* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

UK's new Snoopers' Charter just passed an encryption backdoor law by the backdoor

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Dad

What did you do in the Revolution?

ExoMars probe snaps photos of your next dystopian home world when Earth goes to crap

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All interplanetary science is cool

See title

Internet Archive preps Canadian safe haven to swerve Donald Trump

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Mushroom

Better idea...

Just move Donald Trump and his science-denying cronies to..........the Oort Cloud

Canadian cops cuff 11-year-old lad after Grand Theft Auto gets real

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Trollface

"when the cops decided to intervene"

Code for: "when the cops decided to leave Tim Hortons"

Loyalty card? Really? Why data-slurping store cards need a reboot

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Stop

Nope

No loyalty cards for me.

They can pay ME for access to my shopping habits, however I don't come cheap.

Grand App Auto: Tesla smartphone hack can track, locate, unlock, and start cars

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Re: Going stone-age

Stone-age with benefits...

Electric VW Beetle, Fully Charged - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXsQGWWz3Is

A beautiful piece of kit.

Three certainties in life: Death, taxes and the speed of light – wait no, maybe not that last one

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Trollface

Maybe....

...they just forgot to carry the 4?

San Francisco's sinking luxury Millennium Tower: Tilt spotted FROM SPACE

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Alert

If left unchecked

I wonder what the point of collapse would be.

Sort of lowers the value of real estate to the immediate NW too.

No super-kinky web smut please, we're British

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Holmes

Yep, that'll work

Not.

USS Zumwalt gets Panama tug job after yet another breakdown

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Devil

Not enough rounded corners

Obviously

Snail mail thieves feed international identity theft rings say Oz cops

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Alert

I already lock my snail house*

However, a better lock is now on the list.

* Actual garden snails just love our letterbox, seems appropriate.

No tinfoil hat icon?

Donald Trump confirms TPP to be dumped, visa program probed

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Meh

As much as the man is a dog-turd of a racist

I won't be crying over the death of the TPP.

Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap

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Devil

Whitelists?

Oh, I thought he was discussing the new Trump Regime.

Praise be to glorious leader!

Telecoms Ombudsman praises nbn™ for growing connections faster than complaints

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Devil

When did you stop annoying your customers?

Oh sorry, you haven't yet.

The turd-polishing unit at nbn™ must be well staffed.

British politicians sign off on surveillance law, now it's over to the Queen

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Big Brother

Eat the rich

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

George Orwell

Zuckerberg says just one per cent of news on Facebook is fake

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What?

People take anything on FB seriously?

Gosh.

Trump's torture support could mean the end of GCHQ-NSA relationship

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Trump makes George W seem benign

As for: "If comments made on the campaign trail by Donald Trump were sincere"

Who knows.

Trump can't tell the truth.

nbn™ aces the easiest construction target it will have for two years

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Pravda would be proud

In other NEWS, tractor manufacturing reaches an all-time high and the Turnip crop is a bumper this year.

In dire straits after #CensusFail, ABS to axe up to 150 staff

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Devil

Hi, we're from HR. Your boss stuffed up big time

So we are making you redundant.

Here's a box.

FBI's Clinton email comedown confirms it could have killed the story in a canter

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Meh

Like the alleged 'shooter' at the Trump rally

Just another calculated stunt.

Damage done though.

World's shortest international flight: now just 21km in 7 minutes

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Re: 66.1kms

Yes, in Australia: 2 hours prior for international and 45 minutes prior for domestic flights.

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Meh

66.1kms

Factor in:

- getting to the airport

- checking in

- security

- boarding

- taxiing

- flight time

- taxiing

- deplaning

- baggage collection

- getting out of the airport

Driving 66.1km seems like a doddle.

Accessories to crime: Facial recog defeated by wacky paper glasses

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New hipster glasses fad

In 3....2....1....

Microsoft puts Windows Updates on a diet with 'differential downloads'

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Meh

So, granularity in patches, OK

Does this mean more instructive descriptions of said granulation?

DRAMA ON MARS: Curiosity bot fires laser at alien metal object

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Joke

Excellence in engineering versus planned obsolescence

Announcing the NASA car!

- Reliable

- Sturdy

- Robust

- Nuclear powered

- Multi-planet sat nav

- Highly adaptable to many terrains

- Rocket pack (option)

Cost $67,234,987.23 per unit, delivery changes apply.

