* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

NASA pops old-school worm logo onto Orion spacecraft

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Re: Watching at the time?

Watched every second that I was allowed to.

Even touching the TV set required permission when I was a kid.

Thankfully my parents indulged me. It helped that Dad had been a jet fighter pilot.

Watched the lunar excursion from school. The whole school, 100 kids, around a single 26” AWA B&W set. The TV was bought in specially for the event. I remember seeing the men and the van that delivered it.

Needless to say, I was riveted to Apollo, and always have been since.

Facebook Giphy merger stays on ice after failed challenge to UK competition regulator

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Everyone wants a piece of you

Except Facebook, they want it all.

Blessed are the cryptographers, labelling them criminal enablers is just foolish

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Remember: Australia is currently lead by a Pentecostal loon

Who also thinks that locking up small girls for years is good Government policy.

Read more: Biloela family

Beijing twirls ban-hammer at 84 more apps it says need to stop slurping excess data

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Big Brother

Because surveillance over reach is bad

Unless we do it….

App Tracking: Apps plead for users to press allow, but 85% of Apple iOS consumers are not opting in

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Trollface

“impacting the $189bn mobile advertising industry worldwide”

Bless…

Train operator phlunks phishing test by teasing employees with non-existent COVID bonus

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If you’re going to tout a bonus via such a scheme

Make sure there’s a genuine bonus for all at the end.

WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook, or we'll make our own app useless to you

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WTF?

And people voluntarily sign up for this clusterf*ck?

It should be called sociopath media.

You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world

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Great flight

But they managed to lose the luggage

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all: El Reg takes Twitter's anti-mean algorithm for a spin

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Social media sewer

Sewers perform a serious function.

Social media, not so much.

I don’t hang around in either.

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

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So

If another space faring nation sent up something and it was designed to re-enter earth’s atmosphere, why not let it fall on a remote part of China?

Turn-about is fair play after all.

I’m sure old Pooh Bear would be fine with that.

Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it

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Trollface

It’s free, sign up now!

While you look at yet another cat meme, we quietly go through your personal info and make copies!

You get hooked, we make bank.

Win / win

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

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Some products are expected to display energy ratings

Why not make tech products show repairability ratings?

Make it a selling point, or at least a point of difference.

Let the consumers know.

Facebook Oversight Board upholds decision to ban Trump, asks FB to look at own 'potential contribution' to 'narrative of electoral fraud'

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Stop

Personally, the less I hear from the traitorous fool…

The better.

Spent Chinese rocket stage set to make an uncontrolled return to Earth

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Alert

Used rocket booster for sale

Free delivery, bring a large net.

Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline

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Trollface

Not a bot

Chinese just really really really interested in Belgian politics.

Now back to work!

These minority groups don’t oppress themselves!

Australia proposes teaching cyber-security to five-year-old kids

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Online security and privacy 101

OK kids

No social media

Class dismissed!

Good: Water vapor signal detected for first time on distant planet. Bad: Er, we'll let one of the boffins explain

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Joke

If the English had a base there

They would still insist on jackets and ties at dinner.

What is it with Facebook and screwing democracies? Now calls for Prime Minister Modi to resign censored in India

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Pisspoor

That’s just outside Mumbai isn’t it?

I’ll get my Nehru jacket

Michael Collins, once the world's 'loneliest man,' is dead. If that name means little or nothing to you, read this

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A boyhood hero

A life very well lived.

Columbia out

UK government resists pressure to hold statutory inquiry into Post Office Horizon scandal

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FAIL

When the establishment has already screwed you over

Having a “Sir” take charge of the enquiry is a bit rich.

Watchdog 'enables Tesla Autopilot' with string, some weight, a seat belt ... and no actual human at the wheel

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Only one good thing about all this

They aren’t self flying cars!

God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit

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FAIL

Horny Henry

Created his own church just to get his leg over.

After a while he tired of her and chopped her head off.

Religion, no thanks.

Who knew Uncle Sam had strike teams for SolarWinds, Exchange flaws? Well, anyway, they are disbanded

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Environmentally friendly espionage

In the old days a spy had to hop an Aeroflot, Pan Am or BOAC flight to get to the data. Maybe even a submarine!

