* Posts by Haku

1902 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2007

David Hockney creates new Sun masthead. Now for The Reg...

Haku

Re: El Reg and Sun, hmm...

@IsJustabloke

Something a bit more British you say?

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/RforRegister.jpg

Haku

El Reg and Sun, hmm...

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/ElRegMasthead.jpg

Don't ask me why, I've been up for 15 hours!

Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals to be made from old electronics

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Re: "40kg of gold, 4,920kg of silver and 2,944kg of bronze"

Gold plated silver? That's almost like reading "chocolate flavour covering" printed on a pack of chocolate biscuits.

UK.gov hiring folk to watch smutty vids? All hail our blind censors...

Haku

Re: Not a toy

This one might have been fun to play with for a short while until the novelty wore off:

https://www.amazon.com/Resident-Evil-Chainsaw-Controller-playstation-2/dp/B000FVC6H4

Father of Pac-Man dies at 91

Haku

“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

Haku
Coat

I think we should all be worried for our lives now.

After all, he was patient zero of 'Pac-Man Fever'.

Kylie withdraws from Kylie trademark fight, leaving Kylie to profit from… existing?

Haku

Re: Em, How can I get off this f'in planet?

Throw lots of money at Elon Musk to hitch a ride on his next launch?

Bribe someone in Russia's space program?

Failing those, eliminate & take over the identity of one of the finalists in that 'get your ass to Mars' expedition?

2017 is already fail: Let’s try a Chinese reboot

Haku

Re: YOU WILL OWN A BRAND NEW SPORTS CAR SOON

That's what she said!

I mean, that is what she said.

Haku

YOU WILL OWN A BRAND NEW SPORTS CAR SOON

So that's a journey to Toys'R'Us then?

The fortune never specified the size of the sports car...

President Donald Trump taken on by unlikely foe: Badass park rangers

Haku

Re: About time

"I'm sorry, but we conservatives aren't able to contort our minds around the kind of comic book causes the left thinks are so incredibly urgent, like a belief in warming that just isn't happening."

I see your global warming card and raise you:

Forty foot high two thousand mile long wall.

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Re: So want to see this at some point

So Trump is in fact Colonel Decker?

That explains a lot...

Trump lieutenants 'use private email' for govt work... but who'd make a big deal out of that?

Haku

Re: he's not very good at letting anything lie

To quote a better man than I:

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

Shocked, I tell you. BT to write off £530m over 'improper' Italian accounts practices

Haku

Is this why BT infinity bills are going up by £2.50/month?

/cynic

We've found a ‘vaccine’ for fake news. Wait! No, we really are Cambridge researchers

Haku

Re: Does this technique extend...

I don't think it'll work because some people actually like fake tits & photoshopped glamour shots..

Annoyingly precocious teen who ruined Trek is now an asteroid

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Re: I like Will wheaton but wesley...

"This is a common complaint for me about television in general, there's always a kid that comes across as being so much more worldly wise. so much more together than all the highly qualified/ experienced adults around them."

You must've hated Seaquest DSV then.

Chevy Bolt electric car came alive, reversed into my workbench, says stunned bloke

Haku

Re: Odd belief

I once drove to a nearby city and when I got to the car park and pulled on the handbrake I heard this unnerving twang sound and felt the handle go completely loose... I was very careful on the 15 mile journey back after shopping, and thankfully I could park it on flat ground at home. Got it fixed the next day.

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Trollface

Those pesky Russian hackers just can't leave America alone...

'Exploding e-cig cost me 7 teeth, burned my face – and broke my sink!'

Haku

ecig explosion in mans face caught on cctv (different person than this story)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKm0Hz70OdU

Apparently he got 12 stiches in his face.

Haku

Re: So...

A world without batteries? It would look something like this:

Gas powered daily life (YouTube)

We'd all die of carbon monoxide poisoning!

Apple sings another iTune following Brexit as prices rise by up to a third

Haku

Re: "United Kingdon"?

"Say, that's a nice little currency you have there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it..."

