All Posts Tagged With: "register"

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RIAA Harasses 10 Year Old Girl

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a good story about the Recording Industry Ass. Of America (RIAA). If ever there was a body in need of a public makeover, it’s the RIAA.
The latest story shows just how far the RIAA is prepared to go to convict individuals. In a case against Tanya Anderson, [...]

 28Jun2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Future PCs To Integrate Powerline Ethernet

I read an interesting story today on The Register that stated that Intel is looking to integrate Powerline Ethernet into a future chipset generation. If you haven’t come across Powerline Ethernet before, it’s where a home network is created using the power cables already in your house offering speeds up to 200Mbps, rather than [...]

 19Apr2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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‘Commuter’ Skis Down London Tube Escalator

I actually saw this headline in Google Reader from the BBC, but it’s only when I saw the video on The Register that I realised how insane this was. This YouTube video features Norwegian Peter Olenick skiing down Europe’s longest escalator, all 300ft of it, at Angel Tube station in London.
After watching it a [...]

 30Mar2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Porn Popup Teacher Julie Amero To Be Sentenced On Thursday

It’ll be interesting to see what sentence ‘porn popup’ teacher Julie Amero receives on Thursday when she is sentenced, as she’s currently facing a potential 40 year sentence. If you missed this case last month, Julie is a substitute teacher who was covering for another teacher. The computer that she was using started [...]

 27Mar2007 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
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Satnav Plunges £96K Mercedes Into River

I don’t have a car at the moment, but I do have TomTom Navigator 6 that I use with my Dell Axim PDA and I’ve had similar experiences to this poor lady. A poor woman in the UK drove her £96k Mercedes SL500 into a river after following the instructions of her satnav.

 27Mar2007 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued