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<channel><title>The Register</title><link>http://www.theregister.co.uk/</link><description>Biting the hand that feeds IT</description><copyright>Copyright 2006, Situation Publishing</copyright><image><title>The Register</title><width>88</width><height>31</height><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/Reg_default/The_Register_RSS.png</url><link>http://www.theregister.co.uk/</link></image><language>en-GB</language><webMaster>webmaster@theregister.co.uk</webMaster>
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<item><title>Capra classic 'commie propaganda'</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/29/capra_commie_memo/</link><description><h4>FBI saw red over <cite>It's a Wonderful Life</cite></h4>
<p>The all-American film classic <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650" target="_blank"><em>It's a Wonderful Life</em></a> was slammed as communist propaganda by US government officials in the 1940s.…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:10:33 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>When Google sneezes, the internet gets flu</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/29/google_future_2007/</link><description><h4>Algorithms don't help solve the net's biggest problems</h4>
<p>Much of the web-based new economy hinges on the behaviour of how one company deals with two mammoth challenges next year. Both are potentially lethal, and a poor response to either will have dire consequences for many operations doing business on the internet.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=323456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>Crossing final frontiers in space</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/29/space_stuff_2006/</link><description><h4>What did we learn in 2006, then?</h4>
<p><strong>2006 in review</strong> When the powers that be here at <em>Vulture Central</em> asked for a round up of the events in space exploration and discovery over the last year, frankly we were overwhelmed by the enormity of the task.…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>IWF reforms could pave way for UK net censorship</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/29/iwf_feature/</link><description><h4>Who is watching the watchers?</h4>
<p><strong>Analysis</strong> By the end of 2007, the Home Office intends that all ISPs "offering broadband internet connectivity to the UK public" will have implemented systems for content blocking, primarily intended to block access to pornographic images of children, which are illegal to view or possess in the UK.…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Vista's Suicide Bomb: who gets hurt?</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm_analysis/</link><description><h4>Mostly Wintel, we reckon</h4>
<p><strong>Analysis</strong> <small>So have fun fighting the battle against CPRM and alike but please do not be surprised when you fail, after all the war has been lost, long live the new world order: proprietary devices, proprietary interfaces, copy protection, limited functionality, and prepare you credit card accounts for all those monthly rental and service charges you will be paying for every "computer controller consumer electronics device" you use.</small>…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:41:39 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Frankenstein's cure for ageing - botulism</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/dd_botulinum_botox/</link><description><h4>Scammers show it <em>is</em> easy to buy botulinum online</h4>
<p><strong>Chemical Alley</strong> How easy was it to buy an eye-popping 3,081 vials of research botulinum toxin, the deadly neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum, always found on jihadist terror wish lists? Very easy in 2003 - unlike so many other things alleged to be simple to do by designated evil-doers in the war on terror. Two Arizona scammers in pursuit of profit in the anti-aging industry found it elementary to order the most poisonous substance known fresh from List Labs in Campbell, CA, a purifier of biochemicals and toxins used in counter-terror research.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:18:09 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>MS sees out year with another Vista attack</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/ms_investigates_vista_attack/</link><description><h4>Privilege elevation</h4>
<p>Hackers have posted an exploit which might be used by local users to gain admin privileges on Windows boxes, including machines running Vista. However the bug is not as serious as it might be because initial analysis suggests it can only be exploited locally and not remotely across the internet.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=323456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>Tories spin Web 2.0 to out-Fox Ofcom</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/british_political_blogging/</link><description><h4>Meet the new gang - same as the old gang</h4>
<p><strong>Comment</strong> The internet has always offered a stage for dramatic reinvention. Corporate lobbyists have found it a suitable theatre for AstroTurfing, given the willingness of a net audience to suspend its disbelief. Now, internet television lets professional politicians play the role of citizen-reporter.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:33:07 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Building a data warehouse on parallel lines</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/12/28/kognitio_data_warehouse/</link><description><h4>Kognitio ergo something-for-nothing?</h4>
<p>Never look a gift horse in the mouth, especially if there are many of them running in parallel……</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:00:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cloaking device makes invisible progress</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/maxwell_invisiblity_cloak/</link><description><h4>Light-emitting objects problem whacked</h4>
<p>Mathematicians have proposed improvements to cloaking technology to hide objects which emit their own electromagnetic radiation.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:58:04 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Apple 'falsified' share documents</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/appel_share_fakes/</link><description><h4>Steve Jobs's options fingered</h4>
