional also.

Sign of my age.. see icon.

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Honeypot??

If the female on the left of the photo is an example, I think I could resist the temptation.

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GCHQ's CESG team's crypto proposal isn't dumb, it's malicious... and I didn't notice

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Re: Wannabe alien overlord

Also a problems with twins, and will be in future with clones.

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TalkTalk offers customer £30.20 'final settlement' after crims nick £3,500

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Really need an icon for Scumbag corporation.

Maybe like Scumbag Steve? Or a big bag of money with a Scumbag hat.

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@WaveyDavey

The only thing that is "inutile" round this forum is TalkTalk security response

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A bubble? No way, we're in a bust, says rich VC living in alternate reality

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I have a great idea for a internet company

For carrying-on an undertaking of great advantage but no-one to know what it is.

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Alumina in glass could stop smartphones cracking up

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Re: Ultimate test

Dogs are also a menace to phones.

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Sennheiser announces €50,000 headphones (we checked, no typos)

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Bloody audiophiles

Will lap this gold-plated bullshit up. The fact that the tubes give distortion totally negates the hi-fi credibility seems lost on them.

Why should marble be any better than chipboard or any other non-conducting material anyway?

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Food, water, batteries, medical supplies, ammo … and Windows 7 PCs

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Re: Linux

HERETIC!

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Re: Linux

To the True Believer there are only 2 possible choices

Debian or Arch; with maybe Yocto on an embedded system.

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PC sales will rise again, predicts Intel, but tablets are toast

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Holmes

3D cameras on board

I can just imagine attractive you ladies of negotiable virtue making big business out of this.

But, as for fooling login system, would a waxwork dummy head work as well? It worked for Sherlock against Colonel Sebastian Moran.

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Hi, um, hello, US tech giants. Mind, um, mind adding backdoors to that crypto? – UK govt

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detector triggered

BEWARE this looks like a vogon wrote it

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KeePass looter: Password plunderer rinses pwned sysadmins

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Re: When spelling is important.

DLL problem

Does that mean the portable version is OK?

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UK SMEs with weak security risk procurement exclusion – survey

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@Cristoph

translate all data to assyrian, and then write that output as Hiragana, written diagonally.

What - does this sound stupid; it makes as much sense as the UK government position.

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Linus Torvalds fires off angry 'compiler-masturbation' rant

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Trollface

Don't hold back Linus

Just let us know what you really feel

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Has Voyager 1 escaped the Sun yet? Yes, but also no, say boffins

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Re: @1980s_coder

http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html

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Your 30-second guide to why Samsung is acting all Smugsun today

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Unlocking is not Samsung's fault

I have BOUGHT (not as a package from a carrier, but from a shop) 2 Samsung phones - so no locking. Get prepaid package. So far no real problems with them. If the carrier pisses me off (has happened) I

change carrier.

I would not consider doing it any other way.

The wife has one phone (the more expensive) and I have the other one.

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Why was the modem down? Let us count the ways. And phone lines

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<4 yorksiremen> Hardware modem?

You were lucky - all we had was a software modem, and you had to reconfigure it every time you used it.

</4 yorkshiremen>

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How Microsoft will cram Windows 10 even harder down your PC's throat early next year

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Re: Stonehenge

Wait for the precession of equinoxes; it will be about right in another 20,000 years

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Insurance companies must start buying security companies

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Insurance companies and security

We had an home insurance company that gave away fire alarms for the home and subsidized fire extinguishers.

That is not so wildly different to this concept.

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Finally, with W10, Microsoft’s device strategy makes sense

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Re: But...

maybe just stick to:

- well defined file formats

- similar icons for similar concepts

But don't use identical code base for servers, desktops, tablets, phones, TVs, game consoles, fridges etc.

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ICO 'making enquiries' into bizarre shopper data spill at M&S

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Re: so now people know

I hope he's a frood who really knows where his towel is

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WhatsApp laid bare: Info-sucking app's innards probed

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Terminator

heart data

It's to check that you are not an cyborg; hunting people down via WeChat.

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Deutsche Bank's creaking IT systems nervously eyeing bins

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@John Riddoch

" the assumption has to be they have appropriate security in place to cover it"

I would ASSUME no such thing; the provider should prove to the bank and to the public that the security is rock solid. Otherwise who would trust their money in that bank?

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