* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Facebook fails to block NY DA's fat warrants for profiles of suspected September 11 fraudsters

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Devil

Facebook

I've heard of that.

PEAK PLUTO: Stunning mountain ridge snapped by New Horizons craft

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However

No celestial teapot.

Jeep drivers can be HACKED to DEATH: All you need is the car's IP address

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Mushroom

There's only one Jeep

Left...

Dough! Dominos didn't register dominos.pizza – and now it's pizz'd off

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Trollface

Their decision making and planning...

...appear as good as their product.

Dead device walking: Apple iPod Touch 6th generation

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Hurumphhh

I still want the 160G iPod Classic back!

Bastards!

Scammers going after iOS as fake crash reports hit UK

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Mushroom

Hanging's too good for them

Con artists have been around forever, but these cold callers can be very convincing (and forceful).

When in doubt, always remember they called you and you don't have to provide anything.

I no longer accept cold calls, even from from legitimate* businesses I have dealings with.

* AFAIK

Spamquake subsides: less than half of email is now processed pork

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Meh

"according to security firm Symantec."

Maybe this is just marketing by media release.

I'm not knocking the article, but Symantec seem to have been seeding the media with similar stories recently. (as most companies do)

Australia to run first robo-car trials in sleepy Adelaide

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Great idea

South Australia + Self drive cars = Safer winery tours!

Neil Armstrong's MOON spacesuit: One small donation from you - one giant leap for Mankind

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Possibly mankind's most important piece of clothing?

From possibly our most significant achievement.

What's half a mill?

A day's use of Air-force One?

Your poster guide: A fascinating glimpse into North Korea's 'internet'

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Hmmm

The Copyright notice is optimistic.

Here's why Whittingdale kicked a subscription BBC into the future

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Combine TV detector vans and Google street view cars with wifi slurpring kit

That's gotta be more efficient.

Russian billionaire: GET me the ALIENS ON THE PHONE. Do it NOW

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Alien

Intelligent alien life?

I'd settle for some simple bacteria growing in a thermal vent on Io.

Of course, we'd have to go to them. They're unlikely to have the phone on.

Microsoft sets end date on Windows 10 support. Hey, wait, WHAT?

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Sorry

I misread the headline as the Win 10 launch date.

My bad.

Ideal solar system for SECOND EARTH found – and it's just 186 light-years away

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186 light years

If we set off right now, and avoid the M25...

The Great Barrier Relief – Inside London's heavy metal and concrete defence act

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Barriers down

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Great article, most enjoyable.

My first visit to London was 1982.

I remember I just had to go and see the [new] barrier, then the usual tourist spots.

Did speeding American manhole cover beat Sputnik into space? Top boffin speaks to El Reg

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Mushroom

Sounds like a job for:

MYTHBUSTERS!

Behold: Pluto's huge ICE MOUNTAINS ... and signs of cryovolcanoes?

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Re: Wow [Stoneshop]

Yes this ^^^

Maybe I worded it poorly.

Everything has whizzed about or landed in my lifetime, bar one.

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Wow

Most of the solar systems planets, moons and the like have been passed by or landed on in my lifetime.

All bar one:

Craft - Venera 1 (Венера-1)

Target - Venus

Passed by - 19 May 1961

Contact with Venera 1 was lost 7 days after launch. It was the first spacecraft to fly by Venus, or indeed any planet.

[wikipedia]

Europe a step closer to keeping records on all passengers flying in and out of the Continent

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Handy if arrested

No more filling out meal preferences in jail.

You do get to chose, don't you?

Horrifying MOCK BACON ABOMINATION grown in BUBBLING VATS as ALGAE

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Algal Bacon

What's it taste like?

Chicken.

Seriously, yes, I'm all for it.

Microsoft suspends Windows 10 new-build downloads ahead of launch

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Now that's what I call a dead parrot.

No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!

Practice makes perfect: NBN fibre deployments accelerate

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Chewy on ya boot Malcolm

You stuffed it for everyone else.

