* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Peter Higgs, daddy of the Higgs boson, dies at 94

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Re: “That Goddamn Particle”

Not the first time the church has latched onto science in a (misguided) bid to underscore their claims.

NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover

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Re: Used are far cheaper

Just send up the Road Kill guys.

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Re: Brave!

It’s an unpressurised vehicle.

No doors to blow off.

Hotel check-in terminal bug spews out access codes for guest rooms

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Dash it all

The room safe is probably opened by entering a series of *

65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts

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Go

And what a time it was!

I, as did many, lived vicariously through these guys as a starry eyed kid.

Cyberattack hits Omni Hotels systems, taking out bookings, payments, door locks

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Alert

Sorry, your hotel door lock is not working

Please go to the roof and one of our team will rappel down to your balcony with you.

Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries

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Terminator

Re: Kim Jong Un might want some of this too....

+ 1 for Gigantor reference.

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

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Alert

The advertisers created their own monster

The only reasonable defence for users is to employ “monster” protection.

Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear

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Coat

Those grifters at red lights with their squeegees and a bottle of water

They’re everywhere except when you really need them!

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

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Alien

Apologies to Jim Croce

"You don't tug on Superman's cape

You don't let Ai write poo

You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with Who”

Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court

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Devil

Hey Elon

Suffer in ya jocks!

Vans claims cyber crooks didn't run off with its customers' financial info

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Terminator

And it added…

“there's "no evidence" suggesting any stolen personal info, including names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers, has been used for nefarious purposes.”

So, it’s all good then?

The double-speak is strong in this marketing droid.

Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets

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Facepalm

Elon Musk

Lord of free speech for all *

* Conditions apply, see contract for specific terms and obligations.

Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB

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Facepalm

Rubbish in

Rubbish out

Clearly

London Clinic probes claim staffer tried to peek at Princess Kate's records

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Alien

Space Aliens!

You know it’s true!

How to improve Chinese TV? Better censorship, says top tellie-maker

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Re: Telescreens

Indeed.

However, I feel a large wall-mounted screen may be more sinister/effective.

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Big Brother

Telescreens

You, yes you, citizen!

Time for your daily 4 hour propaganda session.

Please assume the patriotic position.

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship

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Mushroom

Basically

Musk is just littering now.

Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months

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Devil

"We take safeguarding your information seriously,"

Our professional team were right onto the breach in as little as four months!

Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

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Joke

Batik Air, a serious rebranding is in order

Now known as: Aero Batik

Your air-miles may vary…

Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone

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Flame

Ahhhh Windows Update

Like an Apollo capsule reentering Earth’s atmosphere.

- Reentry starts…

- Blackout, radio silence, waiting…

- Still waiting…

- Starting to worry a bit…

- Should it take this long?…

- Hmmm…

And then: (write your own adventure here)

Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout

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Devil

Re: Ranking

Yeah

But Ted Cruz is quite rank.

OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans

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Man who regularly talks $&@?

Talks more $&@?

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

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And for just a short period of space time

Humanity, as a whole, gained an imperceptible amount of intelligence and evolutionary advantage.

Alas, it was not to last.

Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker

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Devil

It could be much worse for him

He could be sharing a remand cell with Donny J Trump.

Lordstown Motors to pay $25M in SEC settlement over misleading investor claims

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Devil

Well how about that

Exaggeration in the world of EV development.

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

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What is it with these hard-right muppets?

Stiffing people, not paying bills, talking utter shite, discrimination, attention whoring.

No wonder they get rich.

Toyota admits its engines are overrated – by its own power testing software

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Joke

Despicable acts

“Liter”

Oh, and you Toyota!

Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure

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Trollface

Who?

There’s such a wide field to choose from.

Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract

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Devil

Government staff are too disorganised and inefficient to run a large service

Instead, let’s pay a third party mega-bucks to be just as disorganised and inefficient.

Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp

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What’s truly amazing…

They had signal outside a main regional centre.

Give me paper maps any day.

Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance

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Devil

But

What would FOX News do without all the “woke” outrage?

Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage

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Devil

Check out my junk

By sending up more junk!

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped

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Joke

The rock and dust, the scientists can explain

But the carrot tops and the Pismo Beach hat might take a while longer…

'Scandal-plagued' data broker tracked visits to '600 Planned Parenthood locations'

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Anti abortionists

Need to mind their own freaking business.

Ladies, please vote these Bronze Age thinkers out of office.

North Korea running malware-laden gambling websites as-a-service

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With or without the malware

Online gambling sites are well dodgy.

Life’s too short, and money too hard to come by, to waste time there.

Angry mob trashes and sets fire to Waymo self-driving car

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WTF?

Re: I used to love visiting San Francisco

RE: “Nobody cares about YOU.”

Don’t have a cow, man!

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Unhappy

I used to love visiting San Francisco

Seems the love affair is over.

ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand

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Devil

Oh YES!

Fewer staff

Trickier software and conditions of service

Greater fees passed on to customers!

Bank CEO’s wet dream.

Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported

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No problem

Remember.

You can always still turn far right!

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

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Terminator

The clue is there for all to see

We, the people, are the “Zuckers”

He, the man in charge, is the “Borg”

The literal Rolls-Royce of EVs is recalled over fire risk

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Alert

Yikes

The spirit of electricity

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

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The silicon chip inside her head, gets switched to overload

Who, in their right mind…

X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety

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Stop

Just declare it unsuitable for children and gentle folk

Let the wretched hive of scum and villainy devour itself in a walled garden of hatred.

AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan

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Terminator

Pretty soon…

and with prices rising so quickly, your local supermarket will also be a cop shop.

“Clean up in aisle 5, perp in cell 7”

eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered

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Meh

Workers shunted

Executives rewarded.

It always was thus.

OSIRIS-REx's stuck asteroid sample canister finally cracked open by NASA

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Coat

Finally

Someone found the 10mm

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

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WTF?

Way too little

Add a zero!

The US prison system is a hell-scape.

I’d be suing them as well.

Remind me never to go to Texas, or those states like it.

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned

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Everything old is new again

Marvellous

Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens

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Booking sites

An absolute abomination.

Savings? My arse!

Find the genuine website for the intended stay and book direct (often the best deal).

Don’t give these middle-men a break. They’re only leaching off the businesses they claim to serve.