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Naked vegans target Prince Harry over meaty 12-incher

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Hold on

"bacon, ham, Italian sausage and pepperoni"

If anybody should be protesting, you'd think it would be Jews and Muslims.

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As Drew Hastings said, they are a gassy bunch, it's no wonder they don't smoke.

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AT&T LTE hits Vegas and five other slots

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Indianapolis!

Yes, finally. AT&T has had such crap cellular service here that for years, several former coworkers who work there do not use AT&T for their personal phones.

Think about it. Half the time, with AT&T services, you can't get a 3G signal in the AT&T offices downtown.

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Computers are so middle class – Mark E Smith

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Depends on the instrument. Trumpet is middle class. Guitar is blue collar. Slide guitar is disreputable lower class and iconoclastic. Oboe is middle class. Clarinet is a cry for help.

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TCP/IP daddy Cerf: 'Don't rewrite the internet for security'

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And has been since days of yore!

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

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Salman Rushdie hissy-fit forces Facebook name U-turn

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Hey!

You say that like it's a bad thing. Insult socialism in front of my in-laws and you get the same thing. And they are exACTly the kind of people who approach socialism as a religion.

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What's that sound? It's PC sales plummeting into abyss

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Maybe, but don't count on it

Generally it's the junk at the bottom that has the biggest price drop; premium items drop some, but their percentage drop is generally less since their demand is less affected.

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Legendary investor scoffs IBM stake, nibble by nibble

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Buffett isn't perfect

For one thing, he bought big into an overvalued Conoco right before the credit crunch. Still, he hits more often than he misses, obviously, so this is a pretty good sign for IBM. OTOH, wish I had some IBM stock to sell, because now a lot of people will follow-the-leader.

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iPhone baby clothes shop mauled by Apple

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Hard to sympathize with clothing folks

Let me get this straight. Apple has copyrights all over their image, they pursue violators aggressively, and you still go ahead anyway? Huh.

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NASA: 2012 solar flares could DEVASTATE CITIES!

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FAIL

And they couldn't his an elephant at this distance.

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Isn't Mayan Balderdash all those poems that were said at Obama's inauguration?

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Eleven - if you will - rocktastic music movies

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How about

The Buddy Holly Story? Gary Busey was fantastic here, before he slid off the deep end.

La Bamba? I always had a soft spot for this movie, for r some reason.

The Blues Brothers? If you're going to include Walk the Line (an excellent movie), then blues should be included as well. With Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, etc etc etc, and classic catchphrases, it's definitely top 10. ("I hate nazis ...")

Mo Better Blues. Again, if you're including country, ...

Roadie. Okay, I'm kidding, this one was HORRIBLE, so bad that Jack Black and Chris Farley could have been in it.

Hail Hail Rock N Roll. I've always been a fan of Chuck Berry, to the point where I told my kids that they have to learn Chuck Berry riffs or I wasn't teaching them guitar.

Adventures in Babysitting. Yeah, I know, but there is that scene with Albert Collins saying "Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues."

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Go back to the future with Red Dwarf

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What, they're bringing in the guy who played Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo?

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Dud Mars probe's explosion will spare Earth's cities

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I hate to ask, but ...

If they couldn't get it into orbit, how certain are they that the explosion will make tiny pieces that will burn up in the atmosphere, and not big hot dangerous ones that will land on my house?

Just sayin'. I have my doubts.

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US doctors demand right to advise on gun ownership

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1) It's a matter of personal choice

2) I'm trying to explain, from the perspective of a responsible gun owner/former hunter and father, why I think doctors shouldn't advise this

3) At least you didn't ask about the plastique and the tiger pits

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Gun owner here

I know doctors go into the field to help people and save lives, but there is this little thing called The Constitution that allows gun ownership and the privacy laws in the US, as tattered and rotting as they've become since 1932, means this is no more an area for doctorly advice than my selection of operating system.

And for the record, my guns are not kept at my house, except one, which is kept unloaded with the safety on in a place the kids can't get to. In fact, if I put it with the dirty dishes or their laundry baskets, they'd never get within ten feet of it.

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Dating sites can be haven for sex pests, say cops

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"Some people online might not be who they say they are"

And a politician said it, and they are always who they claim to be.

[Now, where did I put that sarcasm icon?]

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Mobile scaremongers want warning stickers on EVERYTHING

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"Somebody call the Daily Mail,"

Okay, what should I call them?

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Here's the thing

Supposedly it's the magnetic field, and its variations, from the phone that cause this. However, the phone's magnetic field is in the microgauss range. Earth's magnetic field is half a guass and fluctuates wildly. So if fluctuating magnetic fields are the culprit, it's about four billion years too late to do anything about it.

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Happy birthday, Tech City: Have another confusing map

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The real question is

How will this affect Mornington Crescent? With Humph having passed to the Great Game in the Sky, I am not sure to whom I should turn.

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Az mayor offers Prince Harry beer and pizza in fornication row

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Trivium

"Gila Bend, bringing the small Arizona town a rare blast of the international spotlight."

Back in the 70s, the city's politicos (possibly just the mayor) regularly had Gila Bend report temperatures about 5 degrees higher than actual so the weather forecasters nationwide would report "... and the nation's high was 115 in Gila Bend, AZ". (In fahrenheit, of course.) This was all a publicity stunt, and it worked.

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Mars, Moon, solar system could be littered with alien artifacts

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"What, exactly, are the chances of something like Voyager getting even close to making it to another planet intact? "

Very very very tiny. Small enough to be practically nil, actually, and EVEN THEN, if a Voyager/Pioneer probe does enter into a solar system, it is more likely to be shot out of it in a hyperbolic orbit than to be captured within the system.

