* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Drupal sci-fi sex scandal deepens: Now devs spank Dries over Gor bloke's banishment

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Angel

Sin and sex

Only one of these things actually exists.

To Hull with the crap town naysayers: UK Culture City's got some amazing... telecoms

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Meh

Relatives on mine lived in Hull in the 1700 and 1800s

One was born at "swine lane"

The mind boggles.

Astro-boffinry breakthrough: Loads of ingredients for life found on Saturn's Enceladus

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Trollface

astrobiologists exam

1. Write a complete list of all known astrobiology. Extra paper is available on request.

Seriously, good job.

Alert: Using a web ad blocker may identify you – to advertisers

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Devil

Social media

Now there's ya problem.

Law Commission pulls back on official secrets laws plans after Reg exposes flawed report

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El Reg: 1

Forces of evil: 0

Cowardly Microsoft buries critical Hyper-V, WordPad, Office, Outlook, etc security patches in normal fixes

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Devil

Trust me

I'm from Redmond...

Boeing 737 turns 50

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A venerable workhorse

Flew in many of these.

Some spanking new and some clearly recycled and held together with spit and tissue paper.

Ex-IBMer sues Google for $10bn – after his web ad for 'divine honey cancer cure' was pulled

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Devil

How do you become an Alt Med practitioner?

It's easy, there's nothing to it.

'Evidence of Chinese spying' uncovered on eve of Trump-Xi summit

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Devil

Hirrary done it

Why bother?

Trump's stupid enough to Tweet state secrets between press tanties.

Sorry eh? Canadian mounties own up: Yes, we own 10 IMSI-catchers

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Re: Red Chinese Monkey Patrol

Yes indeed.

Many years ago I had a minor car wreck in the back-blocks of the Yukon.

Waited for the Mounties to show up for insurance etc....

- No horse

- No red uniform

More disappointing than the accident.

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Red Chinese Monkey Patrol

Such snappy uniforms, who could be mad at them?

Manchester pulls £750 public crucifixion offer

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Devil

Ok then, how about a good old stoning!

...are there any women here...?

NY court slaps down Facebook's attempt to keep accounts secret from search warrants

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Trollface

Just goes to show

Facebook is just not warranted.

US border cops must get warrants to search citizens' gadgets – draft bipartisan law emerges

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Big Brother

As someone who experienced Soviet Bloc border controls

All I can say is: has the Obertwitterführer (thanks Mephistro) heard of "glasnost"?

Snakes and bats cause more blackouts than criminal haxors

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Re: Flying foxes

"Wonder what other horrible fauna Australia's got I haven't heard of?"

BEWARE THE 'DROP BEAR' !!!

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Bat Fink

"Blackouts in Australia can be caused by snakes, birds, bats, and cats, but precious few by Russian hackers."

That's just what the Rissians want you to think....

Cambridge Analytica arrives in Australia to STEAL our democracy!

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Different fleas

Same rats

Y'know CSS was to kill off HTML table layout? Well, second time's a charm: Meet CSS Grid

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Yay!

As above

How hard will it be to measure Planet Nine?

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Planet 10

Name it: "Pluto B"

No, I'm not over it!

Home Office accused of blocking UK public's scrutiny of Snoopers' Charter

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RE: Consultation

Government consultation is just code for: "Selling the message" or "Bringing the people on a journey"

Alabama joins anti-web-smut crusade with mandatory opt-out filters

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Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers

Oh Alabama!

US Customs sued for information about border phone searches

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Do you have a mobile device?

Me: No

Homeland Security: Not at all?

Me: Well yes, back at home in (overseas country).

Homeland Security: Right! Fly back home and get it and we'll think about letting you in...

--> let me check my coat again.

[not a true story]

Astroboffins clock thriving stellar nursery nestled in violent supermassive black hole

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Reality

Even more amazing than expected.

nbn™ builder prioritises easy premises, because it must work like that

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We're on the road to node-ware

I've taken up pigeon keeping, I'm gunna collar the comms market.

Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

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I'm gunna wash that LAN right out of my hair...

Apologies for those old enough.

If you were cuffed during Trump's inauguration, cops are trying to crack your smartphone

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Change to the Preamble to the United States Constitution

We the accused...

