Posts by RISC OS

More chance you came a cropper on a UK road than bought a Chromebook this year

Re: Gullible Twat Dribbles into Beard

I don't think it would be possible to be stupider than you ;)

"Strongest take up is in the UK because"...

...they are gullible twats who'll buy any cheap tat - as seen by the number of pound shops in recent years.

I guess demand is higher in the US because they think as they are americans, the NSA won't spy on them.. who would want to use a cloud computer, in its truest sense of the word, if you are spied on by the NSA and the computer comes preloaded with NSA hardware to boot.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot becoming mere pimple

I heard...

... that nasa have been dumping loads of a clearasil like substance into jupiter's atmosphere so that they can get better images, could explain why the spot is clearing up!

Beam me up Scotty: Boffins to turn pure light into matter

Star Trek Replicators

Here we come!

Time-rich Brit boffin demos DIY crazytech wolverine talons

Yeah...

...go to scratch your eye and never see again

Recommendations for NAS-based home media set-up

I misread the title....

...I thought it was a joke article about creating an NSA based computer!

Hunt's paperless future: NHS watches £60m vanish down plughole

People have been claiming computers will make offices paperless....

...longer than they have been saying that "this will be the year of linux on the desktop".

Both statements are complete bull pats and always will be.

Stop bullying SUPER FAT GODZILLA, urge movie stars

I think he fatzilla

has been spotted at the heartattack grill eating a quadruple bypass burger

Google: Mmm. Tab-free Gmail desktop client? We won't DENY it

Re: What a horrible website

It's to to do with readability... yeah I know nerds would love everything to be the full screen width but it causes a paragraph to run into one sentence, and usability studies show this is not fun when reading scanning/text

Nintendo says sorry, but there will be NO gay marriage in Tomodachi Life ... EVER

You know you spend too long in front of a computer...

... if your looking for someone in-game to marry.

Whatever you are into, boys, girls, ladyboys... look in the real world.

Solaris deposed as US drone-ware, replaced by Linux administration

Re: Wow, that'd make a great T-shirt!

"Powered by" is so old school. Why not nick one of the old risc os coding groups names? They were always creative when it came to mentioning ARM:

Grievous Bodily 'ARM

ARMageddon

...

DreamWorks CEO: Movie downloaders should pay by screen size

I owuldn't pay more than...

...50 cents a film to view it on my phone... and then only if if it was a great film... for the normal crap produced by dream works I would want pay more the 20cent for a phone version

Watch out, Yahoo! EFF looses BADGER on sites that ignore Do Not Track

Re: Too difficult to implement DNT

I guess if you are on yahoo's payroll for a 6 figure salary, "do not track" is too complicated a phrase to understand.

Re: Armor up

Jeez you must have so much fun browsing... wouldn't it be easier just not to use the internet, or even a computer?

Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival

Re: It's great

The more down votes you get at the register, the more right you are ;)

Re: still no top left double click to close

I have been using windows since 95 and never once accidently hit the close button whilst trying to click min/max... do you need to go to the opticians?

Re: It's great

you too ;)

Still no crank shaft

since the dawn of time it has been possible to start cars usinga crank shaft ... a hang over from when that was the way you started your car....

no matter how often programs get rid of crank shafts, there are always lots of cranks left around who want it back... when all they have to do is click abutton on the righthand side instead of the left.

The button on the right is the menu. The forward button appears if there is something to go forward to.

The download icon is there too... looks like the old one..

where are your glasses, where are your eyes?

It's great

I like the new design and now sync has been made useable for normal people, instead of just for cybermen - the way it used to be. It's brill. Been waiting for this for ages.

AOL confirms security breach from spam attack

Jeez...

... AOL still exists?

One lives and learns,

EU: Let's cost financial traders $400m a day, because EVIL BANKERS. Right?

My heart bleeds for these wankers... sorry bankers

MIT boffins moot tsunami-proof floating nuke power plants

what about getting hit by a freak wave...

...the kind that can sink aircraft carriers and the wrold's largest tankers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave

"Any radioactive gases released could also be “vented” underwater to further reduce risk"

yeah... who cares if everything at the bottom of the food change gets nuked... it's not like things get passed up the food chain is it, or that food chains can collapse if the bottom tiers are taken out... oh wait...

MtGox chief Karpelès refuses to come to US for g-men's grilling

After the yanks reaction to the ukraine...

... I can't see russia aggreeing to extradite him if he refuses!

Google-funded boffins figure out age-busting facial prediction system

It even managed...

...to predict what hair cut they would have... that is pretty impressive

Just what could be inside Dropbox's new 'Home For Life'?

A home for life...

...for you and the nsa

Dark SITH LORD 'Darth Vader' joins battle to rule, er, Ukraine

Maybe members of the welsh church of the jedi should...

...go on a crusade to the ukraine...

Mind you, after the last time the sith lord was spotted in wales, the jedis got their arses kicked!

