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Twitter to let ad pals TRACK COOKIES on micro-blogging site

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Mushroom

If this is the start of some Facebook-style privacy snafu I will ragequit.

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Space miners reach funding goal for telescope

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Facepalm

[sigh]

South Sea bubble, Tulip bubble, boo.com, Facebook IPO. No matter how much we try and idiot-proof things they keep making better idiots.

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Facebook restricts ads running next to dodgy posts

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Re: Maybe

I don't do Facebook but if I did, I'd have Shyte Brook as my hometown.

http://maps.geotastic.org/vaguely-rude-places/index.php?id=153

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Chinese 'nauts return to Earth after vigorous space coupling

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Happy

I thought the code for astro-rumpy was "the 200 mile high club".

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Saucy selfie app Snapchat hits $800m valuation as VCs chuck cash around

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Windows

$800m for a load of pictures of winkles? The world's gone mad!

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Tearing a strip off Microsoft's Brazilian: That's no way to attract mates

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Headmaster

"Amazon flows into Brazil"

Not really - it's more than Amazon drains Brazil into the ocean.

I'm not entirely sure where that metaphor is going but it's certainly not where Microsoft thinks it's going.

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El Reg rocket squad poised to select Ultimate Cuppa teabag

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Unhappy

Re: Yorkshire Gold!

Coming from the wetter side of the Pennines it pains me to agree with you but, yes, Yorkshire tea is the best.

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Boffins find evidence Atlantic Ocean has started closing

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@ I ain't Spartacus

Secondly if the Gorringe subduction zone becomes as famous as the San Andreas fault, then poets and songwriters will now have something to rhyme with Orange.

Not only does it rhyme with "Orange" but Gorringe Bank has massive rhyming slang potential as well.

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When to say those three little words: 'I am quitting'

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Windows

Three words?

"Why don't you stick this fookin job up your moron fookin ass you dormant bastard?" > 3 words

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Help! I’m trapped inside the Chamber of Hollers

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Windows

Sounds like you need to take a lead from this organ's own BOFH. Just remember to hang on to the roll of carpet after you take it up ...

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So, who ought to be the next Doctor Who? It's up to YOU...

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Re: It'd be nice

I'm waiting for someone to blame Microsoft.

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Big Brother? Social networks are far worse, says Estonian president

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Re: Shops

I'm sure there are many folks who twit/status update the amount of bog paper they use.

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Who should play the next Doctor? Nominations needed!

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Black Helicopters

Re: If Eadon...

That would make sense. Have you ever seen Windows ME climbing stairs?

No, nor me.

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Paterson Joseph

Paterson Joseph - with a scarf, bag of jelly babies and a smart lass in tow.

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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf predicts the future, fears Word-DOCALYPSE

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Most of the Word documents I produce are complete shite anyway. Lack of backward compatibilty is sparing future generations some tremendous dullardery.

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Hitchhikers' Guide was WRONG, Earth is not in a galactic backwater

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Alien

I'm not convinced

It sounds like we're in the low-rent shithole between 2 genuinely nice areas.

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Doctor Who? 12th incarnation sought after Matt Smith quits

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Windows

I prefer Doctor Who with more scarves and less shouting.

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'Catastrophic failure' of 3D-printed gun in Oz Police test

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Re: The Liberator - a bargain

Expecially if you've not paid the £50 dead cat surcharge.

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FLABBER-JASTED: It's 'jif', NOT '.gif', says man who should know

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Windows

"Sequel" every time - unless referring to "Microsoft Squeal Server".

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Re: nah mate

"Just asked our graphics guy and he's as 'American' as they come. He said jif... Only Europeans say gif according to him. He could have already read the story though. Hard to trust those graphics guys."

But Americans pronounce "autumn" as "fall".

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Re: Acronymity...

I tried Joojling it but it wasn't clear.

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Soylent Corporation prepares to DEFEAT FOOD

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Re: Well, maybe it is made from people...

Mmmm. Crowd sauce is the tastiest sauce.

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It! Started! With! A! GIF!... Yahoo! Actually! Buys! Tumblr! for! $1bn!

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Unhappy

Oh dear. I quite liked Tumblr. Now I'll have to start calling it New Flickr.

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UK.gov STILL wants to tout pupil data – don't use the word 'product'

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Childcatcher

Unbelievable

There really is nothing these slimy little shites won't do for a few quid is there?

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Boffins find world's oldest virgin water trapped in Earth's crust

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Re: Freeze it

Each to their own. You can keep your ice but I'll take mine with a splash of 1.5 billion year vintage water.

