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UK regulator warns targets over share scam sucker list

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"unusual step of contacting 38,000 potential share fraud targets"

Probably only unusual as they rarely get hold of such a list.

It makes good sense to me.

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Blighty to get mobe-download barcode rail tickets

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flat battery

That could be the least of your problems. I don't want a ticket inspector punching a hole in my HTC Desire, thank you very much.

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Daleks poised to invade tour UK

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Pint

Keeping up.

I live on the Coast, some 90 minutes south of Victoria. Underground to cross London, then another train to Wembley. Not really practical to get back from an evening show.

Beer because most of the passengers on late night trains are probably pissed.

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What about the South East of England?

Wembley is nearest to me, but still nearly three hours away.

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Google: Street View spycars did slurp your Wi-Fi

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"Street View cars have now been grounded"

Google has flying cars?

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Welsh police come down hard on Octopussy porn

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No contact with a child under the age of 16?

What about squid/octopuses?

Will nobody think about the fish?

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McKinnon campaign urges coalition to block extradition

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Re Penalty

"So Gary's MAXIMUM punishment should be one ten-thousandth of the punishment meted out to the bankers."

That would mean giving him a small bonus.

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Why?

Why is everyone fighting extradition called "Gary"? First Gary McKinnon, then Gary Mann (deported yesterday)..

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Garage worker prangs £200k Ferrari

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(untitled)

It happened in Eastbourne (according to the commentards) in January.

www.theargus.co.uk/news/4871206.Eastbourne_couple_and_baby_hit_by_sports_car/

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Norks 'have answer to humanity's greatest problem'

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Letters and/or digits? OK. abc123

That was my reaction too. There's no scientific reason to think that a fusion reactor is impossible. It's an engineering problem, and it's conceivable that a Nork has come up with an engineering solution.

I'll believe it when I see it though.

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Bill Gates backs ball-busting ultrasound

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Think of it as evolution in action.

Three generations from now, everyone will be descended only from men who can produce sperm resistant to ultrasound.

We'll all be perfect specimens of homo sapiens, Long lived, disease-free, and IQs of at least 300.

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Drifting zombiesat could disrupt TV programming

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Re WTF?

It's a variation of Godwin's Law.

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Or from the Russian end.

It's been nearly 40 years, since anyone has been able to do more than just reach low Earth orbit.

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Intel: Social netizens conquering the earth

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Welcome

I for one

Welcome our new Earth-conquering social netizen overlords

Wait a moment.....

I'm one of them.

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UK hot-swaps leaders - Brown out, Cameron in

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"That meant for a period, the UK had no elected leader."`

Brown never was an elected PM.

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Waterstone's whips out its pendulous dugs

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Redundant title.

No self-respecting trendy design company would have charged anything south of £200,000. And don't forget the cost of reprinting all the stationery. Ker-ching!

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Tiger Woods succumbs to 'bulging d*ck'

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Problem with his neck?

Such as not being able to get it out of bed?

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Mobile Broadband

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WTF?

Why oh why?

Does a three page article have two comments pages?

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3 Pricing

15GB is £15 per month for a 24 month contract, not £25. Much better value than the 18 month package.

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Oz filmmaker to flog virgins for TV doco

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Or Maidenhead

As the point of the programme is to lose it.

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"An Australian filmmaker is taking a bit of stick"

As well as the female virgins apparently.

Playmobil reconstruction?

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The internet, as imagined in 1965

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FAIL

He missed

Spam

Viruses

419 scams.

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UK polling stations turn away 'hundreds' of voters

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(untitled)

Well in that case, you could have asked for a postal or proxy vote.

One report claimed that many of the ones not able to vote, were students without poll cards. There's always a risk in waiting until the l;ast minute.

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Scammers attempt to cash in on volcanic ash travel chaos

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Dead Vulture

We're all going to die.

How can we fly to the South Pacific when the LHC is belching out all that volcanic ash?

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Britain and Israel in stand-off over Mossad officer

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Probably all for show.

With everything going on as before behind the scenes. What the government doesn't know (officially) doesn't count.

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Google brings @gmail.com back to Blighty

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Obligatory title

"if the equivalent @gmail.com address is available."?

