* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Jupiter flashes pulsating southern pole, boffins understandably baffled

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Science

Never stops giving

Vlad the blockader: Russia's anti-VPN law comes into effect

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Devil

Trump will do similar

FNN

Fake News Network

Fine, OK, no backdoors, says Deputy AG. Just keep PLAINTEXT copies of everyone's messages

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Facepalm

Just like the school bully

Thick, but determined.

Comet 67-P farted just as Rosetta probe flew through the gas plume

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Flame

SBD

Silent but deadly

India to launch moon mission in March 2018

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Lunar rover design

Any truth to the rumour that the rover will be a modified Hindustan Ambassador?

But anyway, good job.

Up with this kind of thing.

Hey, you know why it's called the iPhone X? When you see Apple's repair bill, your response will be X-rated

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Meh

A device costing $1000 +

Is not a device I'm going to carry around with me.

It has priced itself out of being practical for me.

Interstellar space rock screams through Solar System

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Natural Voyager

Sorry, can't stop.

Passing through.

No offence.

Just, can't, stop!

Watch: "The Farthest" for a cool look back on Voyager 1 and 2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/

AI bot rips off human eyes, easily cracks web CAPTCHA codes. Ouch

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Coat

What about using moral challenges?

Find the ODD one out:

Do you think sexual harassment is OK?

  • No, never
  • It is deplorable
  • This is a bad thing
  • Stop doing it
  • I am Donald Trump

UK.gov: Use police body cams to grill suspects at scene of crime

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Devil

Kafkaesque

"if a suspect refuses this kind of recording, they must first lodge their objection on camera."

Who writes these laws?

Comedians?

Brave Twitter axes Russian media ads 11 months after the fact

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Now

Can they axe the great twatter-er himself?

US voting server in election security probe is mysteriously wiped

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Great work fellas

- Poorly configured server

- Poor security

- Server wiped

- Don't know who dun it

- e-voting in general

- stink of corruption and/or interference

MAGA!

Making Accountability Generally Avoidable

Boffins trapped antiprotons for days, still can't say why they survived the Big Bang

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Devil

If you are looking for anti-intelligence matter

Try; 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC.

There is enough for everyone.

'Screaming' man fined $149 for singing 'Everybody Dance Now'

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Devil

They haven't heard me sing

Might make it to a federal offence...

Telstra said its 7-incher was really an 11-incher, left customers frustrated, unsatisfied

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Devil

RE: Dealing with Telstra is its own punishment.

It's the 10th level of Hell.

Survey: Tech workers are terrified they will be sacked for being too old

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Windows

The old devil is in the detail

14 months out from retirement. *

I find that the more I know and the more detail I retain, the more people rely on me.

The young-uns just don't seem to be able to cope with complexity and accuracy.

My boss has 'forbidden' me from retirement.

* Yes, I am counting.

Japan finds long, deep tunnel on the Moon

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Happy

Clanger holes

Much larger than I thought.

NYC cops say they can't reveal figures on cash seized from people – the database is too shoddy

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Devil

Balls !!!!

The money is only resting in the Policeman's Ball account....

Please replace the sword, says owner of now-hollow stone

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In other NEWS

Bullwinkle finally pulled a rabbit from a hat.....

No, the FCC can't shut down TV stations just because Donald Trump is mad at the news

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Devil

A question of etiquette

I know it's rude to stare and laugh at the mentally challenged.

But.

May this rule be excused when it comes to Donny 'Bigly" Trump?

Domino's Pizza delivers user details to spammers

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Devil

Spam pizzas?

Horrible!!

Australian senator Pauline Hanson wants devilish scam calls to flash '666'

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Re: Competition

Your guys lead, our guys follow....

Ernst & Young slapped with £1.8 MEEEELLION fine for crap accounting

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EY - My experience

Staffed by under-paid, under-skilled, graduates and managed by overpaid client relationship managers.

Assange thanks USA for forcing him to invest in booming Bitcoin

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Devil

Does the Ecuadorian commissary accept Bitcoin?

How much change do you get for a Mars bar and a can of Redbull?

Twitter to be 'aggressive' enforcer of new, stronger rules

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Devil

Maybe just rebrand to core values?

"Misogynistter" perhaps?

Top of the radio charts: Jodrell Bank goes for UNESCO World Heritage status

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Went there once

Terrific.

Well worth a visit.

