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19,000 papers leaked to protest 'war against knowledge'

Friday 22nd July 2011 09:30 GMT web_bod

Expertly curated collctions of data 1.0

"Off the top of my head, Properly organised and index the papers, with related papers grouped and linked together with summaries of how things have changed over the years. Access to experts to ask questions about the research would be highly also desirable."

- I don't know about you, but where I live we call those places libraries, they have professionals who can help you make sense of all of the information and in most cases they'll lend it to you for free.

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One per cent of world's web browsing happens on iPad

Saturday 2nd July 2011 10:28 GMT web_bod

Pr0n sites for Slabfondlers?

They've got to be looking at something?

(I'm sure Paris fondled a few slabs in her time)

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Saturday 2nd July 2011 07:36 GMT web_bod

re: No! It Cannot be

@Phormic you say: "But...but...but...it's just a big iPod Touch! It's just a fad! My netbook can do so much more! It's just marketing, it just spin, I give it six months tops, it's, it's, IT'S...brain explodes..."

Do you not think that the figures back up the idea that "My netbook can do so much more!", it looks like *all* anybody uses them for is mobile gaming or web browsing - I run Visual studio on my Netbook - it runs like a dog, it's not going to get me laid, but it gets the job done.

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Moderatrix kisses the Reg goodbye

Saturday 2nd July 2011 07:28 GMT web_bod

Ms Bee you're a treasure

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/12/07/new_facebook_revamp_privacy_concerns/

Mortal : Same deal here. Little wife likes her FB - had to isolate her laptop from the rest of the family network. A nice quiet, safe, FB sandbox to muck up.

Moderatrix : If you were my husband and you referred to me as 'little wife' I would make you a nice quiet, safe, deep sandbox for you to lie very still in.

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Gov 'skunkworks' to develop e-petitions system

Thursday 2nd June 2011 15:54 GMT web_bod

http://blog.alpha.gov.uk/team

"What happens when you sit a small team of people in a room in South London for 14 weeks and ask them to create something? If it’s these people, it would be Alpha.gov.uk!" - what a pile of back slapping 2.0 gob shites.

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iPhones secretly track 'scary amount' of your movements

Thursday 21st April 2011 07:28 GMT web_bod

It's all relative

Sorry to state the bleeding obvious - but you've identified a bunch of keys defined one table - wouldn't that suggest that the data might be linked to information held in other tables?

Perhaps phone keeps a unique record of the location of each hotspot/tower and also has a table (with one entry per second) referencing them - you know, some kind of a log - so when you use the two together you can generate a detailed mapping of the phones location over time.

I think we used to call those kinds of things relational databases.

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MySQL.com hacked via... SQL injection vuln

Monday 28th March 2011 17:02 GMT web_bod

Hashed salty hash

We cache the hash of the hash of the encrypted salted input, unhashing the cached hash gives you a hash, unhashing that hash gives you an encypted string, decoding that gives you the salted input, but our salt is a method not a constant, so you need the secret recipe.

All this to protect frickin' car insurance quotes.

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Judge to music industry: 'Worth trillions? Forget it'

Thursday 24th March 2011 12:12 GMT web_bod

octal 65 (or 145 depending on your point of view)

You wouldn't get 8 or 9 on an octal calculator, only 0 - 7 alá:

0 + 1 = 1; 1 + 1 = 2; 2 + 1 = 3; 3 + 1 = 4; 4 + 1 = 5; 5 + 1 = 6; 6 + 1 = 7; 7 + 1 = 10; 10 + 1 = 11; 11 + 1 = 12; 12 + 1 = 13; 13 + 1 = 14; 14 + 1 = 15; 15 + 1 = 16; 16 + 1 = 17 + 1 = 20, etc.

Is it possible to have octimals? (icon applies to question)

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Queen set to outlaw ID cards today

Tuesday 21st December 2010 15:35 GMT web_bod

'ey up it's the Daily Mail!

Shouldn't you be warning people about the Cancer risk posed by Christmas trees or something?

I have a right to my privacy regardless of my actions or intents.

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WikiLeaks' Assange to be indicted for spying 'soon'

Sunday 12th December 2010 18:16 GMT web_bod

Hand him over or else...

Anybody else think the timing of the "terrorist" attack in Stockholm is a little bit too convenient ?

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Google Voice brings expectation management to Santa 2.0

Thursday 9th December 2010 14:58 GMT web_bod

not nearly that clever

Sadly no, all the names seem to be pre-recorded :\ - unlike the rather excellent Tom Baker sex pest service from BT.

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Massive online database of bird calls unveiled

Wednesday 8th December 2010 11:19 GMT web_bod

lesser spotted

Ms Bee aside does El Reg attract many women readers?

[Tux - 'cause it's all about the birds]

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Blighty's kids nosedive down global reading, maths rankings

Wednesday 8th December 2010 01:01 GMT web_bod

Disgraceful performance

The Irish results are embarrassing - one of the highest GDPs in World and over 20% of boys fail to meet the OECD averages - guess national pride is just another thing money can't buy.

As for the "respect and value our youth" bollox - they're over-fed, over-privileged and under-achieving - a feckless shower of wannabies.

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Popular sites caught sniffing user browser history

Tuesday 7th December 2010 18:01 GMT web_bod

there are never good reasons to "experiment" with your details when buying car insurance

RE: AC :: Not a good predicator of fraud

I think you miss the point, when we detected a lot of fudging we'd route them through to a call centre, the operator would have a full set of all the changes on the screen - a couple of polite challenges was enough to get them to crack - we had one "20 year old county court judge" who turned out to be a law student and a woman who'd found that the carpark in her local Sommerfield was in a cheaper postcode and was effectively live in the superstore.

The only reason for lying on an insurance application is to lower the premium or to get cover that you're not eligible for - there is a concept "utmost good faith" that inusrers fall back on when you come to make a claim - our system simply ensured that iffy drivers paid a fair price for cover and that most people were actually getting the cover that they were paing for.

It's simple you can lie to get a cheap premium, but your lies will be uncovered when you make a claim and the insurer is perfectly entitled to walk away and trouser any money you've paid them.

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Saturday 4th December 2010 18:34 GMT web_bod

mouse tracking

mouse tracking is awesome when your marketing director won't listen - we were able to use it to boost conversions on our insurance site by 30% - you could re-play their interactions with the page and it helped us detect a lot more fraudulent policies - you could watch them weighing up the risks to get the best quote - one guy must have run through his entire family trying to find the cheapest postcode to live in.

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Judge puts Assange behind bars ahead of extradition hearing

Tuesday 7th December 2010 17:02 GMT web_bod

mind your step!

wonder if he'll enounter many flights of stairs - I hear they can be treacherous

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Facebook revamp gives away even more info, warn pros

Tuesday 7th December 2010 16:53 GMT web_bod

101 things to do in a paper bag!

Big deal, I list my interests as architecture, it, ice hockey and paper-bagging* - so what if some body is going to try to flog me Eiffel tower shaped memory sticks in paper bags festooned with red wings logos that double as sex toys (the bags not the logos or sticks) - I am a big boy now, I am not afraid to completely ignore the ad, delete the message, tune my spam filter, say no or to invite my entire network to click the crap out of the ad until it goes away.

*never done it, but it sounded interesting - hence an interest!

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Google's Microsoft browser outlives Wave nonsense

Monday 27th September 2010 16:28 GMT web_bod

You're not developers

I wish the web2.0rhea crowd would stop calling themselves programmers and developers - they're not - if they're struggling with two different browsers then they're just glorified typists. There are IDE's and Frameworks that happily abstract much of the differences away from the end user, in the real world most people couldn't care less if the content renders slightly differently between browsers, as long as the content is interesting and useful they rarely notice the rest of the page.

If a lot of people use IE6 and another large group are using IE7 or IE8 then why don't you pitch your work at the group representing three quarters of the marketplace first? Deliver a standards complient site that works across the board.

If you're whinging because you can't implement the design properly, then grow some balls and tell the designer there is a problem - simple - you just collaborate with them to find a solution. If you really have to, then the rounded-transparency-wooshy shite should be tacked on at the end.

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Scottish iSchool goes 100% iPad

Wednesday 1st September 2010 14:33 GMT web_bod

YouTube in t' classroom

1000lbs Thermite Vs SUV http://bit.ly/bklAyi

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Texan cooks up deep-fried Guinness

Wednesday 1st September 2010 13:57 GMT web_bod

Oi! Google: What's in a Texas Fried Frito Pie?

According to : http://www.texasfriedfritopie.com/faqs.htm

"Well the Second Place Goat can't reveal any secret ingredients, but just think of all the great stuff in chili pie, then put it in a ball and fry it! Once you bite into it you get the crunch, then the chili and cheese, along with some of the messiness that a delicious traditional Fair food entails..."

But on the home page the goat gives the game away:

"Texas fried frito pie is the best use of coupons ever"

So there you have it, nothing but vouchers and Nectar points.

(Paris: well she looks like she could do with fattening up).

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