Posts by Any mouse Cow turd

Facebook worth more than Portugal? Hell, it's worth a LOT more than THAT

Re: Wasting twice the time

I agree that the likelihood is that much of time spent on facebook has been appropriated from other leisure or low productivity time but there is also an argument that it has impacted on other areas of the economy by allowing free broadcast and communication technologies to the masses, thus eliminating the need for those service sectors.

One example is all those birthday wishes which many moons ago would have come in the form of a card, made by a stationary company, sold in a shop and delivered via a postal service now comes in the form of a wall post.

'F*** you', exclaims Google Translate app, politely

costly

All very well but I fear that usage by the masses will be limited due to fear of huge data bills.

I guess it'll come in handy in McDonalds once you log into the free wifi but "Big Mac" is the same in all languages isn't it?!

TERROR in SPACE: ISS 'NAUTS FLEE 'gas leak' to Russian module

failsafe

I thought the whole space industry matra was multiple redundancy. How come they they only seem to have a single sensor which may or may not be giving a dodgy reading?

Tor de farce: NSA fails to decrypt anonymised network

Re: ffs

Very naughty people developed TOR in the first place.

Healthcare: Look anywhere you like for answers, just not the US

Re: So remind me again

While we're at it, why don't we also tax those who exercise to cover physio and sports injuries too.

IsoHunt releases roll-your-own Pirate Bay

torrent

First off let me say I know nothing about what I'm about to suggest (so there is probably a good reason it hadn't been done).

Would it be possible to have the database or list of torrents as a torrent itself. Not sure how it would get updated or you would add a new item to it though. Some simple block chain maybe?

BT Infinity ‘working to fix problem’ after three days of outages

Change DNS

"Others claimed that BT customer services had told them it was a DNS issue, although switching DNS didn’t seem to help other users"

How do you switch DNS on a BT router? - they've locked it out!

The future looks bright: Prepare to be dazzled by HDR telly tech

Tactless and tacky

Come on author, not proof reading your articles is tactless and getting your interviewee's name wrong is just tacky.

Maybe you should have stuck to calling him Danny. ;)

Randall Munroe: The root nerd talks to The Register

Re: "period table"

Maybe that's how they say it the states, after all they miss letters off the end when saying maths.

High Court: You've made our SH*T list – corked pirate torrent sites double in a day

alternatives

As many surveys have shown, if legal, easy and cheap alternatives are available then most people will use them.

The issue at the moment is that the content is relatively limited and mixed between providers and to get the best mix you'd end up spending a fortune on Netflix, NowTV/Sky, BlinkBox, Amazon Prime etc etc to get all the content you might want with lots of cross over between providers.

As for TV programmes, a 7 day catchup service is a bit crappy if you go on holiday for 2 weeks or don't realise that a new series has started and miss the first few.

All we ask is that we can watch what we want, when we want at a sensible price. Surely it can't be too hard to have a legit torrent service that can automatically add advertisement chunks based on some Google AdSense type process.

Festive streamers caught in Vulture's claws: Gadget-ogle for audiophiles, video geeks

Re: Roku3

or you could save yourself £1.49 and sideload a build of the plex app onto the Roku (in dev mode).

That's what I've done with my NowTV box (basically a crippled Roku box) so at least I'm able to stream a bit more content other than Sky branded stuff.

As a first intro to streaming it's a great little box (picked up a 2nd one yesterday for £15 inc. 3 month sky entertainment pack) but when they die I will likely splash out and get a Roku or something that can get netflix etc.

Mystery Russian satellite: orbital weapon? Sat gobbler? What?

take a look

If the yanks really want to know what these 2 objects are why don't they just send X-37b back up to take a look? We might not know the real purpose of the US secret spaceplane but I'm sure it's got a camera on board.

#VultureTRENDING: It's Pimpr, the latest sharing economy super app

more likely to work

and draw less attention from the police/HMRC would be #swingr or #doggr

THE DEATH OF ECONOMICS: Aircraft design vs flat-lining financial models

Re: Where's Worstall?

Ash, but ifa company borrows heavily to buy the steel to build the car then should the total value add be included in the GDP or just the delta between the debt owed and the value added?

JINGS! Microsoft Bing called Scots indyref RIGHT!

roaming in the gloaming

I bet the cellular networks are hoping for a yes vote. They can then charge nice high roaming fees to English user's in Scotland and Scottish visitors to England.

Also, since Scotland won't initially be part of the EU then they can charge what they like without any silly EU regulations getting in the way.

The Apple Watch and CROTCH RUBBING. How are they related?

I didn't think iTunes did albums..

I've yet to manage to iTunes to behave in a manner which matches my physical music collection. You know, sorted by artist, then album, then track sequence as decided by the artist/producer. And don't get me started on the shitty compilation smashing algorithm that distributes tracks across my hard drive in random locations only understandable by drugged up hipsters high on overpriced espresso.

I don't think I've claimed my "free" U2 album yet but there collection of tracks scattered in series of folders organised by 3rd backing vocalist and studio tea boy....

Hawking: Higgs boson in a BIG particle punisher could DESTROY UNIVERSE

I'm sure we have noticed - how do you think our universe popped into existence....

Sir, sir, my cloud ate my homework: Google touts grading tool to teachers

think about the children...

... who come from families that can't afford computers and internet, should they be excluded?

It wouldn't surprise me if Google's next step is to give away chromebooks to schools and maybe some 3/4G dongles, thus gaining a few more people that it can promote as having "signed up for Google+".

CIA super-spy so sorry spies spied on Senate's torture scrutiny PCs

why are they bothered?

If the senators haven't done anything wrong then they should have nothing to sorry about. This surveillance is for their own protection, don't they understand that?

'Disruptive innovation' is nonsense? Not ALWAYS, actually

You've already covered some of this...

Tim, you've already described how the disruptive innovation can only really get a foothold if the existing regulation (or lack of) allows. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/15/worstall_wednesday/

So for the likes of Google to change the market with driverless cars the uphill struggle against current regulations will be immense and the incumbents will battle all the way. Your analogy to the automobiles vs trains of the late 1800's is a good one in that there wasn't much/any regulation and probably only applied to horse and carriage.

Hey, Marissa Mayer: Flexi working time is now LAW in UK. Yahoo!

Re: I actually prefer to work at the office...

Not just compressed hours but also flexible hours. I have arranged to start work stupidly early so that I can finish early and collect the kids from school. My wife has done the opposite so she can start a bit later and take the kids to school. Minimises the need for expensive childcare.

Facebook 'manipulated' 700k users' feelings in secret experiment

I have seen the future....

...and it is channel 3