* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Move along, nothing to see here: Auditors say £100k grant to Hacker House was 'appropriate'

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FAIL

Legal or not, it's the perception that counts

If there's even a hint of a conflict of interest, the answer is always no, do not proceed.

But this is Boris Fail Johnson we are talking about.

Cousin of Donald No-collusion Trump.

US customers kick up class-action stink over Epson's kyboshing of third-party ink

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Ink bottles

We have an EPSON that has refillable tanks.

The unit was reasonable expensive but the ink last years and a bottle costs very little.

So far, cheaper than cartridges.

Reaction Engines' precooler tech demo chills 1,000°C air in less than 1/20th of a second

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Go

Great article

Now I have the Thunderbirds theme running in my head...

Thunderbirds are ->

Assange fails to delay extradition hearing as date set for February

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Assange helped Trump

The two should be together, in the same cell.

Avast lobs intruders into the 'Abiss': Miscreants tried to tamper with CCleaner after sneaking into network via VPN

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Coat

Always wondered

Wheteher it was a crap cleaner OR a crap cleaner?

Seems it's a crap cleaner...

Guess who's dreaming of facial-recog body cams now? US border cops: AI tech sought to scrutinize travelers

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Devil

Build that wall !!!

AROUND the USA.

Keep them IN.

Deus ex hackina: It took just 10 minutes to find data-divulging demons corrupting Pope's Click to Pray eRosary app

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Devil

404

Deity not found

Not a good look, Google: Pixel 4 mobes can be face-unlocked even if you're asleep... or dead?

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Devil

Your face, your ass

What's the difference?

- D Nukem

UK culture sec hints at replacing TV licence fee, defends encryption ban proposals and her boss in Hacker House inquiry

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Coat

Re: Hacker House

Yes, Minister.

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

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Alien

Something wicked, this way comes?

Co-incy-dink?

Hands off our phones, says Google: Radar-gesture-sensing Pixel 4 just $999 with a 3-year lifespan – great value!

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But

Those prices.....

Heavens to Murgatroyd

A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently

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Pint

Re: My old work email account is still live

Eventually.

Until then.....

Whooooohoo

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Linux

My old work email account is still live

It has an out of office message written in red 72 font.

I HAVE RETIRED!

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

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Carrots in a fridge

In very hot climates, cold carrots last longer and therefore taste better.

Ye olde Blue Screen of Death is back – this time, a bad Symantec update is to blame

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Ahhh Symantec

So long ago, much fail

RIP: First space-walk badass Alexei Leonov, who made it to 85 despite best efforts of Soviet machine

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Flame

Heroes of my childhood

Higher than most

Highest of them all

Remembered

Eternal flame -->

Second MoD Airbus Zephyr spy drone crashes on Aussie test flight

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Trollface

Probably

High altitude drop bears.

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

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Coat

Well

They're screwed I guess.

I'll get dressed now... -->

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

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Devil

My imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend

But who brings in the most cash?

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

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Alert

A little knowledge

Is a dangerous thing

Remember the millions of fake net neutrality comments? They weren't as kosher as the FCC made out

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Windows

Stench of corruption

In Trump's America: SNAFU

How much is your face worth? Google thinks a $5 Starbucks gift card should be good enough

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Yeah

Nah

Chinese sleazeball's 17-year game of hide-and-seek ends after drone finds him on mountain

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Black Helicopters

Chinese take away

I still think 17 years on a cramped cold ledge is preferrable to a Chinese jail.

Astroboffins spy the most ancient protocluster of galaxies yet found post Big Bang

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Windows

London buses

Pre 1965 models or post?

'Six' in the city: Kiwi sportswear shop telly beamed X-rated flicks for hours over weekend

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Devil

Well done

Not one mention of our quadrupedal, ruminant mammal friends.

What is this, 2016? A rummage around in 7th-gen iPad innards shows repurposed tech within

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Meh

I looked at upgrading my 3rd Gen iPad

Apple say they will give me a whopping AUD$40 trade-in for it on a new one.