<p>Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs was given share options on the basis of falsified documents which claimed to show the board of directors had approved the stock grant, the <em>FT</em> has claimed.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:57:12 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Congressional aide fired after trying to hire hackers</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/political_aide_hack_gaffe/</link><description><h4>D’oh</h4>
<p>The press attaché of a Montana Congressman has been left red faced after "hackers" he was trying to hire to change his lowly college grades published his email exchanges instead.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:45:52 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europe's planet-seeking satellite blasts off</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/corot_blasts_off/</link><description><h4>COROT on its way</h4>
<p>Europe's "Convection Rotation and planetary Transits" (COROT) satellite yesterday successfully blasted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on its mission to seek out strange new exoplanets and "probe the mysteries of stellar interiors".…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=523456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>Elgato EyeTV Diversity dual-tuner digital TV dongle</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/28/review_eyetv_diversity/</link><description><h4>When one antenna won't do, use two...</h4>
<p><strong>Review</strong> Elgato's made-for-Mac <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/25/review_elgato_eyetv_hybrid/">EyeTV Hybrid analogue and digital TV tuner</a> is an impressive add-on for a media centre, but it runs into trouble when you take it out on the road. The UK's terrestrially transmitted Freeview digital network isn't broadcast as powerfully as it could or should be, and the Hybrid's tiny antenna has a job picking it up. Not one to ignore an opportunity, Elgato's come up with a solution: the EyeTV Diversity, a digital-only USB dongle with <em>two</em> aerials...…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:40:06 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>US to approve cloned meat</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/fda_approves_cloned/</link><description><h4>Lack of variety is the spice of life</h4>
<p>The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will declare today that meat from cloned animals is safe to eat.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:00:12 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Wireless chess cheat banned for 10 years</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/wireless_chess_cheat/</link><description><h4>Checkmate for bluetooth headset scam</h4>
<p>An Indian chess player has been banned from competing for 10 years after seeking the assistance of a computer via a bluetooth headset.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:57:25 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>HD DVD anti-rip encryption cracked</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/28/hddvd_crypto_cracked/</link><description><h4>First test of AACS key-switching system</h4>
<p>Has the HD DVD next-generation optical disc format's anti-rip technology been cracked? That's certainly what's being claimed by a programmer going by the name muslix64 who has posted a Java-based app he maintains will free the video on a disc from its encryption shackles.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:46:26 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sony preps video store to fill hole in PSP film revenues</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/sony_video_store/</link><description><h4>What took it so long?</h4>
<p><strong>Comment</strong> According to recent headlines, Sony is somehow going to challenge Apple iTunes with a film download service straight for the PSP. Instead those headlines should have asked why it has taken so long.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:21:32 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Intel to intro Core 2 Quad at CES?</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/28/intel_core2quad_ces_debut/</link><description><h4>Vegas gamble</h4>
<p>Intel will formally launch its already announced four-core Core 2 Quad processor at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in less than two week's time, it has been claimed.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:53:59 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>TomTom wins (or loses) Garmin US lawsuit</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/tomtom_wins_us_lawsuit/</link><description><h4>Battle of the press releases</h4>
<p>TomTom, the Dutch maker of GPS navigation devices, says it has emerged victorious in the latest round of the acrimonious patent dispute with Garmin, its American rival. Or did it? Garmin says it is the winner.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=523456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>The Vulture's Mobile Awards 2006</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/reg_mobile_heroes_villains/</link><description>Heroes and villains, vapourware and clunkers. They're all here</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:59:18 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Stock scammer gets coal for the holidays</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/sec_freezes_stock_scammer_accounts/</link><description><h4>Illicit use of victims' brokerage accounts</h4>
<p>The US Securities and Exchange Commission put a suspected Russian brokerage-account thief's money on ice last week, after he allegedly used illicit access to people's online portfolios to drive up stock prices.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:58:34 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>How the net changed the ancient art of the con</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/net_con/</link><description><h4>The art of deception</h4>
<p><strong>Comment</strong> <small>It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine, <em>House of Games</em></small>…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Mobile network operators roll over and die</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/2006_in_mobile/</link><description><h4>And "communications companies" are born</h4>
