* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

It's not your imagination: Ticket scalper bots are flooding the internet according this 'ere study

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Unhappy

Nothing changes

Back in the 1970s, before online sales, major concert tickets were often snapped up prior to public release.

As a regular fan, on first ticket release day, you would go to the physical box office an hour before opening (back then being an hour early was enough).

You would be first or second in the queue, but..... lo and behold, the first 20 rows were already "sold".

Happened time and time again.

On the night, a casual glance at the first X number of rows would reveal the glitterati up front and the great unwashed further back.

Nothing has changed, except the quality of the music.

When 2FA means sweet FA privacy: Facebook admits it slurps mobe numbers for more than just profile security

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Facepalm

Trump levels of dishonesty and corruption

The fact that there isn't a stampede away from FB is telling.

It seems the people enjoy the KoolAid too much.

I'm proud to have never been a member.

Now you've read about the bonkers world of Elizabeth Holmes, own some Theranos history: Upstart's IT gear for sale

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Fools and their money...

In this case, rich fools.

Just do IoT? We'd walk a mile in someone else's Nike smart sneakers, but they seem to be 'bricked'

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Yes, but

I hear these shoes are very big with the crowd on the B-Ark.

No RESTful the wicked: If your website runs Drupal, you need to check for security updates – unless you enjoy being hacked

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Joke

Wasn't...

"Drupal" one of the Banana Splits?

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Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation

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Coat

New attractions coming to Grand Canyon NP this summer!

Ever wanted to explore an old mine...?

--> Rad suit

How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way

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Devil

".....has circled the Milky Way four times already."

So, about as long as this Brexit catastrophe then?

One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

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Black Helicopters

I clicked

But I didn't inhale!

Cop films chap on body-worn cam because he 'complains about cops a lot'. Chap complains

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Devil

It's like....

...these body cams only seem to work when the Police want them to.

'Now is the winter of our disk contents'... Decision on Lauri Love's seized gear due next week

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What's the bet...

the plods have lost the gear?

"Ummmm, errr, it decamped in a unknown direction..."

It's OK, everyone – Congress's smart-cookie Republicans have the answer to America's net neutrality quandary

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Re: I've always wondered...

Gosh Bob, relax man. Breeeeeeathe.

If Godwin's law relates to the term "nazis".

Which law relates to the term "snowflake"? It has much the same impact.

Serious question.

Crypto exchange in court: It owes $190m to netizens after founder 'dies without telling anyone vault passwords'

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Devil

Has anyone tried....

"qwerty123" ????

Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing

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Support TNMOC

A fantastic resource staffed by great people.

A visit is a must for anyone even slightly interested in computing, old machines and the smell of dusty valves!

Now to make a cup of tea in my TNMOC Colossus mug...

Wednesday: Facebook sparks another privacy brouhaha. Thursday: Facebook axes Iranian disinfo bods. Fancy that!

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Devil

FB better be careful

With this level of fakery and abuse, even the bad guys will be looking for a new platform soon.

Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data

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Will no one rid me of this turbulent pest?

In other NEWS:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18204186/facebook-q4-2018-earnings-user-growth-revenue-increase-privacy-scandals

Apols to: @HenryThySecond

Ouch, Apple! Plenty of iPhones stuck in tech channel. How many? That's a 'wild card'

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Devil

Apple

Huawei too expensive!

PSA: Disable FaceTime. Miscreants can snoop on your iPhone, Mac mic before you pick up call

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Two rolls or will one do it?

You think election meddling is bad now? Buckle up for 2020, US intel chief tells Congress

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Re: Oz Elections coming

To be honest, neither should Trump (be POTUS)...

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Re: Oz Elections coming

We even have our very own Trump!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Palmer

Apple: You can't sue us for slowing down your iPhones because you, er, invited us into, uh, your home... we can explain

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Gimp

Treat 'em mean

Keep 'em keen, hey Apple?

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

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Windows

I no longer feel dirty

I can now give up my Chrome habit for sure...

Clone your own Prince Phil, says eBay seller hawking debris left over from royal car crash

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Alert

Toad of Toad Hall

You there, Footman!

Another Range Rover!

This last one has commoner all over it.

Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked

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Devil

Does the fly know it's about to land on shit

Or is it just driven by blind instinct and need?

