* Posts by Roger Varley

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Indiana cops arrest violent 6-year-old

Roger Varley

>>What's the age of criminal responsibility in Indiana? -9 months?

No - that's the age when you can legally marry your cousin.

TV?

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Re: Game of Thrones

New Series? Damn - missed that. Where's it being shown?

ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. - Humans begin artificial CO2 emissions

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> and the Stephensons got railways working properly.

and probably the first & only time they did.

Game of Thrones Blu-ray disc set

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Re: Best ever?

I think you will be very pleasantly surprised when you get a chance to see the TV version. Martins style of writing it in chapters from the viewpoint of a single character makes it particularly easy to translate to the screen. Series 2 started transmission last Sunday, so they'll be on a torrent near you soon.

FTC, RockYou settle after 32 MILLION passwords pillaged

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Brilliant

> We will, we will fine you.

That made me laugh. Now I can't get the chorus out of my head - damn you.

Smoked by Android: Microsoft coughs up free laptop

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>That said, with my phone (10 quid Asda special) if I wanted to know the weather I would have to >phone my wife and ask her to check on her laptop.

Wouldn't it be quicker to look out of the window?

BOFH: Dawn raid on Fort BOFH

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Re: Cynical; moi?

Mine had floppies in as well. Not your modern 5.25" jobbies, but your original 8.5" floppies. Just wish I had something to read them with - just for curiosities sake.

LOHAN's fantastical flying truss menaces kiddies

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The problem with this sort of thing is that yes, it does remove the more irritating and mindless cr@p, but you do miss out on the occasional gem of outstanding fsckwittery

LOHAN to straddle meaty titanium rod

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Re: Two comments

Why would you need to monitor the tension on the balloon anchor line? Surely it would be enough to detect that upward motion has translated into downward motion?

Tourists follow GPS, drive into sea

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Nothing changes

Lindisfarne was near my childhood home. The causeway came complete with "The Refuge" (think large garden shed on very long stilts) for those who could neither tell the time or recognize the difference between an incoming or receding tide..

NHS trusts beg IT suppliers to manage eHospital plan

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Job Titles

What is a Benefits and Business Change Lead and what does he/she actually do?

Android clobbers Siri in Japanese... and English

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@Metavisor

You might think that directions to a hospital might be a bit over the top for a simple "stomach ache" but I can understand why Siri thinks it appropriate.

You are an intelligent human being. You can tell the difference between a touch of indigestion and something potentially more serious. Siri cannot. A stomach ache could be the result of an acid attack due to over indulgence, appendicitus or god knows what. Given the propensity of Joe Public to believe whatever a computer tells them despite evidence to the contrary (see the idiots who drive into fields because their sat-nav told them to) you can see that anything that hints of a medical matter should be directed to the nearest health professional, if only to cut down on lawsuits.

Could tiny ebooks really upset the mighty Apple cart?

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Re: Price of e-Books already gone down

So, has any one got a list of Luxemburg proxies?

Brits trapped in confusing council website labyrinths - survey

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Nostalgia ...

You are in a confusing labyrinth of counsel websites.

It is dark.

You are likely to be eaten by grue.

Asteroid could SMASH INTO EARTH in 2040

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Re: @BilboBobbins

Well, there's not much chance of the world governments getting their acts together by twenty to nine is there?

El Reg appoints Special Projects Burro

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Re: Asstronaut...

Well, LOHAN would have to be a tad bigger than I suspect, is currently planned. Could be interesting though

Raspberry Pi signs big-name sellers

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Re: Re: @Bin Yin

According to the RaspberryPi twatter feed, the Farnell price is higher than the advertised price of the boards because it includes shipping.

Microsoft spoons news to punters with Facebook, Twitter-slurp

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Re: I read that as.

“What we’re really looking for is the velocity of trending topics – what’s boiling to the surface,” Visse says. “The goal is to catch trends as they are accelerating and capture them before they hit the mainstream, in a way that is captivating,”

What does that *actually* mean in English?.

Sony 'fesses to Whitney Houston price hike 'error'

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Re: Why is anybody surprised?

It's been going on for years. Whitney just looks like being the unfortunate recipient of the 41st "Annual Jim Morrison Worth More Dead Than Alive" award this year.

Mozilla releases Firefox 10, adds developer tools

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According to Mozilla, most add-ons will now work by default

Same thing here, except in my case, it was FireBug that was going to be disabled.

I too, declined the offer

Raspberry Pi Linux micro machine enters mass production

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Is it too late to change the name?

As soon as anyone builds a pi-Phone (or any kind of a pi-app), Apple will sue their @sses off.

Cops get 3D laser scanners for motorway crash sites

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How long until....

anything between 1 and 365 days!

Supermassive surprise: the biggest black holes EVER

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Hmmm ...

Sort of like a galactic Basingstoke?

Demon Currys iPad showered kids with HARD-CORE smut

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crying for days after the incident ...

