Posts by Matt 4

yeah, that's it. Fuck the register.

Sums it all up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs

"What next, middle-aged men rocking to the Naruto theme tune?"

Never been to an anime con - but anyway I hate Naruto but the theme tune is pretty good in that Sum-41 90s buffy watching kind of way.

Never actually seen the PV for it, am amused.

I can't find the words to properly express myself. But

Fuck america

Fuck America

Fuck America

Right in its stupid face.

"However, DECC insisted changes in cost were solely driven by the change in accounting methodology, not by underlying cost changes, said the report."

Would this new accounting methodology be accounting for all the actual costs as opposed to throwing a dart at a board 3 times and multiplying the result by the page number the minister happens to be on in playboy then multiplied again by the number of folders on his desk?

5555 upvote party

Gotta celebrate such a good get. well that image upload didn't work hrrmmm This ones more like it - http://imgur.com/p9qf6pn

Pie and Punch for all!

Youtube Content Matching & Copyright infringement system

I'm vaguely surprised there hasn't been an article about this (well there may have been, I did a search and it doesn't seem that there has been) given El Reg's interest in the area of Copyright, Google and, abuse of position.

Recently Youtube changed their system so that far more large popular channels (in this case gaming channels) are being flagged for copyright infringement and the supposed copyright holders taking the ad money for those videos (and dragging their feet in responding to objections, and then down right claiming material that isn't theirs.) The youtube reviewers are then hamstrung not only by the automatic matching system that auto flags materials and redirects the revenue to the "copyright holder" but they are also limited to a maximum of 3 disputes at a time, though this is really 2 as if you receive 3 dmca strikes your channel is closed down (even though the DMCA notice is simply part of a legal process and not a confirmation of guilt)

All the while Youtube/Google is still making money from Ads and often companies are illegally gaining revenue off of other peoples copy righted material.

A good set of videos on this come from Angry Joe (one of the people affected by this - also NSFW) but a number of big youtube reviewers have been attacked using the Youtube copyright system.

Angry Joe's videos on his experience

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAi81_uvztM

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

And the example of abuse committed by companies using the flagging mechanism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0

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

seventeen thousand out of how many hundreds of millions of users?

Oh goody this sounds wonderful

"NCA '[will] not comply with freedom of information requests.' According to a government fact sheet on the NCA (PDF, 5 pages, easy read) the agency's employees will be authorised to use covert surveillance powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000"

the skype app on my nexus 7 is crap, with its permanently landscape view o.O unless it's been fixed since last time. So I don't use it... OH WELL! I stopped talkling to most people anyway.

Skype and MSN both have similar problems anyway (the mad "I can talk to that person just fine, but all my messages bounce back from that person..." *restart* "Now they get to that person but not the other one" *restart* "Now I can't talk to anyone." etc

well

being able to swap between various keyboard layouts visually would be nice.

Also being able to swap it between keyboard mode and program interface mode would be rather swish.

Not one for the printing pool though.

heh

If it's on contract and like the iphone you can get it unlocked by orange after 3 months or so for £20

Remember if it's on contract you don't own it until you've finished the contract.

O2 unlock for free as long as you keep paying the contract.

Don't know about 3

thing is

Touch screen for PCs would fly for me in one of two ways, first is as a driver for a proper screen (a bit like a wacom tablet) second is as a control system for a game (think selecting points for your artillery to land whilst dodging bullets from those cyborg monsters coming at you.) A lot of us don't have super long arms and sit a reasonable distance from our screens so an actual multi touch monitor is a bit useless in the real world. They're far more interesting as a multitouch interface of some sort (map tables, damage repair, commanding squad mates, etc whilst still having to play.)

I've played a few games in Japanese arcades that have touch monitors as the main screen but the whole machine was designed that way so you're sitting in a position where touching the monitor isn't a pain in the arse.

@There's rubbish

It's important becouse it's digusting - he needs sacking and he needs sacking now.

@Pad

"every single member of your family will be stripped of their assets, their citizenship (don’t matter if they were born here or not) and then dumped back in the county of their ancestors penniless."

Guilt by relation - nice - works so well too. Really proves you're a progessive, just, civil society.