Facebook's pay-for-more-eyeballs shtick looks too good to be true: Page views, Likes from 'fake' profiles

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Trollface

Not fake!

Alternate personas are people too you know! *

* Your mileage may vary.

Huawei and Intel hype up AI hardware, TensorFlow tidbits, and more

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Devil

As a fake its unconvincing

Mind you.

As a POTUS, so is Trump.

Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election

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True, but

Breitbart and Fox News are by far some of the worst and most blatant purveyors of tat.

Zuck's 2019 tech talk tour should tackle the questions Facebook spent 2018 dodging

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Devil

How to win at social media use

1. Don't start.

Worked for me!

You can blame laziness as much as greed for Apple's New Year shock

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Yeah, bastards!

Bring back the iPod Classic.

And get off my lawn!

NHS England claims it will be all-digital within the decade

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Joke

Cheaper option?

If the NHS ask the Chinese nicely, they might send them a copy of their PI database.

After all the previous data breaches, I'm sure the Chinese already have a searchable index of UK Health Service data.

New Horizons snaps finish buffering: Ultima Thule actually two dust bunnies that got snuggly 4.5 billion years ago

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Linux

Bert and Ernie*

It looks like a rubber duck too.

* Extra points if that upsets the religious fundies...

Marriott: Good news. Hackers only took 383 million booking records ... and 5.3m unencrypted passport numbers

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Apologies ad nauseam

How about fines ad nauseam as well ?

Um, I'm not that Gary, American man tells Ryanair after being sent other Gary's flight itinerary

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I have a doppelganger email friend

His wife's and his own first names almost match my wife's and my first names.

Years ago we independently constructed portmanteau email addresses based on cut-down versions of our first names, with one tiny difference.

Same ISP. Thousands of Ks apart.

I often get his emails, usually for his most recent telephone purchase.

I know all about him. So, I got in contact.

I now just send his emails on to him and destroy my copy.

What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse

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Excellent article

But a life at sea, AND the chance that people might shoot at you, not jolly likely!

Pewdiepie fanboi printer, Chromecast haxxx0r retreats, says they're 'afraid of being caught'

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Devil

Kids today eh?

At least it keeps them off my lawn!

New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick?

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Pay attention in Maths and Physics class kids

You never know what you might get involved in...

A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

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Flamethrowers

Dirty great big flamethrowers!!!

/joke

Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is: 1. More ad revenue, and 2. Good PR. Lots of love – Mark, aged 34½

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FAIL

One day Mark, one day

When you stop lying, you'll become a real boy!

Houston, we've had a problem: NASA fears internal server hacked, staff personal info swiped by miscreants

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Re: Apollo 13

Wrong or right, no point cryo-ing about it.

German cybersecurity chief: Anyone have any evidence of Huawei naughtiness?

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Huawei the lads!

No comment.

I just wanted to use that title.

American bloke hauls US govt into court after border cops 'cuffed him, demanded he unlock his phone at airport'

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Devil

The US can't be too careful

After all, they already have a crook for a President.

Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC

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Show me the bunny

Bombastic Bob and LucreLout.

Guys, you're doing 'Narcissistic Prick' wrong.

Waaaay too much empathy...

Vitamin Water gets massive publicity for new flavor: Utter BS

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Vitamin Water

In some places known as: Utter Bullshit

Apple iPhone X screen falls short of promises, lawsuit says

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Wrong measurement

Use unicorn-tear picolitres per square xanadu length!

Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!

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Big Brother

We are the product.

Our PI is the IP.

Carry on citizen.

As you were.

Official: Voyager 2 is now an interstellar spacecraft

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Happy

Somehere in interstellar space...

Whheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Tesla autopilot saves driver after he fell asleep at wheel on the freeway

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Big Brother

Pretty soon....

...the authorities will want a software based back-door kill-switch.

I have control

No citizen, I have control...

FYI: NASA has sent a snatch-and-grab spacecraft to an asteroid to seize some rock and send it back to Earth

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Alert

Careful with that TAGSAM Eugene

Hit Bennu wrong and that 2175 to 2196 chance of collision might be > 1%

Here's the list of space orgs big and small sparring to send next NASA gear to the Moon

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Unhappy

Is it too much to ask for?

Before I go, I'd love to see, non invasive, HD/4K video of the various Apollo sites.

Perhaps a Moon drone flying around the various LEM bases?

It's been a very long time since 1972.