* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Scientists find gasses from Earth in rocks from early Moon

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Re: Space Ping-Pong

I’m pretty sure it’s now illegal under Brexit.

Or, at least, too much paper work.

Facebook hands over chats to cops in abortion case

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Re: Oh dear

Society has always given religion a free pass.

And just look at the myriad horrors they commit under the name of their $deity.

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WOW

War On Women.

Wave of corruption claims crash into China's chip Big Fund

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Corruption?

In China?

Pooh, I say, Pooh!

US Space Force deploys robot dogs at Cape Canaveral base

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Terminator

Easily defeated or distracted

Robot cats,

Tesla Full Self-Driving 'fails' to notice child-sized objects in testing

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Why didn’t the little kid make it across the road?

FSD in beta

China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities

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Re: as an aside

I’d imagine it’s cheaper.

I’d also imagine driving one by a human might need all the usual apparatus.

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200,000 to 261,367 Annual Road Fatalities in China (2015 WHO)

Let’s hope it actually works out for them.

UK wants criminal migrants to scan their faces up to five times a day using a watch

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Tories

They love a bit of crime and punishment.

Must remind them of boarding school days.

Oooh Matron!

Scientist shares spicy pic of 'James Webb' discovery

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Ah up Gromit, get the rocket ready lad

A quick stop at the moon for some cheese, then onto the meat star for some tasty snacks!

Remember the humanoid Tesla robot? It's ready for September reveal, says Musk

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Re: Optimus can replace the Russians ....

“ Optimus Prime will even claim Mars—for the robots.”

It’s already a planet exclusively populated by robots. Musk’s effort would need to get in line.

China-linked fake news site shows disinformation on the rise

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Big Brother

SuperGoodDoublePlus Inc

Got a fascist dictatorship?

Need some positive messaging?

Call Xi today!

1800 PANDAPANDA

Plans to suit any size despotic “government”, from simple juntas to dystopian hell scapes.

Solana, Phantom blame Slope after millions in crypto-coins stolen from 8,000 wallets

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WTF?

Surely

Crypto is about done

SpaceX demonstrates that it too can shower the Earth with debris

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Strewth mate!

Fair suck of the sauce bottle!

Which of you drongos is flinging bits of an old rocket at us?!

Stone the flamin’ crows!

US authorities threaten Alibaba with NYSE delisting

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Chinese finance

It’s all about how the fortune cookie crumbles.

Charges filed over $300m 'textbook pyramid and Ponzi scheme' crypto startup

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We win some, you lose some

Ponzicryptoscam Coin

Homes in London under threat as datacenters pull in all the power

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Re: And we also want EV's?

Easy.

You live in London.

- you charge your EV in Bristol

- boil your kettle in Oxford

- charge your iThingy in Exeter

Tim Hortons offers free coffee and donut to settle data privacy invasion claims

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Naughty Timmy, naughty!

Maybe the free coffee and cake should be redeemed at a Tim Hortons competitor.

Timmy paying the tab.

THAT might hurt a bit more.

Nearly all protein structures known to science predicted by AlphaFold AI

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Bend me, shape me, any way you want me

Call it whatever you like.

In any case, it’s another big win for science!

MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out confusing Lego instructions

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Terminator

2074 AD

Dad, I’m bored!!

Dad: Build your new Lego kit

The AI house-bot has already finished building it!

Apple-1 prototype hand-soldered by Woz up for auction, bids expected to reach $500k

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Well, i'll ask him but I don't think he will be very keen!

Uh, he's already got one you see!

What!?! He says they already got one! Are you sure he's got one?

Oh yes it's a very nice!

Is the Apple car real? These patents suggest yes

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Apple car

Rounded corners: check

Recharge twice a day: check

Obsolete within 2 years: check

Very expensive: check

Subscription services: check

Crammed full of high tech chips: oh wait!

My Big Coin founder is – you guessed it – a $6m crypto-fraudster

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Get Crater!

Another massive hole in the whole crypto scam!