<p><strong>2006 in review</strong> 2006 saw the death of the UK mobile network operator. The wireless industry seemed to realise that it had come of age and it was time to get serious with a round of consolidations and expansions which turned mere operators into "communications companies" able to operate over any kind of connectivity.…</p></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Samsung launches HSDPA slider phone... again</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/27/samsung_ships_z720/</link><description><h4>Ultra Edition 13.8 arrives in Europe</h4>
<p>Samsung has launched its ultra-thin 'super 3G' slider phone in Europe for the second time this year, having <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/30/samsung_launches_ultra_edition/">first touted the 13.8mm thick handset back in August</a> this year. It's Samsung's first phone with Google search and Mail pre-installed.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:52:45 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>AMD to ship Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 'next quarter'</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/27/amd_desktop_roadmap_update/</link><description><h4>Moles claim FX-76 out in Q2, too</h4>
<p>AMD will ship the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and release the single-core Athlon 64 4000+ next quarter, it has been claimed. Both with be the last current-generation chips, allowing AMD to focus on its next-generation architecture, due to launch in Q3.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:31:28 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Apple fixes first-gen iPod Shuffle DRM playback glitch?</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/27/ipod_shuffle_itunes_fix/</link><description><h4>Fairplay for all</h4>
<p>Apple has updated a software repair tool for its first-generation iPod Shuffle that is said to now allow the Flash-based music player to work correctly with songs downloaded from the company's own online music shop.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:08:57 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Enemies dig in for WiMAX-on-cell phone trench war</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/wimax_poliltics/</link><description><h4>Can standards committee redeem its reputation?</h4>
<p><strong>Column</strong> As the WiMax hype machine moves into high gear ahead of next month's 802.20 working group meeting in London, UK, workers on the various wireless standards are anxious to calm down negative reports about the problems they might have on making this family of wireless work in true mobile fashion.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=423456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>Xmas malware frenzy</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/xmas_malware/</link><description><h4>Security gets stuffed</h4>
<p>Hackers are shamelessly exploiting the festive season to spread malware.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:48:58 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Windows DRM is the 'longest suicide note in history'</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/windows_drm_monstered/</link><description><h4>The bitterest pill</h4>
<p>Copy-protection features in Windows Vista make the operating system more bloated while giving few benefits to end users, according to a new security paper.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:29:46 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sharon Stone stuffed in 2006 movie turkey list</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/movie_turkeys/</link><description><h4><em>The Wicker Man</em> also roasted</h4>
<p>Sharon Stone's legendary charms failed to wow the movie crowds during 2006, with <em>Basic Instinct 2</em> taking just $5m at the domestic box office, <cite>Variety</cite> reports. Given that the movie cost $70m to make, it rated as the biggest flop of the year.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:58:28 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Woman felled by dolphin attack</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/dolphin_attack_nz/</link><description><h4>NZ mammal leapt on board boat</h4>
<p><strong>RZSL</strong> A woman aboard a small pleasure cruiser was seriously injured yesterday by a dolphin which leapt into the craft off the coast of New Zealand.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:29:47 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Oz military to battle cane toads</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/cane_toad_rorkes_drift/</link><description><h4>Last-ditch defence of Darwin</h4>
<p>An Australian environmental group has asked the military to intervene in a last-ditch attempt to stop the inexorable advance of the cane toad on Darwin, Reuters reports.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=523456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>Taiwan earthquake shakes internet</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/boxing_day_earthquake_taiwan/</link><description><h4>Undersea cable damage</h4>
<p>An undersea earthquake off the coast of Taiwan on Boxing day severely disrupted communications across east Asia by damaging cables.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:13:58 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Scottish youths pelt Santa with mince pies</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/santa_bombarded/</link><description><h4>Hard hat for Saint Nick</h4>
<p>Health and Safety officials in a Scottish shopping centre were forced to issue their Santa with a hard hat after youths pelted the poor old boy with mince pies, the <cite>Daily Telegraph</cite> reports.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:10:32 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Software's unfinished business for 2007</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/2006_review_year_ahead/</link><description><h4>Tooling up for the new year</h4>
<p><strong>2006 in review</strong> 2006 was an important year for enterprise software and developer tools. The computing old guard trudged on with product updates, marketing hype, and the spinning of political schemes. New challengers, meanwhile, gained traction and credibility. We identify the big events and trends of 2006 that will reverberate for the next year, and look at how they will play out.…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Forensics reaches into the future</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/forensics_feature/</link><description><h4>How far should we let the DNA database go?</h4>
