* Posts by Winkypop

5643 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Check out this link! It's not like it'll crash your iPhone or anything (Hint: Of course it will)

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Facepalm

Like a wet paint sign

People just HAVE to click.

Brit airport pulls flight info system offline after attack by 'online crims'

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Happy

Landing at Bristol as a foreigner

Passports?

Nah mate, you're OK...

Just 13 – no, er, make that 3,200 punters hit in Oz's Perth Mint hack

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It's times like these you need

Minties!

Trump shouldn't criticise the news media, says Amazon's Jeff Bezos

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Trump

A bit shit, really.

Activists raise alarm over insidious creep of surveillance in the UK

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Re: As a kid in the 60's

Original AC.

Not in rural NSW.

The most spy-based encounter I had was wearing a pair of Bata Scout shoes with the hidden compass in the heel.

Wannabe Supreme Brett Kavanaugh red-faced after leaked emails contradict spy testimony

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Trollface

Leaks?

Leaking Russian prostitutes on a bed?

Oh sorry, wrong scandal....

NASA's Kepler probe rouses from its slumber, up and running again

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Devil

Send NASA to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

They'll find another great lump that's way past it's use by date and needs major updates.

Voyager 1 left the planet 41 years ago – and SpaceX hopes to land on Earth this Saturday

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Voyager 1's last 'thought' before finally going dark

Did I leave the gas on?

Neutron star crash in a galaxy far, far... far away spews 'faster than light' radio signal jets at Earth

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Wow, that's quite a cosmic prang

Imagine the tail back and number of traffic cones around that one.

Google is 20, Chrome is 10, and Microsoft would rather ignore the Nokia deal's 5th birthday

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Big Brother

We used to do the searching

Now the big boys search for us...

Archive.org's Wayback Machine is legit legal evidence, US appeals court judges rule

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Happy

But

Mr Peabody was always correct!

Roskosmos admits that Soyuz 'meteorite' hole had more earthly origins

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If you look through the hole

IT'S FULL OF STARS!

Plusnet customers peeped others' deets during system upgrade

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"handful"

I'll bet it wasn't a Trump size handful either.

Now sing the chorus along with me:

"We take the protection of our customers' data extremely seriously, (repeat)

Huawei's Alexa-powered AI Cube wants to squat in your living room too

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Big Brother

I 'red' it as:

"Set up is very easy. You just plug the SIM card and you can give instant access to the great People's information bureau very soon,"

Space station springs a leak while astronauts are asleep (but don't panic)

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Windows

Trash day?

Just leave the old parts outside the craft.

Some guy in an old space-van will call by and take all the metals and valuable items.

Lawyers sued for impersonating rival firm online to steal clients

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Lawyer Thunderdome!

You know it makes sense

Do I hear two million dollars? Apple-1 fossil goes on the block, cassettes included

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Joke

Hmmmm

Do they have one in white?

MyHealth Record privacy legislation published

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Devil

What time is it now?

{implosion sound}

Internet overseer continues wall-punching legal campaign

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Joke

Ode Cologne!

Better call Biggie Rat and Itchy!

India's Cosmos bank raided for $13m by hackers

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Cosmos

I thought it was Billions and Billions...

Australia's Snooper's Charter: Experts react, and it ain't pretty

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Deeply flawed

Therefore: full steam ahead!

When's a backdoor not a backdoor? When the Oz government says it isn't

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Big Brother

Double Plus Good

Relax citizen.

The "if you've got nothing to hide" brigade will be here any minute!

Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

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Spaaaaaace Foooooorce!

Just think Muppets!

The analogy is pretty decent:

- Hollow

- Brainless

- Someone has a hand up their back

Greybeard greebos do runner from care home to attend world's largest heavy metal fest Wacken

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Statler and Waldorf?

Or some other old muppets?

