* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Cambridge Analytica CEO suspended – and that's not even the worst news for them today

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Re: OK, that's it!

I'll buy a JCB to pour in the corn!

US govt's final bid to extradite Lauri Love kicked into touch

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"US detention and healthcare provision have been rightly shown to be unjust and oppressive"

Being poor or incarcerated (especially both) in the America WILL be injurious to your health.

US cops go all Minority Report: Google told to cough up info on anyone near a crime scene

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Big Brother

C'mon guys, we are all guilty of something!

It's just a matter of what.

If unsure, wait where you are while your betters construct some new laws....

Cyborg fined for riding train without valid ticket

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Re: Jenny Agutter wearing that short dress

Oooh dear, I remember that too.

Here is the antidote:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nintchdbpict000202028163.jpg?strip=all&w=640

Windows 10 to force you to use Edge, even if it isn't default browser

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Close to the edge

..... In this case: NO .......

China to offer recoverable satellites-as-a-service

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Come in XUR 12322716523

Your time is up!

Microsoft says 'majority' of Windows 10 use will be 'streamlined S mode'

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Pirate

Windows S

Superfluous?

Pasties in SPAAAAACE: Cornwall hopes for slice of £50m spaceport cash

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch space port

You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

Europe plans special tax for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon

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Joke

Sign me up for 2% tax

Hell, I'll pay 4% !!

TVEyes blindsided: Fox News defeats search engine in copyright spat

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Definitely a crime!

It's bad enough that FOX News exists at all, but reproducing it?

INHUMAN.

Washington (no, not that one) to pass hardcore net neutrality law: All ISPs in state must obey

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Well Spokane!

I hope this will Seattle the issue.

Why, why, Mr American Pai? FCC boss under increasing pressure in corporate favoritism row

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So

Who's got a finger in the Pai?

Symantec ends cheap Norton offer to NRA members

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And if the NRA don't change their ways...

They will offer them a lifetime subscription.

NRA gives FCC boss Ajit Pai a gun as reward for killing net neutrality. Yeah, an actual gun

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Guns are love!

Fearless leader is a genius

We have always been at war with Eurasia

Take your meds citizen

Vatican sets up dedicated exorcism training course

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Exorcism?

Cardinal Biggles called, wants his inquisition back.

Nooooooobody....

Seriously though, it's 2018 guys.

Stop with the magic shit.

Who wanted a future in which AI can copy your voice and say things you never uttered? Who?!

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Re: Ring ring...

What research?

I doubt my childhood medical records exist in an easily discoverable way.

PS: I fell from the top bunk of a bed... Oh, darn it!

PPS: Mum is 80, and quite well thank you.

PPPS: I was 6 at the time, so things hadn't 'developed' in that department.

PPPPS: It wasn't my wrist.

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Ring ring...

Hi, eh, Mum?

You need how much money?

I should wire it to your account.

It's for urgent medical procedures, you say.

OK.

One question, explain to me again how I broke my wrist in 1968...

<click>

duh duh duh...

The YouTube crackdown on fake news: Promoting bonkers Florida school shooting conspiracies

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And how about those Moon landings, eh?

Water isn't actually wet.

Trump is a great POTUS.

Flares look great.

The Edsel was a top seller.....

Australia joins the 'decrypt it or we'll legislate' club

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Dutton

Mr Potato Head say what?

https://goo.gl/images/FVwyVS

Australia's new insta-pay scheme has insta-lookup of any user's phone number

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I prefer to delete the email and THEN laugh.

But each to their own.

Sorry, Elon, your Tesla roadster won't orbit for billions of years

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Crash into Venus you say!

Seems that Ralph Nader was right.

Unsafe at any speed.

NASA budget shock: Climate studies? GTFO. We're making the Moon great again, says Trump

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Re: Fools never learn

2/10

Why so generous?

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Send Trump to the Moon

100% guaranteed to find NONE of the pesky Climate Change stuff there.

Hold your breath Donny!

nbn™ scoreboard: our new way to look at Australia's national broadband network

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NBN cabinet installed in next street to us!

I suspect it's empty, but WHOOOOO it sure looks nice and shiny.

Still not on Windows 10? Fine, sighs Microsoft, here are its antivirus tools for Windows 7, 8.1

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For Sale: In the Fort Clark, North Dakota area

Free blankets!!

