* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Giant spawn hammer on Antarctica map. Thanks, Google Waze

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Don't show Trump

He'll want to invade immediately!

Australia considers joining laptops-on-planes ban

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Meh

Now showing

Young Malcolm is in dire need of a distraction, good old security theater to the rescue!

How are those polls going?

WannaCrypt outbreak contained as hunt for masterminds kicks in

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You Sir, stole my post

Well played.

Have a go with this WW2 German Lorenz cipher machine – in your browser

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+1 for the TNMOC

Well worth a visit if you ever find yourself in the desolate wilds of Milton Keynes.

All that free music on YouTube is good for you, Google tells music biz

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Re: Radio?

"Cheese isle"

Do they do package tours?

I like a bit of Wensleydale myself.

Trump signs executive order on cybersecurity, White House now runs the show

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Alert

Dunning-Kruger risk today

High, very high. Sad.

The US is being managed by dolts.

Oz MP flies crypto-kite, wants backdoors without backdoors

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Facepalm

The magic pudding

OK, how about encryption that only works for the good guys....?

America 'will ban carry-on laptops on flights from UK, Europe to US'

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Re: In their defense (sic)

Thanks guys. These things I know and understand.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811

Though not a bomb, the plane landed OK with a huge hole in it.

Just trying to put my mind in the space of the Ne'er-do-wells....

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Devil

In their defense (sic)

Maybe the explosion from a laptop bomb in the hold might be better contained within the other baggage, whereby a laptop in the cabin could be held against a window/wall?

Devil's advocate -->

Another IoT botnet has been found feasting on vulnerable IP cameras

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Stop

Just apply the "DC Patch"

Infestation aside: yet another use for Duct Tape.

FBI boss James Comey was probing Trump's team for Russia links. You're fired, says Donald

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Facepalm

All is well in Trumpistan

Cats and dogs, living together...

Facebook is abusive. It's time to divorce it

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Terminator

I can't be the first to say:

[smug mode]

I never used Facebook.

[smug mode continues]

Fake ruse: USA Today calls the FBI after half of its 15m Facebook Likes turn out to be bogus

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Trollface

"successfully spam their victims with links to tat online"

I include Facebook in that category.

Debenhams Flowers shoppers stung by bank card-stealing tech pest

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Pirate

A company spokedroid said:

No flowers by request.

Australian Taxation Office named as party preventing IT contractors being paid

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WA offices

Over here WA stands for Wait Awhile.....

Uncle Sam backs down on slurping passwords from US visa hopefuls

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America

Just say no.

PS: Canada is nicer, and safer, anyway.

Hackers emit 9GB of stolen Macron 'emails' two days before French presidential election

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Meh

I rather hope...

...the French take their democracy a whole lot more seriously than do their US cousins.

Greater Manchester cops fined after victim interview vids lost in post

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In a pervese and obscure way...

...the victims, should they be tax payers or not, helped pay the fine!

Leaked: The UK's secret blueprint with telcos for mass spying on internet, phones – and backdoors

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Big Brother

They like to watch

Resistance is futile

Windows 10 S forces Bing, Edge on your kids. If you don't like it, get Win10 Pro – Microsoft

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Childcatcher

Come out little children...

Come out and get some goodies...

Let's go live to the Uber-Waymo legal war – and see what's happening

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Re: $250 million

I probably just chewed the end off, a bad habit of the times.

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Trollface

$250 million

Not bad for a recruitment bonus I guess.

When I first started working 35 years ago, I got a free biro *.

* But I couldn't take it home.

WhatsApp is more like WhatsDown: Messenger collapsed for millions

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Joke

Litigation? Take-down? Copyright?

Maybe that prior-art legal action from Mr B. Bunny of Pismo Beach has legs after all, Doc!

Unpaid tech contractor: 'I have to support my family. I have no money for medicines'

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Unhappy

These guys are being screwed over

I'm so glad I'm on the 'exit ramp' of my career and changing down gears.

