Posts by RISC OS

Yahoo! chief operating officer de Castro exits web biz after just one year

What do rats do?

When a ship is sinking?

Chinese Moon rover, lander duo wake up after two-week snooze

Re: I'm surprised that in 2014...

That's a filter so that you don't notice the CGi used to make it. ;)

Army spaffed millions up the wall on flawed Capita online recruiting system - report

A better recruitment tool to buy

when you have 1.3 billion to blow, would be to buy a new naval war ship. Sail it around the uk with lots women in just their bras and combat trousers and station the recruitment centers on board ship.

I'm sure that would be a lot more cost effective and drive recruitment up, and when the campaign is over, the boat can passed on to the navy.

1.3 billion?????

For an online recruitment system?

Which IT company saw them coming?

Think your brilliant app idea will earn some big bucks? HAH. You fool

class comment

made me laugh

1,250

Quite a lot considering most apps seem to be created by 1-man companies.

Google stabs Wikipedia in the front

Re: "the constant lowering of standards of content on Wikipedia"

Yeah, it's set by whatever 12 yr old editor happens to see the edits that you have made and decides to revert them as vandalism because they think that they know more about evolutionary biology or quantum theory than you do.

"Is Google accidentally killing Wikipedia?"

"accidentally" being the keyword

Meta search engines may infringe database rights: EU Court of Justice

Amen

I'm fed up going to sites that are just links to othersites padded out with adverts.

ANYONE on Google+ can now email you, with or without your Gmail addy

Everyone should just...

... cc eric schmidt on every mail

Silk Road suspect Ross Ulbricht 'teaching yoga' while awaiting trial

Hoping to get friends...

... so it isn't always him bending for the soap... or using someone else's "toothbrush"

Security guru Bruce Schneier to leave employer BT

Re: 'thought leadership'?

My boss is trying to become a "thought leader" in "enterprise feedback management (EFM)"... basically you become a thought leader by blogging and commenting on subjects and having other people blog about your blogging and comments, like your facebook posts, and retweet your twits - eventually you get invited to give speeches at conferences because you are now recognised as a "thought leader" on the subject the conference is about, as you have produced so much web 2.0ish crap and social guff.

I thought an ology gave you a job for life? BT claimed it did

You got a c in sociology? You get an ology, you have a job for life - except futureology it seems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEfKEzX9QLE

Sensation: Chinese Jade Rabbit FOUND ON MOON

An easy way to get funding back fro nasa...

...hack the jade rabbit and run down the american flag.

The US will have no problem funding moon landings to raise it again.

Re: Most

Most assemebled in america computers are assembled from parts created in china... what's your point?

Massive! Yahoo! Mail! outage! going! on! FOURTH! straight! day!

Maybe the delay...

...was caused by NSA servers taking too long to log and scan messages being sent.

BlackBerry rejected Justin Bieber as brand ambassador

Chavtastic

A chance for 3 companies to team up: an advert featuring bieberry in burberry with a blackberry.

RIM probably thought their sales chances we already low enough without the need to drive them even lower!

Crappy round DVD menu icons

Crappy round DVD menu icons

Hello,

has anyone else noticed that dvds seem to all have the same crappy round menu icons now instead of looking like they belong on the menu.

Why is this? This never used by like this, I hav only noticed in the last year. BTW the dvd's I buy are from germany, case this matters

On the matter of shooting down Amazon delivery drones with shotguns

Re: Dear Article Author

I guess he comes from either the US or the UK

The only way is Office: UK Parliament to migrate to Microsoft cloud

Doesn't anyone in the government...

...read the guardian?

They may as just pay the nsa to host everything and save everythin on the nsa's servers

NASA pic: DOOMED ice Comet ISON literally had snowball's chance in hell

The poor little comet is lucky...

.... it would have been sued by apple soon.

The want to trade mark iSon, iDad, iMum, and iDaughter.

These are their categories of their customers, and form part of the larger iDiots group.

Richard Stallman decides Emacs should go WYSIWYG

Re: Who talks like this?

He probably stilll calls his tv a "colour tv" when talking about it too

Doctor Who Episode One: Through a glass. Darkly

I have never seen a school...

...with so many 30 year old women attending it.

Pile of fanboi cash taking up space in garage? IPHONE UNDERTAKERS are keen to help you

upcyclers and nontrepreneurs rejoice...

...kickstarter is here to help you fund your stupid "startup"... even though some people should be told by their friends that their ideas are stupid... like this project, or even this one: https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body

Who’s Who: a Reg quest to find the BEST DOCTOR

5th doctor

was the best

McDonalds ponders in-store 3D printing for Happy Meal toys

Re: There ain't no sich animal

A nutricous meal can be found ad bob mcdonalds residence, 23174 Main Street, a guy who lives opposite mcdonalds and happens to have the same surname.

How long before they...

....start printing their "food" with 3d printers out of blocks of "meat" and "bread", just need shaping with the 3d printer and then move a long a conveyor to a grill...

