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Was reading this news story over a coffee.

Wikipedia has published a page detailing the links that have been deleted from the EU search under the right to be forgotten rules.

Full story here - BBC News

One article, that failed a take down request, grabbed my attention - it surrounds a photograph, allegedly taken as a selfie by a monkey. The owner of the equipment used to take the photo claimed he had copyright of the image, however Wikipedia Foundation rejected his claim on the basis that as the monkey took the selfie it owns the copyright !!!

Credit to Wikipedia

Doesnt it bear a resemblance to a certain someone ...?

This may well be my last post 

There appears to be a clause in German Law allowing him to make the offer.

Seems if you have enough money you can buy your way out of trouble ........

Whether you agree with it or not, another prisoner was executed first thing this morning in the USA and it seems that he was pronounced dead 10 minutes after the procedure started.

This must be a relief to the authorities following a series of "botched" executions where prisoners have been gasping and snorting for up to an hour during their demise.

Not going to debate the rights and wrongs of the death penalty, we have done that before but surely the authorities have to look at either perfecting a drug that instantly kills the condemned person or offer an alternative method of execution.

Thought i'd bump this thread rather than start another - 

Allegedly Bitcoin price is due to crash due to a surge in web searches on the coin.

A study of web activity and social media talk around Bitcoin has suggested that as their has been a spike in activity regarding the currency its a "good indicator" of an imminent price crash.

Full story - BBC News

A gang of Russian hackers have pulled off the biggest hack to date of 1.2bn user names and passwords from 420,000 websites.

Details of the websites are yet to be announced but are reported to be some big household names.

In a twist to the story, the company that traced the breach of security initially posted a charge to companies to check to see if they had been hacked but this has since been removed.

I think there are going to be some pretty red faces of big company names admitting soon that they have been hacked.

Certainly makes me rethink about my online security and passwords!

Just seen in the headlines that a German Court is considering Bernie Ecclestones offer of $100m to end his Trial on bribery charges.

Am i missing the point? He is in Court on bribery charges and is now offering to pay lots of money for the Trial to end

Barney - We have had our coder look in to this and we genuinely cannot replicate the issue.

If anyone else has the same issue as Barney and is showing the mobile version of the forum on a PC/laptop using IE11 please could you contact myself or Steve.

We would love to get to the bottom of this blip.

Thanks

Hi Barney

I'm informed that our spell checker actually comes from your browser, so it utilises whichever default setting you have on there.

Eg - if you have Google Chrome it may be set to English USA, not English UK and you will need to set the default to the UK spell checker. It will be the same for Firefox. IE or whichever browser you use.

Just seen this story on MSN, it had me literally screaming at my laptop!!

A 12 year old girl has been banned from driving along with 7 others according to a latest report.

Quote from the report - "It is of great concern that youngsters not even eligible to hold a provisional licence are being banned at such young ages," said IAM chief executive Simon Best."

What are the parents doing about this? My youngest is 13 now, he is allowed to play outside naturally but i always know where he is. No doubt he will get in to a scrape or 2 along his teenage years as did i but nothing as serious as stealing a car and driving it at the age of 12 !!!!

Think its great that a 12 year old can be banned from driving before eligible to actually obtain said licence. What kind of deterrent is that?

IMHO - Fine the parents, make them responsible for their childs actions, how else is that child going to learn that at 12 you are not allowed to drive a car.

Beggars belief what kids are getting up to when the parents believe they are safe playing out !!

Full story - MSN News

Was going through a couple of posts this morning and noticed that some people suffer the same problem as me and miss spell the same words.

I have great problems typing FROM, i always type FORM for some reason and because its technically not a miss spelt word my smell checker doesn't pick it up either 

People who can't use the correct word sometimes gets me as well - people that don't know the difference between brought & bought wind me up lol

So have you got a pet hate miss pronounced word or a common word you always miss spell?