* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Kim Dotcom slams 'dirty ugly bully' Uncle Sam as extradition hearing ends

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Devil

First: The came for the file sharers

Then: .......well, nothing. Everyone was already locked up.

TV broadcast vans drive ESA from Perth

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New Norcia

I have no idea about the relative merits or efficacy of monastic life in the 21st century, but, those guys at New Norcia sure know how to make fresh bread!

http://www.newnorciabaker.com.au/

Irish electricity company threatens to cut off graveyard

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Devil

Knock knock knock

We know you are in there.

You're not going anywhere!

Windows 10 pilot rollouts will surge in early 2016, says Gartner

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Holmes

Once the "free" period ends

Will people upgrade if they have to pay?

Hmmm

Apple's Watch charging pad proves Cupertino still screwing buyers

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Devil

People, people!

Just be thankful that Apple allow you to charge your iThingies at all.

Don't worry about the cost, feel the panache!

How TV ads silently ping commands to phones: Sneaky SilverPush code reverse-engineered

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Megaphone

Tea anyone?

I think the English need this tech.

It could be used to start the kettle just before the break in Coronation Street.

Or even a staged signal by odd and even addresses to help spread out the national electricity peak load.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

Oz 'Anon' to spend a year in the slammer

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Joke

No timeshare option?

Ecuadorian Embassy fully booked?

eBay scammer steals identity of special agent investigating him

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Jawa

On ya (motor) bike son!

Apple's Faulty Powers moment: iPad Pro slabs 'temporarily bricked' during recharge

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Trollface

Simple check

Does your re-charging device have the requisite rounded corners?

Hubble finds lonely 'void galaxy' floating in cosmic nothingness

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Alien

Puppeteers?

Is it a fleet of worlds moving steadily away?

Reg reader achieves bronze badge, goes directly to jail

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Meh

Sorry to hear that D****

Maybe we do need a ne'er-do-well icon for life's less attractive times.

There are plenty of stories about corporate wrong doing.

NSW plods panned for illegal surveillance

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Devil

A “criminal” vindictive operation (by Police)

So no biggie then?

Your taxes at work: Three hours driving to turn on politician's PC

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Best?

A kiss, actually.

10 minutes before a big exec presentation.

Very attractive lady was trying to change 30 Powerpoint slides in a hurry.

It was template based, so I introduced her to the Master Slide.

One change, all change!

Sweet.

Ouch! Subaru telescope catches astroid prang

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Mushroom

Hit and run!

Call Galactic Patrol.

Now we know why Philae phouled up comet landing

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Devil

Extended warranty claim?

I hope they kept their receipt.

Big Bang left us with a perfect random number generator

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If you decode it and read it backwards

It says: Paul is dead.

Oz e-health privacy: after a breach is too late

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Facepalm

"dangerously naïve" - "patently absurd"

That's our current Senate alright.

What a time to be alive!

UK citizens will have to pay government to spy on them

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Big Brother

User pays

User obeys

Double-plus good

(We're there [1984], aren't we?)

Oz railway lets newspaper photograph train keys

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Stock photo of random keys?

Hoping....for their sake.

UN privacy head slams 'worse than scary' UK surveillance bill

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Hey Joe

Joe Cannataci for King of the Internet.

Stoned train in multi-million-dollar wreck

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Coat

Rock N Rail

Sorry, I'm now departing, platform 5, all clear!

Facebook conjures up a trap for the unwary: scanning your camera for your friends

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Linux

Re: What's in the name?

I never met a 'tern' I didn't like - D. Attenborough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tern

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Devil

Hey Facebook

Stick it up ya baroque maze!

Judge bins Apple Store end-of-shift shakedown lawsuit

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One piece at a time

I'd get it one piece at a time

And it wouldn't cost me a dime

You'll know it's me when I come through your town

I'm gonna ride around in style

I'm gonna drive everybody wild

'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

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Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time

Space fans eye launch of Lego Saturn V

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Want

So very much!

The eager have landed.

New Horizons makes last burn for Kuiper Belt target

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The funding might stop

But New Horizons certainly won't *

Go New Horizons!

* for a long time at least.