Today they can work from “home”.

Can spies claim carbon offsets?

Seeing a robot dog tagging along with NYPD officers after an arrest stuns New Yorkers

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Terminator

Robo Dog PC

THX-113K9 perhaps

Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)

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Re: They cross the vastness of interstellar space in technology far beyond our own

Missed the anal probing?

Not at all.

I hear some might even get a "buzz" from that kind of thing....

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Alien

They cross the vastness of interstellar space in technology far beyond our own

Just to buzz us.

Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws

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But officer

The bird has flown the coop!

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Pigeon shaped hazmat suits!

Patent Pending

It was Russia wot did it: SolarWinds hack was done by Kremlin's APT29 crew, say UK and US

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Re: The Russians are coming

No

Try: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060921/

Watchdog thinks Google tricked Australians into giving up data, sues. Judge semi-agrees

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Remember “do no evil”

Me neither....

Blue Origin sends Mannequin Skywalker aloft again, testing out comfier capsule for future space tourists

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Alert

No, no

I insist.

After you....

FBI deletes web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers before alerting admins

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Don't mind us

Just playing through....

NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears

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“ how it managed to develop an entire update without realizing it would be blocked”

Sheer, bloody minded, incompetence for the win.

Every time!

Prince Philip, inadvertent father of the Computer Misuse Act, dies aged 99

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Kebab in honour

Here’s to Phil the Greek!

Beer to wash it down

Post Office awards Fujitsu a £42.5m contract extension for the IT system behind wrongful subpostmaster prosecutions

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RE: Isn't that the point?

Yes indeed.

Just think of the massive Exec bonuses and the strategic think-tank meetings in the Bahamas!

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£42.5m

How much do the wrongfully accused/convicted get?

'Imagine' if Virgin Galactic actually did sub-orbital tourism: Firm unveils new chrome job on SpaceShip III

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One way tickets?

How about you send up my ashes, and then throw them out?

Is that cheaper?

Sadly, the catastrophic impact with Apophis asteroid isn't going to happen in 2068

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2068 AD

At 106 years old, what would I care anyway?

NASA's Perseverance rover in brick form: China set vs unofficial Lego fan design

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No Apollo 13 kit?

Sans missing parts.....

Salesforce to face trial after software used by Backpage 'to track sex traffickers, pimps, johns on social media'

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Re: "You are all guilty. Prepare to be judged." - Judge Dredd.

I’m suing the Cretaceous Period for ending the dinosaurs and later allowing mankind to emerge!!

Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog

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Paris Hilton

The techno king has no clothes

Invest at your own peril.

Ticker tape and a binary message: Bank of England's new Alan Turing £50 must be the nerdiest banknote ever

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£50 notes are very handy

Almost enough when filling a car with fuel.

When I’m in the UK, I keep them back for this purpose.

Cockup or conspiracy? Popular privacy extension ClearURLs removed from Chrome web store

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Thanks

Yet another reason why I read the Register.

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

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Re: Oh how the woke wimper

The OP

The bravery of being out of range (being Anon)

Something fishy is going on in Taiwan as folk change name to include 'salmon' for free sushi

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Next month: Disney encourages kids to change their name to...

Winnie the Pooh.

Hilarity with the Chinese neighbours ensues!

Partial beer print horror as Microsoft's printer bug fix, er, doesn't

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I’ll have an ‘alf

Two messages:

1. Save ink

2. Drink less

Where did the water go on Mars? Maybe it's right under our noses: Up to 99% may still be in planet's crust

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Simple test

Put out a picnic table and chairs.

Guaranteed to bring rain.

Brit college forced to shift all teaching online for a week while it picks up the pieces from ransomware attack

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Re: Retirement beckons

@TimMaher

2 years for me and also my birthday month.

——>

ICYMI: A mom is accused of harassing daughter's cheerleader rivals with humiliating deepfake vids

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Unhappy

When I was a kid....

Mums would compete by trying to make the most attractive cup-cakes to sell at the school fete.

How times change.

How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs

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Signed up? Signed up to Facebook?

Sir, you’re very much mistaken.