Posts by mamsey

Every dog has its day – and this one belongs to Boston Dynamic's four-legged good boy Spot

Re: Useful?

I doubt whether a teenager would work for 90 minutes on minimum wage!

Not so easy to make a quick getaway when it takes 3 hours to juice up your motor, eh Brits?

So many comfort breaks.

In 20 years time we'll have an even larger obese population caused by all these comfort breaks.

UK households hit by 1.8m computer misuse offences in a year

Is twatting a fly with your laptop...

... computer misuse?

How exactly do you rein in a wildly powerful AI before it enslaves us all?

I think that the people trying to set the rules should be very careful that they don't become 'Persons of Interest'

Newly minted DevOps consultancy roams world, looking for CIOs in pain

Aaaarghhh...

"recognised thought leaders"

Humongous headsets and virtual insanity

BTL

Life converges with art... Red Dwarf had BTL back in 1988 (TV Series not the book). The current range of VR headsets are so simialr to what the dwarfers were wearing at the time.

Cambridge boffins: STOP the rush to 5G. We just don't need it

Beware the zombie apocalypse...

Any fool know that 5G leads to the zombie apocalypse.

Conservative manifesto: 5G, 'near universal' broadband and free mobes for PC Dixon

Because 5G is the only one that promisies the zombie apocalypse without which the gvmnt will never be able to control the populace

C’mon Lenovo. Superfish hooked, but Pokki Start Menu still roaming free

Re: Why are you even diagnosing this lappy?

All the links here point to http://microsofthup.com which reckons that my OEM disks are pre-installed by a 3rd party.

Marvellous!

Hawking and friends: Artificial Intelligence 'must do what we want it to do'

Good old Morgan Freeman

(We note that Mr Freeman did not sign the letter. Whose side is he on? – Sub-Ed)

Probably to busy sending out spam....

Antarctic ice at all time high: We have more to learn, says boffin

Interwebs

I'm personally in favour of the statement 'It's the Interwebs that are causing global warming", as when I was a young lad, before the advent of the Interwebs, I seem to remeber that it was the coming of the next ice age that was all the rage...

London cops cuff 20-year-old man for unblocking blocked websites

Re: Jolly good work.

I do hope the private individual in question is not suffering with some form of cancer, as we all nknow what happens when cancer sufferers go for ride-alongs. BrBa.

Tiny transforming bots: Meet these self-assembling 'thoughtful' droids

Aaargh Replicators...

real life emulating fiction.

Brit kids match 45-year-old fogies' tech skill level by the age of 6

Tech?

The ability to use Facefarce/Twitbook and even the internet should not be classed as a 'tech' skill.

Facebook goes TITSUP across WORLD! Who will look at your cousin's baby NOW?

<fx: tumbleweed>

Damn missed it. I can't now say I had facebook withdrawal next time I visit my shrink.

Shazam! Record labels shovel $9m into name-that-song app

Re: not very useful...however...

Shazam use fingerprinting methods that can differentiate between multiple version of the same track by the same artist so recognizing your many 'riffs' is not going to work, unless you get them to 'pop by' and fingerprint your riffs as well.

NZ bloke's drunken poker bet ends in 99-letter name

Re: Of course

Spent a while traveling with a girl who hailed from Whykickamoocow, which was the source of much merriment when meeting with other folks.

Re: Fish & Chips (for twins)

This and That for pets, it's great for explaining their names to people, e.g this is this and that's that...

Hey, Apple. THIS is how you flog iPhones in new markets

Call me synical...

... but isn't this just a way for 1st world countries to wash their hands of the recycling issue? 3 years down the line and the responsibility for the recycling has been passed on to the 3rd world countries.

Ultimate electric driving machine? Yes, it’s the BMW i3 e-car

Re: Parking ticket is in the post

Parked? Looks as though it was left in the street and a taxi taken to the kerb.

Backup software for HDD and Cloud

Re: Karen's Replicator II

I'll second that, used it on multiple windoze OS, started with XP via Vista and now 7 and can't see any reason it shouldn't work under 8.

1953: How Quatermass switched Britons from TV royalty to TV sci-fi

Re: Brilliant!

"The Quatermass Experiment", "Quatermass II " and "Quatermass and the Pit " all good early sci-fi, but the one I'm still waiting to see is "Quatermass and the Goon Show", should be excellent.

Upturned boat sails to Shed of the Year title

If only I'd know of the competition

I might have entered one of mine.