You take young children to a store to buy them the latest shiney shiney and then walk out without one ... no wonder they were crying.

Apple's cloud music service 'WIPES your iPHONE'

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Retarded

Why on earth does this merit 2 thumbs down? (at the time of writing)

The new touchy-feely Doctor Who trend: Worrying

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Dr Who started off so well with Chris Eccleston ....

No it fscking didn't. It started off brilliantly with William Hartnell.

Yoof of today <humph>

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Giant Wasps

You're probably thinking of the Zarbi, around 1965

Reg hacks confront really wide Oz load terror

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yes, but the guys head standing next to it is clearly level with the wheel hub so the tyre is 2xgezer tall, which is still someway short of a two story building.

Can the iPad save newspapers?

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How do you

do the Telegraph crossword on an slab?

London 2012 Olympics: 17000 athletes, 11000 computers

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Pictures

Looking the side on shot of the swimming pool - am I the only one to be reminded of the building in the Italian Job where they're chased up onto the roof by the Italian cops?

Amazon to whup Apple rivals when Kindle Fire hits UK

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WTF?

WTF is going on

two surveys this week, suggesting Joe Public is prepared to spend £X on Y - neither of which resemble any relationship to reality ....

MPs: 999 HQ revamp FAIL cost £469m

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Well, you might think that the Account Managers job is to ensure that you get the system you want, on time and on budget. However, the Account Manager knows that his job is to bring in fees, because that is what is bonus is based on.

Google dumps TV flop on UK

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Crap

You clearly haven't spent much time watching TV abroad. Most other countries, in terms of TV programming, have completely redefined the word "crap" to a point where even "I'm a big brother on ice get me out of the jungle" looks like award winning stuff.

Average sozzled Brit sinks 5,800 pints during life

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Title

> Who seriously wants to live until their 70+?

I bet you'd change your mind if you were 69!

University rats on Sydney suburb

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Awww - ain't that cute

and the funny hamstery looking thing isn't too bad either

Google lands patent for, um, estimating shipment time

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Facepalm

You have got to be kidding ...

'Nuff said

David Cameron turns water cannons on social networks

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Is that ....

the sound of Big Ben chiming I here, or the sound of approximately 650 kneecaps hitting the back of the bench in front of them?

Stuxnet clones may target critical US systems, DHS warns

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I wonder ...

... why the words "hoisted", "petard" and "by their own" come to mind.

Liverpool cops compulsively snooped footballer's record

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Thumb Down

Typical

If I am caught illegally accessing a computer system, I'll have the UK judiciary (and probably the US) climbing all over me. Prison time and or extradition in all likelihood. But if you're a cop and illegally access a computer system, then basically SFA happens

Woman dies of heart attack at own funeral

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Re: Eh?

That will depend on location and culture. In Cyprus, the Greek Orthodox Church aims to have you in the ground the following day, so that would be less than 24 hours here.

Sandi Toksvig puts the 'n' into cuts - on the Beeb

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Happy

Lionel Blair

Sorry - Lionel Blair was the master of "Give us a Clue". It was ISIHAC that gave us such gems as

"OK, let's try something else...anything else. The next game is a quickie round giving ample time for the teams to give vent to their full acting range. It's called Sound Charades, and it's played in tribute to that great TV show Give Us A Clue, where the players conveyed a film title without speaking and within a strict time limit. The undisputed mime maestro was, of course, Lionel Blair, & who can forget the look of relish on his face when he was given two minutes on The African Queen?!"

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FAIL

Perhaps if the BBC

According to Merriam-Webster on-line so "that particular word" as you put it has been around since the 14th century. Since it has survived in more or less common parlance since then I don't think an attention-seeking MP and a few linguistically anal moralists are going to have much of an effect.

Twitter forced to hand over user details to English council

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Facepalm

Why won't anyone think of ...

... the Streisand effect

Daleks given a well-earned break

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Pint

We want Zarbies

Yay! +1 for someone else who remembers those. Mind you, you're giving your age away a bit, but I suppose only to those who are old enough to remember the Zarbis!

Bloke drives with knees while manipulating two mobes

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I see the problem.

That would've had him up for indecent exposure as well ...

Rapture postponed as world inexplicably fails to end

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Only some are entitled.

Not everyone is guarenteed to be enraptured - only the select few. So, who isn't here today?

US admiral reveals safety plan for Zombie Apocalypse

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Enrapturement

You would've hoped that the Good Lord might have had the decency to enrapt us on a workday, rather than leaving it until the weekend

Simply viewing Apple kit provokes religious euphoria

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Headmaster

Also dead salmons ...

Is it something specific to the University of Warwick that they keep producing "research" like this ....?

CATS to be saved by BLASPHEMERS after the RAPTURE

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Other Services are available

You won't need the additional info. Post enrapturement, you'll know that they're not going to be in.

US proposes online IDs for Americans

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OMG - just where do we start with this ....

as title really

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