* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Hollywood gives up speculative invoicing attempt in Australia

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Devil

speculative invoicing

Tell 'em they're dreaming...

How one of the poorest districts in the US pipes Wi-Fi to families – using school buses

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School buses?

I thought the Internet was a series of tubes!

We're going to use your toothbrush to snoop on you, says US spy boss

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If the IoT is anything like Talkie Toaster

Then I'll pass, thanks.

Bitcoiners are just like everybody else: They use rubbish passwords

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Hmmmm

So "youshallnotpass" is right out then?

France joins India in telling Facebook to just Zuck off

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Vive la France!

Très bon

Facebook cares about you, yes you, so much it won't give up on India

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Well done India

Give 'em curry!

Security? We haven't heard of it, says hacker magnet VTech

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Alert

Who manages their legal team?

The mafia?

Don't call the complaint line!

Submarine cable cut lops Terabits off Australia's data bridge

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Cable cut?

Slow you say.

How will we notice?

Alibaba security fail: Brute-force bonanza yields 21m logins

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So, we need to know

How many passwords were: OpenSesame ?

UC Berkeley profs blast secret IT monitoring kit on campus

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FAIL

Be reasonable guys

We all know you would have said NO if we asked....

Scottish MP calls for drone-busting eagles

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Black Helicopters

The eagle has landed

Where's my drone?

Assange will 'accept arrest' on Friday if found guilty

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Meh

Don't like his chances

The powers that be don't like to be mocked.

German Chancellor fires hydrogen plasma with the push of a button

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Who's ya Mutti then?

Up with this kind of thing.

El Reg nips down to the Hewlett You Inn?

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Well played

Now get out!

App for homeless says walking on water is the way to reach services

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Smartphones and data plans for the homeless

Next: Recipe books for the starving?

Land Rover Defender dies: Production finally halted by EU rules

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Get em dirty

Hose em out

Ban internet anonymity – says US Homeland Security official

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In-groups and the elite

They have always hated the spread of knowledge.

Map of Tasmania to be shorn of electrical, data links to outside world

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Tasmania's world heritage wirelessness

A great time to go outdoors and explore Tassies magnificent outdoors.

Drop out, disconnect.

Brit censors endure 10-hour Paint Drying movie epic

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Extended Director's Cut Edition

Easter eggs and the "Making of" featurette plus commentary track.

No doubt, soon to be on Torrent as a screener.

Icon --> whited out

Google UK coughs up £130m back taxes. Is it enough?

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@ DaveDaveDave

Who are you and what have you done with Eadon?

Japanese chief TPP negotiator accused of taking $100,000 bribe

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It's only corruption if you get caught....

Otherwise it's just called 'business'

RSA asks for plaintext Twitter passwords on conference reg page

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They know their audience well

Most of them anyway.

Someone please rid me of this turbulent Windows 10 Store

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Happy

Ding ding!

Good morning...

I want to buy some cheese....

Bad luck, Ireland: DDoS attack disrupts isle's National Lottery

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Lottery fecked?

What a balls up!

Forget infrasound, now it's ultrasound that's making you ill (allegedly)

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Project MKUltra

2.0

Set tin foil hats to 'stun'

Boffins: There's a ninth planet out there – now we just need to find it

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Alien

Plan 9 from outer space!

Cool

Cat vids return to Pakistan as YouTube turns on censor-matic

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Unhappy

Independent thought: Banned/monitored

Adult consent?: Nah!

It's as if religion was just made up bullshit.

Twitter goes titsup

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Twatted

The beardy-types and the modern-women will be so upset.

If only they could tell someone.

Adblock Plus blocked from attending ad industry talkfest

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Uninvite me!

Block you!

Trump's new thought bubble: Make Apple manufacture in the USA

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Trump for POTUS

That 'B' Ark is looking better and better.

Australia and America working on global no-state-hacking pact

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Don't be fooled

Malcolm aint no technology guru, despite the media hype.

He's your garden variety 'hollow man' but with better PR.

Comet halo theory for flickering 'alien megastructure' star fails

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Alien

Space unicorns!

C'mon, you can't rule them out just yet!

PDF redaction is hard, NSW Medical Council finds out - the hard way

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Black squares in a PDF

I love telling authors they haven't redacted their documents properly (or at all).

When you explain the problem it freaks them out.

But then, I'm a bastard like that.

Boffins baffled by record-smashing supernova that shouldn't exist

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Re: Bah!

Did you drop this? ----->

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"3.8 billion light years away"

So old news then....

China names the date for dark side moon landing

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Good for them

Up with this kind of thing.

No escape: Microsoft injects 'Get Windows 10' nagware into biz PCs

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It's telemetry dear Watson

No!

FTC apologizes for leaking attendee details … to privacy conference

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"will work to ensure that this does not occur in the future"

Said: Horse agistment manager and stable owner, Mr G.G. Bolt

Discworld fans stake claim to element 117

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Optional

I have no opinium in this debate.

Hacks rebel after bosses secretly install motion sensors under desks

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FAIL

Management no longer manage

They run reports instead.

Lovelace at 200: Celebrating the High Priestess to Babbage's machines

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Wow, 200 years on

And the sexist attitude is still strong in some.

Man or woman, fair dues should be given.

ANN-IE-LATION: Microsoft to axe support for older Internet Explorer next week

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I felt a great disturbance in the Farce

....as if millions of PC support-people for relatives and friends suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

If you want a USB thumb drive wiped, try asking an arts student for help

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Burn them

With fire

Obama: What will solve America's gun problem? What could it be? *snaps fingers* Technology!

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The American disease

I fear containment may be the only way forward.

The horse went thattaway ------>

Curiosity Rover eyes Mars' creeping dunes

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Sand boarding/surfing!

Did Curiosity pack a board?

And some shorts?

Ruskie rats selling Choose-Your-Own-Adventure love scams

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What?

You mean that Svetlana isn't real?

What about Anastasia?

Dutch govt says no to backdoors, slides $540k into OpenSSL without breaking eye contact

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No holes thanks, we're Dutch!

The Netherlands has a history of stopping-up unwanted holes.

https://youtu.be/STGXpq8JGIg

Work safe!

SpaceX makes rocket science look easy: Falcon 9 passes tests

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Pretty soon....

....LEO pizza delivery boys!

Imagine the tip.

Dick limps towards inglorious end: Gadget retailer on the brink

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Good old days as a kid

A quick trip to Dick's for some component or electronic kit, a feed of (hot) chips from the store next door, and then back home to solder...

Irked train hackers talk derailment flaws, drop SCADA password list

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Son!

Don't turn on that Hornby set!

Mine's the one with the OO track in the pocket.