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Natalie Portman slaps John Galliano

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...values which have always been defended by Christian Dior...

Er, this quote is from Wikipedia, from the Christian Dior page: "For the duration of World War II, Christian Dior dressed the wives of the Nazi officers and French collaborators.

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Hacker warning over internet-connected HDTVs

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WTF?

at least until a fix is released...

er, so how many flash upgradable TVs are there? Mine isn't. I suspect that a TV firewall is a LONG way in the future.

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UK Man cops to £500,000 iTunes royalty scam

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WTF?

downloaded songs 6,000 times ?

That looks like £83 royalties per download. Impressive. Or wrong.

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White House forbids feds from reading WikiLeaked cables

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Flame

I cannot believe that any goverment anywhere in the world does not know

that the the US Goverment thinks that the rest of the world are cretins who are only there to be fleeced and/or dumped on.

What is new.

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Anti-virus skulduggery - upgrade licence clock shock slammed

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The trick with Kaspersky

is to buy the upgrade when it is cheapest but not apply it until a week or so before the old licence expires. Not a problem to do and presumably something that might apply to other AV suppliers.

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Start-up pitches low-cost no-glasses 3D for iPad

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This should attract dirt and crud...

and not just fart apps and porn. All lenticular surfaces are good at retaining grease and dust so a touchscreen could become a veritable plague pit.

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Brits blow millions on over-priced ink

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Yay, Continuous Ink System

The CIS I bought with a new Epson Stylus Photo printer over 2 years ago cost less than a new set of six Epson cartridges, came with 600ml of ink. It has paid for itself AND PAID FOR THE PRINTER several times.

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Police to get greater web censorship powers

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Well, there goes eBay.co.uk ...

purveyor of, allegedly, pirate and/or nock-off.

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Great and Good honour the designer of world's first laptop

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Wow, memories

I used one of these. Magnesium case, no harddisk, no fan, therefore totally silent. A crowd gatherer like no other computer before or since.

Unfortunately they were replaced by the GRIDcase and other with a appallingly unreliable metal cased external power supply which could be shoved into a metal-lined hole in the magnesium case where it would first overheat then fail. My company used to get replacement power supplies from GRiD Uk quite literally by the case full.

Fun machine tho'.

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Firesheep developer poohpoohs mitigation tools

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illegal or at least unethical, maybe

Stupid and unthinking, certainly.

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Firefox extension detects FireSheep snoop software

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FAIL

Seems like a reactionary and futile move on the part of Microsoft !!!!

What a dumb statement. Since Firesheep was released the business of stealing cookies has become something that any crook, snooper, or idiot can do. Using the "underlying vulnerability" was more-or-less restricted to tech-savvy crooks of whom there will be fewer. Detecting Firesheep must be a good thing.

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Highest point on the Moon found: Higher than Mount Everest

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Sea level? On the moon?

I know they have found water ice on the moon but how do they know where "sea level" is?

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Apple buys out $1bn data center squatters

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Go

"They told us to put a price on it and we did,"

My goodness, Apple do something nice for a change. What is the world coming to.

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Virgin Media introduces P2P throttling

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Virgin define PEAK as 10 AM to 9 PM

with a 1 hour gap at 3PM (for some reason).

With p2p they could have a different definition...

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Jobs moves to the heavens with Apple TV

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If their local hard disk filled up with movies and TV shows...

what on earth would they do?

Presumably burning files to CD or DVD is either too old-hat for Steve or is something that only pirates and thieves would ever want to do.

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People have no bloody idea about saving energy

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WTF?

Recycled glass is better than new glass

even if cans are better than both of them. Until all the products I use are supplied in cans I don't have an alternative to buying glass bottles. When they use recycled glass to make new glass the recycled glass reduces the amout of electricity used in the furnace by a considerable amount.

This article seems to suggest that NOT recycling glass is better than recycling it., which has got to be wrong.

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Broadband boss: 'The end of freeloading is nigh'

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Virgin already do that

Virgin already have an "up to" 10MB service which they already cap at 2.5MB for "up to" 10 hours a day.

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'Health and safety killjoys' kill cheese-rolling race

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Dozy event, but...

You cannot beat the Cheese Police.

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Former model sues Universal over 'x-rated prop' outrage

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Why wait five months?

Presumably she waited to see if the film was going to be a success.

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ODF's doomed mission to break into Microsoft Office

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OpenOffice DOESN'T support all Office features

Microsoft is being honest enough with the screen. If you use MSaccess and OpenOffice Base you know that they are nowhere near compatible.

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BT to throttle P2P for faster broadband

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FAIL

virgin pretend they are better

Virgin might not have download caps but since they can/will/do restrict download speeds for up to TEN hours a day to 25% of what you have paid for (except on 50MB) they probably don't need to.

If you have Virgin 2MB they can restrict you for 24hours per day.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

Having said that, 20 GB per month is PATHETIC.

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Electronic ink: The whole story in black and white

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Not 'crippled'

Not really 'crippled by its appalling refresh rate' if you are actually using the e-ink device to read a book. The refresh does not take any longer than turning the page of a book.

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