Ex-Coinbase manager charged in first-ever crypto insider trading case

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Crypto! Where do I sign up?

Sounds amazing.

</sarc>

British intelligence recycles old argument for thwarting strong encryption: Think of the children!

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Big Brother

“people seeking privacy aren't suspects”

Officially, that is.

Move along citizen, move along.

Bogus cryptocurrency apps steal millions in mere months

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Linux

P P P Pick up a Ponzi

Is the term “crypto scam” a redundancy?

Uber to pay millions to settle claims it ripped off disabled people with unfair fees

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Pirate

Pirates

The lot of ‘em

Beijing residents blast COVID surveillance device

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Re: I don't want to wear it.

“Specific cases”

One word: Uyghurs

UK Info Commissioner slams use of WhatsApp by health officials during pandemic

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WhatsApp

Doc?

Meta asks line managers to identify poorly performing staff for firing

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Round one layoffs have now concluded

Round two will involve weapons and wild animals.

Be prepared.

Twitter sues Musk: He can't just 'change his mind, trash the company, walk away'

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In other NEWS

Sales of pop-corn have lead to major pressure on the commodities market.

FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

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Car feature subscription services

Consumer protection minefield.

The car makers best tread carefully.

First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed

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Re: Still missing?

Look between the gaps

Twitter claims Elon Musk bailed from sale with 'invalid and wrongful' reasons

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Insanity

All the way down

Apple's latest security feature could literally save lives

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Re: 007 out of 10 secret agents don’t even carry a phone

Fang?

Is that you?

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007 out of 10 secret agents don’t even carry a phone

* Decadic pulse shoe phones excepted.

Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles

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Re: Moo

Re: Very small ones

No, you see Dougal, those cows are far away…

TikTok: Yes, some staff in China can access US data

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If you rearrange the letters in “social media”….

It spells out “hi, we’re here to steal your personal information”

(You have to squint a bit)

Moscow court fines Pinterest, Airbnb, Twitch, UPS for not storing data locally

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Putin on the fritz

Cheap gear!

Moscow flea market, ask for Dodgy Vlad.

Chinese boffins suggest launching nuclear Neptune orbiter in 2030

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“cold, dark, and cruel”

Sounds like my most recent Chinese take away food delivery….

Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America

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WTF?

Hey Mr Taliban, tally me trimesters

I never really expected the cancer that is a hate-filled theocracy to come from such a bastion of western culture.

The USA is now officially f#cking weird!

NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030

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Re: Harvest Moon

I hear they use Jet-ta engines…..

I’ll get my space coat.

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Harvest Moon

Coming soon.

Space-Hippies chained to lunar rovers holding “No Nukes” signs….

Micron aims 1.5TB microSD card at video surveillance market

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Devil

“...or dead bishop.”

That would be an ecumenical matter.

UK Home Office signs order to extradite Julian Assange to US

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In other related NEWS

One of the levels of Hell has been renamed in honour of the British Home Secretary Priti Patel.

This follows her outstanding work with Julian Assange and the Rawandan flight!

Going down…..

Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes

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Re: Must do better ...

“ The first ten hours you'll be queuing at security at MAN”

Who do you know?

Why so fast?

Jealous.

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Long and thin eh?

Surely, what people really want is long and wide?

Aussies know the benefits of a proper long haul jet.

Single aisle planes are a nightmare. Food trolleys, bog queues, kids and even sleeping sticky-out legs (I’m not joking).

Give me a true wide-body for genuine long haul, ahh yes, the A380 is perfection, especially upstairs!

Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

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AI conversation?

Nah, just the guys in the back office playing a joke on him.

EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035

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Car ownership circa 2035+

Like Singapore.

Private EV cars in the EU will be ridiculously expensive and only for the truly wealthy.

Everyone else will be catching the Prolebus.

Meta slammed with eight lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids

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I worked in IT for 30 years

Never once needed to use social media.

When asked to do so, I always politely declined, even when part of my job.

It’s an absolute horror.

There be dragons.