The jedis were quoted as sayin: "Ow! That really hurt" and "That was really quite painful"

I don't think they have the bottle to take him on again

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/7360871.stm

Yahoo! keen! to! slurp! news! video! distie! site!

The only "service" that yahoo has...

... that I use is mail.

I never will use anything else. There is no reason to use anything yahoo offers as a service - except the email ;)

Zuck: Web drones, not balloons (cough, cough Google) are way forward

Re: FB & Google...

exactly

FB & Google...

... should try living in the real world... the people without internet today either don't wont it or they have too many other serious issues in their life to be able to use it...

when you live in a country where your children can die from a case of the shits, what you really worry about is accessing facebook to view photos of cats.

GNOME 3.12: Pixel perfect ... but homeless

Re: Nope

lmao ;) danke

Re: Nope

I think people (grannies included - even those mythical ones who use linux without any problems and can rebuild the kernel in their sleep) have been using such implemented features like creating a schortcut on other OSs for decades... just sayin' ;)

Re: Could you post of screen shot of...

Why? You planning on installing gnome 3.12 on a machine form 1990?

No Notch niche: Minecraft man in rift with Oculus after Facebook gobble

Re: ..a multimillionaire already ..... can afford to walk away

He is probably just as greedy as everyone else...

if not, let him put his money where his mouth is. and give all future rights and profits to someone else... maybe a homeless person... and let the rights go to another homeless person every 6 months...

I can't see him putting his money where his mouth is with this idea... what's the word for this... I know it, it's on the tip of my tounge...

Re: Refreshing!

... yeah and his a multimillionaire already from mincraft and can afford to walk away ;)

Tor Project claims 'fake' Tor Browser sat in iOS App Store for months

Re: To all the paranoid sheeple.

So that if they do get detected they can go to websites and post comments like

"To all the paranoid sheeple.

Try and think for a second - if it was an NSA job, why would they add in the spam and increase the risk of detection? Seriously, put down the koolaid and try thinking for yourselves for once."

To put people of the scent... ever heard of the double bluff??

Probably paid

by the nsa to leave it up

Google wearables: A solution looking for a rich nerd

Great...

...if you live in eric schmidt's neck of the woods... but if you live on some council estates here in the uk you may as well just walk around with a sign saying "mug me"

Facebook security chief: We're not encrypting everything between our data centers just yet

"We're not encrypting everything between our data centers just yet"

...yeah... have to work out first how to still let the nsa tap into everything first

Blighty goes retro with 12-sided pound coin

Re: 3 per cent?

Could buy someone a hell of a lot of tat from pound shops... they are springup all over the place... ;)

Not sure if you're STILL running Windows XP? AmIRunningXP.com to the rescue!

Lets hope...

.... the kind of people who need this are the kind of people who read the register... or they probably won't even know about AmIRunningXP.com

To be frank, if you need to go to this site to see if you are running xp... you're probably not the kind of person to care if support is coming to an end.

Renault unveils mini-SUV equipped with a QUADCOPTER DRONE

"Should leave some interesting skin patterns after a long drive"

"...and the interior is made up of strips of material to allow for easy airflow"

But at least they thought about seat air flow... also important on a long drive.

EVE Online erects mashed-up memorial to biggest space fight in history

That was an epic fight????

Bugger all happened... it'S not exactly empire strikes back style spaceshit fighting. The ships aren't moving or doing anything. the losers who spend the waking lives playing in this game should try living in the real world...

... it's obvious what kind of person plays this - 40 year old virgins living in their mum's basement, they even built a ship that looks like a giant penis (top left . first minute)

New Doctor Who's new costume newly REVEALED by Beeb

I thought the doctor came from galifrey...

... not brighton

Bloke hews plywood Raspberry Pi tablet

"had to look good"

He seems to have forgotten this requirement

Brit boffin tests LETTUCE as wire for future computers

packs of slime...?

...sounds like voyager

Crippling server 'leccy bill risks sinking OpenBSD Foundation

Re: I don't (knowingly) use OpenBSD myself but I'm definitely sending them a few quid.

The more mark downs, the more right your comment is

Re: I don't (knowingly) use OpenBSD myself but I'm definitely sending them a few quid.

Yeah, a few quid helps when you need 20000

Haribo gummy bears implicated in 'gastric exorcism'

amazon.com

Maybe brought on by yanks poor diet? Haven't heard of this in europe or germany... and loooking at the amount of bears I can see why these people were watching the sport and not playing.

Amazing that the bag is full to bursting with sweets... here in germany half the bag woud be air, which manufacturers claim is caused by "settling"... yanks don't seem to think they need to pack sweets in a "protective environment", why do we... that is the more important question here!

Google Glass driver told she CAN wear techno-specs while on the road

Re: What bollocks

This is bad... the police won't know it is on until they stop someone, and then they will just turn it off. Police will get charged and just worn't stop anyone...

And what will happen when she runs some kid over because she is too busy twittering with her eyeballs? 3 months driviong ban and 200 hours commuity service - suspended - probably

This is stupid ruling, should be no different then letting someone drive while using their smartphone.