* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

UK schools slap a hold on facial scanning of children amid fierce criticism

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Big Brother

Face scanning little children

Aldous Huxley would be alarmed

—> closest emote

Tesla slams into reverse, pulls latest beta of Full Self-Driving software from participating car owners

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“the tech was not quite there yet”

Reads like an epitaph on a Tesla owner’s gravestone.

YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts

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Crypto Scam

Isn’t that a tautology?

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

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When you get into bed with Facebook

Expect to get…..

Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

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Devil

Sims it up succinctly

“a pig defecating on itself”

Unvaccinated and working at Apple? Prepare for COVID-19 testing 'every time' you step in the office

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I had friends at school who had Polio

Give me your vaccines, now and forever!

Praise be to modern medicine and it’s practitioners.

Blessed are the vaccine makers.

—> lab coat

Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe

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Go

£50m Fines

I’m good with that.

Keep fining the bastards.

Give all the fine money to children’s health/hospitals.

Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active

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Joke

Chinese take away

I’ll bet the samples were cold when they arrived.

Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told

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Devil

The ultimate vapour-ware trial

May well end in tears

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

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Pint

A new name needs a new location too

I suggest "Jonestown"

Has a nice ring to it.

Refreshment anyone?

Facebook posts job ad for 10,000 'high-skilled' roles to 'build the metaverse' – and they'll all be based in the EU

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Joke

Re: A dream that nobody wants except for the tech giants

Re: Manhole cover removal.

And what happens when said manholes are full?

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FAIL

Plug in, drop out, like

Join the Zuck-Borg today!

Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

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Happy

Always bought Canon but…

…the cartridges were always blocking and claiming to be dry.

Swapped to an Epson “ink tank” style printer.

3 years later, only filled the black half a tank, never touched the colours.

Ink bottles very cheap.

Never been blocked or locked out.

Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law

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Devil

'dealt with'

To the cave Egor!

NFTs not annoying enough? Now they come with wallet-emptying malware

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Re: Idiots

A Barnaby

Or

A beetroot

Same same

Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'

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Re: Totally American

I always used fictional character names from favourite sci-fi novels.

It seemed to amuse those testing downstream.

- Panthea Snick

Amazon textbook rental service scammed for $1.5m

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If the alleged perp’ is convicted

Don’t assign him to the prison library!

Missouri governor demands prosecution of reporter for 'decoding HTML source code' and reporting a data breach

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Infamy, infamy!

Everyone’s got it in for me!

Those meddling kids and their technology!

LinkedIn shutting down in China after mounting government pressure to censor social media content

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No LinkedIn in China?

Lucky guys

Shatner breaks the age barrier, goes where no nonagenarian has gone before with Blue Origin rocket trip

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A 90 year old in space you say

Right now you just know that Elon is trawling nursing homes for potential record breakers.

Nonna, how do you feel about a day out?

I’ll get your coat.

Oh my, Grandma, what a big meteorite you have right there on your pillow under that hole in the roof

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A meteor shower in Golden

That would make it a……

Australian PM and Deputy threaten Facebook and Twitter with defamation liability for users' posts

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Facepalm

Scotty from Marketing and Beetroot say what?

Just more bluster from two of the most irrelevant politicians Oz has ever had the displeasure of suffering.

Scotty just wants to distract from his many failings.

Beetroot is just as mad as a cut snake on a hot tin roof.

Facebook, Instagram finally end days of uptime by returning to some downtime

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Terminator

Zuckerborgs

Like Daleks only much more annoying

Reason 3,995 to hold off on that Windows 11 upgrade: Iffy performance on AMD silicon

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Devil

“hold off from that Windows 11 upgrade”

Sounds like good advice for everyone…

User to chatbot: Help! My kid has COVID! Chatbot to user: Always wear a condom

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Removed

Poor Jamie couldn’t talk and chew gum^ at the same time.

^ Generally illegal in Singapore

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

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Legs 11

Run!

Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule

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Alien

But

Will he run from side to side on the ship if there’s any trouble?

One-character bug gives away $90m in COMP tokens – recipients can keep 10% or consider themselves doxxed

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FAIL

Yeah I’d return it but

My dog ate them

Sorry

Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops

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Mushroom

Now chaps here’s what NOT to do, OK?

See icon

IKEA: Cameras were hidden in the ceiling above warehouse toilets for 'health and safety'

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Waterloo

They were just doing some A B B A testing.

Anonymous: We've leaked disk images stolen from far-right-friendly web host Epik

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FAIL

Racists and other Nazis

More fail to them all

Revealed: How to steal money from victims' contactless Apple Pay wallets

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Holmes

Colour me old fashioned

Relying only on one’s phone seems like a major and single point of failure.

Brit law firm files suit against Google and Deepmind over use of hospital patients' data

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Windows

'legally inappropriate'

Is that the establishment’s way of politely calling our their peers for ‘illegal’ activities?

If anyone can explain why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is spinning faster and shrinking, please speak up

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Windows

Advertising

Jupiter pizza

Best in the galaxy

For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies

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Charles Ponzi would be proud

Crypto.

So many marks, so little time!

California Governor signs bill protecting warehouse workers from unsafe quotas

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Devil

To be fair now

Space rides are expensive and there aren’t any fancy toilets in those capsules.

Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia

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Alert

Birds versus Google?

The birds

Tick, tick, tick … TikTok China just limited kids to 40 minutes' use each day

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Re: I’ve always limited my social media time

El-reg is as close to social media as I get.

- no real name

- no PI

- unobtrusive tracking, if any

- no friends!

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Devil

I’ve always limited my social media time

I find that zero interactions a day is about right for me.

Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit

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Devil

Two hundred million?

And I have to share a room with three others?

Bah!

Amazon UK business swelled by 50%+ in 2020, and taxes soared. Lol, no, it means those paid by its staff

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Amazon are just following the Golden Rule

Those with the gold, rule.

If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this

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Terminator

THX1138

If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.

Wikipedia bans seven Chinese users amid concerns of 'infiltration, physical harm'

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Devil

Wikipedia

That still a thing is it?

Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter

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Pants optional

For once the foreman would be happy to see his crew just pissing about the site.

Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint

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Devil

Corporate motto?

“Bwaahahaha”

RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils

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Mushroom

No more conservatories outside permitted development

*** BLAM ***

Vaccine dreams: A trip to Oxford to see a biscuit tin, some bed pans and ChAdOx1 nCov-19

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Happy double dose AZ recipient here

Thanks to the ladies and gents from Oxford.

You guys rock!

Interesting article too.

DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats sue NYC for trying to permanently cap delivery fees

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Tepid or cold food delivery isn’t my bag

I pick up myself, every time.

Yes, not everyone can do this.

But personally I don’t want my food cold and delivered by someone who is getting paid a pittance.

Old fashioned, I know.

—-> I’m just popping out to get the nosh

Amazon says Elon Musk's wicked, wicked ways mean SpaceX's Starlink 2.0 should not be allowed to fly

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Stop

These guys need to get a…

…planet to themselves.

Leave us in peace.

UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead

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Rozzers Vs Facebook

Invest in pop corn now, avoid the rush!