* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

SpaceX's Starship on the roster for Texas takeoff

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Mushroom

I would have waited

Until the 4th of July.

Want a Cybertruck? You're stuck with it for a year, says Tesla

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Devil

Cyberfail

Everyone is assuming they will last longer than a year…

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Re: Contact who?

If they send you 1 poop emoji, that equals: No

Two poop emoji equals: Yes

CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors

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Devil

Re: They could try this argument

Indeed they could.

It sounds reminiscent of something else.

I’m thinking New York, I’m thinking orange…..ummm

It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs

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Old car, for the win!

I have to use a cigarette lighter to USB converter to charge my phone.

And there ends the ‘integration’.

Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

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Trollface

Shocked I am, shocked!!

Waffle house!!

Has she no class, no style?

Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network

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Devil

I’ll be glad

When the Grokmiester disappears up his own FUD.

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Re: Grok

It was buggy.

They’re waiting on a patch from MS.

We're feeling pretty anti about these social networks

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Devil

As Bachman–Turner Overdrive once sang

You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals

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Facepalm

It’s OK, no really, go ahead

We promise we’re not watching…

World leaders ink AI safety pacts while Musk and Sunak engage in awkward bromance

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Big Brother

AI elections

Relax citizens, take another pill.

The election will be decided on by your ever loving AI leaders.

Ding!

Ah we have the result…

Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle

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Big Brother

They all just want your every data

All of it, 24/7, 365.

From birth to death and even after you depart.

They could at least be honest about it.

FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges

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Facepalm

Jack, on the other hand, was lucky

His magic beans actually bore fruit.

Although, at the expense of an over-tall gentleman.

It's been 25 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn's geriatric jaunt around Earth

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Alien

25 years you say

Still impressive.

Up with this kind of thing.

Tesla swerves liability in Autopilot death lawsuit

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Re: What about other road users?

“Boston Robotics dog”

Do they shit AA or AAA?

X says it's only worth $19B after year of Muskmanagement

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Trollface

$19 billion

If you think that’s good, then I have bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk

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Devil

Re: Going the way of Dodo bird

MySpace?

I think I read about that on Geocities..

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting

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Bets, burgers and booze

Bogan church!

I credit the copious betting adverts (+ reality TV) as the reason I long-ago ditched the goggle box.

Good on SBS.

Just one in ten UK orgs have significant AI investment plan

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Facepalm

Not much changes

Politicians still speak a load of tosh.

Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system

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Re: Mind you...

“ 4:00 - engage in "free time" inside your 2m x 2m personal leisure cube”

While under 360 degree video surveillance of course. Just in case you feel alone.

Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks

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Devil

Rich man says what?

In other NEWS, slavery, was it really that bad?..

Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds

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Easy enough to test

Get all the bosses and corporate office staff to work regular floor shifts for at least a month.

Report back.

13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal

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When an individual’s payout is so very low

Maybe all the money should be donated to a suitable* cause. In this case women’s health services.

* non political, non religious.

Teens take a million metaverse Ryanair flights in Roblox

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Noclip

I see you have activated “noclip”.

There’s an extra charge for that.

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Re: Bathroom?

Thunderbox

It is 20 years since the last commercial flight of Concorde

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Manchester airport static display

We did the Concorde Experience on a very recent trip to the UK.

Brilliant, well worth the £40 (includes champagne).

She is a thing of great beauty. So tall, so long and sleek.

London to New York was on sale in winter 1982, just £500 one way.

I simply couldn’t afford it at the time.

Regrets.

No more Mr Nice DoJ: Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims

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Pint

Re: The wisdom of the Internet

Oh lordy, that “lost” comment deserves one of these —>

LOL

NASA just patched Voyager 2's software but spared Voyager 1 the risky rewrite

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Car 54 where are you?

Brilliant stuff. I’m glad these amazing boffins and boffinesses were listening during school.

Astroboffins spot high-power 8b year old radio burst from pre-Earth event

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Pint

Fair shake of the sauce bottle, Trev!

And Didyabringyagrogalong?

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Alien

Relax

It’s just a coded ad for the Restaurant at the end of the universe.

“….try the veal”

Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

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Facepalm

That seems odd, no?

If someone doesn’t understand what they are doing, they’re probably not going to notice that there is an error.

Even with a basic understanding, you should have some idea of what a valid outcome will look like.

Boeing gives busy billionaires unbothered about bespoke beds a cheaper BizJet

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Re: "to suit 'personal, business and head-of-state airplane requirements' "

Kids today, eh?

Always after the latest thing.

I still daily my Boeing 707-120.

It rattles a bit but you get that.

San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes

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Black Helicopters

Impact on crime: Nil

Impact on vouyeristic cable TV cop shows: Bonanza!

Moonstruck Modi wants lunar Indian crew by 2040

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Devil

Even faster if they dispense with a survivable landing…

Down and out: Barclays Bank takes unplanned digital detox, customers not invited

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FAIL

You can’t complain about the service

There is none

X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year

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Trollface

Thanks for the belly laugh, I needed that

Me, give Musk, my phone and credit card number?

Just to be exposed to his far-right shit-womble?

LOL

Thousands of Teslas recalled over brake fluid bug

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Big Brother

Permission

Are Tesla owners even allowed access to their cars service areas?

His Muskiness doesn’t like those with poor faith…

Tesla goons will buy anything – including these $150 beers

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Windows

NFT lager

I can’t imagine the faithful Musk-acolytes actually drinking the stuff.

That would be sacrilegious. Surely.

Brit watchdog slams Microsoft as it clears $69B Activision Blizzard buy

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Boffin

Re: Embarrassment for the UK

“at least not since the ZX Spectrum went out of fashion...”

What?

When did this happen?

UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy

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£1.3M

Less chips, more a bag of fried scratchings.

Pickled onion with that sir?

Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint

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Coat

An apple a day

It used to keep the Doctor away.

Now he/she can find you anytime, anywhere.

US Navy sailor admits selling secret military blueprints to China for $15K

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Joke

All I can say to that is…

On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong!

And the Monkeys all say Boo!

Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping!

And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang!

And you just cant catch em when they do!

So it’s Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning!

Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang!

What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!

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Trollface

What can you buy these days with $15k?

A US navy operative, obviously.

Astronomers spot collision between two exoplanets, both feared vaporized

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Alien

Old news

You earthlings are only finding out now?

New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author

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Trollface

Some simulation

Pineapple on pizza?

No way that’s natural.

SpaceX accused of paying less to women and minority engineers

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Alert

Re: To Be Completed

“THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK”

It's time to celebrate the abysmal efforts to go paperless in the NHS

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Megaphone

Sticky on numbers + a megaphone or two

Come in number 765453 your Doctor is here!!!

NASA taking its time unboxing asteroid sample because it grabbed too much stuff

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Headmaster

“made it possible for you to read this very story”

True, but I’m betting my first grade teacher Mrs Walton might disagree.

Yes, Singapore immigration plans to scan your face instead of your passport

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Joke

Facial recognition

Singapore’s way to detect chewing gum users.

Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe

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I’m with the Norwegians on this matter

However, keep in mind that your average Meta-Space-Cadet cares little about their privacy.

If they did, they’d not be a user of the (advert) “service”.