* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Hong Kong teases tech to track residents as they move past QR codes

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Big Brother

Every citizen will be assigned a Chinese handler

A personal assistant that shadows you everywhere.

What’s not to like?

What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon

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Joke

Do they still deliver to Poland?

Just asking...

The Great Borkish Breakfast: I'll have a cup of tea, a sausage roll and a side of bork, please

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Trollface

Windows is out of date

That’s OK

So are the sausage rolls.....

Chinese businessman plotted with GE insider to steal transistor secrets, say Feds

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Meh

“Sentenced to 18 months behind bars”

“He had been in custody for five years”

So, six and a half years.

Is time already spent not counted?

Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars

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Computer says NO

Ex Cell by Excel?

NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video

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Joke

5 meters off target after travelling millions of kilometres

Someone didn’t carry the 0.0000001 in the calculations.

Top work guys and gals.

Facebook and Australia do a deal: The Social Network™ will restore news down under and even start paying for it

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Trollface

Knowing the current Lib government

You can bet the farm that Facebook managed to convince them of a deal while simultaneously shafting them over a barrel.

Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000

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Joke

Short and very wide eh?

Gentlemen.

We have our astronaut for the Jupiter lander mission.

Huawei loses attempt to rescue CFO Meng from US clutches despite using 140-year-old law in High Court

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Big Brother

America

The US can show China a thing or two about stage trials.

Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics

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Welcome to Mars

Population of robots + 1

Please drive carefully

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

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Windows

Facebook is shit

Less shit the better

Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan

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Dang it

I thought this article was about scanning someone’s memory to recreate the remaining “lost” episodes....

Microsoft tells Biden administration to adopt Australia’s pay-for-news plan

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Australia’s centre-right government

AKA News Corp

Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hijacking its water treatment plant via TeamViewer, says sheriff

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Would you lye to me?

And best of all, everyone kept their jobs!

Bitcoin surges, exchanges flooded after Tesla says it bought $1.5bn in BTC, hopes to accept it as payment soon

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Mushroom

Pop goes the weasel

Oh boy and will they go off with a bang.

Tesla

Bitcoin

Myanmar orders blocks of Twitter and Instagram on top of Facebook ban

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Alert

Nature abhors a vacuum

All dictators will fall.

Alphabet Workers Union hits Google data center contractor with labor complaint: We were banned from discussing wages, say staff

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Big Brother

Wage slavery

Not just an American phenomenon.

It has spread around the world.

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Vote machine biz Smartmatic sues Fox News and Trump chums for $2.7bn over bogus claims of rigged 2020 election

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Trollface

Smartmatic lawyers got lucky

They found someone at Fox who could read

Myanmar’s new military government bans Facebook

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Devil

The military government of Myanmar has temporarily banned Facebook

So not all bad then.

Musk see: Watch SpaceX's latest Starship rocket explode while trying to touch down

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Mushroom

Never mind the landing

How about that take off!

US court system ditches electronic filing, goes paper-only for sensitive documents following SolarWinds hack

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Big Brother

Court lobby searches

“Any weapons, cameras or carbon paper Sir?”

UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back

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Boris Johnson is still PM?

How?

BREXIT disaster

COVID plague

INCOMPETENCE massive

Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schools is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity

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Joke

A huge mistake was made

These laptops were supposed to go to the GOP for use in the 2024 US elections.

Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts

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Re: Given their style and history

Wow

That’s quite a slur on Neanderthals!

There may be not one but two new air leaks in International Space Station: Russian boss tells us not to panic

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Slow Leak eh?

Like every air mattress I have ever slept on.

We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news

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Bye, and chewy on ya boot!

Google can piss off any time they like.

Take your tax avoidance scheme elsewhere.

Let Rupe’s empire die on the vine naturally.

Laptops given to British schools came preloaded with remote-access worm

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Safe Sectors

Exactly.

Use your own protection.

How to avoid pesky border controls: Be a robot truck driver… or insanely rich

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Re: Thermodynamic Pedantry Alert

Indeed.

