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What a bunch of bricks: Crooks knock hole in toyshop wall, flee with €35k Lego haul

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Re: Lego is valuable

On the blockchain presumably?

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Uber forks out $4.4m to settle claims of rampant sexual harassment and retaliation in the Travis Kalanick era

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Re: Die, Uber

That's German for 'The Uber'.

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Influential Valley gadfly and Intel 8051 architect John Wharton has died

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Re: Also...

Dial-up performances, Shirley?

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Bot-herders fire fake GPS co-ords at Niantic to collect Pokémon

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Ingress

It's been happening for ages in Ingress with little sign of it being dealt with (On the other hand a wave of legit players did get banned). Worse still there's a market on ebay for the in-game items. Either play it properly or don't bother!

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Queen guitarist Brian May releases virtual reality viewer

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Re: 360° badger sett simulator

I don't understand the technology. How is it done? I think it's a kind of magic.

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Boozing is unsafe at ‘any level’, thunders chief UK.gov quack

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I have had a pint that came out around that hue - and was supposed to. Can't for the life of me remember what it was called (due to too much beer?) or I'd look it up to find out how they went about brewing it.

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The designer of the IBM ThinkPad has died

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Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/243/

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We've cracked riddle of ANTIGRAVITY mountains on Saturn's Titan - boffins

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Re: Less gravity than expected?

It's still a serious situation.....

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Hey, Bill Gates! We've found 14 IT HOTSHOTS to be the next Steve Ballmer

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Steve Bong, surely?

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Confirmed: Driverless cars to hit actual British roads by end of year

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Re: One thing they still have to sort out....

"You take the number of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the

probable rate of failure (B), multiply the result by the average

out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. If X is less

than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

Seems apt!

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Online music world on iRadio: Apple, imagine our concern

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Re: relies on DJs to choose the music rather than algorithms

Getting off topic here, but does this software give a countdown to the vocal entering? I've found that a lot of DJ's get it just right with a suspicious degree of accuracy!

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Builder-in-a-hole outrage sparks Special Projects Bureau safety probe

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No flare gun? What if everything else fails.... and then it's dark? What then?

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Civilization peaks: BEER-dispensing arcade game created

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Re: Some hints for beer

I went to America expecting only Budweiser... went on the San Diego beer tour and was duly corrected. Double bastard is awesome :)

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UK.gov stalks jobless online to axe work refuseniks' benefits

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Excellent - can't wait! At least I'm prepared I guess!

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Recently had cause to visit the job centre. Thoroughly depressing and I imagine to prove of little use (the comments here seem to bare that out). Fun!

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Twitter passes 200 million monthly users

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Re: It must be worth well over $100bn!

This makes sense... I would like to buy shares please!

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Facebook to debut auto-play video ads in 2013

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Cool! Remember how awesome it was going to someone's Myspace profile to have a song autoplay? Good times..

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Japan Airlines to serve KFC on Christmas flights

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We briefly had a Kirkstall Fried Chicken, the signage oddly had small letters for everything but K, F and C. How weird!

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Microsoft Security Essentials loses AV-TEST certification

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It seems that AVG managed to get that certification. I'm still not going back there though *shudder*

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Better onion anonymity possible: researcher

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Re: Onion routing, Garlic routing

Not without ginger rooting its not

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Brits obey mobile ads, says mobile ad biz

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Re: "All the cool kids are doing it"

*shudder* Would that be 'we buy any car (dot com)'?

Beer cos I need it now!

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Goldeneye

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Re: Great Game on Wii too.

Got seriously addicted to the online multiplayer.... but I've given up getting to level 56 (I'm not great at it, as it turns out!)

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Sony: Walkman, meet Android

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Re: Damnit....

Pooka - massively aggree! (Especially seen as Napster has forced me into transferring via playlists.... which I just don't like)

Miek - Shiny...... have to seriously consider that!

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RIM: Maybe we can't flog BlackBerrys, but would you like a jet?

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Re: oh woe is me,,,,,,

That *is* suffering

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Obama is best Pres 'to beat alien invasion'

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"...Batman would be best to beat them off"...

*snicker*

Yes, yes I'm going...

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Are you a hot BABE in heels and a short skirt? SCIENCE is for YOU

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Are you a hot BABE in heels and a short skirt?

This is the internet right?

Then yes, yes I am ;)

Seriously though... such levels of fail....

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CAPTCHA-busting villains branch out from spam into ID theft

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Riddles? Ruh-roh!

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Boffins develop nanoscale vacuum tube running at .46 THz

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Re: Dyson

<-- I believe this is yours!

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Engineer Doe thought people's private info 'might be useful'

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Re: @Big O

Damn, sorry - long day!

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Re: RE: Apple security questions ...

Ah but now we do know Mr Page!

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Sky News admits two counts of computer hacking

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WTF?

Their own review didn't find any wrong doing? That settles it then...

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Are you an ECO POET? Climate science needs YOU

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Re: My thesis...

Well, get your wallet out first...

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The best April 1 gags … or were they?

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xkcd posted a variety of different comics - depending on browser/OS/location etc.

See their forums for some of the variations: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=82442

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Sugar content now to be measured in Cadbury Creme Eggs

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Creggs

Good old XKCD, I'll drink to that....... but beer, instead of creme eggs. Happy Friday!

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UK government says no to turbo e-bike

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Re: What about the VAT

Nah - make it up in pasties!

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Lawyers of Mordor retreat from The Hobbit

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Re: the eleventh commandment

I enjoyed that more than is reasonable, have an e-beer!

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Two thirds of Brits crippled by mobile phone loss terror

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"we won't judge the scientific accuracy here."

A good idea I reckon!

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UK crime-busters knock hiphop site off the Internet

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WTF?

Priorities in check then

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IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop

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I remember that, its foul!

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US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos

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Excellent work Reg :) Beer time?

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Troubled Game wins reprieve on debt, mulls axing more stores

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It always seems so expensive.... but whenever I have been tempted to get something (its Christmas, I've a new system/money and am too impatient to wait for delivery) the slow moving queue gets in the way of browsing!

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Facebook IPO: Boom or bubble?

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I originally assumed it was one of those things where you buy the virtual currency with real money. The comments are making me question this now.

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Android users more likely to put out

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I love the tone in articles like this. Excellent distraction from work...... right, what's next?

What do you mean 'work'?

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RIM's cartoon superheroes inspire caustic Tweet-storm

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That london logo was a bargain, wasn't it?

IIRC Madrids was done by a competition, with a prize award of €6000.

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Rhapsody nabs Napster UK

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Let's hope they do keep it the same, I'm legally hearing tons of new music at the moment. Other legal alternatives would cost thousands!

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Google+ lets in nicknames, slams door on plebs' pseudonyms

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Its a character on Charlie Brooker's screen wipe. I Highly recommend the 2011 one, which features a very funny Barry Shitpeas.

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Trevor and chums tackle IT certification

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Not an absolute novice, but I could stand to learn more. I'll look to balance it with some experience... volunteer work etc. Thanks for the advice!

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That reminds me, I'm going to start the Linux+ course tonight..... would the good minds here advise against it?!

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Acer pulls out Wang, thrusts its wealth at Ho

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I really have nothing to contribute, save to say..... BEST HEADLINE EVAR?

Oh its so nearly beer o'clock?

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Barclays axes 422 UK IT staff

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And lo the wrath of the BOFHs and PFYs was unleashed

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