New age discrim row: Accenture, Facebook sued by sales boss for favoring 'new blood'

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A new kind of hell

"He reported to two Facebook employees, one in her 20s, the other age 30 to 40"

The wheel turns slowly, but it turns: Feds emit IoT security tip sheet

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Stop

No

Just no

Click this link and you can get The Register banned in China

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Badly drawn dictator

This seems more of a slur on Pooh Bear than that Xi fella.

Irish Supremes make shock decision to hear Facebook's appeal in Schrems II

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Devil

Let's face(book) it...

The money is only resting in their account.

Now that's a dodgy Giza: Eggheads claim Great Pyramid can focus electromagnetic waves

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Devil

And...

...many other people think that homeopathy is real.

Have your own opinion by all means, but don't claim your own reality.

Oz government offers privacy concessions on MyHealth Record

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"Labor’s 2012 My Health Record legislation will be strengthened"

AKA: Big boys did it, then ran away.

Hunt is not fit.

Take some responsibility man!

Make Facebook, Twitter, Google et al liable for daft garbage netizens post online – US Senator

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Joke

Simples

1. By law, tag all social media content and, if not auto-blocked by users, make it display a warning message. "Here be shite"...

2. Ignore. Live. enjoy.

Ecuador's Prez talking to UK about Assange's six-year London Embassy stay – reports

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Send him out for the Friday night kebabs run

Then lock the door behind him...

Sorry, Neil Armstrong. Boffins say you may not have been first life-form to set foot on the Moon

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Meh

The clue is in the term

"Mankind"

(gender neutral by today's standards)

Oz digital health agency tightens medical record access as watchdog warns of crim honeypot

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A tissue, a tissue

We all opt out...

Will this biz be poutine up the cash? Hackers demand dosh to not leak stolen patient records

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Reminds me

Must opt-out of the Oz medical records scam scheme.

By Jove! Astroboffins spot 12 new spanking moons around Jupiter

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SMEG!

That astro-navigation exam just got a tad harder for Rimmer.

Trump wants to work with Russia on infosec. Security experts: lol no

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Comrade Trump

A useful idiot.

ZTE sends 400 million hostages, gets back in business stateside

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Hmmmm

Some people seem to believe that Trump actually has a plan.

The old 3D chess myth.

Like that bull in the china shop, all the rest of us see is sheer chaos, noise and destruction.

Personally, I think he just makes it up every day. His only plan being today's headline.

It's 2018 so, of course, climate.news is sold to climate change deniers

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Re: gTLDs

****** WE HAVE A WINNER ******

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So, simply avoid all .news sites

Thanks for the heads up.

Are you ready for some sueball?! NFL opens wallet, makes vid stream patent spat go away

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On the bright side

A courtroom debate over patent ownership is probably more interesting than an NFL game.

- runs away!

A curious tale of the priest, the broker, the hacked newswires, and $100m of insider trades

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Guys guys guys!!!

You're giving greed a bad name!

Did you know? The word 'Taiwan' would crash iOS thanks to a buggy filter for the Chinese govt

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Listen, don't mention Taiwan!

I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it alright

UK privacy watchdog to fine Facebook 18 mins of profit (£500,000) for Cambridge Analytica

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Cardinal Fang!

Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR!

[JARRING CHORD].

Fitness app Polar even better at revealing secrets than Strava

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Colonel Mustard

On the running track with the Polar

Four US govt agencies poke probe in Facebook following more 'oops, we spilled your data' shocks

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Just so glad I never drank the FB Koolaid

Hens coming home to roost --->

(Or Penguins, if they roost)

India tells WhatsApp to add filters, ASAP

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“Instances of lynching of innocent people have been noticed recently"

As opposed to what?

Instances of lynching of guilty people?

Just stop the lynching I say!!!

Centrelink scheduled maintenance at time clients needed it most

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Centrelink online

It's own circle of Hell.

When Google's robots give your business the death sentence – who you gonna call?

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Meh

"Google support lacks human judgement"

And when you do talk to a human*, they lack the approval and process to use human judgement.

* Admittedly this hasn't happen to me for a few years.

RIP Peter Firmin: Clangers creator dies aged 89

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Basil Brush et al

Boom boom!