Posts by Naughtyhorse

The universe speaks: 'It's time to get off your rock!'

Re: Considering the mess we've made of this planet...

maybe getting splatted by a fuck off space rock is our best chance for us not to fuck this one up

Re: London Capital of the World?

same thing

Re: To sum up...

"It seems completely obvious that the world will be unable to get it's shit together until a threat is imminent - and if the threat is too large, game over for life on earth - at least for a very long time."

are you talking about space rocks, or CC

<Grins, Ducks and Runs away>

Re: "The twin visitations from our solar system"

i am reliably informed that due to signalling work at mars junction, the third rock has been replaced by a bus service

Re: Whatever. Random acts of the cosmos are just that ...

I can go about three months...

in this context, why would you want to?

i cant really see the great benefit in slowly dying of thirst/starvation 3 months after everyone else.

Re: As opposed to ... wars

the clouds part, a mahoosive finger descends, and a deep booming voice instructs;

DO IT NOW!

fixed :-)

Re: Space Monkeys

I'd rather have the monkeys in space.

so would the rest of us!

Satanic Renault takes hapless French bloke on 200km/h joyride

Re: Assume it was an auto box.

If it's servo assisted and the servo goes away it is MUCH harder to steer dumkopf! (thats kinda what the servo is there for!) - this apples to servo assisted breaks and steering

had you ever had a servo fail while driving then you would understand, clearly it hasn't happened, and you don't.

my car is fitted with a steering lock, and the lock is engaged when the ignition is turned off, and the steering wheel is turned more than a few degrees.

Re: "he drove the car off the road when it ran out of petrol."

you are forgetting the computer that sits between all these things and the driver

computers going wrong...........

could happen i suppose :-D

Re: Assume it was an auto box.

Disabled guy suddenly expected to put in 10x the control input to either break or stop at 200km/h???

what could possibly go wrong.

re: electronic keys: my mondy has keyless ignition (the fob needs to be more or less in the car, for the start button to work) and i recently tested it, leaving the engine running and strolled off with the fob in my pocket - no effect (sensibly - imagine it got carelessly chucked out of the window on a motorway)

havent tried pressing the start button while moving, but i would not be at all surprised if that had no effect either.

(note to self: try giving the start button a prod the next time you are on an otherwise deserted road)

Tesla's Elon Musk v The New York Times, Round 2

Re: Foolish response.

and don't pick arguments with people who buy ink by the barrel

Re: The Balance Of Evidence

and on the other hand the data presented by tesla is all bollocks - all bets are off

Re: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk arguments are pathetic

"Useless on highways, useless in cities, useless in winter, unable to pass a re-charging station without stopping -- Elon Musk, you're in a hole and the more you dig the deeper it is getting."

dig upwards duuuuude

Re: From the article ....

i assume the requisite readies includes the cost of getting a tow home a couple of times a week?

Re: They're both full of $#!T

except the journo wasn't writing a review of the car, it was a review of the charging infrastructure. which is inadequate

Journo says Elon Musk apologized for Tesla battery fiasco

Re: 6 of 1, 1/2 dozen of the other?

RTFA

the test was for the charging stations _not_ the car.

Re: An idea springs to mind

charging via a wire takes forever, via wireless, that will be forever^2

add 20% to the ammount of juice requred for a charge (that goes out as heat)stick a bit more weight and complexity into the car, to make it even crapper.

both test drives of muskmobiles that come to mind, hilight the fact that the claims made by the manufacturer are total and utter bollocks, it wont go that fast, for that long on that charge, or charge that quickly.

could be a coincidence, but it does strike me that the car is not fit for purpose, and the company is full of shit.

Still-living, unincarcerated Ted Nugent invited to Barack Obama gig

Re: @proto-robbie

hmmm, i saw some guy on tv last night talking abiut this.....

we have more guns, and we have way more killing in this country than anywhere elsin in the world that inst a warzone.

it's not hard to make the connection.

less guns would mean less killing.

now who was he?

chief of pittsburg police, so it's not like he would have the vaguest idea of what he was talking about. I mean it's not like he was some brain dead 'B' list guitar player from 30 years ago....

if you dont get it, then i cant be bothered to explain it to you, i'll just wait till you comer up against a McVeigh, then your lack of understanfing wont matter.

Re: "a patriot like Ted Nugent"

commie

Re: "a patriot like Ted Nugent"

we arent curious, we know exaclty what it means.

Why does jon stewart not run for president?

The one yank with 2 brain cells to rub together - and he contens himself with poking fun at the fuckwits.

real shame for us all.

Pope resigns months after launching social networking effort

Re: Retirement!

Ahhh now!

that money was just resting in his account

He's just keeping us off-ballance

after all...

<all together now> No one expects the spanish inquisition!

Re: Bookies favourite

not too sure the word 'groomed' is entirely appropriate when discussing the clergy.

strike that

it's all too appropriate.

Re: The Church is definitely not a business.

if he's not, then he's certainly saved enough to become a member

iOS 6.1 KNACKERED our mobile phone networks, claim Vodafone, Three

it won't even talk to the BBC on this issue.

well they would, but they cant get a signal on this damn jesus phone

:D

Superbowl blackout was a stuff-up, not Anonymous

Re: Variable Relays

protection relay settings will be matched to the CT being used to measure the line current, it's quite easy to misconfigure this (in the same way it's quite easy to login as root and walk away from the terminal! - easy, but very embarrasing)

If the relay was expecting 5A as a full scale current, but the CT provided 10A at full scale, then the relay would trip much earlier than expected.

