* Posts by Forget It

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ANYONE on Google+ can now email you, with or without your Gmail addy

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FAIL

how come there is no simple unsubscribe by email option?

FAIL

Apple: Wow, thanks for the $10bn-a-year App Store. We'll be on the beach with our 30%

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$10bn - enough to pay their tax bills now, like normal companies?

Block The Pirate Bay? Arrr, me hearties, new P2P client could sink that plan

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Is this much different from the FreeNet approach?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

Snowden leak journo leaks next leak: NSA, GCHQ dying to snoop on your gadgets mid-flight

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Peer-to-peer onboard?

Theoretically mobile phones can connect peer-to-peer

Ancient link:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/02/06/14/1941214/peer-to-peer-cell-phones

but it's not in the commercial world's / NSA's interest to perfect it for us

Bizarre Tolkien-inspired GCHQ Xmas card CAN'T BE READ by us PLEBS

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GCHQ: Mordor where the Shadows lie ?

Hypnotic wind map captures Earth's heavenly currents

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Joke

pun warning

I usually get the wind after Xmas

- not before

$1,000 BOUNTY offered for FINGERPRINTS of a GLOBAL SPY CHIEF

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Way to Go!

Security guru Bruce Schneier to leave employer BT

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The Future arrives

The Futurologist departs

logical no?

Noisy qubits destroy data in order to save it

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For the snark was a boojum, you see

Facebook's Zuckerberg: US gov 'blew it' on mass surveillance

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turnabout

Mr Facebook roots for faceless people.

Biggest quantum cluster does not compute ... yet

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Re: Like knitting with light

[Like knitting with light]

Emperor's new clothes (Hans Christian Andersen)

or

Emperor's new mind (Roger Penrose)

let's see...

Dr Wolfram touts coding language to revolutionise mankind ... just like Wolfram Alpha did

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Joke

May this time round it will get to Beta.

Oracle's nemesis MariaDB releases sleekest seal yet to beta

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Ave o MariaDB, piena di grazia,

il Signore e' con te.

Microsoft CEO shortlist down to EIGHT ... appropriately enough, perhaps

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CEO 8.1 -

painful download and installation

less touchy feely

more business sense?

Mozilla CTO blasts WC3 plans to bless anti-piracy DRM tech in HTML5

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TBL

The

Balrog

Lover

Deploying Turing to see if we have free will

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Re: Outsourcing your decision

If you are married, then you surely do not have any form of free will left.

From 1st person to 2nd/3rd person perspective

=

From consciousness to scientific perspective

[pic of dog] caption we are not allowed to enter!

Loathed wiggly-word CAPTCHAs morph into 'fun' click-'n'-drag games

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Unhappy

It's depressing enough to fly ryan air - but now their captcha have turned into

pure marketing too - last time the phrase was "Book travel insurance".

I guess it doesn't stop robots any more - just annoys punters

C'est La ryanair.

Google's robot army learns Spanish

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This seems to be putting Semantic back into the Statistical

of Statistical Machine Translation

EasyJet wanted to fling me off flight for diss tweet, warns cyber-law buff

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A few years ago I said Moo to a Ryan-air bod (as we'd been steered like cattle)

and almost got stopped from flying.

That time the bod said I'd insulted Ryan-air and that "I am ryan-air"!

Never again - tail between my legs ...INAL ho ho

NASA's nuclear Mars tank REBELS against human control

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Curiosity killed the cat!

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Curiosity+killed+the+cat.+source+smosh+facebook+page_06d5f5_3980829.jpg

Guardian teams up with New York Times for future Snowden GCHQ coverage

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Black Helicopters

Re: Who provided them, since Snowden himself did not?

May be the Independent did some earlier spying on the Guardian (basement whatever)

and are proving the point, post-hoc, that there really was a security risk until the GCHQ thugs

saw the MacBook + disks done to death.

I doubt it but the spin is possible.

PS:

Which film was it (Carry On?? ) where the servile thug picked up the phone and said in a Neanderthal voice "Intelligence here"

?

Bradley Manning* sentenced to 35 years in prison

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Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison for a point of principal.

He did the right thing for his country/people,

too.

Guardian lets UK spooks trash 'Snowden files' PCs to make them feel better

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Quite satisfying that a MacBook was the whipping boy.

Google's Street View cars venture inside TARDIS

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Now, how does a timelord just deal with the spooks?

Psst. Want to stop the data drip of leaky clouds but don't know how? Look here

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Happy

one word: Duplicati

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbCA2q5EB98

Big blue Avatar movie spawns THREE SEQUELS

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Re: three films??

