* Posts by Ben Rosenthal

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Cisco makes up term 'dark web,' fights it with appliance

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Badgers

Reg cool?

should hope so, even says on my contract as a support dood that I have to stay up to date with current events in the IT world.

So I AM being productive right now, especially if the colleague that is configuring our web app at the moment is reading :)

Ralph Lauren DMCAs thin Photoshop skills

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brilliant

vile pictures like that really do make me want to shout "ban this sick filth now", nice work all round.

Mock them, and mock them hard, and maybe throw in some pooh poohing into the bargain.

Egyptians uptight about 'Artificial Virginity Hymen'

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whats wrong

with only caring about one small aspect of a person and writing them off as a waste of humanity if they don't match up to your criteria?

If ignorance is bliss, you must be grinning like the Cheshire Cat there yumdogfood.

We've done the STI argument, if you take precautions then there is no need to suffer them. If you can't manage that, then you are best off not breeding anyway. Darwinism at it's best.

saying with one breath that a woman can go for divorce if she is not satisfied, and with another that you like to keep your women ignorant of what it is to be properly satisfied. How does that work out?

If it's all the same to you, I'll continue to judge people only on their individual merits rather than whether there is a chance of some blood squirting out of their vagoo if I get to have some consenting, adult, but most definitely not matrimonial sex with them .

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Big Brother

@ Anon Muslim

""sexual freedom" of today does not benefit women, who may feel obliged to have sex to be percieved as desirable/wanted but rather men - for pretty obvious reasons"

because only men get any pleasure from sex in your culture? Sucks to be you guys, maybe you should try some self help books to improve your technique.

Oh and as others have suggested, some books on safe sex would probably help allay all these fears you have of very easily avoidable diseases, welcome to the modern age, we hope you enjoy your stay.

Big brother, not only watching you, but also checking your sheets in the morning.

Europe clears Windows 7 for takeoff

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yeah

take your technology based discussion somewhere more appropriate!

wait, what?

Ammo rationing at Wal-Mart as panic buying sweeps US

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well, you wouldn't want

the King of England coming and messing with your shit now would you? WOULD YOU?

Microsoft howls as Google turns IE into Chrome

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Gates Horns

I for one welcome

our new Android overlords.

and much like a Microsoft employee, I would not recommend using IE with or without plug-ins to anyone either.

selected Bill only because there is no little green robot.

iPhone + naked ladies = headline gold

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Paris Hilton

people do this crap for free

on Android.....and then there is tinytube for any phone with a half decent web browser......so I hear :)

UK council forced to swallow dick

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and it took,

a man named Braun to save our dick :(

this is a sad day for British culture indeed.

Secret teen hacker army ridiculed

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so did they manage to get

Crash Override and Acid Burn on board?

Swedish military bras burst, melt during 'rigorous exercise'

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IT (crowd) angle?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRMBWxfA2OM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETCLGQn5MUk

and can we just get on with it and declare Sweden the absolute greatest nation on the earth? :D

LG unveils first Android handset

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jet processor

is snake oil.

and the Hero, is a champ :)

Explorers unearth cat-sized rat

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FAIL

Yorkshire Terriers in the wild?

PMSL

YouTube UK welcomes back the music

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@ AC

yeah but the music industry has always expected us to pay for promos, because they're greedy scum bags.

Belgian boy's iPhone 'explodes'

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Jobs Horns

return it?

why bother? they'd only send you a new one!

Government unbans dirty vids but bans 'legal highs'

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so street price on those

just doubled, and supply will be slowed down not a jot. Well done government!

HTC Hero Android smartphone

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battery life

have to agree there, my only let down with the phone is that as a heavy user, I murder the battery every day. Otherwise the perfect phone so far (for me).

Almost worth it just for the lastFM app, two years worth of watching what I listen to has made it almost psychic :D

Baby-roasting BBQ pulled from Sears site

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Pint

what goes best?

babycham?

>.<

yeah, I even made myself cringe :D

Tourist magnet blows off Speedo-wearing men

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FAIL

who do they think they are?!?!

oh yeah, the owners of the park, how silly of me.

Japan's central bankers look in brothels for green shoots

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Paris Hilton

shoots and leaves

trying to work those into something, but I'm coming up empty, oh my.

Apple tablet spooks world of PCs

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7 year old G4's

and I still have uses for a 486 powered laptop every now and then, do I win a prize?

UK teens bullied into sending sex texts

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but

if they took the pictures themselves, they would also be put on the register as a perv.

Labour hard at work protecting the kids again.

Philips Cinema 21:9 56in LCD TV

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My god

it's full of stars!

Ads watchdog bows to iPhone's might

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Jobs Horns

but

all that stuff IS available either for free on the marketplace or already installed on my HTC Hero :/

A phone I would so far happily call messiah :D

Foxconn pays suicidal iPhone engineer family for life

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if they're offering that...

out of court, they're scared they'll have to pay a lot more than that if it reaches one.

The family should refuse and screw them for all they can.

Apple profits up 15 per cent (again)

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I despair

for years they were chucking out good innovative products that you couldn't give away, now they just follow the EA "tiny incremental improvements" model and we bloody lap it up >.<

PC repair shop caught trying bank fraud

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not that surprised

I'm certainly glad I don't have to trust an unscrupulous scum bag like me with my stuff :D

Watchdog bites Mattesons saucy sausage ad

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Coat

down with this sort of thing!

and now that's been said, I'm off to play with my twanger.........now now, no need for rudeness, it's just my plucking instrument.