I thought that only one name was allowed regardless of whether it was gmail or googlemail. Email sent to me at xxx@gmail.com is received at xxx@googlemail.com

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Spider-Man and Jedi Knights bust X-Men comic thief

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International Free Comic day?

"This isn't the free comic you're looking for."

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Granny friendly phones

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Oi!

I'm over 60! And I'll be buying an HTC Desire shortly.

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DVLA off-road system seriously off-message

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Re Just a minute.

You don't need to do anything if you take a taxed car off the road. But when the tax runs out, you either have to re-tax or SORN it.

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Blokes spend 11 months in shed

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Shed heaven

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4543675.stm

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New drug spray 'makes men as soppy as girls'

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Do they

Put the toilet seat down after being sprayed?

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Cheshire lass, 8, wins Playmobil vid challenge

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Re Bootnote

The El Reg Playmobil section seems incomplete. It isn't six months since the last reconstruction, is it?

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US boffins fashion quantum-computing bit out of SQUID

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Joke

I hear it will be very cheap.

Only sick squid.

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'Phantasmal' bioweapon drug-sweat microfrogs bred in UK

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Welcome

I for one

Welcome our new poisonous micro-frog overl

NO CARRIER

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HTC HD mini

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Re Shameless

I've got an Orbit 2 which is slower than the XDA IIi that preceded it. I'm waving it goodbye as soon as O2 has the HTC Desire (supposedly this month, but time is running out).

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FAIL

Why 10:08?

It looks like a smiley on an analogue clock face, but it doesn't work on a digital display.

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Missing Soviet nuclear electrocar FOUND ON MOON

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Coat

Moon buggies

Apollo 14 didn't have one. Just the three J missions starting with Apollo 15.

Mine's the one with the copy of Jane's Spacecraft in the pocket.

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Don't try to sleep with your iPad, doctor warns

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Re E-ink screens don’t offer the same contrast

They will later this year.

www.trustedreviews.com/peripherals/news/2010/04/26/E-Ink-Demos-Next-Generation-eBook-Reader-Displays/p1

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Hawking: Aliens are out there, likely to be Bad News

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Or cheap labour

I wouldn't mind washing dishes on a luxury interstellar cruise ship for a couple of years.

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Website shares user credit cards with world+dog

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Re Oooh, look

Read the story again. You were supposed to include your credit card details in your post.

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WTF?

<Shakes head in disbelief>

"Blippy says thousands of its users have supplied the keys to their e-mail accounts"

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Johnson: ID cards will pay for themselves

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Self financing title

£5.3 billion / 3000 = Nearly £18million each.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 smartphone

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Joke

(untitled)

"I got this phone as a free upgrade for my wife"

Don't you miss her?

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Sony Vaio M Atom 2.0 netbook

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Or you have a USB dongle,

that is too wide to allow access to the next socket.

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Discovery touches down at Kennedy

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Re Escape Pods

Each Shuttle weighs 74 tons, a lot of weight for little useful storage space. They can only stay up for about 14 days until the fuel cells etc run out, so not useful for escape pods. And you'd have the additional problem of getting the crew back to Earth.

And I think that SpaceX will need the Shuttle docking port.

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eBay shill bid scammer convicted

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Re "which had had its mileage reduced illegally."

There's a legal way of doing it?

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Obama 'deep space' Mars plans in Boeing booster bitchslap

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Re "It certainly seems a little harsh"

"It certainly seems a little harsh to say that President Obama is "backing away" from space exploration"

Why? It took him over a year to announce that resupplying the ISS would be done by SpaceX, etc, and that Constellation would be axed. Even though the first was the purpose of COTS, and Constellation was all about leaving Earth orbit. If he really had something this ambitious, why not announce it weeks ago? It smacks of something hastily cobbled together after the initial outcry.

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Astroboffin says 'black holes murder galaxies'

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Welcome

I for one

welcome our less active Galactic black hole overlord.

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Obama: We're off to Mars

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Re Or am I missing something?

Yes.

The target will be one of the Near Earth Objects, close enough to our orbit to pose a potential risk to us sometime.

There was even a proposal to use an Ares I for such a mission.

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El Reg PARIS team unboxes some toys

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Re an additional piece of main payload kit.

Playmobil crew, I hope.

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