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Phone-hack saga: Murdoch 'not fit' to run News Corp, blast MPs

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Re: And if that wasn't bad enough...

Oh that is the last straw! Hang him!

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Nympho hauled to loon-cooler after serial bonkathon brutality

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No means no.

For the record "For the love of god stop" also means no.

"Clothespeg" means no or stop too, depending on context.

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Want to be a better marksman? Play shooting games

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The object to your left is your weapon in the upcoming zombie apocalypse

How boned are you?

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BT missing from Pirate Bay High Court slap-down

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FAIL

Once again

The government start of with a gross misunderstanding of how the internet works, and then legislates against it.

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What about those people that stand around outside live gigs?

Hanging around, stealing music with their ears!

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LOHAN enjoys a silicone lightbulb moment

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Heh, heh :) Flange

He said flange :D

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Google's latest webspam crusade 'breaks' search results

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Google used to be good

Before everyone and his brother wanted to have a hand in which search results they could show.

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Judge: Big Five ISPs must block The Pirate Bay

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Re: Cool!

Yeah, I suppose you can. You can bet that someone in government is making a shed load of money out of this.

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Descriptive Camera develops text instead of images

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Is that normal?

What? Taking a double Polaroid of it and showing it to your mates? No!

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Boffins cross atom-smasher streams, 'excited' beauty pops into being

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The street market of physics

Get yer bosons! 14 TeV a pahnd!

Get em nah while they're still in a highly excited state!

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Gigantic lava spirals wreck Mars ice valley theory

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Would you kindly...

Get your ass to Mars?

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Standing NEXT to an HTML coder is like standing NEXT TO GOD

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“We don’t check our code. We never test. We can’t because we fail fast and we fail often.”

Sounds some of the people I've worked with in the past. Scary.

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Panasonic touts monster 8k by 4k 'flickerless' plasma

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WTF?

Oh....

I expected it to be bigger.

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EU privacy body slams ACTA as 'unacceptable'

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Re: Piracy will never be legal

If you locked up everyone that has ever violated copyright then you'd have more prisoners than guards.

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Murdoch 'sorry' he didn't shut News of the World years ago

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100 Years ago a newspaper owner like Murdoch would have done the decent thing.

He'd have gone into his office with a revolver and a bottle of whiskey.

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Indiana cops arrest violent 6-year-old

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Stop

I don't think that the concept of criminal responsibility exists in america

They'll quite happily execute a man with the mind of a child, so why not a child with the mind of a child?

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Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?

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I'm surprised no one has suggested

I'm surprised no one has suggested that we get doctors and other medical professionals to essentially take them apart and figure out what went wrong them. Who knows how many lives could be saved from that research.

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Wannabe-human bots face 2012 Turing Test in Turing's old office

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Some humans probably wouldn't pass that test.

I'm going...

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Uni plagiarism site buckles under crush of last-minute essays

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The problem here is....

The amount of phase space of originality that's available for students. Essays are normally limited in length. 30 students researching the same subject are likely to use similar if not the same sources.

It's even possible for two people, working on the same assignment, performing the same work to sometimes have completely identical ideas and write those ideas down in the same way. Matching text in this case does not indicate plagiarism or corroboration, but convergent thinking.

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@DayDragon

What if you're doing a reflective essay on an essay you wrote earlier in the year?

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Hackers now pick tools from script kiddies' toybox – report

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Well there's no point in re-inventing the wheel.

It's knowing exactly how those tools work and how to use them that separates the men from the boys.

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Suspected freetloaders to face piracy letters in 2014

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Re: Red Dwarf - Polymorph

I can't believe that you mentioned that episode and didn't manage to shoehorn in "The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society"

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Online criminal records checks to save Surrey council £300k

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Personal Information Leakage.

"The online system will improve the security of personal information compared to the previous paper based process, according to a spokesman for the local authority."

I doubt it. If other councils are anything to go by all a computerised system will do is make is easier to leak a lot more personal information in one go.

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From the Department of WTF: New USB tampon flash drive

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There should be a Department of WTF

I'm going to make that happen.

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Getting rich off iPhone apps is b*llocks, say UK devs

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MP's

Not sure if serious or trolling.

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Megaupload case near collapse: report

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Cowboy Justice in the Wild West

Doesn't look like we're going to have ourselves a hanging after all.

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'Attitudes to robot sex will change'

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FAIL

I too was disappointed about the lack of NSFW material. :(

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Re: Android sex?