LinkedIn chatbots to help with 'important conversations'

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Facepalm

26B$

Imagine spending that money of something, you know, useful:

- clean water in Africa

- renewable energy sources

- education for the needy

- cleaning the oceans

- etc

We are toast.

Welsh Linux Mint terror nerd jailed for 8 years

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Devil

Cufflinks?

How 1970's

Transatlantic link typo by Sweden's Telia broke Cloudflare in the US

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Trollface

Bork, bork, bork!

Bork, bork, bork, bork, bork, bork, bork, bork, bork, bork,

Cybercrook spared jail after copping to FIFA video game mega-hack

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Devil

Back in the day....

...we were content with jamming an ice cream stick in the coin slot to enable free ball return / free games on the pub pool table.

Kids today, eh?

Republicans go all Braveheart again with anti-net neutrality bill

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Festering swamp rats!

Why is America lead by such utter asshats?

(rhetorical question)

Boffins gently wake the Large Hadron Collider from annual hibernation

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Boffin

Time to Paaaaarticle

+ one for amazing boffins and boffinesses!

Huawei used cheap-as-chips chips in some P10s, now buyers want to boil it in oil

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Devil

Puts a new meaning to:

Minimum chips.

Trump trumps US Digital Service with order to establish American Technology Council

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WTF?

By golly gee willikers...

The Numpty is strong in this one.

KickassTorrents kicked out again, this time by Australia

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Devil

I. Must. Not. Click.....

My government loves me and knows what is best.

Australian Federal Police accessed metadata without warrant, broke law

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Re: How the carrier should know

The Feds cross check alcohol, cigarette, notepad and take-away meal sales meta data....

NASA's Cassini snaps pic inside Saturn's ring – peace among the stars

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Ring burn

Way to go Cassini

iPhone lawyers literally compare Apples with Pears in trademark war

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Joke

So my new company logo....

...."Dogshit Industries - we have the drop on innovation"...

probably won't make it either.

Try to sell stuff through Facebook Marketplace and get locked out for 72 hours – nice one, Zuck

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Big Brother

Facebook

Always creepy, never beaten.

Reg reader offered £999,998 train ticket from Cambridge to Horley

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Re: Not forgetting

Indeed.

Never forgotten

Don't install our buggy Windows 10 Creators Update, begs Microsoft

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Trollface

Don't inhale

Don't open the window

Ewe, get a womb! Docs grow baby lambs in shrink-wrap plastic bags

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Unhappy

Sous-vide?

Disturbing though...

Expedia IT bod gets all-expenses-paid trip to prison after hacking execs' emails for profit

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Sitting in the dock at the Bay

Watching my careeeeer fading away....

[Apols to: Otis Redding]

Lyrebird steals your voice to make you say things you didn't – and we hate this future

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Re: Just curious

"It's called cabbage"

Or in concealed carry format: Brussel sprouts

Webroot antivirus goes bananas, starts trashing Windows system files

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Devil

Webrooted

Seems they haven't changed much since I last used their software.

Canada says yes to net neutrality – and no to Trump advisor, eh?

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O Canada

Better, just always better.

Cuffing Assange a 'priority' for the USA says attorney-general

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Trollface

Double bunks?

Julian might find Kim Jong-un moving in as well soon.

Sleep-over!

Trump's self-imposed cybersecurity deadline is up: What we got?

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Flame

President Snowflake

Melting faster than Frosty vacationing on Mercury...

30,000 London gun owners hit by Met Police 'data breach'

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Devil

You leave one USB stick on a train and....

...everyone is shooting the messenger.

We're spying on you for your own protection, says NSA, FBI

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Hiding illegal activity in plain sight

Remember kids, these agencies are supposed to be the good guys.

Do they also cross their fingers when making these statements?

Google's cloudy image recognition is easily blinded, say boffins

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Blinded by the blight

Next: Increase in robberies by pimply people!

eBay threatens to block Australians from using offshore sellers

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Meh

Add the 10%, make me pay delivery and wait for the post

It's still a much better deal than any local supplier/retailer.

If you can even get the item locally.