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Millennium Buggery: When things that shouldn't be shut down, shut down

Who, Me? Happy New Year! Because you'll all be feeling delicate, El Reg thought we’d ease your pain with some of our other readers' more technical errors – distraction is the best cure for ... read more

Women's soccer earns less, so players make less

Now, all of you angry with me about my claims of lack of interest in women's soccer, how many of you even knew Boston had a professional women's soccer team, and if you did, did you notice when it ... read more

Why It Pays to File Your Taxes Now

When the government was shut down, even though the IRS people ... on the outcome of last night's game. You shouldn't try to time the market and you shouldn't try to make calls about the stock market ... read more

FBI Reminds Us Government Already Has MegaPower to Take Down Websites

But the central power of the government to shut down web domains is already there ... They suggest, for instance, that Megaupload shouldn’t be eligible for “safe harbor” under the Digital Millennium ... read more

Judge nukes Ulbricht's complaint about WARRANTLESS FBI Silk Road server raid

It burns! It burns! Racing at the speed of light, Sage superhero bursts through the door... A US District Court has shot down a motion to toss out the government's evidence against alleged Silk Road ... read more

For famous Yellowstone fish, climate may be changing things

So alarm was widespread in certain circles when, on August 19, the state of Montana shut down 183 miles of river because a parasite ... healthy trout are the order of the day, the year, the millennium ... read more

The Attack on the Dark Net Took Down a Lot More Than Child Porn

But I don't think they would attempt to shut it down. But lets not pretend this raid was carried ... But I wonder why you think the government shouldn't have intervened here? 25% of sites hosting ... read more

Republican Party Lies Revealed – Everyone is a Marxist

The Conservative principle went from, “There are some things government shouldn’t do” to “Government is inherently ... That’s why they shut the government down in October 2013. It was not to achieve a ... read more

Instant view: China retaliates, slaps duties on U.S. soybeans, planes; markets skid

The interesting thing is virtually everybody agrees there are some things China has been doing that they shouldn’t be doing. Whether or not he is taking the right approach to it or not we will see in ... read more

A people's park for the future

Some children just lie down and gaze upward in ... unlike a gated theme park, which can shut itself off from the world. Which brings us to that knotty question about whether this is a new Disneyland. ... read more

Digital Camera Review Taken Down By A Botched DMCA Notice That Makes Claims Of Trademark Infringement

Not long after that, a DMCA notice arrived from GoPro (or rather, its "brand representative"), demanding that the review be taken down. So far ... Hayes really shouldn't be "representing" that any of ... read more

Reply to post: Re: No software can be trusted

Microsoft's 2018, part 2: Azure data centres heat up and Windows 10? It burns! It burns! Racing at the speed of light, Sage superhero bursts through the door... read more