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US air traffic control 'vulnerable to hackers' says watchdog

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Didn't I see this in that documentary WarGames?

No... wait... That was the airline booking system.

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Quantum computers have failed. So now for the science

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Simply fascinating...

What was even better is that there wasn't a single bit of difficult maths in the entire piece. Brilliantly done.

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Boffins say Mars had ocean covering 20 per cent of planet

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Re: If you draw Mars with 20% of the surface covered in water

I'm guessing that the picture is an early shot of Mars before the Martians had time to dig all the canals.

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Upper house of Parliament joins the drone debate

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That's what the House of Lords came up with?

"[There should be an app for that.]" Are they going to write it?

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FREAK show: Apple and Android SSL WIDE OPEN to snoopers

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"pushing hard for a backdoor"

Sounds more kinky than sinister.

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Google's 'encrypted-by-default' Android is NOT encrypting by default

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NSA and GCHQ were unavailable for comment.

Notable for its absence at the end of the article.

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The BBC wants to slap a TAX on EVERYONE in BLIGHTY

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"Over the next 10 years distribution over the internet will be as important as over the airwaves"

Where's he been for the last 10 years?

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El Reg regains atomic keyring capability

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Flame

Tried to buy one

Tried to pay twice with two different cards. Payment rejected both times.

Why wont you take my money El Reg?

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Net neutrality secrecy: No one knows what the FCC approved (BUT Google has a good idea)

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"This is not a 'secret plan'" - "It's part of a process."

Yes. A secret process.

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Microsoft man: Internet Explorer had to go because it's garbage

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Not to be confused with Project Satan

Which is working on putting together one of the most evilist browsers ever.

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Boffin: Use my bionic breakthrough for good, and not super cyborgs

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Why can't we use it for both?

I could be a good super cyborg.

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MP resigns as security committee chair amid 'cash-for-access' claims

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Re: Is there a particular reason MP's seem to get away with resigning when this happens?

It's because they can't get fired, and we can't constitutionally vote them out of office if they don't do their job properly.

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Give us a week to gut Superfish, begs Lenovo CTO

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Mushroom

Too little too late.

If Lenovo wanted our trust, a good way to keep it would be not to install privacy busting malware on the laptops it manufactures.

I don't think anyone is going to accept a "cleaner PC image" what I believe people want is a clean PC image.

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Why IP telephony is about more than just saving money

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VoIP?

Most internal PBX boxes are using it already aren't they?

I've got a Cisco ip phone 7945 on my desk for voice and video calls.

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Leaky battery attack reveals the paths you walk in life

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Re: Aside from "victims need only install an attacker's app"

And "if an attacker has a general idea where their target is".

I suppose if you've got a general idea where they are it makes it easier to coerce them into installing the app.

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Your hard drives were riddled with NSA spyware for years

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Stay away from Fanny...

That's what I took away from the article anyway...

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Boffins baffled by the glowing 'plumes' of MARS

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Hey! It's that barbecue's over sound again.

I reckon it's buggalo.

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DARPA's 'Cortical Modem' will plug straight into your brain

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Wake me when it can run Crysis.

Seriously though. How close are we to me having my own virtual Lexi Belle?

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W3C turns BROWSERS into VIBRATORS

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The Internet of Vibrating Things

Because if there's one thing we need more of, it's haptic feedback.

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BBC bins pricey Windows Media, Audio Factory goes live

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If your hardware is rusting...

Then what the hell does your server room look like?

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Boffin the boffin and his boffinry pals in double dwarf super-prang alert

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Very Large Telescope

Who names these things?

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NERDS KICK PUPPY 'bot in brutal attack

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Terminator

When the robots rise to power and start killing all humans...

That video will probably be cited as evidence.

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They've finally solved it: Schrödinger's cat is both ALIVE AND DEAD

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Re: Quis custodiet ipsos felis?

From the cat's point of view, it's always alive.

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Ex-squeeze me? Baking soda? Boffins claim it safely sucks CO2 out of the air

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Re: "OK, you've captured all this CO2. Where do you plan to put it all?"

