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  • FOTW: Nibbling at America's heel

    Reg works for the Yankee dollar

    From: Brendan Bird To: drew.cullen@theregister.co.uk Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 3:59 AM Subject: be warned. No niceness here Dear Editor, I was recently introduced to your service and thought it was quite good - until I read your pathetic comment on how the pilot of the Chinese plane involved in the recent incident …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 10:27

  • Guest Flame: Nosh in your knickers

    Cockney emulator lets rip

    Thanks very much to Stephen Constance for this week's bid for the flame hall of fame. We have reason to believe that Stephen is involved in the legal business, which would explain his poor command of the lingo. Any of our codebreakers want to have a go at this? AHOY MATE!!! LORRY IN THE ROUNDABOUT!!!#@!$#!$ SOD OFF YOU BLOODY …

    Bootnotes 21 Apr 2001, 10:29

  • Who will notice when 3dfx is gone?

    Letters Let the anti-Nvidia backlash begin

    On Tuesday we reported the effective demise of 3dfx, the graphics chips designer, with the sale of assets to arch-rival Nvidia We asked the (rhetorical) question: "Who will notice when it's gone?" These people will...do we detect the beginnings of an Anti-Nvidia backlash "Soon the company is to be no more. Who will notice, …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 12:48

  • Hello, John, want a new fighter?

    No flying car, but fast jets galore

    Flights of fantasy Kutty Chaathen thinks that we've been a bit frivolous over this flying car stuff: Just a few points about the story in today's Reg. Nice story, brought a smile to an old man's face, but your general negative spin on the story wasn't so cheerily received Typical of The Reg of late I thought, but I just had …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 14:17

  • Let your staff surf porn…

    As good a way as any to waste time

    Employers put the squeeze on porn surfers For any employers wondering just how exactly their staff waste most of their time, Greg Cunningham is something of an expert: Just a thought regarding the study that claimed $500 million in lost productivity: Do these companies actually assume that before the internet employees didn't …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 14:19

  • SurfControl's ‘scare marketing’

    Filtering company riding wave of fear

    SurfControl sales rocket by 200% Jim Salter has an interesting slant on the SurfControl phenomenon: I just read your article regarding the boost in SurfControl software. You may not be aware of the recent legislation by the US government requiring filtering software for schools and libraries in order to get Federal funding. …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 14:20

  • US discovers dictionary

    I know what a faggot means, you faggots

    May the false declaration be with you We've upset some of our American readers with our explanation of the word 'faggot', i.e., a bundle of sticks commonly used for burning witches. No explanation required, according to Dave: Dammit, as a God-fearing American I resent the implication that I'm so ignorant I'll never know the …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 14:22

  • DoubleClick cookies firmly in jar

    Register readers reassured

    DoubleClick beats back privacy suits Readers' Letters: Poison cookies? Thanks to Matthew Rippon for this pertinent point regarding DoubleClick and cookies: I was interested to read the letter from Pat Mitchell. You will have noted of course that this was a US decision. I suspect that Doubleclick would have grave difficulties …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 14:24

  • Yank slams Reg European provincialism

    Limeys lashed

    America fully brainwashed by cybercrime FUD Yank Eric Woodworth has got his six-shooter out and is gunning for we undersexed pale limey bastards. It's always refreshing to get some well-reasoned analysis of the Reg: I have recently finished reading your above article and I have a few comments and observations that I thought …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 14:26

  • Readers' Letters Jedi persecuted Down Under

    Proto-religion nipped in the bud

    May the false declaration be with you We're obliged to Reg readers Down Under for some further information on the Jedi census saga. To recap, an email has been doing the rounds asking people to declare their religion as 'Jedi' in the forthcoming UK census. They reckon that if 10,000 people so declare, the government will be …

    Letters 21 Apr 2001, 14:27

  • EU to turn US e-tailers into Euro tax gatherers

    There maybe trouble ahead

    The European Union is close to agreeing upon a tax on digital sales made over the Internet outside the EC to EU citizens, according to commissioner Frits Bolkestein. In other words, e-tailers in the US will have to charge and collect VAT on music and software downloads purchased by EU citizens on behalf of the European Union. …

    e-Business 21 Apr 2001, 15:13