Australia bins safe harbour, presses ahead with Minister-as-NetAdmin plan

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Brandis

That paragon of virtue, honesty and transparency!

What could possibly go wrong?

Coppers 'persistently' breach data protection laws with police tech

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Relax

The PNC is just Facebook for coppers...

That 'Trump lawyers threaten teen over kitten website' yarn is Fakey Fakey McFake Fakeface

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Re: Easy to prove..

Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to scan letters written in thick crayon?

TRAPPIST-1's planets are quiet. Quiet as the grave, in fact

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Ahah! Not so fast Mr Scientist

Every fool knoa that "climate models" and "climate change" are a commie-pinko-Darwinian-LGBTI-Planned Parenthood conspiracy theory!

Now THAT'S a landslide victory: Astroboffins snap avalanche on a comet in science first

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RE: Large crack visible near cliff edge (image)

You can almost see the "Free bird seed!" sign left by Wile E. Coyote....

Plans to force ISPs to filter content branded 'disproportionate'

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We are the children

The Government is Mummy and Daddy.

The Government loves you very much...

Info Commish marks own homework, says it didn't break law over Prince Charles request

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Pass the Duchy on the left-hand side

What are they smoking?

World's worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam

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Necurs

We are ALL Necurs....

Icon --> Getting 'Lucille' out

Now UK bans carry-on lappies, phones, slabs on flights from six nations amid bomb fears

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^^ This

I'd rather leave my tech at home than trust it to the rough and tumble, and light-fingeredness of the baggage handling process.

60 slow-mo A-bomb test videos explode onto YouTube

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Mushroom

Thanks for the article!

I shall pass it on to Dad.

Although not strictly the same, he was at the Anglo-Australian nuclear tests. (Christmas Is, Monte Bello and Maralinga)

Icon: Turn around!

* Also to: Brenda McViking for the link

Spammy Google Home spouts audio ads without warning – now throw yours in the trash

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Terminator

A spokesdroid said:

"We’re continuing to experiment with new ways to surface unique content [EAT AT JOE's] for users and we could have done [HALF OFF AT TARGET] better in this case."

NSA hacking chief's mission impossible: Advising White House on cybersecurity

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But

Can you even encrypt crayons?

Twitter app pwned by pro-Turkey hackers: Users' accounts sling 'Nazi' slurs

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Erwegoagn!

What's up with Erdogan?

Trump stealing his crack-pot-dictator lime light?

Headphone batteries flame out mid-flight, ignite new Li-Ion fears

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Rude awakening at 30,000ft

Now if only you could still take bottles of water aboard....

Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans

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Ahh yes, Simpkins, do come in, take a seat

Now about your application for promotion. It seems you will be leaving us before long, and the training is rather expensive. Have you considered spending more time with your family, hmmm?

BOAR-ZILLA stalks Fukushima's dead zone

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Re: I prefer dangerous seafood

Downwind?

Flying fish?

[joke]

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I prefer dangerous seafood

Maybe some Fukushasumi....

Road accident nuisance callers fined £270,000 for being absolute sh*tbags

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Political robocalls are standard here

How anyone imagines you will vote for a shower of shites who ring you with a recorded message TWICE EVERY evening, for weeks, is beyond me.

Oops! 185,000-plus Wi-Fi cameras on the web with insecure admin panels

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You!

Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

Smut-scamming copyright chaser 'fesses up, will do hard time

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Re: God I love America:

YEAH!

"The "so called president" is called that because - let me think, oh yes! He is actually the president."

And what's more, the best damn President that the Russians could afford too!

Messaging app used by Trump aides 'riddled with security bugs'

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Devil

"Users were permitted to choose short, easy-to-guess passwords."

"great"

You just know he would....

Department of Human Services says citizens, not systems, to blame

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FAIL

Australia's Department of Human Services (DHS)

Which circle of hell is that?

Current management need to be paraded, in public, to apologise for their heartless attitude.

BYO: rotten fruit.

FBI boss: 'Memories are not absolutely private in America'

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..."encryption, --- making life difficult for the FBI."

Then, let encryption run thick, far and wide.

No 'finger' emote?

Thumb down will have to do.

That CIA exploit list in full: The good, the bad, and the very ugly

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Joke

I got spied on once....

....CIA said I was too boring, so moved on to the Hamdani's next door.