* Posts by Winkypop

5643 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Hackers giving up on crypto ransomware. Now they just lock up device, hope you pay

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Alien

Ahh the human race

Inventive lot.

Destructive also.

Apple stuns world with Donald Trump iPhone

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Facepalm

Small is the new Big

And Donald Trump is in the running for POTUS.

"Curiouser and curiouser" cried Alice

ACCC goes beyond recall, bans 'hoverboards'

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Flame

How many houses?

How many fires?

You have been warned enough people.

How to make the trains run on time? Satellites. That's how

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Coat

Attention passengers

Your 5:17 train to Zurich will be 14 nanoseconds late.

This is due to Einstein's theory of special relativity.

We apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused.

The bill for Home Depot after its sales registers were hacked: $19.5m

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Devil

"its anti-virus software had not been updated for over seven years"

What a bunch of tools.

Snowden WAS the Feds' quarry in Lavabit case, redaction blunder reveals

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FAIL

Missed it by that much!

Sorry Chief.

- Maxwell Smart

Brits seek rousing name for polar research vessel

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Coat

I'm torn

Between "Nautical Queen" and "Sea Princess"

How about I compromise and call her "Nausea"

Judge roasts Chipotle for firing guy who grilled bean counters on Twitter

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FAIL

Sacking illegal

But lack of breaks and a wage-slave hourly rate = OK

Move along.

NASA celebrates 50-year anniversary of first spaceship docking in orbit

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Makes me feel old

These men are true legends, especially the late Mr Armstrong. His skill and judgement on that day 50 years ago was testament to his rare ability.

As a kid, I was never into super-heros, I had real-life astronauts to idolise!

nbn says Telstra's copper in better shape than expected

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Facepalm

Cu later

You know, this lame black dog with mange and one good eye, it isn't really that bad.

UK draft super-spy law 'not fit for purpose,' say 100s of senior lawyers

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Trollface

It's not about what is RIGHT.

It's all about what they WANT.

Priorities people, priorities!

- Papiere, Bitte

Hey Windows 10, weren't you supposed to help PC sales?

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Pirate

A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox

Upgrade to Win10 to get a more secure OS

Upgrade to Win10 to get a less private OS

Hahahahaha

UK fella is a multimillion-dollar cyber-hustle mastermind – US DoJ

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Coat

If convicted

He faces a Long stretch.

- Mine's the one with 9231765219474 on it.

Tasmania's Basslink data and power cable cut (on purpose) but fix not until May

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Facepalm

Because...

Profits would NEVER over ride essential customer services....

David Cameron hints at Budget law change to end mobile not-spots

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Trollface

"Superhighway" - How 1990s of him

At least he's not stuck in the 1890s like our PM.

- I'm looking at you Turnbull.

London cops hunt chimpanzee in top hat

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Coat

Well dressed animals - update!

A Police spokesperson announced that this story was rapidly evolving...

Yelp-for-people app Peeple is back – so we rated Julia, its cofounder

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Devil

Like all social media before it

I look forward to being completely ignored by this new one too.

Alien studs on dwarf's erection baffle boffins

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Alien

Space-scat

Space Cats!

Mountains of madness found on Pluto's Cthulhu Regio

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Trollface

Regardless

Send the snowboarders, now.

Facebook can block folks using pseudonyms in Germany – court

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WTF?

It's not mandatory is it?

Just

Don't

Use

It

Facebook paid £4k in tax. HMRC then paid Facebook £27k – for ads

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Trollface

Facebook paid £4k in tax

A Facebook drone immediately apologised!

In a statement it said: "It's some kind of a nasty mistake, we didn't mean to pay any tax at all".

US defense sec: We're cyber-bombing ISIS

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Joke

Cyber-bombing

Is Microsoft's Win10 upgrade program part of this strategy?

Uncle Sam's boffins stumble upon battery storage holy grail

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Prussian blue?

Ran out you say?

Dead?

No, it's only restin'

Another week, another leak: is morale that low in Australia's NBN?

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FAIL

Lacking moral fibre

It's a clusterfuck, with Malcolm in the middle.

