* Posts by Howard Hanek

757 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Apr 2009

PS4 Pro woes: Random display blackouts caught on camera

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

An Alternative Explanation

It could be the steam coming out of your ears or is that smoke? It could also be your negative aura and if so also explain many of your other difficulties........Tibetan chants works for some.

US Congress asks FCC to snuff out Google's TV landgrab

Howard Hanek
Holmes

Right

It's a vicious lie that cable companies 'enslave' their subscribers and force them into perpetual 'rental' fees. There is no mention of servitude in the user agreement whatsoever. Subscribers are free to discontinue the service subject to the termination 'fees' of the agreement and those (usually with an IQ above 80) users are increasingly doing just that. The cable monopolies granted them have increased the numbers of terminations because of their practices rather than assured them steady growth. Perhaps they should rethink their strategy. It's NOT working.

What's the biggest danger to the power grid? Hackers? Terrorists? Er, squirrels

Howard Hanek
Linux

How Disconcerting

Rocket J. Squirrel cast as a 'domestic terrorist'? Will liberals stoop THAT low? Our beloved cheerful hero conspiring with his antlered sidekick to reduce us all to the living conditions in Frostbite Falls?

Embrace the world of pr0nified IT with wide open, er, arms

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

An Old Game

My preferred gaming exercise is using teddy bears for archery practice starting with large ones working down to the very small. It's quite a workout.....

Amazon files patent for 'Death Star' flying warehouse

Howard Hanek
Happy

Accoutrements

Black helmet and Darth Vader theme music.

How Rogue One's Imperial stormtroopers SAVED Star Wars and restored order

Howard Hanek
Facepalm

Whack a Mole

.......coming to a big screen near you. Hint: The bad guys are in white and the good guys wear dark robes.

Perhaps we should NOT clone soldiers after all. There appears to be serious deficiencies in their hand/eye coordination resulting in combat resembling ........whack a mole. This makes me wonder about the F-35 program costing out at $300 million per.

Stupid law of the week: South Carolina wants anti-porno chips in PCs that cost $20 to disable

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Unintended Consequences

Have they thought what effect this will have on government operations? Think of the morale problems government employees will suffer from prohibiting their favorite activity and the sexual frustration that could lead to roving bands of government employees going on rape sprees?

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

Howard Hanek
Linux

How?

Does the government attach a letter of reprimand to the income tax form?

Rogue One: This is the Star Wars back story you've been looking for

Howard Hanek
Linux

The sequel

...will be the Empire's destruction of a giant hijab factory undermining the rebel's diversity.

Germany warns Moscow will splash cash on pre-election propaganda and misinformation spree

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Warning: Objects May Appear Closer Than They Are

Ah, the Nanny state warning everyone about things that THEY fear. I've been experiencing difficulty in interpreting what 'disinformation' and 'fake news' really means, there's been so much of it from everybody.

Sundials don't lie and the weather forecast often differs from reality. That's about as far as I've gotten.

AI brains take a step closer to understanding speech just like humans

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

My Fair Lady

Let's exhume Prof. Henry Higgins and find out once and for all why can't Englishman learn to speak. Apologies to George Bernard Shaw.

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Opens Up New Opportunities

I can now be addressed as the Speaker of the House I suppose and add that accomplishment to my resume.

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube team to ID terror content

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

You Don't Have To Sign Your Confession Anymore

Isn't it so much simpler to bypass the entire interrogation process to get them to sign a confession when you can dispense with the whole thing and just proceed right into the punishment phase?

Team Trump snubs Big Internet oligarchs

Howard Hanek
Linux

The Go Between

Zucker and Bezos probably demanded that Trump use Hillary or Obama as the go-between........

Violin Memory axes staff just before Christmas, gives CFO $150k bonus

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

I See That Mankind's Idols Still Require Human Sacrifice

At least being cast into a fiery furnace was quick. Today, it's a slow, painful death the Idol's priesthood now requires, especially around the time of Christian Holy days. It must add a particular savor that's pleasing to their god.

Why your gigabit broadband lags like hell – blame Intel's chipset

Howard Hanek
Happy

Network Attention Deficit Syndrome

The boxes probably caught this from users........

Microsoft refuses to join the Zero Outage brigade, Google and AWS keep mum

Howard Hanek
Linux

Without Drugs?

.......the drug dependent staff believes that to be an impossibility.

Comcast is the honey badger of ISPs – injects pop-ups into browsers, doesn't give a fsck

Howard Hanek
Happy

Block Comcast Content

Very simple if your adblocker permits personal user filters.......

Twitter bans own CEO Jack Dorsey from Twitter

Howard Hanek
Megaphone

Help Me!

....I've fallen down and can't get up! Hello? Hello?

Merkel calls for balanced approach to data protection

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

History Repeats Itself

The STASI would have agreed.........certainly.

Microsoft's cmd.exe deposed by PowerShell in Windows 10 preview

Howard Hanek
Happy

Re: I just gave up

I've had extensive experience as a sysadmin on various OSs each having its own scripting language and syntax and I agree totally with your observation that efficiency dictates you throw the book away and substitute your own.

Howard Hanek
Headmaster

Port All Those Scripts to Esperanto

If you're going to using a 'constructed' language.......

'Podling' Apache projects are spending longer in the incubator

Howard Hanek
Linux

An H1B Visa Recipient?

Are they now issuing them to those that young? I suspect they are.

China gets mad at Donald Trump, threatens to ruin Apple

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

What is the Chinese Name For Kabuki?