Flight 666 lands safely in HEL on Friday the 13th

Haku

Promising compsci student sold key-logger, infects 16,000 machines, pleads guilty, faces jail

Haku

The headline seems to imply that he personally infected 16,000 machines.

Almost like saying car manufacturers are the cause of countless accidents and deaths on the roads.

Customer: BT admitted it had 'mis-sold' me fibre broadband

Haku

It's probably fair to say BT as a company is Autistic.

Because of their idea of communication and interaction at a human level, both internally and externally.

Train your self-driving car AI in Grand Theft Auto V – what could possibly go wrong?

Haku

I for one do not want to be driven by a GTA programmed car in real life after having observed the competance of NPC drivers in GTA from taking taxi rides and standing on top of ambulances (one of the few vehicles you don't fall off of) whilst a swearing NPC takes you on an impromptu tour of Los Santos.

Haku

Re: Are they kidding?

The best place to shoot randomly at the NPC drivers for their panic reactions is when they're all queued up at a level crossing just as a train is going by...

Man jailed for 3 days after Texas cops confuse cat litter for meth

Haku

Re: Time for a war on Stupidity?

Stupid people should be made to wear a sign stating such.

Bill Engvall - Stupid People (Here's Your Sign) (YouTube)

Top cop: Strap Wi-Fi jammers to teen web crims as punishment

Haku

I don't know wether to laugh or cry.

The only thing I know at this point is the need for a triple facepalm.

Forget aircraft – now cretins are laser-blinding ferry boat crewmen

Haku

Incedents like this is precicely why I've never bought green laser pointers for friends or friends of friends who have on more than one occasion now seen my one and asked me to get me them one the next time I'm shopping online for stuff.

If they're too stupid to use the internet to buy a simple laser pointer they're too stupid to be in posession of one - I won't be party to that level of idiocy.

Dodgy dealer on Amazon lures marks towards phishing site

Haku

I used to use Play.com a lot until their service became 'watered down' by allowing 3rd party sellers to operate on their site, it got to the point where I once tried to find a USB microSD card reader and discovered finding a non-generic one was futile - one seller had put over 8000 duplicate listings for the same card reader, totally ruining the site's search capability.

I completely gave up using that site after then - if they can't maintain their own site properly then I don't want to have to deal with them if say I had to return something.

Hapless scouser scours streets for lost Crimble drone

Haku

I lost a boomerang once.

Well, I think it was a boomerang, it might just have been a stick...

Haku

That happened to me today :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0-8mzlGNcA

Caused by a faulty PosHold mode which after a while it would stop responding to the throttle and just go down.

I'd forgotten PosHold did this on this craft so it landed heavily on the side of a hill. Thankfully the only damage was a broken leg and I didn't have the spare ones with me so had to trundle back home with a bunch of batteries to discharge.

Ho hum, next time I'll remember to bring the spare landing legs :)

Haku

My GPS capable multirotors have a function called RTL (Return To Launch), triggered by loss of signal from the controller, or by manually selecting it on the controller.

If I don't sit and wait for the craft to lock on to enough satellites to properly triangulate its position before taking off then that RTL function is useless because it doesn't know where it launched from.

Triggering RTL without a good enough satellite lock can cause it to 'go back to China', which is only funny when it happens to someone else.

Drones will be able to carry 120GB footage of you in the shower if Seagate has its way

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Thumb Down

"Drones" ... "footage of you in the shower"

Tabloid scaremongering headlines much, El Reg?

Shame on you.

You're better than that.

Programmer finds way to liberate ransomware'd Google Smart TVs

Haku

Re: I'll stick to...

My 40" Blaupunkt I got in the black friday sales is dumb, and the piece of junk can't even display a 24hz hdmi signal properly, it's like looking at 24fps shown on a 60hz refresh. And that's not the worst of it, when it does go into 24hz the resolution is buggered too - the horizontal pixels get merged together so you're looking at a 960x1080 image...

Haku

Re: can't wait for the follow up IoT story...