You know what, my old iPad 3 is looking pretty darn capable for a $40 unit!

I think I will pass.

Hey, it's Google's birthday! Remember when they were the good guys?

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Terminator

AltaVista

Baby!

Loathed Aussie mining magnate Clive Palmer punts libel sueball at YouTube comedian

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Re: Good on ya Aussie

He also looks like Mr Potatoe Head's creepy brother.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise, politicians will philander... And US voting machines will be physically insecure

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Meh

Paper ballots, sealed voting containers and many scrutineers

Because decent democracy sometimes takes time.

Time to check in again on the Atari retro console… dear God, it’s actually got worse

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Holmes

Hmmmmmm

I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but, something isn't quite right here....

Switch about to get real: Openreach bod on the challenge of shuttering UK's copper phone lines

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Mushroom

NBN 2.0, coming soon

100% coal based infrastructure.

Proudly sponsored by our 19th century Liberal Party.

Those furious gun-toting Aussies were just a glitch. Let's try US drone deliveries, says Wing

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Re: Lowering packages with a tether?

Drone fishing!

But this time the target drops a line to you!

The '$4.4m a year' bug: Chipotle online orders swallowed by JavaScript credit-card form blunder

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Trollface

Ordering food online via credit card, eh?

The kids today.

Belgian F-16 pilot rescued from power line after emergency ejection

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Alert

F16

Now we know what the "F" stands for

Flying priests crop-dust Russian citizens with holy water to make them stop boozing and bonking

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Devil

Bonkers

Yes, religion again

UK Home Office web form snafu allows you to both agree and disagree – strongly – all at once

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Black Helicopters

Consultancy by check list

Have a poll

Do some marketing

Have a group think session

Whale song

Social media

-------------

Implement whatever you want

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

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Alien

Zork, let's lob a few small rocks at them first

See how they react...

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

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Alert

I like big gravity wells

And cannot lie

Watchdog: Hush-hush UK.gov blew £97m on Brexit wonks from six of the usual suspects

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Devil

Collective noun for consultants

A "shyster".

As in: a shyster of consultants.

Cloud, internet biz will take a Yellowhammer to the head in 'worst case' no-deal Brexit

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Alert

Yellowhammer

Any truth to the rumour it's just a copy of the script for "28 Days Later"?

Lights, camera, camera, camera, action: iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip biz in new iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip shocker

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Trollface

Ummmm wow....no

Too expensive.

Way too expensive.

The value to benefit ratio shrinks yet again.

Royal Navy seeks missile-moving robots for dockyard drudgery

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Alert

Ask the Post Office

Their staff can sink a parcel into a bag from 20 feet.

Cu in Hell: Thousands internetless after copper thieves pinch 500m of cable in Cambridgeshire

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Joke

Cu later

Replace with a plutonium/copper mix.

No?

Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos

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Sun rule

As a kid we operated by the sun.

Up at sunrise, out of the house.

Dusk to sunset, back home.

We had a national park at our doorstep to explore!

Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit

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Devil

Your face, your ass

What's the difference?

Turns out it's £££

How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens

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Devil

Wrinkleface!

Find your friends when you forget their names!

Dixons hits back at McAfee's £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn't work on Windows 10S

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: McAfee Vs Symantec

"It's like picking your favourite terminal illness."

New keyboard please.

'Hey Google, remind Greg the locks have been changed, and he should find a new place to live. Maybe ask his mistress?'

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Flame

Burn them

Burn them all with fire

We checked and yup, it's no longer 2001. And yet you can pwn a Windows box via Notepad.exe

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Devil

No problem

Plenty more where that came from...

Alexa, can you tell me how many Chinese kids were forced into working nights to build this unit?

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Big Brother

Dystopian future, here early

Sweatshop factories

Forced child labour

Forced overtime

Bugging devices for the masses

We have always been at war with Oceania