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Legal reasons...?

What exactly are the usual 'legal reasons' for which a person actually convicted of a crime and sentenced to six months imprisonment STILL cannot be named afterwards in newpaper and media reports...?
15:32 Fri 17th Dec 20046 answers, last by Hippy 20:51 Sun 19th Dec 2004
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New insect classification...

If I were to turn up at a university science lab or other research laboratory with a specimen - alive or dead - of a previously undiscovered / unclassified insect, would I make any money out of it...
15:16 Thu 12th Aug 20046 answers, last by Elfin 15:10 Sun 22nd Aug 2004
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British Web Search

I'm getting a repeating pop-up search bar called British Web Search - not every time I do everything, but periodically, every few days for several weeks. I've run Spybot several times to no effect,...
15:03 Thu 12th Aug 20043 answers, last by dicky113 23:21 Thu 12th Aug 2004
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Windows File Open drop-down box

When I launch Windows Media Player or Real One player and select "File / Open" to navigate to a file, the "Open" panel that pops up contains a drop-down box which itself contains all the previous...
17:29 Tue 13th Jul 20041 answer, last by robber1 18:36 Tue 13th Jul 2004
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Bloodhound Exploit 6

I've now been infected with this piece of crap twice in three days. Norton Anti-Virus quarantines it but can't delete it. The NAV site says to download a patch file and run it, but when I try it says...
15:32 Mon 05th Jul 20041 answer, last by meta 12:07 Thu 08th Jul 2004
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Sci-fi / fantasy novel...

Bit of a long shot, but... Several years ago I read a dust-cover precis of a modern fantasy novel in a bookshop.... Something to do with hi-tech machinery mal-functioning.,..robots gone haywire, etc....
13:33 Tue 22nd Jun 20046 answers, last by female19 00:10 Wed 18th Aug 2004
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Insect bites...

Following a silly decision to have a topless day in the garden last weekend (calm down, ladies..) I now have a lump the size of a fifty-pence coin on my upper arm, from an insect that I think (I hope)...
14:20 Wed 26th May 20045 answers, last by TommyC 14:19 Thu 27th May 2004
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Panhandlers

Who employs the smart-suited, fast-talking people I once encountered at an American airport, who request sizable donations for unspecified causes ? The American friends I asked called them...
20:23 Mon 23rd Feb 20042 answers, last by TommyC 20:03 Fri 27th Feb 2004
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Abusive e-mail to criminals...

Is at against British or American law to send a violently abusive and threatening e-mail to a company distributing Trojans which install internet address hijackers on your machine without invitation?...
17:09 Wed 11th Feb 20041 answer, last by wizard 23:02 Wed 11th Feb 2004
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Toilet cistern roaring...

Can any plumbers out there please tell me why the toilet cistern roars deafeningly during the refill, which takes anything up to twenty minutes, with a slow, slow drip from the tank refill tap ? This...
11:27 Wed 04th Feb 20043 answers, last by sabre 11:55 Thu 05th Feb 2004

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