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Life on Mars means subsisting on grim diet of turd-garden spinach

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Pint

Re: Desire for a brand new combine harvester

Indeed. My interpratation was that the protagonist already has a combine harvester and was boasting of it in an attempt to get into ladies' pants

<- imagine that's a cider. Ooooh-arrr!

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Drone to deliver beer-as-a-service

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Meh

Re: As a guy who once was paid good money to jump out of perfectly good airplanes ...

While I doubt the cans will be jumping from the heights you once did I share your doubts about their accuracy.

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Google's Page, LG boss's SECRET confab sparks Nexus 5 rumour

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"Unlike the Nexus 4 there are no buttons on the front of the device"

There are no buttons on the front of the Nexus 4. Or at least there are no buttons on the front of my Nexus 4.

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Science of the lambs: Boffins grow GLOW-IN-THE-DARK sheep

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Pint

Re: Roast Lamb

The lamb from my local kebab shop does that already

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Mushroom

Impressive bofinry but where's my flying car, damnit?

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How long will it take Facebook Home to hit 1bn downloads? 76 years

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Trollface

If FB's Android app hasn't improved since I last used it, a goatse launcher would be most apt.

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Ten Windows 8 Ultrabooks

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Fiestas and marketing wonks

If you're looking for a review of the new Fiesta on [well known car review magazine site], it's listed under the "Supermini" category, which is close.

Bastard marketing wonks.

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Ready for the car 2.0? Nvidia preps UPGRADABLE car system

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Thumb Down

No

"Updating dashboard software now, please pull over during the update."

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Dark matter researchers think they've got a signal

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Pint

"What next?"

Pub

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Hardware hacker unifies 15 retro consoles in format frenzy

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Joke

And people complain about the original PS3 being big. Sheesh!

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LOHAN chap to launch Raspberry Pi eye in the sky

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Coat

All hail ...

... the Pimonaut

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Citi to file claim with Nasdaq over Facebook IPOcalypse

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The value of investments can go down as well as up.

Caveat emptor.

Etc.

Do these things not apply to big banks?

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Take a deep breath: No NORKS panic for ICT supply chain … yet

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Pint

Relax

They couldn't organise a nuke in a dictatorship.

They might as well divide the warhead between 20 000 schoolboy catapults.

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Bitcoin exchange: Greedy traders to blame for DDoS attack

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Windows

I've invested in magic beans - which are entirely resistant to DDoS. Yeah take that Bitcoin!

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Bitcoin briefly soars to record $147 high, driven by Cyprus bank flap

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"Can you walk into a Tescos, Asda, Lidl or Aldis and pick-up some Milk and a Head of Lettuce with a Gold bar or a Picasso?"

No but you can be confident the gold bar and Picasso will be worth something in 5 years time.

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One simply sells them to a fool. Finding that fool ought to be depressingly easy.

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Provider of FIFA goal line tech chosen, tracks ball in space and time

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"Jimmy hat icon please." Re: Pfft

Would that be in the Scottish sense or the Tribe Called Quest sense?

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Facebook prepares to dominate Android

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Windows

Re: I Be Afraid.

If it's anything like the Faceshite app on my old HTC phone, you'll be jailbreaking it to uninstall.

Unless this was an April Fools story, I've really no idea any more.

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Man's 'I own half of Facebook' claim branded 'fabrication' by judge

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"I own half of Future MySpace"

If the case had dragged on for a couple more years, Zuck could've just given him 50p and called it quits.

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Roomba dust-bust bot bods one step closer to ROBOBUTLERS

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Terminator

Re: Needs to be housewife proof

You could probably have that kind of thing installed as an add-on module, if you really want it.

And thus the future unfolds with a whole new category of things-that-A&E-staff-get-to-laugh-about.

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Terminator

Re: This is a *huge* step forward.

I reckon, ironing would be *the* killer app that gets robo-assistance into so many homes.

Skynet at the cost of never ironing again? It's food for thought, admit it.

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Reg man goes time travelling at iconic observatory

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Re: North-West not North Midlands

There are no hard and fast rules, but my opinion is that the north west begins at Crewe - so Jodrell Bank is definitely just over the border.

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Bitcoin prices spike on Euro woes

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Good grief

Is this like that graph you see where lottery spending rockets the closer you get to the redundancy date?

It'd be better "investing" in the 3:05 at Newmarket than Bitcoin.

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Twitter patents sending messages, promises not to sue everyone

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Stop

Prior art

Usenet

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UK's 'Nobel prize for engineering' given to 'inventors of the interwebs'

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Joke

Bang up to date, then. Next year I'm backing James Hargreaves for the Spinning Jenny

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