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Crikey, that's FAST: China clocks 84 pulsars in 2 years using world's largest radio telescope

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Re: In one way pulsars are not the great hope they used to be

There are some people who'll downvote you just because you've commented.

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So they managed to find somebody to run the place then?

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Metropolitan Police's facial recognition tech not only crap, but also of dubious legality – report

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Repeat after me: Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a how to guide.

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UK's North Midlands hospitals IT outage, day 2: All surgery and appointments cancelled

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Have they tried turning it off and on again?

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What would Jesus tweet? Church of England hands down commandments for Anglicans on social media

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Re: Treat others as you would like to be treated

Well, I'd like them to get my consent first, so it goes both way.

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Re: namby pamby

Apart from that whacky fire and brimstone ending.

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Re: Factual

He boiled for your sins.

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Re: Treat others as you would like to be treated

"Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error."

― Linus Pauling

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I got 502 problems, and Cloudflare sure is one: Outage interrupts your El Reg-reading pleasure for almost half an hour

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I was dangerously close to having to do some actual work. Please don't let it happen again.

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Poetic justice: Mum funnels £100 into claw machine to win single Dumbo teddy for her kid

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Re: Is this really IT news worthy?

Welcome to bootnotes.

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A fool and their money...

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Former UK PM Tony Blair urges governments to sort out online ID

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Papers please!

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Needs moar blockchain.

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False IDOL claims reach High Court: Lynch mob launched 'new' SPE Autonomy product to fake sales, says HPE

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Re: Typical court case

Similar to their purchase of Autonomy, I think HP are planning to get $10m to to $5bn through the mgic of synergies.

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You're crediting them with even a smidgen?

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Brexit: Digital border possible for Irish backstop woes, UK MPs told

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Re: TL; DR

The CBI estimates that the net benefit of EU membership is worth 4-5% of GDP to the UK, or £62bn-£78bn per year. In 2014, the ONS reported that the EU, which is the world's biggest economy, accounted for 44.6 per cent of all UK exports of goods and services, and 53.2 per cent of the UK's imports of goods and services.

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Re: TL; DR

Good reasons to be in the EU:

economics, sovereignty, immigration, trade, democratically[sic]

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TL; DR

We're fucked

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Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer

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Re: Bet they all use smartphones though...

The Dilbert Principle is a real thing.

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Vulture gets claws on Lego's latest Apollo nostalgia-fest

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Headmaster

My dad and I

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Coat

Apparently he insisted on location shooting.

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The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco

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The Tesco sign in Yeovil was vandalised so it read "very little helps"

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Re: The US military has made use of [ordinal dates]...

No need to pontificate.

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Re: Julian dates WTF

In 40k, didn't the Ecclesiastarchy divide the Terran year into 1000 equal parts?

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Re: Who reads those things anyway?

How is your mum?

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Mayday, mayday. Cray, you cray cray: Investor attempts to halt HPE's $1.3bn biz gobble

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Terminator

Glitch in the Matrix?

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Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one

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Re: 10 minutes, not a second more...

My parents still have the bread knife with a 5mm semi circular hole in the edge from where my brother tried cutting through the vacuum cleaner cable whilst wearing his wellies. Apparently his exact words were "Mummy, the hoover went bang and bit me!"

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Hot desk hell: Staff spend two weeks a year looking for seats in open-plan offices

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Re: Hot Desking?

I despise having to dispose of emails.

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Bollocks or brutal truth: Do smart-mobes make us grow skull horns? We take a closer look at boffins' startling claims

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Devil

So, mobile phones are the devil? Or do they turn you into the devil?

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Who needs a supercomputer when you can get a couple of petaflops on AWS?

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Something, something, something, Crysis.

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Imagine being charged to take a lunch break... even if you didn't. Welcome to the world of these electronics assembly line workers

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Workers' rights getting shafted

Coming soon, to a Brexit near you.

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*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

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I'll do it for £24,999,999/week, and that's cutting my own throat.

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Who bought the most powerful commercial supercomputer? Come on, it's Total-ly obvious

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DirectX makes it crash.

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10 PRINT Memorial in New Hampshire marks the birthplace of BASIC

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You're probably right, but I remember what I remember. We're going back 30+ years here.

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I remember writing AMBASIC on a CPC6128, and painstakingly copying lines of code from the user manual to play Amthello. Good times.

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Do you want a Kool-Aid with that, Huawei? You'll need one after watching boss chat to US mavens

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Co founded the MIT Media Lab, not MIT itself.

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Flight Simulator 2020: Exciting new ride or a doomed tailspin in a crowded market?

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Re: Physics

You deserve 42 upvotes for that.

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Bit more info on that particular cab.

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We asked readers what DXC should be known for... and of course you came up with the goods

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Or Drop the Dead Donkey.

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When customers see red, sometimes the obvious solution will only fan the flames

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Or they might confuse grains with grammar?

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There is no such thing as 'American English'. There is English and there are mistakes.

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Re: Dolt

Cue correct spelling but incorrect word.

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Get this: Mad King Leo wanted HP to slurp two other firms alongside ill-fated Autonomy buyout

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I wonder what the rights are worth?

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UK Home Sec kick-starts US request to extradite ex-WikiLeaker Assange

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Is it where they install that implant that causes the ridiculous power pose on the first day?

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IT pro screwed out of unused vacation pay, bonus by HPE after judge rules: The law is a mess but it's still the law

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I sense an appeal in 3...2...1...

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Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP

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Re: Bah!

Then you get idiots complaining about Spielberg posing with a Triceratops.

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Re: Bah!

"I once absentmindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chilli sauce." - Sir Terry Pratchett

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Re: Throw a party for influencers at Chernobyl.

Tell them "It's gonna be lit".

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Re: Can someone explain...

They supposedly influence the youth of today, whereas the youth of my day were mostly under the influence.

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Hate your IT job? Sick of computers? Good news: An electronics-frying Sun superflare may hit 'in next 100 years'

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Re: From scratch we re-invent the industrial revolution

With just a handful of men, we can start all over again...

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