Victorian government teacher-laptop scheme illegal, says judge

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Headmaster

Punishment?

10,000 lines + detention.

"I must never try to hoodwink Teacher, I am but a mere Government official and I am not even worthy of Sir's / Madam's contempt"

Top FBI lawyer: You win, we've given up on encryption backdoors

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Meh

Backdoor access is so yesterday

We have a new shiny thing to play with now...

Australian government hiring guardians of retained metadata

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FAIL

When you say "the scheme"

I read: "the scam".

Maybe I'm too cynical.

Anyone keeping a book on how long until:

A) it goes tits-up or

B) it leaks like an LNP Cabinet Minister

Microsoft Windows 7 Pro: Halloween Horror for PC makers next year

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Joke

They missed a trick

MS should have used a mascot to help sell the whole Windows 10 update thing.

Maybe Clippy

"I see you are still attempting to retain a semblance of privacy by using an old version of Windows..."

Victoria's racing minister flogs metadata access horse

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Devil

Agency creep

And there's no bigger agency creep than George Brandis!

China's glorious five year plan will see 'online environment cleaned up'

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Alert

Online environment clean up?

I think China (Beijing) has a much more pressing issue with their actual environment.

Like breathing.

SeaMeWe-3 submarine cable spur borked until November 10th

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Devil

We have submarine cables into WA?

I thought it was all done with camel trains and the telegraph!

Cassini probe teases with intimate Enceladus snaps

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Close up shot

Now that's a challenging landing area!

Great photos!

Science!

How Microsoft will cram Windows 10 even harder down your PC's throat early next year

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Facepalm

"users will be asked if they want to boot into Windows 10"

Such generosity, wow!

Don't worry about:

- Bandwidth

- Download quotas

- HDD space

- Incompatible s/w

- User ability

- Impact on designated support staff (aka: family members, aka: me)

Rosetta probe delivers jaw-to-the-floor find: Molecular oxygen

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Happy

Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Let's go!

Comet Base One!

Aussies' distinctive Strine down to drunk forefathers

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Pint

Australia Australia Australia!

Didyabringyagrogalong?

LG uses sucky logic to force Dyson admission its vacuums suck badly

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Devil

Sucked in, bad

Truth in advertising, I've heard of it.

Dad who shot 'snooping vid drone' out of the sky is cleared of charges

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Facepalm

The USA and guns, eh?

When you are in a hole, you should stop digging.

Snakes in the aircon, killer crocs in the river, virtualisation for apps

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Re: Barramundi

Fair comment.

I like it Barra as fish and chips but I much prefer 'Flake', aka: shark.

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Alert

Barramundi

The king of fish.

EOT

It's almost time for Australia's fibre fetishists to give up

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Meh

"copper has a decent future"

Much like the coal industry I guess.

Just because we have it doesn't mean we should keep using it.

I hear the gas lamp lighters union is reforming as well...

Feds in America very excited about new global privacy alert system

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Unhappy

Beam me back to the 60's, please

Where we were all pretty much anonymous; we didn't lock our doors, few had a phone, travel left little data, no one had a credit card and (ironically) you knew everyone in your town.

(of course that's the 60's of a privileged white kid, other people's mileage varied)

Russian subs prowling near submarine cables: report

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Linux

SpongeVlad Squarepants

I wonder what this does.....?

Mystery object re-entering atmosphere may be Apollo booster

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Mushroom

Universe says

Take your junk back!

Boffins: Comet Lovejoy is a cosmic booze cruise spewing alcohol across the Solar System

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Moonshine

By comet

Lancashire Police warn of malware email impersonation scam

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Interesting

Yesterday I received a Word attachment via email from a "bigpond.net.au" network printer.

Me no clicky.

All gone!

Windows 10 out, users happy, PCs upgraded, my work here is done – says Microsoft OS chief

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Devil

Windows 10

They literally can't give it away.

El Reg celebrates Back to the Future Day

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So, tell me again about these talking apples...

'Get a VPN to defeat metadata retention' is good advice. Sometimes

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Happy

Learning much about VPNs

Thanks Richard, and chewy on ya boot to George Brandis et al.