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Amazon's Kindle Fire burns iPad momentum

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Me

My employment has been sporadic, short-term-contract until recently and we've had some EXPENSIVE home repairs ($7K for a leaky pipe, to give you one example).

So yeah, I don't have a tablet now.

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Is Apple nobbling iPhones to avoid more patent misery?

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"So will we get to the point of buying a phone or other gadget that does nothing out of the box, but cand do all manner of patented crap (like this autocomplete function or maybe one tap to buy) after a bit of tweaking, or applying a patch from the internet?"

Sound like the early days of the internet.

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Apple trains store bosses to ignore deal with unions

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Don't knock job security. The time I've spent working on getting a new job the last three-four years isn't minimal, and being out of work doesn't pay well.

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I wouldn't go that far ... half the zombies in government bureaucracy couldn't do it ... but I hear what you're saying.

Funny, though, how so many of the pro-union people these days (teachers, government workers in Ohio, Apple retail employees) are driving cars not made by unions. Which says a lot, IMnsHO.

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Well, if a union won't do THE ONE JOB it claims to do at the cost of a big chunk of your paycheck, ...

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"they are only good for giving those useless idiots at the top a decent salary they would never have gotten through a days hard work"

You're forgetting the unfireable idiots at the bottom.

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Huh

"Apple Retail Workers Union"

So, in two years' time, MicroSoft will announce the MicroSoft Enterprise Retail and Kinect International Network (MERKIN) to "bring MicroSoft's world-famous quality experience to it retail buzzword buzzword buzzword", spend 2-3 billion on it, then it never materializes until two years after the first announced date, and it involves brown Zunes or something.

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'Angry Bird' netflinger projectile brings down drug ultralights

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Snakes on a plane? Come on, who'd ever believe that!

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Lost cities found beneath sands of Sahara by satellites

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Ancient advanced cities under the desert?!

Someone tell Master Drogan!

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I thought the Phoenicians were a Semitic people who had spread around (or at least spread their culture around) by advances in sailing and the resulting wealth they created.

Or has something else come to light in the 15+ years since I read that?

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Boffins give chatty robots a creepy human face

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Prior Art

Jeff Dunham is preparing a lawsuit as we speak.

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Secret US 'Jedi' ghost-copters kept out of bin Laden raid

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Perhaps

They are just secretly leaking DISinformation. Which is not illegal.

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Google's top lobbyist quits amid antitrust probe

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Wait a minute

"$6m on lobbying"

Seriously? That's it? That won't even buy you the press secretary of a first-term member of the House of Representatives from an agriculture-intensive state. What cheap ba*ds!

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UK Space Agency OKs teeny-tiny satellite

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Can't help myself

I keep flashing back to Eddie Izzard's description of what the British space program would have been like: a guy in a tracksuit up a ladder going "Hallo Swindon! Hallo Swindon!"

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Ryanair ponders in-air mucky movie service

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No thanks

Handhelds aren't THAT private, and I'm not using a device others might have used before on a Ryan Air flight. In fact, I want a new, fresh-out-of-the-box seat. *shiver*

Mine's the one with the Janitor In A Drum in the pocket.

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Ultrabooks will rescue PC industry – beancounters

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Not sure about this

Something small and light needs better engineering to make it durable, particularly if it's going to be carried around. I have a Macbook Air and love it, but it cost a few sheckels. It was worth it, though, because it's been beaten up and still works find three years later (though the last bang, thanks to our rampantly-running coonhounds, might have loosened the speaker).

That said, the other Ultrabooks I've seen don't seem to have quite the care in engineering and design behind the hardware. Maybe I haven't seen the right ones, but the keyboards seemed less firmly place/more spongy, and the whole thing more flexible than it should be.

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The Register Guide on how to stay anonymous (part 2)

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Actuallly ...

"Like trying to kill Steven Seagal"

I consider it more like Tony Danza. There were decades where the useless, painful, horrid hack simply could not be killed off.

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Best Buy to shutter all UK megastores

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"what the hell is bloke supposed to do on a Saturday when he's dragged out shopping with the missus?"

The pub or a car dealership. I'll drone on and on and on about cars until my wife relents.

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Anonymous backs off in clash with Mexican drug cartel

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As opposed to tv and newspapers in former times? Everything old is new again.

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Colossal dead black neo-sphere approaching Earth

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To paraphrase Red Dwarf

You see, the color of space, you basic space color, is black. And the color of YU55, your basic YU55 color, is black. So how are you supposed to see it?

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Is the electromagnetic constant a constant?

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I bet they're always trying to get young people to matriculate with them.

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Ginormous sunspot spews solar guts towards Earth

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"But, how did you see the sun at night?"

Used a mirror, obviously.

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It's all the fault of industrialism and consumer culture! I'm posting this to facebook with my smartphone so we can get rid of all this climate-ruining tosh! Rats, can anyone look up the closest Starbucks with wifi? My cell network is down and I need a decaf double mocha caramel espresso latte light with skim milk and chocolate sprinkles or I'll DIE!

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That's light radiation; particles like protons, neutrons, and circus peanuts travel less than the speed of light and are the cause of the disruption.

[NB I know that circus peanuts aren't involved in this, but I hate the things and will happily blame them for anything I can get away with.]

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Manufacturers testing wider cars for swingbellies

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Needed here

I'm descended from blacksmiths and German farmers and I have trouble getting into and out of a Japanese mid-sized car. I'm over six feet tall (and not barely) and was built to swing a battle axe; no diet is going to make my shoulders more narrow.

So I approve of this, whatever the reason.

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Crime-fighting Seattle superhero unmasked, fired

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Meh

Be nice; he never got over the breakup of Cameo

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Most critical question

Has he ever shouted "Go for the eyes, Boo!" in his escapades?

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Nude lady recreates Star Wars tauntaun scene in dead horse

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I foresee an NEA grant.

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