3 and a half sheds, 1 summer house and 1 childrens shed.

Wireless goliath bankrolls wireless-free super-hackfest in Blighty

Alcohol ban?

Is there really an 'alcohol ban' or is it it because the 'bar is quite high' and folks can't reach?

Reg hack to starve on £1 a day for science

Road kill...

...plus a bit of foraging and you're into a profit deal.

The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME

Re: Wot no SGI?

'I especially liked the Indy, since the case split and opened along the main diagonal slice'

Did it? I never saw one that did...

Stephen Fry explains… Alan Turing's amazing computer

Re: I have an issue with Fry

Tesco, tesco, tesco, tesco

Tesco, tesco, tesco

Tesco, tesco, tesco,tesco

Tesco, tesco...

hmmm what to finsih on?

BRITAIN MUST DECLARE WAR on Cervinaean menace

Gas them...

Gas them in their burrows, the gov'ment seems to approve of that sort of thing...

Facebook continues to CONQUER THE WORLD

DRC for me then...

Or any other of the Central African countries... Western Sahara is nice this time of year.

‘Anonymous’ takes down Texan RFID-tracking school

Re: John Jay High

Whoa, looks like a prison, maybe there's a reason for the tags!

Google Adwords scammer charged premium to call NHS Direct

Anonymous...

This is where hacktavist groups could come into their own, step up and help protect vunerable people against this sort of exploitation.

Ex-Nokians fish MeeGo out of bin, launch Sailfish OS

Android?

So why the little android 50s into the video?

Apple cultists slaver as Mothership landing now foretold in 2016

Prior art?

I'm thinking that the BBC should maybe meet apple in court over the use of toroidal office space...

Social Bikes inks deal with AT&T to stalk pedal-pushers

Personally...

I wouldn't be seen dead on a bike like that, not that I'm a bike snob.

I suppose it'll bring Apple owners into the real world with the rest of us.

Whopping supersonic-car rocket rattles idyllic Cornwall

Who works on this project?

Are they the Bloodhound Gang?

New I-hate-my-neighbour stickers to protect Brits' packages

What's new?

Our post has been delivered to random houses down our street for ages now, maybe at last we'll know it's only our direct neighbours who we need to visit.

N.B. sarcastic thumb.

Stanford boffins create light-powered artificial retina

Oh come on...

Geordi La Forge has had these for years.

LOHAN starts to feel the barometric pressure

Very long blue touch paper?

Star Trek's Wesley Crusher blasts Google+ landgrab

The post is required, and must contain letters.

Apple slapped with second Siri senility lawsuit

Re: Beta! - How much does it cost now?

Actually, quite a lot... they've just changed their business model.

HMRC cuts IT spending in half in 2 years

Quality?

How can you loose something if you didn't have it in the first place?

The Register Comments Guidelines

You're not a shill...

...round here you're just an Anonymous Coward.

Spring launch for Apple OLED TV with Siri, says retail mole

Not me

Even if I was sat alone in my living room I would still not talk to the TV, now a mind/thought interface would be a much better bet.

Me vs. Apple TellyTalky

Me: Topgear

ATT: Songs of Praise

Me: TOPgear

ATT: Eastenders

Me: TOPGEAR

ATT: Coranation Street

Me: Were's the fuc**ng remote.

E. coli turns seaweed into ethanol

MILFOIL

now that just got me thinking...

Doctor Who girl Amy Pond axed in 'heartbreaking' exit

Who?

Waawy the Woman?

Tax dept staff are HM's biggest e-learners

Well attended courses?

"The average number of staff on each course was 851 for e-learning, against 81 for manual based and 104 for face-to-face."

104 people on a face-to-face course? Not really a course, more a lecture, I can't see anyone learning a lot in a class of 104 people...

Swiss insist file-sharers don't hurt copyright holders

Go Switzerland...

Might be a strange and quirky country, I know I lived there, but they do have some common sense and nice cheese.

US student to fill heavens with Sprites

Feel the burn...

... I spent a £100 on fireworks last week so this would appear to be the next step in burning up my hard earned cash.

Belgians aim to be third neutral-net nation

Why?

'Three political parties have joined forces to launch a proposed law (in Dutch)'

Why would the Belgians propose a law in Dutch?

Nokia pitches cheapest voicephones yet

rUBBISH FoR TExTiNg...

which is a shame...