Every Australian address - yes yours, and even yours – just became open data

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Alert

Only one address to fear

-35.308000 149.125000

Beware

Zuck gets a Brazilian whack: Top Facebook VP cuffed in WhatsApp privacy kerfuffle

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Executives in chokey?

Brilliant idea.

Photographer hassled by Port of Tyne for filming a sign on a wall

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Trollface

Howay man!

Divvin' shoot ya gob off man, ya port's way owa there!

Nearly a million retail jobs will be destroyed by the march of tech, warns trade body

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Terminator

Meat space shopping?

Oh, how very quaint.

South Australia received 100 complaints about police data misuses last year

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Pirate

SA Police

Shouldn't they be out looking for shallow bush graves?

Google robo-car backs into bendy-bus in California

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Happy

Re: Meatbags and bendy buses don't mix

"Shagging sheep on this vehicle prohibited during school hours."

LOL

Food

Desk

Lap...

You owe me a new lunch

Snapchat loses payroll information to phoul phisherpholk

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Alert

Agreed value?

Can we not have an agreed value on personal information held by an employer or recognised institution, like a bank or the Govt?

It could form the basis of the penalty, payable to each victim, each time a breach occurred.

Or do all the kids these days not value privacy?

Institute of Directors: Make broadband speeds 1000x faster than today's puny 2020 target

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Devil

Hey you, speed of light!

What's up with that puny 299 792 458 m / s ?

Lack of ambition?

NBN rollout behind target, claims yet another leaked report

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FAIL

It's the NBN Jim, but not as we know it

Maybe all that degraded copper infrastructure is slowing things down...

Donald Trump promises 'such trouble' for Jeff Bezos and Amazon

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Devil

So, now we know!

Media tycoons buy newspaper and media outlets 'cause they crave influence!

Who'd a thunk it?

I thought they were just in it for the answers to the crosswords!

Trump is such a dangerous fool.

Phorm suspends its shares from trading amid funding scrabble

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Devil

Phantastic

Phuck right off and die

Standing desks have no effect on productivity, boffins find

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Devil

Standing desks

Guaranteed to make me laugh.

Don't take a Leaf out of this book: Nissan electric car app has ZERO authentication

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Re: Don't put microcomputers into cars...

Our molecules should never have left the primordial slime...

Google human-like robot brushes off beating by puny human – this is how Skynet starts

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Unhappy

Uncanny valley

Who else felt empathy for the robot when the human was 'teasing' him/her/it?

It's so easy to anthropomorphise.

Robots are people too!

FBI v Apple spat latest: Bill Gates is really upset that you all thought he was on the Feds' side

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Gatesgate?

Sorry!

Apple fans take iPhone unlock protest to FBI HQ

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Trollface

I plan to protest right at the source~!

I pledge that I will NEVER use the services of the FBI

There!

Latest in Apple v FBI public squabble over iPhone crack demand

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Meh

Thin edge of the wedge

"a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

Who do you trust?

'Kalamazoo killer' gave Uber rides in between shooting six dead

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Trollface

Send lawyers, guns and money...

Obviously an excitable boy!

German mayor's browser tabs catch him with trousers down

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Devil

German BDSM

Gives a new meaning to "I was only following orders"

US DoJ files motion to compel Apple to obey FBI iPhone crack order

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Trollface

Re: Nope...

Captain Combover

+1

Spare ship found to fix broken submarine cable slowing Oz internet

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Joke

See!

It IS a series of tubes!

Eurovision Song Contest uncorks 1975 vote shocker: No 'Nul point'!

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Devil

It's a parody, a poe, no? ........NO?

Oh, my bad.

Oz town suffers hairy panic attack

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Poor Dorothy!

Where's Captain Feathersword?

FBI iPhone unlock order reaction: Trump, Rubio say no to Apple. EFF and Twitter say yes

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FAIL

It's security, Jim

But not as we know it.

China wants to bring home moon rocks in moon vacuum

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Chinese takeaway

No 95 schezwan vaccum with Al Bean sauce.

OK, I'm suiting up and stepping outside...

Telemarketers hit with £70,000 fine for cold-calling pensioners

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Devil

Someone order a load of concrete?

...beep....beep....beep....beep....beep....beep....beep