Bah!

Brandis' metadata retention recipe doesn't prohibit USB drives stored in a garden shed

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Metadata on Renewable Energy and the ABC (TV)

This is to be stored in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'

Pluto revealed as KING of the Kuiper belt

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Alien

It was a planet when I went to school

So, in my mind it shall always be thus!

I'm happy in my own ignorance.

: )

Download Festival face scan: You’re right to be annoyed, said UK surveillance commish

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Big Brother

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

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. - George Orwell, 1984

etc...

Forget lasers: how about sharks with frikkin' VOLCANOES?

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Trollface

Wow, rare sharks

I wonder what they taste like?

Sorry, say boffins, the LHC still hasn't sucked us into a black hole

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Bravo

I for one welcome our theoretical, microscopic, dimension-hopping overlords!

* should they exist.

NSA snooped on German chancellors for DECADES: Wikileaks

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Ich bin ein Berliner

Trust me...

Ginormous HIDDEN BLACK HOLES flood the universe – boffins

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obscured by clouds you say?

Great idea.

Where's my iPod?

We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror

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Wow, Win10 eh?

Win7 is looking really good.

How a Cali court ruling could force a complete rethink of search results

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Amazon

Watch out.

It's a jungle out there!

Security gurus deliver coup de grace to US govt's encryption backdoor demands

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Big Brother

I encrypt

Therefore I am

Google's new view of the world takes two pics to make 'DeepStereo' 3D

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All your algorithm are belong to us

Impressive for otherwise flat images.

Pluto probe brain OVERLOAD: Titsup New Horizons explained

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I'll never wrap my head around the maths...

Let alone the level of skill required to manage such marvels.

Steely eyed missile-men/women, each and all.

Australian government mulls secret terror court proposals

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Big Brother

I'm not going all Godwin but...

I'd be happy to use the scary version of the F word.

Fascist.

This Government hates it's people and despises their (ever reducing) freedoms.

WHY did NASA probe go suddenly SILENT - JUST as it was about to send pics of remote ice-world?

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Still bloody amazing

Either way

Apple Music: First three months for free? We lasted less than 3 hours

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Another update to iTunes 64bit?

Another bork?

I'll stay with my last stable release for now thanks.

Ford recalls 433,000 cars: Software bug breaks engine off-switch

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You can have any state you want

As long as it is On...

My overalls -->

Rosetta spots potholes IN SPAAACE: Someone call the galactic council

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Alert

Exogorths!

"The cave is collapsing!"

"This is no cave."

― Leia Organa and Han Solo

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Exogorth

VPNs are so insecure you might as well wear a KICK ME sign

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Re: Is there really a VPN solution called "Hide my Ass"

It's very big with the Equus, Asinus rustler set.

WikiLeaks docs show NSA's 10-year economic espionage campaign against France

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Big Brother

Don't look here!

Look over there -->

TERROR

BAD GUYS

ETC..

Australian opposition senators slam TPP treaty process

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Alert

This

Is going to hurt.

ACCC clears copper for the NBN

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Copper

How 1877!

Wow.

Wake up, sheeple! If you ask Siri about 9/11 it will rat you out to the police!

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FAIL

Basically

People are stupid.

Oz politicians SUCK at drafting trade agreements

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TPP

Totally Powned Plebs

Raising a stink in court: Innocent poo banditry warehousers win $2.2m

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Clean up on aisle 5

Maybe someone was squatting in the building?

(Sorry)

Kamikaze Rosetta probe to ram comet it's chased for billions of miles

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A Mythbusters ending!

Crash or blow some stuff up.

I approve.

WikiLeaks spaffs files showing NSA spied on French presidents

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I'd be more suprised if they DIDN'T spy on us

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

Germany says no steamy ebooks until die Kinder have gone to bed

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Wunderbar

Australia is not the only country with clueless politicians when it come to the inter tubes!

This whopping 16-bit computer processor is being built by hand, transistor by transistor

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That's quite a bit of work

I hope he solders on....