Oh woe to ye who go about saying unto each, 'Hello, Sailor.'

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Killers laugh in face of death penalty threat, say US experts

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Death Penalty

The thing I've always wondered about the death penalty is, what do you do if it later turns out the guy you executed is innocent? Who is punished for the murder of an innocent man then? How do you go about giving the wrongly convicted prisoner his life back?

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Since when were sentences supposed to be a deterrent?

Aren't we supposed to be rehabilitating offenders for the day when they will eventually get released back into society? The whole idea of revenge and vengeance completely undermines the concept of justice. This is why we don't allow the victim to decide the sentence.

I for one would rather have people released from prison rehabilitated, rather than be released after harbouring a grudge against society for 25 years.

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Shale gas fracking ruled safe, but must stop at drop of a hat

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Shale Gas Fracking Ruled Safe

This is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

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ISPs torch UK.gov's smut-blocking master plan

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Common Sense Prevails

If parents don't want their kids viewing porn on the internet, then it should be up to the parents to look after their kids.

It's not my fault that Claire Perry can't figure out how to turn her kids PC off or configure her router or filtering software.

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Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism

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Skills Children Will Need In The Future

"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots." - The Simpsons.

Obviously, robotics is the subject we should be teaching our children?

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Re: @AndrueC

I suffer from the unfortunate affliction of getting solutions for everyone else's problems, but not my own.

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SpaceX Dragon gets green-light for launch to Space Station

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The cargo isn't critical stuff for the astronauts

But I'd still like to know what they are sending up there.

I strongly suspect that the cargo contains jars for catching moonbeams.

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BT wants to poke fingers in EVERY broadband cash pie

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Broadband minister Ed Vaizey?

I didn't know we had a Minister of Broadband. What does he do exactly?

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Google fined for stalling Street View cars' Wi-Fi slurp probe

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So the moral of the story is...

I should lock my front door.

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@NukEvil

That makes things a little clearer.

I don't mind someone wandering past and looking at the number on my front door.

I do mind when people come past the front door and start rifling through my stuff.

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Re: Everyone smells Google money!

So if I leave my front door unlocked, does that give you the right to come in and have a poke around?

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Lesser-spotted Raspberry Pi FINALLY dished up

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Re: All I had was a Z80 and a handful of switches

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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ZX81! You had it good!

All I had was a Z80 and a handful of switches! We had to push all the bits to the processor by hand and that was the way we liked it!

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ISPs should get 'up to' full fee for 'up to' broadband

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Re: So, If I get 75% of the advertised speed, I pay 75% of the price.

Why the down vote?

If you only work 30 hours a week, can you really complain when you only get paid for 30 instead of the 40 you could have worked 'up to'?

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So, If I get 75% of the advertised speed, I pay 75% of the price.

Sounds fair to me. You get what you pay for. Or in the case of an ISP, you get paid for what you provide.

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Yet another OSX/Java Trojan spotted in the wild

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Re: Oh boy, here we go again.

Unfortunately, PC's running OSX, Windows or Linux all suffer from the same major security vulnerability.

This vulnerability can be found sitting between the chair and the keyboard.

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Ewwww!

That Apple has a worm in it!

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ANU puts quantum random numbers online

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Re: Beavis, they said, “guaranteed by quantum theory." Heh, heh, heh!

Gravity is a theory that's been proven too. For empirical evidence. Throw a brick.

It'll hit the floor, guaranteed. (Unless you can throw it faster than 11 Kps)

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Two teens cuffed after Blighty's anti-terror hotline hacked

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Fantastic work by the boys in blue

The men from Scotland Yard have rounded up a couple of boys making prank phone calls.

I'll sleep better in my bed tonight!

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'Real time' PAYE pilot goes live at HMRC

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Re: I Hate PAYE

I would have thought that was an argument *for* doing your own taxes. If someone with a degree in mathematics can't work out if their tax is correct, then how do you expect the HMRC drones (who in all likelyhood don't have a degree in mathematics) to get it right?

The tax system is severely broken when a single low end wage earner ends up paying more tax than a millionaire.

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Hitachi spins up 'leccy fan motor sans rare earths

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What was that about necessity being the mother of invention?

We need rare-earths. We don't have rare-earths. Hitachi cleverly figured out a way around the problem.

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Life on Mars found – in 1976

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Is it too soon to launch a preemptive strike?

Stop them now! Before they become multi-cellular!

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