Top Twenty Stories

These are the twenty most popular stories on The Register in the last 24 hours.

1. Windows XP SP3 sends PCs into endless reboot
   That Groundhog Day feeling, again
2. US: BAE 'could have' pirated our secret Stealth 3.0 tech sauce
   Arms globocorp enters grey zone?
3. Extreme porn, hard drives and election strain
   Comments Phwoar, pass us some lethal skunk
4. UK.gov torpedoes personal carbon credit plans
   'Not a universally desirable outcome' - no, really?
5. I Was A Teenage Bot Master
   Exclusive The Confessions of SoBe Owns
6. Gordon Brown claims a Brit invented the iPod
   Grosse Pointe, Surrey?
7. Shuttle astronauts: Aliens are definitely out there
   Haven't personally seen any - it's more of a feeling
8. Dell squeezes cloud into a shipping container
   Exclusive Also: Meet an 8 chip, 2U, 12 drive search darling
9. Set-top box modders sent to prison
   Teach telly hackery, go directly to jail
10. Mounties taser bed-ridden octagenarian
    Knife-wielding old-timer in hospital shocker
11. Retailers risk libel nightmare over 'no-work' database
    A nation of suspicious shopkeepers
12. Web fan-owned football club heads to Wembley final
    A grand day out for the minnows
13. Texas realizes Amazon is in Texas
    Online Tax Squabble Part Deux
14. ITV challenges Beeb for cheap innuendo crown
    'Butt seized by terror police'
15. BOFH: Shiny new computer room
    Episode 17 What's the catch?
16. Web cam images undo MacBook thieves
    You've been iFramed
17. Facebook CTO logs out
    Co-founder off to the beach
18. How ComScore can track your mouse clicks
    Explores stream of unconsciousness
19. Burma 'Gone with the Wind', suggests Telegraph
    Cyclone orphans - the musical
20. 'Great tits cope well with warming'
    BBC secures Headline of the Week