No you don't. At least not in the country TFA is talking about: you get prosecuted (which might, but is highly unlikely to, result in jail - our prisons are full enough TYVM,) and you have 42 days to do it in:

http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/bguk/Community/Registrars/Registering_Births_Deaths/Registering_a_Birth

It is a legal duty to register a birth within 42 days. Failure to do so will not only leave you liable to prosecution but will also make it impossible for you to register to receive family allowance or register your baby with a doctor.

That sort of behaviour would likely to earn you a criminal record, and a marker on this database to indicate that your child is now on the child protection register (one of the groups of people for whom this database is for I'd imagine after the farce over 'Baby P.')

And I'm not being cynical, I only wish I were.

I raised no objection in a different message, this being my second on this story.

It's coming to something when even the submitters can't be bothered RTFA. All night hackathons are not going to kill you:

All of these physiological changes are reversible, thoughâ"take a nap, and you'll be on the road back to normal.
[...]
After 32 days of total sleep deprivation, all the rats were dead.

So unless you work 32 days straight, you're not going to die.

Um - Hungarian notation is for coding what the variable represents, not the type of variable it's represented by.

Anyone using iVariable or sVariable to indicate that the former is an int and the latter is a string is doing it wrong.

It's this misunderstanding that's resulted in HN's 'bad' reputation.

See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html for an example of how HN should be used.

That, also, only works for companies that accept a + sign in the local part. Amex, for example, don't. As do(n't) a wide variety of regex's that people swipe off the net to use in their websites.

Um - if confidentiality is what this is pivoting on, shouldn't the charge be something other than libel in the first place, since AIUI, libel relates to false statements?

Perfect way to DOS someone. Exponential timeouts for retries is a better way to go to prevent rapid-fire. (1 second after first wrong attempt, then 2 seconds, 4, 8, 16 etc.)

I confess my geek-fu is not strong enough to understand what he does, can someone shed some light for the networksavvy-impared?

Well...

wget -o /dev/null -O - http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/

He's asking IANA for the netblocks... (click the link to see what does get returned)

grep whois.apnic.net

administerd by APNIC (Asia-Pacific)

grep ALLOCATED

currently in use (not legacy ones)

cut -d " " -f 1

culling everything from each line except the IP/mask (the first item)

xargs

and strips the carriage returns to generate a list of IP blocks in the AP region.

# need to add in .0.0.0 though

Of course he has to manually add in the .0.0.0 for each block for the next to work

for asia in 58.0.0.0/8 59.0.0.0/8
do
$fw -A INPUT -s $asia -j DROP
done

He then sets up his firewall to instantly drop any packets coming from any of those IP blocks so he can't hear them.

It's a bit sledgehammer/nut IMO.