<p>We began researching this piece long before the recent murders in Suffolk. That horror has served to remind us that forensic technologies are now often the first thought in any criminal investigation. The shiny power of DNA technology is in no doubt, but are we in danger of being dazzled by it?…</p></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:02:03 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ancient pyramids discovered in Bosnia</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/26/bosnian_pyramids/</link><description><h4>Natural or man-made?</h4>
<p>The Great Pyramid of Giza is the sole survivor of the Seven Wonders of the World. An Arab proverb says that: "Man fears time, yet time fears the Pyramids", a reference to the fact that the pyramid has survived for about 4,500 years and, in that time, has lost a mere 10 metres off its incredible 145 metre height.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=423456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>Hate Xmas? Stick your kid's Barbie in the blender</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/24/will_it_blend/</link><description><h4>Will she blend? Yes she will...</h4>
<p>Those of you suffering from pre-Xmas "bah humbug" syndrome, typified by symptoms ranging from mild irritation at the Yule orgy of capitalism, to the overwhelming desire to bring down Santa's sleigh with a surface-to-air missile, will certainly enjoy the festive offering from <a href="http://www.willitblend.com/" target="_blank">Will It Blend?</a> - a website dedicated to testing everyday objects to destruction in a household blender.…</p></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Is there such a thing as frigidity?</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/the_odd_body_frigidity/</link><description><h4>Inhibited desire</h4>
<p>Also in this week's column:…</p></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>How does the heart differ from other mechanical pumps?</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/the_odd_body_heart/</link><description><h4>Biological efficiency</h4>
<p>Also in this week's column:…</p></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Will robots ever become just like humans?</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/the_odd_body_robots/</link><description><h4>Not-so-artificial intelligence</h4>
<p>Also in this week's column:…</p></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:02:02 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Why the Apple phone will fail, and fail badly</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/iphone_will_fail/</link><description><h4>It's the Pippin all over again</h4>
<p><strong>Comment</strong> The hype is reaching fever-pitch, and the odds are still stacked that Apple will announce a device combining the functionality of an iPod and a mobile phone in January next year, but whether such a device will actually sell is another question.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=423456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>CafePress wilts under DDoS assault</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/22/cafepress_ddos_attack/</link><description><h4>Hackers play grinch</h4>
<p>CafePress.com, the site which allows users to open up their own online store selling customised merchandise such as t-shirts and mugs, has been hit by a denial of service attack.…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:15:23 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lost laptops, zero-day vulns and RFID chips</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/22/security_review_2006/</link><description><h4>The year in information security</h4>
<p><strong>2006 in review</strong> If 2006 had an information security epitaph it would probably be the year of the missing laptop.…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:55:07 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>YouTube clip leads to arrest in Canadian murder hunt</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/22/youtube_canadian_murder_probe/</link><description><h4>Mounties get their man</h4>
<p>A video clip posted on YouTube has helped Canadian police in the investigation of a nightclub murder.…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:48:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Enraged locals drive blogger from Barrow-in-Furness</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/22/chocolate_shop_blogger/</link><description><h4>'S***-hole' residents turn on chocolate shop manager</h4>
<p>Enraged locals have driven a chocolate shop manager from Barrow-in-Furness after he branded the town a "s***-hole" on his Myspace blog, the <cite>Online Press Gazette</cite> reports.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=468x60;ord=323456789?" target="_blank">
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<item><title>Self abusing operators fail to offset emissions</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/22/wiki_wonkers_letters/</link><description><h4>Sort of NSFW, if you try hard</h4>
<p><strong>Letters</strong> Wikipedians have been illustrating some of the online encyclopedia's pages with some charming photography of things they <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/20/wikipedia_aphrodites_araldite/&quot;">made themselves</a>. While it is always nice to see people being creative, we're not sure if home-made tosspots were strictly neccessary:…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:16:56 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>BMA may seek NHS records system boycott</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/22/bma_nhs_record_systems_boycott_call/</link><description><h4>DoH 'unlawful'</h4>
<p>Doctors will be advised to refuse to use the NHS's computer system unless the Department of Health (DoH) changes its mind on behaviour which the British Medical Association says is unlawful.…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:07:14 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Partying Miss Nevada stripped of title</title><link>http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/22/miss_nevada_dethroned/</link><description><h4>Wild net snaps undo Katie Rees</h4>
<p>Miss Nevada 2007 was yesterday stripped of her title after pictures appeared on the internet showing 22-year-old Katie Rees "kissing other young women, exposing one of her breasts and pulling down her pants to show her thong underwear at a party in Tampa", AP reports.…</p></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:20:50 GMT</pubDate></item>
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