Surplus direct from the military smallpox infirmary in St. Louis.

Assange fails to make skipped bail arrest warrant vanish

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Devil

I feel sorry for the guy!

Naaah.....

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Re: Ian Michael Gumby A Flagrant Rotten Denial of Justice and a Blot in the UKGBNI Landscape

Re: "Assange created his own mess. Now he has to live with it."

Should have worn that condom.

Of course a mystery website attacking city-run broadband was run by an ISP. Of course

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Very Trump-ish

Stupidity mixed with immorality, coated with a false sense of ability...

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF CARS: SpaceX parks a Tesla in orbit (just don't mention the barge)

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Alien

Car update

Apparently someone has already stolen the wheels....

A Hughes failure: Flat Earther rocketeer can't get it up yet again

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Never argue with a flat earther

You will end up in a ball.

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Re: "Curvature" proves nuthin!

Obvious troll is obvious!

Flat wrong.

No Windows 10, no Office 2019, says Microsoft

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Fine

Take your orifice and shove it.

Are you taking the peacock? United Airlines deny flight to 'emotional support' bird

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Gavin the Cassowary

Will be very disappointed!

Cassowary

Nork hackers exploit Flash bug to pwn South Koreans. And Adobe will deal with it next week

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Nike - Just do it

Flash - Just don't do it

FYI: That Hawaii missile alert was no UI blunder. Someone really thought the islands were toast

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Portable air raid shelter

Method: Place your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye.

On an aircraft, it's what's known as the Extreme Brace Position.

To hack Australia and learn its secrets, buy second-hand furniture

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"Beware of the Leopard."

......a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.”

Obviously not.

'Bitcoin heist' shock: Cops seek 4 for aggravated burglary in Midsomer Murders town

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Midsomer Murders town

Is there anyone left alive?

Crooks make US ATMs spew million-plus bucks in 'jackpotting' hacks

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Physical access

Now there's ya problem!

UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory nominated as World Heritage Site

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To infinity and beyond!

Jodrell Bank is awesome.

Well worth a day out in the countryside.

PACK YOUR BAGS! Two Trappist-1 planets have watery oceans, most likely to be inhabitable

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39 light years from our home world

And yet, there will already be black, red, and gold towels laid out by the best pools!

UK competition watchdog: Fox's takeover of Sky 'not in public interest'

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Murdoch's one redeeming feature

He thinks Trump is a f*cking idiot.

OK, who had 'Montana' in the net neutrality state pool? Congratulations

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Montana

Known for it's high speed limits!

Baywatch hero drone saves silly struggling swimmers Down Under from going down under

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C'mon!

It could have dropped a few cold ones as well.

Oh, and maybe some peanuts.*

They would be welcome during the leisurely drift into shore.

* Not chips, they'd get wet. Let's not be silly about things.

France to lend Brexit Britain sore souvenir of Norman yoke – the Bayeux Tapestry

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Copy to go to the US as well

Given the current leadership, they will get the 'Bayeux Crayola'.

China's first space station to – ahem – de-orbit in late March

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Skylab 2.0 ?

If so, I hope the Chinese pay their littering fine a bit quicker than the yanks did.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/australia-once-fined-nasa-400-for-littering.aspx

Ecuador tried to make Julian Assange a diplomat

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Part of the master plan

Soon:

10,000 Assange supporters, dressed in Ecuadorian national football team shirts and sporting grey wigs, will descend on the Embassy.

With bonus Yakety Sax music during the chase!

Hawaiian fake nukes alert caused by fat-fingered fumble of garbage GUI

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Oh my GUI

One hopes that the people in the bunkers with the actual pointy fire-sticks have a better procedure/GUI.

Hi!

You seem to be waging intercontinental thermonuclear warfare.

Do you need a hand with that?

- BOmB

US Senators force vote on Ctrl-Z'ing America's net neutrality death

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USA: Freedom Freedom Freedom !!!

Pssst: you can make a buck out it.

Money Money Money !!!

Memo man Damore is back – with lawyers: Now Google sued for 'punishing' white men

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Help! Help! I'm being repressed

Conservative views eh?

Now there's ya problem.

If Australian animals don't poison you or eat you, they'll BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE

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Fascinating

Scary, but fascinating.

I'm sure he didn't intend this to sound racist: “There's scepticism about this – lets get some non-Aboriginal people to see if they observed it,”