Posts by Ripperroo

Elite:Dangerous goes TITSUP

Re: I've been thinking about playing....

docking computers cost 4,500 credits

UK cops: Keep yer golden doubloons, ad folk. Yon websites belong to pirates

you can't block what you don't host.

it would be like trying to stop the sun from shining, it can't be done effectively - all you have to do to circumvent the block is to find a proxy in a country that DOESN'T block the site in question and you are past the block put on in your own country.

also pirate bay have released 'the pirate browser' that can access all these blocked sites via the TOR network making it impossible to block the sites as you completely bypass the blocks put in place by your ISP.

Virgin Media to hike broadband prices by nearly 7 per cent

one thing they don't tell you is they are also ending the provision of free anti virus software to their customers, so as well as a 6.7% price rise customers will have to pay an additional £2.50 a month for it's replacement.

look forward to using a network that is even slower despite the increase in speed as it gradually becomes choked with traffic from infected computers.

Have you reinstalled Windows yet? No, I just want to PRINT THIS DAMN PAGE

cartridges? we don't need no stinking cartridges!

cartridges? man that is so nineties, get yourself a continuous ink system instead, no cartridges to change and with the separate ink tanks you can see when they need refilling - cheaper too as 100ml refill costs less than a 7ml cartridge

Don't crack that Mac: Almost NOTHING in new Retina MacBook Pros can be replaced

now Mac's use the same architecture as winblows machines what's to stop someone buying a windows lappy and installing Maverick on it? why lock yourself into irreplaceable hardware when there are options available?

Valve shows Linux love with SteamOS for gamers

"allows users to stream games running on Windows and Mac machines onto a TV-connected box running SteamOS" or, you could just connect the PC to the TV and not spend the money on a console you dont need...

BBC dishes out fanboi-only telly downloads ahead of ITV plans

we dont care that apple has this feature, android has bittorrent

so the bbc has finally woken up to the limitations of mobile services, shame they are only doing it for apple devices but I suppose as bittorrent is probably not available on that platform it's good that they have another option.

Zuckerberg: Now share your organs with Facebook friends

Sharing your organ

I often offer my organ to women i meet on facebook, nothing new here....

Apple demands US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

Wrong target?

as far as I can see they have the wrong target as the patients listed are software features not hardware, when the features they are suing for spring from the OS why are they not trying to get the courts to prevent its release instead of the phones ?

if Apple wants to really screw Google they should port the iPhone/iPad OS to run in place of Android and sell it to smartphone users as Microsoft has been selling Windows to people for years. just think of all those extra customers for their app store!

Ofcom: T-Mobile probe? Er, not really

about to ramp up my internet usage - T-mobiles answer

this was my argument when i phoned them yesterday evening, summers near and I spend most of it away from home at festivals sometimes not coming home for a month at a time, I explained this to them and they offered me £5 a month off my £25 contract for the remainder of my tie in period (about 18 months).