* Posts by Snivelling Wretch

111 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2012

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Jailed Romanian hacker repents, invents ATM security scheme

Snivelling Wretch

It looks to me like the physical motion of the device would be as much part of the security as the sideways insertion, Presumably if you tried to stick a device on the front it would just get pushed off by the spinny thing sticking out. Either that or the machine would fail to load the card and the transaction wouldn't happen.

Prankster 'Superhero' takes on robot traffic warden AND WINS

Snivelling Wretch

One thing I've wondered is about the law on displaying number plates. I would imagine it is only a requirement to display them on the public highway, and since these car parks are private, presumably one could quite legitimately remove/cover the plate on entering the car park if so inclined? Mind you, they've probably already thought of that and written it into the small print on the car park notice...

Murdoch hate sparks mass bitchin', rapid evacuation from O2, BE

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Re: I'm going

Ditto...

UK.gov blows a fuse at smart meter stall, sets new 2020 deadline

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Black Helicopters

Anyone know where I can get my meter cabinet lead-lined?

Brit adventurer all set to assault ex-Reg haunt Rockall

Snivelling Wretch

Why not use a helicopter?

Is it too far, or just cheating?

Universe gains an extra hundred million years

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Headmaster

If I remember rightly from my degree, Kelvin doesn't have one. So 2.7K, not 2.7°K.

Drone quadracopters throw and catch inverted pendulum

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Terminator

I for one...

...welcome our unbalanced spear-flinging aerial overlords.

Burger King's tweets fried after hijackers pimp Big Macs

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Joke

Arch-rival, geddit?

MEGAGRAPH: 1983's UK home computer chart toppers

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Plus4

Probably not top sellers: until now, I thought our household was the only one which owned a +4. I was never able to trade games with anyone :-(

Apotheker: HP board was just as culpable for Autonomy buy

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Headmaster

'implement strategy in its totality'

"Entirety", surely?

O2 network staggers across UK

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Network busy

Ditto. Had no probs for years, but similarly for past few months have terrible trouble with "network busy" messages when trying to make or receive calls...

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