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3rd January 2005 Archive

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  • ‘In Europe you have watches but in Africa we have time’

    So get in your car and wait

    Reg hack John Oates took time out from the Plymouth-Banjul rally — “just like the Paris-Dakar event, but for poorer, more stupid, people” — to file this report from Mauritania. Looking as friendly as a man in military fatigues in the middle of a minefield can do the Mauritanian immigration official smiled broadly and said: “In …

    Bootnotes 3 Jan 2005, 12:27

  • Man, 40, admits tsunami hoax emails

    Death notices sent to relatives of missing people

    A 40 year-old man today pleaded guilty to sending hoax emails to friends and relatives of British people missing following the Tsunami disaster. Christopher Pierson, of Ruskington Lincolnshire sent 35 emails purporting to be from the Foreign Office Bureau in Thailand, in which he announced the deaths of missing people. He had …

    Music and Media 3 Jan 2005, 12:47

  • Heathrow x-ray weapons scanner, just say no

    Apparently...

    A Register reader passes us an eye-witness account of progress with the see through clothes scanner currently being tested at Heathrow Terminal 4. As one might expect from a country that deploys stuff without considering health implications, the testing is splendidly incoherent, and unlikely to produce anything in the way of …

    Music and Media 3 Jan 2005, 14:18

  • Fujitsu Siemens loses German PC levy case

    €12 a pop

    A German court has ordered PC maker Fujitsu Siemens to pay a royalty of €12 for every PC it sells in Germany. A Munich district court believes that as with blank media such as audio and video cassettes, the levy should compensate rights holders for lost royalties. The suit was first brought in 2001 by VG Wort rights society, a …

    System Builder 3 Jan 2005, 15:57

  • FBI clears terrorists of shining laser pointers at pilots

    Horseplay still under investigation

    Terrorists have not engaged in a nationwide plot to annoy pilots with laser pointers, according to the FBI. The FBI investigated 8 incidents over the past two weeks in which pilots reported seeing laser beams in their cockpits. The lasers appeared most often during takeoff and landing and were seen in Texas, Oregon, New Jersey …

    Bootnotes 3 Jan 2005, 18:58

  • Run from Sun ahead of Q2 - analyst

    Down on investor optimism

    Sun Microsystems has benefited from some misplaced optimism and will likely see its share price fall in the coming weeks, according to one of the most respected financial analysts. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Toni Sacconaghi has called Sun out as an overachiever in a new research report. Sun, which has enjoyed a more …

    Hardware 3 Jan 2005, 21:48