Screw the badgers! Irish High Court dismisses Apple bit barn appeals

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Like Badgers in Ireland

Apple don't pay any tax

Oz military megahack: When crappy defence contractor cybersecurity 'isn't uncommon', surely alarm bells ring?

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Re: Still none of that matters if the data being protected is not that valuable.

"(IMHO lager is mfg'd, not brewed)."

Perhaps.

But IMHO Fosters is NOT beer.

Exactly what it is, who knows.

Australians rarely drink the shit.

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Facepalm

Time for some Pyne-o-clean

Christopher Pyne must be accountable, otherwise why is he a Minister?

Someone liked dwarf planet Haumea so much they put a ring on it

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One thing is sure

The universe is more varied and majestic than we can probably imagine.

Go astro-boffins!

NASA readies its asteroid warning system for harmless flyby

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Mushroom

Don't Panic!

[sounds on digging...]

'Israel hacked Kaspersky and caught Russian spies using AV tool to harvest NSA exploits'

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Big Brother

Spy versus Spy

Please form a queue here:

Moon trumps Mars in new US space policy

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Alien

Meanwhile on the Moon....

"There goes the neighbourhood."

"I wonder what Uranus is like this time of year"

Video games used to be an escape. Now not even they are safe from ads

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Dr Breens Private Reserve

Brought to you by Hl3....

Boffins' bonkers fibre demo: 53 Tbps down ONE piece of glass

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Devil

Don't tell Malcolm Turnbull

He is still working on his Twine 1.0 tech.

Amazon told to repay €250m in 'unfair state aid' from Luxembourg

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Capitalism

capitalism

=================

ˈkapɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/

noun

noun: capitalism

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

tax avoidance

=================

(See capitalism)

World's first dedicated computer centre declared 'irreplaceable' by Historic England

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TNMOC rocks!

Well worth a visit, lovely staff, nostalgia, lots of working and non-working computers, plus all manner of bits and pieces.

Go and see Colossus, if nothing else. This is computing you can see, hear and smell.

Nothing matters any more... Now hapless Equifax bags $7.5m IT contract with US taxmen

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Good move by the IRS

They can now cross-validate their SS data with that held by the hackers.

Forget security, pppfffft. Data accuracy is the new thing.

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull hints at surveillance expansion

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Big Brother

Dubious timing

No doubt this little nugget of shit masquerading as 'anti-terror' BS has been deliberately released during the media-storm over Las Vegas.

Asshats.

Tech VCs sue Uncle Sam over President Trump's immigration chill

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Re: Oh - comma - Really?!?

@ Big John

Are you a bot?

If so, do you dream?

NetApp scraps first day of Insight conf talks at Mandalay Bay after terrorist guns down 58

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Kudos for using the word:

"Terrorist"

Thomas the Tank Engine lobotomised by fat (remote) controller

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Devil

"cannot stop in time if they see a person on the tracks"

Yes, but, the meat-controller can help the train-automaton to fill in the accident report papers...

US yanks staff from Cuban embassy over sonic death ray fears

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Retaliate

Blast them back with loud recordings of Trump speeches.

Or would that be pushing the Geneva Convention?

SanDisk man tipped off his family to Fusion-io fusion, bagged $220k in share snatch – says SEC

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Greed.

Numbs the brain like no other.

Joint Committee on the NBN splits, as National Party member sides with opposition

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Meh

FTTP, reality?

Or pipe dream that is *light* years away.

(But I live in hope, just)

Ex-sperm-inate! Sam the sex-droid 'heavily soiled' in randy nerd rampage

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Terminator

Once you put a ring on her finger

"Computer says; NO"

Trump's tax tease will be a massive payday for Valley tech giants and their shareholders

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MAGA!

Making (the) Affluent Greedy Again!

Ransomware keeping cops, NHS and local UK gov bods awake at night

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Alert

"We need to make sure [good security practice] is everyone's responsibility,"

Best be careful who you get in to advise your staff:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/26/deloitte_leak_github_and_google/

Did the Earth move for you, too? Grav waves sensed from black holes' bang 1.8bn LYs away

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Mass moves in mysterious ways

Science for the win!

Equifax CEO falls on his sword weeks after credit biz admits mega-breach

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If you must stuff up

Stuff up BIG TIME.

It pays better.

White House staffers jabbed with probe over private email use

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Re: Am I paranoid?

"it sure helps throw Trump off his game,"

Wait!

Trump has a game?

This isn't just some random crap coming from an imbecile?

Wow.