'Only nuclear power can save humanity', say Global Warming high priests

controllable?

"scalable, controllable and potentially well able to keep the lights on for centuries or millennia."

... except if some natural disaster, human error, or computer error causes a melt down... I'd rather live in a hotter world than one where nothing can live becuase of too many melt downs from nuclear plants that happened to be located near, volcanos, tusnamis, had too many home simpsons working for them, or have computers running microsoft software.

FREEZE, GLASSHOLE! California cops bust Google Glass driver

Can't see what the cop did wrong here, the stupid wench shouldn't have been driving with them on.

Do+ you+ use+ Google+? Seemingly+ you+ DO+

My fake google plus

https://plus.google.com/106198735266040588562/posts

is still there lol

I am a recovering Superwoman wannabee

@reg editors

For the greater good... please add a URL to the full image of the woman in the superwoman costume

Surface 2 and iPad Air: Prepare to meet YOUR DOOM under a 'Landfill Android' AVALANCHE

Re: I think you mean

Yes

I think you mean

"Cheap crap" sells better than "cheap crap produced in sweatshops by children, and then marked up by 1000%" shocker.

Mozilla CTO blasts WC3 plans to bless anti-piracy DRM tech in HTML5

Given that the W3C are involved...

... I guess we still have 30 odd years until it becomes a standard

Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins

Plus...

...it has to download additional software for the NSA.

3.5 GB

I guess everyone at MS think sthe whole world are as nerdy as them... I expect they downloaded it on the home connections which is probaably a direct connection toa backbone. Damn nerds.

I just installed it

and apart from th estart button icon and the arrow for all apps I can't see anything else that has changed... bit disappointed :(

Here comes Windows 8.1! Microsoft grits teeth, pushes upgrade to world

Re: Still not enough

I agree. I have window 8 and like it. I don't miss the start menu... funny how you have been marked down so much.... and the op was marked up so much... the more down votes you have the more you were right ;)

Screw Internet-of-Things: Boffins build Internet-of-Sound UNDERWATER

And in tomorrow's news....

....darpa announce plan to control dolphins via underwater internet. Dolphins will act as highly mobile Mini cruise missile launches and brain implants will allow the navy to send them to locations for launching.

Darpa says weight of missiles irrelevant as the dolphins are in water.

Well whatever tomorrow's news is I hope they test the effect of this on marine life... we all know what sonar does to the whales

Boffins spot LONE PLANET roaming interstellar void

The artist conception...

...looks a lot like he just made a screenshot of elite.

Plus all these artist conceptions of planets are all the same, why don't they all just use the same one since know one will ever know if it is wrong.

UK plant bakes its millionth Raspberry Pi

Great idea....

...all i learnt in secondary school in computers was that "station 6123 isn't listening", and when it was, just playing battle of the bulge. Then in the real world I discovered that no one ever used BBC computers or arcs.

Like I said, great idea, but I think the vast majority of PIs have been bought up by nerds, the kind who run linux... I can't see this doing much for children's education.

Wikipedia Foundation exec: Yes, we've been wasting your money

Yeah, wasting money paying you too...

...the real reson people can't be arsed anymore to add content is because the anal retards who spend their entire time reverting edits that anyone except them add...

... obviously none of these 'tards are interested in skeleton keys (read the first line)

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

Sysadmins fail to fix NHS IT snafu, HUNDREDS of appointments cancelled

"they had come up with a way to let chemotherapy patients be seen"

"they had come up with a way to let chemotherapy patients be seen",

like before there was something called IT?

What exactly did the IT team do, pick up the patients in their own car and drive them to see the doctor?

This is what happens...

...if your sister brother's one man IT company is given the contract so that you can bank some of the costs by him giving you backhanders

NASA's search for habitable planets maps ALIEN CLOUD-WORLD

Re: Hugely impressive.

A lot according to wikipedia is bollocks.

Just sayin'

http://www.pcworld.com/article/170874/The_15_Biggest_Wikipedia_Blunders.html

Who would have thought that skeleton keys are called pikeys in ireland?

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

Impressive

EU move to standardise phone chargers is bad news for Apple

Eu take more time to agree upon a standard than the w3c

By the time they do draw up standards everyhing will be done without wires and this will all be pointless.

Anyway the standard will probabley whatever company that make adapters that the Euro MPs have shares in or their families have shares in,

City of Munich throws Ubuntu lifeline to Windows XP holdouts

As a german..

...I don't know anyone who would switch just because the town council has, the only ones who would are the sort of people who already use linux.

Canadian comet impact fingered for triggering prehistoric climate shift

There are no ancent astronauts

Forget Mars: Let's get someone on the Moon – NASA veteran

Good idea...

... once the power lants are up and running we just need to run a cable from here to the moon so that half the world could actually use it - assuming that is the US makes the power cheap enough that the half the world wants to actually pay the price for it