* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Massachusetts shoots down car dealers' Tesla-busting sueball

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Buying direct is the future

I know it's a first world problem but I detest dealing with car dealers and their money grubbing value adds.

'There is no downside – unless you count the total bath you take moving your stuff'

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Retire maybe, work, no

With family connections and having been there a dozen times, I could contemplate retiring in the UK.

But work, hmmmm, no I don't think I could, despite the ability to do so.

If I'm going to suffer a wet summer, I don't want to be going out to work in it.

The sound of silence: One excited atom is so quiet that the human ear cannot detect it

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Coat

Old 80s band...

Atom and the Ants

iPhone 6, Watch: Hate it or really hate it, Apple's now a $604.77bn biz

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Stop

New Apple kit. New Royal baby !!

FFS, stop it!

Leak of '5 MEELLLION Gmail passwords' creates security flap

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Awwww

How come I never make these lists?

Would Apple godhead Steve Jobs have HATED the Watch?

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The iWatch

It's a bit shit really....

City hidden beneath England's Stonehenge had HUMAN ABATTOIR. And a pub

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Beer AND Flesh?

I was just in Amesbury.

They didn't serve that combo at the local Wetherspoon's

Apple's Watch is basically electric perfume

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Devil

A watch!

Imagine that, a watch!

Set the alarm for when we get flying cars.

Heavy VPN users are probably pirates, says BBC

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A pattern emerges

At one end of the pipe we have the BEEB trying to cut us foreigners off, and at the other end we have Rupert doing his level best to throttle (if not kill) the NBN.

Don't worry BBC, old walnut-face will have us on degrading copper lines for years to come.

NBN Co correction: We're rubbish at broadband rollout and NEVER improved

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Unhappy

The NBN is dead to me

I've given it up.

I'll just make do with the old copper shit on offer.

DREADNOUGHTUS: The 65-TON DINO that could crumple up a T-Rex like a paper cup

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Alert

3D scans of bones available for download

Honey!

We'll need a bigger 3D printer!

Cave scrawls prove Neanderthals were AT LEAST as talented as modern artists

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Neanderthal share cave

It's a roster of who has to do the cleaning.

NZ Justice Minister scalped as hacker leaks emails

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Munted

Hey Bro?

NASA to reformat Opportunity rover's memory from 125 million miles away

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Patch Tuesday

Do they have Tuesdays on Mars?

Rickety rock deemed unworthy of Curiosity's drill

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Re: A stone?

A Temple!

Boffins attempt to prove the universe is just a hologram

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Boffin

Available for hire

1 Delorean (Low KMs, never driven over 88mph)

1 Flux Capacitor (used)

Oz metadata proposal: no to IP addresses, yes to MAC address logging

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Metadata

LOOK!

OVER THERE!!

NASTY TERROR PEEPS!!

China building SUPERSONIC SUBMARINE that travels in a BUBBLE

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Whales

Because whales!

Government report: average Oz user will want 15 Mbps by 2023

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FAIL

Never

Never hold an inquiry or instigate a report unless you are guaranteed to get the answer you want.

OZ broadband = screwed

6 Obvious Reasons Why Facebook Will Ban This Article (Thank God)

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Facebook

I've heard of that.

Euro space boffins narrow down lander sites on comet doing 135,000km/h toward Sun

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Science, eh!

The gift that keeps on giving, and evaluating, and adjusting, and assessing.....

SpaceX prototype rocket EXPLODES over Texas. 'Tricky' biz, says Elon Musk

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Just one question

Why do people insist on filming in portrait mode on a mobile device?

Turn

Your

Phone

Around

Galileo can't do the fandango: Two Euro GPS nav sats sent into WRONG ORBIT

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Devil

Round and round they go

Where they orbit, nobody knows...

Don't even THINK about copyright violation, says Indian state

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Bribes?

NBN Co claims 96 mbps download speeds for FTTN trial

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FUD

Me thinks Malcolm is having a lend.....

Ideologue!

Kate Bush: Don't make me HAVE CONTACT with your iPHONE

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KB DAY

It's now "Kate Bush day" on my iPod at work!

Dozens of COPS cuffed in Turkish Prime Minister's wiretap probe

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Re: It's weird

It's a fowl media conspiracy across England's green and pheasant land!!

Astronomers scramble for obs on new comet

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Pint

Amateur by title only

Well done that man.

TRIANGULAR orbits will help Rosetta to get up close with Comet 67P

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Philae is due to touch down on November 11th.