The broken biscuit box was very popular with us kids.

Cheap too.

Facebook tells Portuguese court that a biz called Oink And Stuff makes profile-harvesting browser extensions

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Like a bunch of rats fighting over some gristle

Flush them all

Vatican absolved of one financial sin after revelation of data discrepancies

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Devil

So, after the money laundering and kiddie fiddling

The god stuff is just busy work.

Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable

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FAIL

Only 4 years late

Way to go!

Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA

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“Dull and not immediately obvious”

Sounds like half of the Government Cabinet ministers

After 11 years, Australia declares its national broadband network is ‘built and fully operational’

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Never forget

The withered and meddling hand of Murdoch.

Trump administration says Russia behind SolarWinds hack. Trump himself begs to differ

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Facepalm

Mr Irrelevant Tweets what?

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”

― Plato

PS: And what does Vlad have on him?

Atlantic City auctions off chance to hit Big Red Button and make grotesque Trump Plaza casino go boom

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Childcatcher

Joint effort

Maybe a benefactor could pay for a bunch of kids in the Boys and Girls Club to all push a giant red button.

2021

Less Donald

Boom!

Yes please.

Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password

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Happy

Idiot-Boy, AKA the human headline will recede

And glory be to $Deity for that!

As UK breaks away from Europe, Facebook tells Brits: You'll all be Californians soon

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FAIL

Brexit and Facebook

Just add a Conservative government for a complete trio of clusterf*cks.

Twitter scores a first for big tech after being fined €450,000 by Ireland's data watchdog for violating the EU's GDPR

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Twitter fined in Ireland

Twitter accountants discover crafty new tax dodge in Ireland

Quid pro quo

Or in the local dialect: To be sure, to be sure

We got it! Japanese space agency confirms its probe has Ryugu asteroid samples

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Space dust, 2020, Japanese

What could go wrong?

No Godzilla icon.

45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware

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Coat

X-rays and other medical scans were left online

Why did it take so long to see though the problem?

--> Not a lab coat

World+dog share in collective panic attack as Google slides off the face of the internet

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“So there was no need to resort to something like Bing”

Steady on now Ted!

Megabucks in funding, 28 years of research, and Boston Dynamics is to be 'sold to Hyundai' for 1/40th of an Arm

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Just wait....

Until these robots can manufacture themselves en mass.

“Your papers meatbag, now!”

Australia mostly sticks to its guns in final plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers

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The News Corp Bill

AKA

News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code Bill 2020.

The current Lib/Nat Government is just the waterboy for Rupe.

Murdoch must be paid!

Cops raid home of ousted data scientist who created her own Florida COVID-19 dashboard

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FAIL

Pointing guns at kids over a “hacking” case?

Classic America

Classic fail

Uri Geller calls off 20-year ban on Pokémon trading card that 'stole' his 'signature image'

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Bent

The spoon trick is so lame.

Be a magician by all means, just don’t insist your “powers” are real.

No one is buying that shtick anymore.

Manchester United email servers remain offline amid what is being called a 'ransomware' attack

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Devil

Maybe Fred the Red has gone over to the dark side

A devil’s gotta think about his retirement one day...

HP CEO talks up HP-ink-only print hardware and higher upfront costs for machines that use other cartridges

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Re: Dictionary

Re Epson Eco Tank.

Bought the 2750, still using the original supplied ink 2 years later. Not problems so far.

Frenchman who wanted to 'smash a guy's face in' fined €135 – despite correctly filling out paperwork stating why he left home during lockdown

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Windows

We called our “aquarium” room the “Departure Lounge”

Weeks, months, maybe a year.

None survived.

Alibaba chief says China's new internet laws aren’t just good, they’re right and welcome and necessary

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Big Brother

The re-education internments will continue

Until morale improves.

- Dear Leader

Crooks social-engineer GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names

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Same same

“GoDaddy is committed to protecting our customers’ data and the security of our infrastructure, and our teams are vigilantly monitoring for attacks and potential vulnerabilities.“

Yeah right.

Except when they aren’t.