But seriously, good job NASA!

Rhode Island sues HPE for making its DMV even more miserable

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Devil

In other NEWS

Executive and senior bureaucrat salaries - bonuses on the rise...

New MH370 handshake and wing debris analysis suggests rapid descent

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Re: Conspiracy ..

I must have left my VR conspiracy goggles at home.

Are people still doing conspiracy theories on this one?

New Zealand carrier says Cu later, copper: we're giving customers a glassing instead

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FAIL

Ahead of Australia on fibre tech

Australia ranks somewhere below North Korea and the planet Jupiter on the bandwidth stakes.

More movie and TV binge-streaming sites join UK banned list

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Re: requires the blocking of geektv...

Agreed.

But how come I never make these lists? -->

Hm, is that a minefield? Let me just throw my magic bomb-sniffing spinach over there

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Joke

An even better use

Spinach plants that detect the presence of Brussels Sprouts!

Nobel prize awaits.

Microsoft flips Google the bird after Windows kernel bug blurt

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Megaphone

Let's not forget who the bad guys is in all this...

Ummmm

Royal Horticultural Society's PC is rooted for all to see

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Happy

Not quite on topic...

Was waiting on a plane once, at the gate.

Pilot said there would be a delay, the computer insisted that the landing gear was in the UP position.

This, despite us being at the gate, at usual wheels down height.

He said he would turn the computer off and on again, to some chuckles.

This worked. It seems the wheels were in the DOWN position after all.

Uber, Lyft drivers shamed for 'racial bias' by uni eggheads

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FAIL

Unregulated service behaves in an unregulated manner

Leaves themselves open to trouble in court.

But, your Honour, it is my firmly held belief that.....[insert bigotry here]....

NASA's asteroid orbit calculator spots a hot rock zipping past

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Scout?

Will the planet killer be called Boo Radley?

Three-commas Thiel expresses love for himself, Trump and downtrodden millionaires

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Cray cray

But wealthy.

Samsung are amateurs – NASA shows how you really do a battery fire

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Unhappy

You'd think NASA would be better prepared for fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Fire

Apple grounds AirPods launch with shipping delay

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Apple in-ear phones

Ouch!

My ears are incompatible.

Soft, squishy, types for me.

'There may be no hackers' says Trump in Presidential Debate II

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Donald Trump is a plonker

EOT

Hubble telescope spies massive 'cannonballs' of fire from dying star

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Stars have curry nights too

Who knew?

My Nest smoke alarm was great … right up to the point it went nuts

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My rule of tech

The more complex the machine, and the more critical the operation (or outcome) = the greater risk of something going tits up.

Yahoo! tries!, fails! to! shoot! down! email! backdoor! claim!

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Devil

Those emails

They were only "resting" in the NSA account....

Apols to: Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan

WikiLeaks claims 'significant' US election info release ... is yet to come

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Devil

Bunk beds or bunk couches?

Maybe Julian should invite his mate Donald to the Embassy for a sleep-over.

THEN we drone that sucker!

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Re: Ah, now Trump makes sense

I never expected to see those words in a sentence...

I want to launch thousands of drones, says Facebook's flying Wi-Fi router chief

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Just wait until

One of those suckers falls on a driver-less car!

The Twitterati will light up!

South Australian mega-storm blacks out whole state

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Silly LNP are blaming renewable energy

Silly LNP

Australia wants law to ban de-anonymisation of anonymous data

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attorney-general George Brandis

C L U E L E S S

Elon Musk: I'm gonna turn Mars into a $10bn death-dealing interplanetary gas station

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Re: Holy Shit!

"Yep, that's ... ambitious!"

So was Apollo.

Think big and build an even bigger rocket!

Microsoft paid me $650 to scrub Windows 10 from my grandpa's PC, says man

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Is my cheque in the mail too?

I had to re-install the wife's laptop from the ground up after a borked and unwanted Win10 "update"

I won't be holding my breath.

IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia's census

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ABS new culture

Rules

  • Blame everyone BUT ourselves.
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Moron is late for flight, calls in bomb threat

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Unhappy

Only 1 year?

Seems pretty light.

I'd have thrown the flight manual at him.