Spider-Man director to helm World of Warcraft

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if it doesn't have...

Gorge the Corpsegrinder as the hero, it is doomed to fail.

Orange UK exiles Firefox from call centres

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good and bad here

I agree that Firefox is no good in a corporate environment (not enough remote update and admin features), but IE6 FFS?

My call centre uses whatever I install for them, because they don't have a choice.

Firefox at home (or on my own work machine because I can), IE for the workstations that need to be kept right up to date for PCI compliance.

Web 2.0 not liable for real-world assaults, says court

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PG

parental guidance, where did that go?

The families should all be investigated by social services.

Conviction overturned in MySpace suicide case

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IT Angle

bullys are scum

"The article DOES state that this 50yr old weird person DID NOT send the offensive message that seems to have triggered the 13yr old to hang herself."

so she says it was not her, however it was done from her account.

So yes either the mystery "other person" or this nasty old bag should be taken to court and tried under the correct harassment laws.......failing that, the police involved should let the poor lasses parents have some time alone with this twisted old freak in a small windowless room, down in the basement.

IT angle, because it should never really have been about that.

The ones baying for blood are probably parents, I know what I'd do, and it would not involve a court.

Malta pair charged over illicit Playmobil trade

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steve 26

yeah damn those evil retailers, paying for their stock to sell at a profit! Scum!

US brain-computer interface gets live human trials

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I'd volunteer

although I'd have to keep the news quiet at work, if they found out I actually could have another pair of hands >.<

DARPA killer AI robots to 'participate in own construction'

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Woo Hoo, bring on the robot apocalypse!

"As you say Master. Would you prefer me to call you something else? Perhaps liquidous fleshbag?"

mines the one with the phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

Firefox passive-aggressives adjudicate Nerd Law

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Dead Vulture

if you are willing

to vet and certify clean and safe, every ad that google wants to serve me via your site, I would consider turning ad-blocker off (along with of course them being non annoying).

Till then you can either block me or suck it up.

Hulu recognizes Blighty existence

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Thumb Down

Simon Ward

That means you've missed Charlie Brookers Newswipe, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle and Omid Djalili of late, and that makes me a saaad Panda :( (just cos if no bugger watches them, it's more soaps and reality crap instead).

Oh and Being Human which was absolutely fantastic, best new telly in years.

You can even get some great radio shows on there for instance the excellent "Elf Quest" that is running at the moment or the equally good Pratchett and Adams plays done recently.

Your loss really.

Virgin Media pilots 200Mbit service

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20meg running at 10?

my 10 only just runs over 2Mb :(

and to add insult to injury they tell me it's because of my brand new wireless N CISCO router. They don't say why my router would cause this to happen, IT JUST DOES! >.<

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Flame

customer and billing service....

....still about the slowest in the world >.<

HTC Vodafone Magic

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voda FUP

says 5 gig a month on the offered unlimited packages, not bad for a secondary device like this, still not great considering how much they champion it as a companion to things like youtube though.

Would, but not in white.

Windows 7 — It’s like Vista, only less annoying

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sounds good

about the increased performance over Vista, think I'll be stealing this one though as I don't qualify for an upgrade (a patch that makes Vista run as nice would stop me though and I already have virtual PC with XP sp3 installed).

am I the only one that turns all that Aero guff off asap?

Pirate Bay judge and pro-copyright lobbyist accused of bias

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Pirate

burglary legal now?

awesome, mines the one with the balaclava and pry bar in the pocket.

Lloyd-Webber calls for clampdown on ISPs

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I'd probably rather be caught...

downloading CP, than anything by that weird fecker.

Police union leader calls for 'killer games' sales ban

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videogames have not made me violent!

and I'll beat the snot out of anyone who says otherwise!

Careful now!

Pot Noodle boils up instant doner kebab

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@Toastan Buttar

yeah they made a big thing about reducing the salt and fat levels a few years back, they're not worth bothering with since then.

On the occasions that I decide I want instant noodle based snacks at the speed of a kettle boil, I don't care if it's a bit unhealthy!

Gief back the old flavour naow!!!

DNA database includes nipper and nonagenarian

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Alien

baby crims

well they don't wear any clothes in those pre-natal scan things, maybe they nabbed him for making and distributing child pr0n?

Alien, because it's at times like this I'm sure I must be from another planet.

UK IT should 'fire men first', says Kate Craig-Wood

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sexual discrimination

is bad in all it's forms, maybe we should just stick with who is best for the job, and then last in first out if that does not settle it.

MPs vote to keep addresses private (theirs, not yours)

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Re:Sarcasm?

The stuff in the quotation marks are not the words of the humble writer, but are in fact a quote from some feckless scrounging polititians blog where he is trying and failing to be clever.

Gigabyte passively cooled Radeon 4850 card

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Flame

one of those cards

that is destined/designed to pop about a week after the warranty runs out.......just like my last ATI card :(

Abba star slates 'lazy, stingy' Pirate Bay fans

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Pirate

I don't use Pirate Bay ever

and still I support them.

They've not technically comitted a crime, in the same way that Jacqui Smith is not technically a dirty benefit cheat.

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