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'Nutjob' serves half-baked Raspberry PI scam

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Re: Big man

Presumably there's also someone forcing them to work in call centres, what a situation

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Cold calls

At our house we get cold calls of course, but we compete with each other to see how fast you can get the caller to tell you to fuck off (or equivalent).by stinging them along and unsubtle remarks.

Also, when I get a thick Indian accent come on and say "hello my name is Margaret" I usually reply with "that's funny mine's Deepak"

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Bruce Willis didn't Buy Hard: His girls can't inherit his iTunes

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Missing a collosal business opportunity

Second hand mp3 files legal exchage

Work out how to do it .... bingo !!

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Number-plate spycams riddled with flaws, top cop admits

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Re: slowing down

The police have always maintained that the primary purpose of speed cameras is to slow the traffic down, so your point is ??

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Re: UV

sorry yes I meant to say IR ... I always get them mixed up

but not as mixed up as making the jump to saying that I don't pay road tax ???

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UV

ANPR and SPECS use UV light bounced of the micro-dimples in the numberplate.

So factor 50 should do it, allegedly.

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Deployment

Originally the police had difficulty deploying ANPR since the equipment was rather large and they couldn't find a big enough bush.

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There's "retained" and "backed up"

Sorry but "more than 7 billion" and "some 7.6 billion" are so vague as to be meaningless, or even he same thing in practice. I suggest that the information is retained for all time, just not necessarily on the "live" database.

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Samsung whips out Galaxy Note II, cam-phone with proper zoom lens

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Re: Court case has been booked....

... that's ok, Apple can sue them retrospectively in 2014, for releasing a product 2 years before Apple did, that looks exactly like an Apple product. You heard it here first.

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Fired Toyota coder trashes systems, steals data

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Re: re: frogmarch off the premises

I was referring to systems larger than PC servers. Also if he's half decent he can cover his tracks log-wise. Or not get logged in the first place.

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re: frogmarch off the premises

You know you are leaving long before you tell the employer. This gives plenty of time to "back up" anything you feel might be "useful" to you. let them frogmarcj you out, safe in the knowledge that you already got what you wanted out of there 2 weeks ago. And yes, that password changing exercise is good advice, I would also add video it on your phone as well (without capturing the actual keystokes of course)

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Mars rover harangues empty landscape with loudhailer

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Time

Since time is a human invention, yes we have been there since the beginning of time.

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Google gets hands on 'glove-cam' patent

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FFS

Sticking a camera on the end of your finger, glove or no glove, that's patentable ? Have they run out of things to patent ?

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China to probe black holes, search for aliens

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Re: Foxconn

It wasn't America that crashed into the moon, it was the USA. America is not one country. It may even be two continients, if you consider the southern bit to be separate sort of.

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Train crash knocks out fibre cables, delays 9/11 hearing

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Re: 9 years?

It's also usual to have actual evidence before arresting someone. But hey ...

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Facebook ordered to unmask anonymous trolls by beak

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Email address

On facebook your email address is e.g. troll@facebook.com

Good result there, judge.

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PLT chair: UK Radio Society is 'living in a dream world'

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Re: There's a smokey on your back door

You'll need the Hams to do the morse code after the Martians destroy our cities in retaliation for lasering thier planet

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Text-and-drive teens ratted on by AT&T mobe tech

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Passenger

Have AT&T explained how their clever thingy detects whether the user is a passenger ?

Thought not

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Microsoft unveils fondle-ready keyboards, mice

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Re: Am I the only

No I don't change the buttons, so I'm using left hand it's middle finger yo click, index finger to rightclick, and using right hand (which ocassionaly happens) it's the other way round.

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Am I the only

... right handed person who deliberatly uses the mouse with the left hand, because my right hand is the "lead hand" used for typing, enter, etc ??

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UK judges quietly declare text chat can be obscene

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Offline

We're gradually being driven offline. You can hardly say boo in case some prude gets "offended". Like being offended gives them extra rights somehow. Then there's avoiding saying something about Robin Hood Airport etc. Any why is it these days that whatever happens, somebody has to go to jail?

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Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Bauernfrühstück v bacon sarnie

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HP Sauce

Unfortunately no longer British

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Storing punters' till receipts? UK.gov wants you to hand it over

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"how long until they ban cash sales because its too hard to trace"

The govt already "frowns" on cash payement e.g. to tradesmen etc. This was "sowing a seed". Not long until this happens to me and you on the high street, then.