Where an appropriate silence will be observed.

Lest we forget.

Cargo truck crammed with garbage explodes IN SPAAAAACE

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But

It's not Thursday!

Rupert Murdoch says Google is worse than the NSA

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Hey Rupe!

Bugger off!

Supervalu supermarket stores stung by sneaky sales system scammers

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FAIL

Hmmmm

"The safety of our customers' personal information is a top priority for us,"

- Just not quite as top a priority as to prevent this shit from going down.

What does a flashmob of 1,024 robots look like? Just like this

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Now

Make them a bit bigger and balance a beer on top.

Automated bar staff!

Password manager LastPass goes titsup: Users locked out

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I don't get it

How hard is it to remember: 123qwerty ?

Poll: Australians hate government data retention plan

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What percentage of the public understand [other amazing sciency thing]?

Politicians are reliant on most people not understanding the issue or the likely impact.

They use complacency and ignorance as a shield.

No, minister Turnbull, IP addresses aren't part of routine billing data collection

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Big Brother

So, does that mean...

...they are recording stuff now that they are not allowed to, or willing to disclose?

So:

“the security services, the police, ASIO and so forth, are not asking the Government to require telcos to record or retain information that they are not currently recording.”

Asshattery is afoot.

2,285,295 Aussie logins nabbed in Russian password haul

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Phew, that was close!!

They could have got all of our metadata as well !!!!

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/george-brandis-metadata-interview-fails-spectacularly-internet-reacts/story-fnjwnhzf-1227016188974

Australia's metadata debate is an utter shambles

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Re: Abbott is a complete and utter incompetent

Fair comment, had forgotten that.

I still think Malcolm sans-dacks is a better bet than Stunt Boy.

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Abbott is a complete and utter incompetent

If ever proof was needed.

He only needs to open his mouth.

As a previous (and fellow Tory) PM said; "Tony Abbott is a dangerous politician"

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/malcolm-fraser-tony-abbott-a-dangerous-politician,5267

And this from a politician who was successful at getting a Labor Government dismissed!

Australia to retain telecommunications metadata

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FAIL

Attorney-General George Brandis

The same Attorney-General George Brandis who today had his pro-hate speech amendments tossed out - by his own party!

More fail ahead.

NASA tests crazytech flying saucer thruster, could reach Mars in days

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Joke

Pfffft

Hasn't Deepak Chopra had one of these in his Quantum Free-Flow Energy Mind Control Flux Converter for years?

Facebook goes down, people dial 911

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Alien

Apols to Roger Waters

And when they found our shadows

Groups 'round the social media sets

They ran down every lead

They repeated every test

They checked out all the data in their lists

And then the alien anthropologists

Admitted they were still perplexed

But on eliminating every other reason

For our sad demise

They logged the only explanation left

This species has amused itself to death

No tears to cry

No feelings left

This species has amused itself to death

Amused itself to death

Users should PAY for their piracy says Turnbull

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"told Sky News"

Always keep your masters happy.

This LNP mob are so transparent.

Too rich for an iPhone 6? How about a gold-plated Brikk?

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Yes but...

...anyone know the name of TV show the clip is from?

TIA

NBN Co adds apartments to FTTP rollout

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Unhappy

So many plans and counter plans, from both sides of Parliament

So little action from anyone.

NBN, not going to happen.

Australia floats website blocks and ISP liability to stop copyright thieves

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Never under estimate the power of big content

....political donations and poorly informed politicians.

Forty-five years ago: FOOTPRINTS FOUND ON MOON

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Re: Sigh

Totally agree.

Something for the fans:

http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

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Last nights TV news claimed there were 9 moon landing missions.

"Apollo 11 and 8 other moon landings"

Probably researched on Twitter by a 20 something graduate.

For the record:

Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin

Apollo 12 Charles "Pete" Conrad, Alan Bean

Apollo 14 Alan B. Shepard, Edgar Mitchell

Apollo 15 David Scott, James Irwin

Apollo 16 John Young, Charles Duke

Apollo 17 Eugene Cernan, Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt

Lads from Lagos turn from 419 scams to basic malware slinging

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It's unkind to mock the less fortunate

But when it comes to scammers, I make an exception.

iiNet says metadata retention means a great big tax on everything

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FAIL

"Australia's government has pledged to reduce red tape, lower the cost of doing business and reduce the size of government."

Don't forget; No new taxes and no cuts!

The LNP are batshit insane and stacked with xstain fundies.