Three Duds?

3D

Microsoft Surface sales numbers revealed as SHOCKINGLY HIDEOUS

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Joke

On the surface

On the surface it doesn't seem too bad

its when you dig deeper ...

Wikipedia switches on mobile editing

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Go

mostly harmless

Tweet like escaping Hell depends on it, Twitter Catholics told

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Snowden would be wise to check out all avenues of escape from his own particular purgatory on earth.

Maybe Pope Francis can help?

Privacy expert dismisses PRISM-busting typeface as 'art project'

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Angel

UTF-8 alternative

Otherwise you could compose message avoiding standard characters - using UTF-8 alternative

instead.

As seen in alt.free.newsservers here:

http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.free.newsservers/jR21H6TnYG0

[Note El Reg complains if you try to cut and past that example into this forum - may be our developers are smarted than we thought.

Report: Skype set up Project Chess to enable official snooping

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Coffee/keyboard

Remember that time when Skype super-nodes went down for a day or so.

Wondered what was going on then.

Good news: Debian 7 is rock solid. Bad news: It's called Wheezy

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Re: Social contract?

better than dot-Commies

Caldicott: NHS workers should 'have the confidence to share information'

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Re: On one condition

Yes after Face B. we can have Neck Book, Torso Book, Gonads Book etc. Enjoy.

UK's first copyright swap-shop for cat pics (etc) still yonks away

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Stop

Question

Is it a reflection of their retro-thinking that the huge light bulb they show on

all their webp-pages is of the OLD TYPE before the world changed to be

Eco-friendly?

Mali to give away .ML domains for free

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Unhappy

Mali-ware anyone?

MISSING LINK between HUMANS and MONKEYS FOUND

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Bergman said: “The ability to produce complex sounds might have come first. Then, when we could do that, we could attach meanings and communicate in more sophisticated ways."

So evolutionary advantage not involved from the onset?

What on earth are you "dawkin about"?

Ahoy! Google asks US gov't to help sink patent 'privateers'

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Coffee/keyboard

"Trolls use the patents they receive to sue with impunity – since they don't make anything..."

Oh so that's why Google Labs closed down - stop making new things, start suing?

Universal Credit IT system could lead to MORE FRAUD, MPs warn

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Facepalm

Security: Built-In or Bolt On? Oh not again

After Leveson: The UK gets an Orwellian Ministry of Truth for real

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Re: The Difference Between Communism And Capitalism

If you don't have to fight for it then it is probably not freedom.

Furious Stephen Fry blasts 'evil' Reg and 'TW*T' Orlowski

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Video reply by Orlowski / Baldrick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDQ1ljlnSjU?t=1m23s

Reader slain? 'Even the Google apologists on G+ are p****d off'

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Coffee/keyboard

Use a native RSS reader that way you can keep reading stuff off line.

FeedReader 3.14 still sits in the Win7 tray fine and dandy.

Feedburner is quite useful though - hope it doesn't get culled.

Amazon ditches 'neo-Nazi' security firm over alleged harassment of workers

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Facepalm

plus the place name: Bad Hersfeld gives a clue. doh.

You can help fix patent laws … now!

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Yes we can!

Quantum crypto still not proven, claim Cambridge experts

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Go

direct YT link

http://www.youtube.com/embed/W9yWv5dqSKk

Mysterious Facebook product plumps up shares on Wall Street

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Joke

The introduction of random spoonerisms into timeline , eg Base Fook?

Unbelievably vast quasar cluster forces universe-sized rethink

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Meh

what's the betting all those buses come along at once . . .

NASA: There are 17 BEEELLION Earth-sized worlds in Milky Way

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Trollface

All 17 Billion of the too far away to make contact

Suddenly I don't feel so lonely!

US patent office: Nice try Apple, but pinch-to-zoom is NOT a new invention

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Joke

Yea there's been prior art since the beginning of time:

"Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to play;

Adam and Eve were drowned, so who do you think was saved?"

... Apple just got pinched?

Wikipedia doesn't need your money - so why does it keep pestering you?

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Facepalm

Anyone care to help out in this entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountable_Fundraising#Accountable_fundraising

even without a visual editor

Mobile devices bring back that old client-server feeling

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HTML5 wysiwyg editors:

http://aloha-editor.org/demos/3col/

http://wysiwhat.github.com/Aloha-Editor/cnx.html

http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/

glad-to-be-of-service

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