BYOD is a PITA: Employee devices cost firms £61 a month

Re: Pay for my own device, and have them lock it down???

"Well, it is my device, right? So why then do I have my device eviscerated functionally, apps disabled, more security and tracking tools than I cam imagine "

so you dont have an apple phone then :-)

Google exec defends search snooping, location tracking

:D

especially if the plod have their arseprints on file

Wikipedia

the famously reliable font of all wisdom

NOT

Re: What a load of self serving tosh..

And what if people don't WANT Google to have that insight?

then dont use google - it's a bit glib, but it does answer all those concerns.

as for the date rape scenario... all that can happen without google (thinking of the creepy guy who was the landlord of a murder victim in the uk and ended up having to go into hiding - totally innocent, just looked like a serial killer) - and paranoid much btw?

your national security point, seems to have more of a beef with the NSA and the patriot act (quite rightly) than _any_ merkin company.

as for tracking - i'd concede the point that trying to dress google commerical advantage up as a public service is hightly disingenuous, but it does somewhat beg the question - if google arent using my location information to provide a better service, in order to keep my eyeballs on their ad platform, what are they doing with it? (paranoid much, and you dont have to use them!)

And as for trust, it seems to me that we know what googles ulterior motive is - money. but the (american) president has just spent 2 BEEEEEELION dollars to get a $500,000 a year job. what's that all about?

certainly not A+, but D- is a bit harsh

'Depression-era grandma' Apple responds to bolshy investor

Re: Too Many Fools Destroy Cash Values

now! you leave mitt romney alone! he's already lost.

Re: ""Apple haz the money and I wants it""

Can he really sell, with the shares down 37%from their peak value, and it's a bit hard to see that changing much in the future.

I daresay HE has shareholders to answer to in turn.

George Bush's family emails, pics ransacked - and spewed online

I cannot believe....

that dubyah wasn't the attack vector,

cos i'll bet you a pound to a pinch of shit his password is 'password'

and double or quits that it takes him at least 3 goes to get in.

Big Windows updates may ship this summer – and every summer

Re: Rumour has it...

hmm...

nissan micra, or frog eyed sprite? :-)

Re: Time to think beyond Desktop OS

but that's where the money is.

M$ are just jumping on the bandwagon that autodesk have been riding for years.

And it will work.

e.g.

when i produce a design drawing in acad2013 and send it to a contractor, who then has to ask for the drawing to be reissued in 2007 format (acad files are non backward compatible after 3 years) what does that say about the contractor?

I rest my case

Re: I can't wait for...

<Pedant>

Whoresmeat

</pedant>

Re: Look at our new v9...I mean v10 model!

Often they learn a computer task like driving instructions, step by step....

jeezuz, i hope you drive better than my lusers... luse???

11-YEAR-OLD code wizard hacks Greedy RuneScape geeks

Re: Hacker?

just shows how little you know then dont it

Re: A perfect example...

yeah,

cos with a few more right thinking people like you then woz and jobs would still be in the slammer (blue box anyone??) and the world would be a better place.

not a bad comment from a self confessed fandroid!

It's frankly astonishing to see so many narrow minded, closed in viewpoints being expressed here. probably envy, but an 11 year old kid saw a 'problem' and fixed it (from the 11 year old's perspective).

they showed some initiative, somewhat misguided i'll concede, but nonetheless initiative.

stick a white hat on them and they could turn out to be of some benefit to mankind.

Space station 'naut supplies Reg with overhead snap of Vulture Central

Which leads me to brelieve you have never been there!

it's a toilet.

the people who live there are insane.

The Register Android App

I hope it's better than the old reg droid app, whcih frankly was crap.

also what davtom just said!

Ten 3D printers for this year's modellers

Re: No RepRap?

agreed its not like the replicator from voyager, but ffs it's early days!

for £300 i would have thought just making cool crap to clutter up the house would be fine, if i want a new crankshaft for my 'rarri then of course i need a real engineering firm

Jammy b*stards: Admen flog chocolate bars with 'Wi-Fi-free' zones

hang on a moment....

isn't telling people to put down their apples and have some chocolate a bit of a dodgy health message?

Socket to 'em: It's the HomeGrid vs HomePlug powerline prizefight

Re: FprEN50561-1:2012 is not a standard!

By definition it will never meet EMC standards, but a suitably subsantial bung to offcom will deal with that.

I cant really decide if having 2 different standards of stupid is a step forward or back

First video inside thinking fish's brain captured by boffins

Shiny thing!

Re: new psychiatric medications - it's not all bad

agreed, to a certain extent, but ECT and most (particularly older) anti-psychotics are barbaric.

true less barbaric than the conditions they treat/mask, but barbaric nonetheless.

in the mean time anything that drags psychiatry kicking and screaming into the realm of proper science will be welcome.

Re: "...paramecium the size of a grain of rice"

so praps the fish was thinking

"fuck me! look at the size of that, i'd better get out of here"

i guess we'll never really know

Samsung mocks Apple lawsuit in SuperBowl teaser ad

yeah!

and Samsung can get a guy dressed as Lucy Koh in a bulldozer to knock the fucking thing over.

works for me

WORLD temporarily FREED from BURDEN of TWITTER!

Re: I like Twitter... i'll see your 99.99%

and raise you 0.01%

fixed