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Video games go off quicker than tomatoes

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I remember in my mid - late teens ( mid - late 90s) churning through tens of games at my local (independent) game store..

Typically you could buy a relatively new ps1 release second hand for 30 quid, then sell it back to them a few weeks later for 25.. in the end a not exorbitant markup and meant that as a spotty teen with no real income I could still play all the new playstation games I wanted by paying a fiver now and then, provided some person sufficiently desperate to play it had bought it on release and then sold it on once they got bored..

I gather markups in the stores have increased a fair bit since then, although as andybird mentions use of ebay means you could probably still do a a similar thing.

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Who will rid me of these obsolete PCs?

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leave covered in the front garden with a help yourself note..

I second the leave it outisde route.. as long as you live on a busy enough street some passer by will either want it, or believe (possibly mistakenly) they can make money selling it, either way not your problem once they take it..

we once had a cheapo exercise bike that was bought for about £20 quid from asda, it was crap and never got used, but I had no idea how to get rid of it.. left it on the wall of our front garden in the morning with a note saying "no longer needed, working, help yourself" and it was gone when I got back from work

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Gawker rooted by anonymous hackers

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how should one manage passwords then?

interested to see what peoples systems for managing passwords are...

I am very lazy, and have a handful of passwords in my head that I use regularly for different sites, low level ones for less important sites with crappy data and complex ones for banking..

However I feel like I should be more rigorous and my system is a mess due to the amount of variation between sites having differing rules on passwords

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DDoS attack, sex warrant won't stop Assange's leaky discharge

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"These are classified documents"

Regardless of wether or not they should have been released no one has presented any evidence to support the idea that the information released endangers lives.

Yes the information is classified, and the reason it is classified is obvious, because it causes embarrasments to the governments of the states involved. How what has been published could be used to endanger individuals has not been made clear by anyone..

If you could point to a line in the documents that says "xxxx xxxx is an undercover counter terrorist agent of ours" (or similar) without the xxxxs then I would revert to your point of view

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11882092

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@titus

aside from possibly fuelling anti american feeling please provide a link to information that had been made available in the current link that directly endagers the lives of someone.

From what I am aware the newspapers releasing the information have worked with wikileaks to ensure that no specifics identifying names / locations etc. have been released as part of the publicly available material.

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Analyst cuts PC sales forecast, blames iPad

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malware.. and consumer lazyness / ignorance

"there isn't a compelling reason to upgrade a 3-4 year old PC anymore"

Whilst I'd agree with that statement for the average reg reader, for the average joe on the street after 3-4 years their laptop running windows is so full of bloat / malware and the disk so fragmented that it runs like an absoloute slug..

A mate of mine had a 2 or 3 year old acer laptop that he'd decided needed replacing since he'd picked up a virus.. I took a look at it and came to the conclusion that while his windoze installation was pretty much screwed to the point that it needed abandoning, a clean install of windows or any linux distro would render it fully functional again.. I offered to restore it for him (for free) but he decided he wanted to buy a new laptop anyway and I got a free computer.

As far as I can tell while his new machine has more ram, a faster processor, decent battery and is a bit lighter / shinier I doubt it really is £400 worth of improvement in performance on his old machine (with a clean non bloated OS) for surfing the web / emailing, skyping and watching downloaded movies on.

In a way I think microsoft is happy about the amount of malware on machines because so many consumers would rather just buy a new machine (and therefore new windows license too) rather than fix / pay someone to fix the one they've got.

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MP wants age verification for net smut

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Paris Hilton

not just mps

I remember seeing a "documentary" on this on channel 4 (or maybe 3) a few months ago..

Most of it was sensationalism about how much porn teenagers watched and highlighting some of the ridiculous assumptions and ideas about sex that they (mostly the boys) held..

Final segment was a mockup of a newsagents as the internet i.e every shelf lined with porn..

The presenter then had an interview with the head of BTs ISP branch whereupon she blathered on about how unacceptable that under 18s had access to it and as the provider of the information they had a responsibility to block it. He tried to make the point about it being impossible to enforce but just got met with the you "you're not doing anything, you should do something" argument.

It's lazyness, at the end of the day parents can't be bothered to think about how to restrict what their kids see (other than watching them themselves which takes up far too much time and is unacceptable)

Maybe ISPs should be encouraged to provide information in their welcome packs about how to setup domain filtering or something but thats the most they can be expected to do..

As a commenter mentioned earlier the MP making the analogy of regulating cinema / TV is wrong, "regulating" the internet is more like regulating the postal service.

I bet she is the new hero of the Dail Mail though

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Google alerts users to Facebook contacts 'trap'

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Joke

title

Meeeooowww

I think google and facebook should meet step outside to the carpark and sort this out like real men..

I like google, and I like facebook, but which is better?

There's only one way to find out....

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Angry Birds tweet fury at Redmond

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Gates Horns

take him over boys..

this remindsa little me of the simpsons episodes where homer has his "Internet King" business that somehow does really well..

Bill Gates comes round to evergreen terrace with his lawyers and tells homer he wants to take over his business

"This is it marge!" says homer all excited

"Ok, take him over boys!" says bill and the lawyers smash homers PC to pieces with baseball bats.

classic

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Google robo cars drive selves on public streets

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Terminator

hail google!

I, for one, welcome our new automobile overlords

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Net TV to consign Net Neutrality debate to dustbin of history. Why?

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FAIL

errr

royal mail do do traffic management.

It's called first class, second class, special delivery etc. etc. How much you pay is directly related to how quickly you want the item delivered and the relative cost of doing so (you pay more for bigger / heavier things)

That aside I agree with the other posts, the ISPs created this problem for themselves. They will have to move to a different business model and sting either the cosumers or the content providers

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