"Thou dost protest too much!"

Thou should'st have killed all the lawyers.

CERN boffins see strange ... oh, wait, that's just New Zealand moving 2m north

Howard Hanek
Happy

Period of Suspension Over

....and despite our best efforts and endless denials every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Russia shoves antitrust probe into Microsoft after Kaspersky gripes about Windows 10

Howard Hanek
Unhappy

Defender

Defender is there ONLY to defend MS from piracy.

Howard Hanek
Unhappy

Reset of Defaults

The reset of default applications has been the bane of every Windows user.

Weka.IO – a stealthy startup swimming against the tide

Howard Hanek
Linux

Salmon

Those salmon reminds me of the fate that awaits most startup investors......

IPv4 is OVER. Really. So quit relying on it in new protocols, sheesh

Howard Hanek
Happy

Leftover Halloween Decorations

Very ingenious to use those leftover Halloween decorations before you pack them away for another year.

Is there anything else dead you'd like to make us aware off, besides the brains of the political leadership? It's the perfect time.

Google to patch Chrome mobile hole after bank trojan hits 318k users

Howard Hanek
Happy

Question

Did Google hit to pay for their patch?

Computer forensics defuses FBI's Clinton email 'bombshell'

Howard Hanek
Headmaster

Re: I sense political meddling.

Ever since the banning of DDT infestations have been cropping (popping?) in the most unlikely places. I suspect liberal journalists who crawl around in those pestilential infested sewers beneath every community.

Google drops a zero-day on Microsoft: Web giant goes public with bug exploited by hackers

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Mascot

I see El Reg used Microsoft's bug fix team's mascot for the graphic. Good work. Their favorite dish, served often I'm sure, is Escargot served with room temperature Mountain Dew.

Cynical Apple gouges UK with 20 per cent price hike

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Rename Whitehall to Weimar?

.....it follows. Our misery has a purpose then?

No nudes, bloated apps, Android sucks and 497 other complaints about Apple to the FTC

Howard Hanek
Happy

The iTune Everything Else Out App

...while skewering all your media up? THAT app?

Samsung are amateurs – NASA shows how you really do a battery fire

Howard Hanek
Flame

Another Possibility

Are we Satanists haven't infiltrated these organizations wanting to get an early start?

Appointments on hold as (computer) virus wreaks havoc with NHS trust systems

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

A Suggestion

NHS and trust system definitely IS an oxymoron and should never be used to describe the attributes of the NHS

Obey Google, web-masters, or it will say you can't be trusted

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Or

...alternatively you can wear your Google Party pin or armband to instill the proper fear and respect as you video conference. It helps to sit near the lens, chin at a slight downward angle using a slow, deep voice. scowling.

Let's praise Surface, not bury it

Howard Hanek
Happy

A Suggestion

I'd rather that the tech people concentrate on developing those sex bots I've been hearing about than 'perfecting' our personal computing platform.

Microsoft's Surface Studio desk-slab, Dial knob, Surface Book: We get our claws on new kit

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

A Suspicion

That MS's affirmative action recruitment policies may have placed too many people suffering Down's Syndrome in its hardware division.

iPhone fatigue and fading Samsung. This planet is bored with big brand phones

Howard Hanek

The Graphic of the Self Stocking Fridge Explains It All

Just substitute the phone manufacturers for the piglet.......

Finally, that tech fad's over: Smartwatch sales tank more than 50%

Howard Hanek
Happy

New Category of Tech

Almost usable but stylish and trendy........for a few nanoseconds.

Today is the 211th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar

Howard Hanek
Happy

We Need More Like Him

I always admired his ability to turn his blind eye toward signals he didn't agree with......

‘Alan Turing law’ to give posthumous pardons to 59,000 men for 'gross indecency'

Howard Hanek
Happy

Retroactive Social Stain Removal

Is silly, pointless but pleasant for the 'pardoners' who are much more interested in 'normalizing' what a large portion of the population still sees as aberrant behavior. Legislating morality is futile. The next generation almost always never agrees.

Apple’s macOS Sierra update really puts the fan into 'fanboi'

Howard Hanek
Happy

There's an App for That

That will teach how to speak in a monotonal, noninflexive manner.

Howard Hanek

Re: You're Wrong Sir.

f u kn rd ths u prbly use Siri

Windows updates? Just trust us, says Microsoft executive

Howard Hanek
Headmaster

The Future of Mankind

The next Extinction Event will be precipitated by a MS 'Patch'.......

Apple to automatically cram macOS Sierra into Macs – 'cos that worked well for Windows 10

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

A Fair Comparison

Microsoft has long promoted what I call the 'Ecktosketch Feature'. You can recognize it by the little shake the screen makes just before everything disappears. Having used both Apple and Windows products for over 25 years my opinion is that Apple's Product Development methodology stands heads above MS, and while there's always room for improvement, Apple's platform stability and lack of bizarre 'gotchas' that MS seems to revel in has made them easier to support and develop.

The web is past peak innovation: It's all negative returns from here

Howard Hanek
Linux

Question

I wonder if the color of the straw used to create your straw man argument affects it's perception? It's size? If it wears a cute hat? The type face used in it's publication?

Forgive me, father, for I have used an ad-blocker on news websites...

Howard Hanek
Happy

I'll Cry Victory When.....

I no longer see......."My girlfriend makes $8467 a month working from home on her computer........."

Microsoft cuts ribbon on Euro cloud bit barn for Office 365, Azure

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Still Using the 'Old' Name?

I thought it was office 360 or 355 now?