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Software bug flattens NYSE trader

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Financial institutions and computers

What could possibly go wrong

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Beak explodes at Samsung's evidence leak in Apple patent spat

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Contempt ?

how can it be, when the evidence was not admitted into the court thus was deemed to be non-evidence ?

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Evidence

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the judge refuses to accept something as evidence, then it isn't evidence. So she has abrogated her remit over how it's used afetr that ?

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@UnSteveDorkland Twitter satirist faces 4 charges in US court

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Who

Even if he is Steve Dorkland, he's not Not Steve Auckland

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Boffins puzzled over impossibly fast ice avalanches on Saturn's moon

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Not natural

Am I the only one who thinks that the line round the middle just doesn't look natural.

Like it's some sort of "message" left by some visiting beings ?

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Hidden Grand Canyon-sized ICE-HOLE hastens Antarctic melt

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Re: Fail

What I said was that the article says that the valleys have been in existence for millions of years, and so has the water-flow paths etc.

So why did this phenomenon suddelny start contributing to "global warming" yesterday morning ?

That's the codswallop bit.

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Fail

Surely the rift valleys etc that have been there for millions of years didn't suddely decide a few years ago to start "doing their bit to speed up the melting of the ice". What a load of codswallop.

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IOC asks Olympic spectators to cut back TXTs and tweets

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Belgian

The cycling stream was originated from a Belgian team NOT THE BBC

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Daily Mail group boss spoof tweeter fights to protect anonymity

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Re: Twitter ID

tbut hat's not answering the question is it ... how do they prove it is me when 8 people share a router

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ha

like your posting here LOL

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Ok thanks

So that narrows it down to the 8 people who share our router. Or maybe I did it from work, only 350 there. ??? And keep going, now prove it was me who typed it in.

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Twitter ID

How in hell does this work ? My Twitter account is based on a (fairly randomly named) yahoo mail account. How can that be linked back to me personally ? We need to know.

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Chip and PIN keypads 'easily fooled' with counterfeit cards

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re: Levels of card fraud are at their lowest since 2000.

Chip and Pin was rolled out in the UK in 2004 so that statement is saying that fraud levels have now reached the same low level that they were at in 2000 which of course is _before_ chip and pin was introduced

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UK's HECToR supercomputer in 27PB MEGA-storage boost

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OK

... gets out a copy of Crysis ..............

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Lawyers try to seize Chinese IPAD trademark

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iPad

that old product

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Greenland melt surprises NASA Earth-watchers

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No worries

It's a few inches of melt water on top of 2 miles of ice. And it's already re-freezing. Next.

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Iranian nuke plants rocked in midnight 'heavy metal blast'

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Rick Astley

nuff sed

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UK Border Agency to create 'national allegations database'

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Really Dave

What part of "rolling back the database state" is this ?

Oh, you mean you meant to say "rolling out the database state", well it all fits now, thanks.

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IBM plans to axe staff in UK, Ireland despite hefty profits

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Ah those were the days

"career transition", "cash to piss off scheme" etc

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Google ordered to censor 'torrent', 'megaupload' and more words

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Google have no respect for copyright ?

Perhaps then it's time for a bit of reverse engineering

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Watching Olympics at work? How to avoid a £1k telly-tax fine

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The Zil lanes

will be full of diplomatically immune "digintaries" and those "special people" who have no legal plates/tax/insurance/etc so you have no chance of getting into one by accident anyway

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Re: Anyone notice how most of the comments on El Reg

These days we are allowed things called "breaks"

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Apple finally grabs apple.co.uk – after just 16 years

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re: ivegotbetterthingstodowithmytime.com

like posting on here LOL

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PayPal is bleeding market share and it's all eBay's fault

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re:I think the 1980s just called and Douglas Adams wants his telephone sanitation engineers back.

HHGTTG was 1970's

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re: the enforced PayPal tie-in

Ebay does not force you to transact the payment via Paypal. They force you to offer Paypal as a payment option. You can have other payment options alongside Paypal. Please check next time before mouthing off.

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E-Cat pitching cold fusion to Australians

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re: Does the eCat use any Z-80s?

No the banks clearing system cornered the market of them some years ago

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