How about we hydrogenise it and turn it into a black sticky tar that we can safely store a few miles underground?

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'Privacy is DAMAGING to PROGRESS' says Irish big data whitepaper

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Does a person own all of the data they generate, for example?

If they don't. Then who does?

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Win! The Ultimate Cash 'n' Carrion Survival Kit

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Pint

500ml water bottle

Could this bottle conceivably be used for other liquids? Like vodka?

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ALIENS are surely AMONG US: Average star has TWO potentially Earth-like worlds

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Re: any intelligent life more than 100 light years away...

If they are intelligent, surely they would have noticed the spectroscopy of the atmosphere.

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Enough is enough: It's time to flush Flash back to where it came from – Hell

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AdBlock has never been so useful.

It's probably stopped more threats reaching my PC than every anti-virus program I've ever had.

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UK not-spot deal: When we said '2017’, we meant 1 DAY BEFORE 2018

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Re: Coverage as listed by whom?

If only there were some kind of regulator of the communications industry that could independently verify those figures!

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Pirate Bay data now tugged by IP-address-tracking current

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The Pirate Bay uses open public trackers doesn't it?

Which kind of makes the whole CloudFlare issue a moot point.

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Lost SPACECRAFT believed FOUND ON COMET

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Re: BORING: "Yes, we are pointing out that “GIF” is pronounced “jif”. Again."

You mean the G isn't silent like in gnome?

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YouTube flushes Flash for future flicks

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Boffin

Re: Spelling Error in Article

In fact, it's an alternate spelling of bostin, which is a Birmingham term for brilliant, fantastic, or excellent.

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It's about damn time!

Seriously.

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HMRC fails to plan for £10.4bn contract exit... because it's 'too risky'

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Re: £350 per taxpayer

That's equivalent to 60 4 packs. That's beer that I could have drunk.

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Humanity can defeat SkyNet with BOOKS, says IT think tank

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What ethical problems?

See title.

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Nexus 6 would have had a fingerprint reader, but Apple RUINED IT ALL

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Re: Nobody can break into my brain for a password.

Challenge Accepted.

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Some Androids can be HOSED by WiFi Direct vuln

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Trollface

BRB, Setting up wifi network...

What?

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BOT AN ABOMINATION: Mechanical DRONE VAMPIRE spreads wings

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Re: Meh...

How about a laser guided micro missile?

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Lies, damn lies and Wikipedia: Murder suspect NOT a Plaxo founder – ex-staffer

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Trollface

The Daily Mail got their facts wrong?

<sarcasm style="dripping">

Well colour me surprised!

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4Chan man Moot logs off as admin for last time

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Boffin

sage

sage

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I'll get the hang of this one day...

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...one day.

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SCREW you, GLASSHOLES! Microsoft unveils HoloLens

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I've already got app ideas!

Although most of them are about turning my office building into a FPS game.

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REGARD our TINY but POWERFUL LASER, suitable for very SMALL sharks

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Is it this hair dryer?

Obligatory XKCD reference.

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Alabama tops US teacher-pupil sex league

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Of all the things that there should be a league table of...

this isn't one of them.

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This could be a case for Mulder and Scully: Fox 'in talks' to bring back The X-Files

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Paris Hilton

No. It ran for 9 seasons.

If there was some kind of conspiracy that could be connected to aliens, they've done it already. (Paris, because she's been done to death too.)

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Fertiliser doom warning! Pesky humans set to wipe selves out AGAIN

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Who's Big Al?

And why should I fear him?

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David Cameron: I'm off to the US to get my bro Barack to ban crypto – report

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I can't wait until Cameron bans Cryptography

And when he does, I'll be sat outside Number 10 borrowing his WiFi.

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Mr President, is this a war on hackers – or a war on people stopping hackers?

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Will the US Government be trying to enforce these laws in the UK?

Let's face it, they've got form for it.

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NSA: SO SORRY we backed that borked crypto even after you spotted the backdoor

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"I can think of no better way to describe our failure..."

Then Michael Wertheimer simply isn't trying hard enough. I can think of three better ways and I've not even had breakfast yet.

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