This is over 20 years old so you'll have to substitute "usenet" for "facebook"/"bittorrent" and "VCR" for "DVR", but other than that the joke premise still holds water:

The (Future) Diary of a Mad Digital Homeowner

El Reg just saved your Wikipedia Xmas

Haku

Re: The hard-working volunteers do it because they want to be right.

Right on! :)

I was thinking of that exact xkcd cartoon when I typed.

Cheers to the new year! I'd join you in a pint but my saviour elixir is currently lemsip.

Haku
Coat

The hard-working volunteers do it because they want to be right.

And if someone comes along trying to prove me wrong then they'll only prove I'm right.

Right?

Right.

Amazon files patent for 'Death Star' flying warehouse

Haku

I bet the patent will run out before such a product delivery system is viable or wanted.

Twas the week before Xmas ... not a creature was stirring – except Microsoft admitting its Windows 10 upgrade pop-up went 'too far'

Haku

Horses and water.

So M$ admitted they not only dragged the horse to the water but when they got to the water they forced its head under until it coughed and spluttered, and now they're apologising for 'cruelty to animals'?

No thanks, not interested in any hollow apologies.

Support chap's Sonic Screwdriver fixes PC as user fumes in disbelief

Haku
Angel

My reputation precedes me.

All too often friends/family have been having trouble with an electrical device (usually computer related) so when I visit they're really glad I'm there because I can fix the device, only for both of us to discover the device is now working perfectly fine without me doing anything other than switching it on.

So it appears merely the threat of me turning up and delving into its innards (software configuration or physically with a screwdriver) scares these technological devices into working properly again.

I must be a divine being or something, so icon :)

Haku

Re: Overheard conversation about a new server

"star trek sleeping"

Rather neat, I hadn't thought of searching for a loop of the ships background noise, though just listening to a couple of minutes of it made me realise it would probably drive me nuts trying to sleep to it due to its unnatural monotony.

For many many years I used to listen to Tangerine Dream to help me get to sleep, auto-reverse walkmans were a godsend, but now we're in the age of video playlists on pcs so it's familiar films or tv shows I usually crash out to.

Ham-fisted: Chap's radio app killed remotely after posting bad review

Haku

Ratner effect.

HRD Software should read up about that.

It's now illegal in the US to punish customers for posting bad web reviews

Haku

"the words weren't cooked properly."

I didn't know they still made Alphabetti Spaghetti.

Haku

Trump might want to repeal that, especially because he said this about journalists:

“One of the things I’m gonna do, and this is only gonna make it tougher for me, and I’ve never said this before, but one of the things I’m gonna do if I win… is I’m gonna open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re gonna open up those libel laws.”

Move over HoloLens, $30 homebrew cardboard AR is here

Haku

Oooh! Let me get my 90's mixtape, it's time to hack the Gibson!

Er, does anyone have a walkman I can borrow? I left the batteries in mine and they leaked, corroding the contacts.

'Emoji translator' sought by translations firm

Haku

Re: Competitive Salary

They probably expect to get paid in their favourite currencies, "Likes" and "Subscribes".

Haku

They all mean the same thing:

Goddamn millennials!

Trump's 140 characters on F-35 wipes $2bn off Lockheed Martin

Haku

It's a shame the tweeting thing doesn't work the other way round.

I'd actually join twitter if my tweets could wipe billions off Trump's worth.

Samsung, the Angel of Death: Exploding Note 7 phones will be bricked

Haku

I don't doubt we'll see a similar situation with cars in the future.

Police already want to be able to remotely stop cars at will http://www.businessinsider.com.au/metropolitan-police-boss-hogan-howe-kill-switch-remotely-disable-stop-criminals-cars-2016-9

This future world we're living is awesome and I can't possibly see a remote engine stop function ever being abused...

HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'

Haku

Re: I'll just leave this here and sit back.

Hahahahaha! Brilliant.

Here's a clickable link of it so people don't have to copy/paste:

https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/jon-snow.jpg