* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Turkey's farcical Twitter ban leads to SPIKE in tweets

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Linux

Turkeys

The mortal enemy of the blue bird of happiness!

TEN THINGS Google believes you believe about Glassholes and wishes you didn't

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Terminator

Meanwhile at the Cantina on Mos Eisley....

We don't serve their kind here!

They'll have to wait outside.

Queensland cops collar League of Legends 'hacker'

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Coat

Kingaroy you say?

What a peanut.

Don't you worry about that!

Vote now for the top reader Limerick limerick

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Happy

Bob Duncan

Effort alone.

MtGox finds 200,000 Bitcoin in old wallets

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Happy

Ahhh now Dougal

They were only resting in my account..

Blighty goes retro with 12-sided pound coin

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Trollface

Get with the future

Make them all BRITcoins!

What could go wrong?

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Coat

The 2 Windsors (Or a tale of two titties)

Side 1: Betty Windsor: Representing the posh, upper class, regal set.

Side 2: Barb' Windsor: Representing the more common, "Cor, look at the threepenny bits on that..." set.

(inspired by ardubbleyu)

Grav waves: Moment when 'father of Big Bang inflation' learns he was RIGHT ALL ALONG

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Science is amazing!!

But cue the idiot creationists.

Ken Ham: "we can't really know for sure, since we weren't there"

Surf's up near Saturn as boffins spot waves on Titan

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Alien

Surfing Titan

It's a (liquid) gas!

NASA: Earth JUST dodged comms-killing SOLAR BLAST in 2012

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Mushroom

Missed

By that much!

This record-smashing robot solves a Rubik's Cube in 3.253 seconds

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Windows

"Forty years after the invention of the Rubik's Cube"

Old, I'm old!

MtGox allows users to see a picture of their money, but not have it

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Trollface

Shell game

Now you see it, now you don't.

And they called it a scam.

GRAV WAVE TSUNAMI boffinry BONANZA – the aftershock of the universe's Big Bang

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Devil

Yay for boffins!!

Science: Eleventy Billion!

Religion: 0

Europe approves common charger standard for mobe-makers

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Coat

And for non-compliance...

....a number of different charge[r]s will be applied.

ACCC to target price comparison websites

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Megaphone

"price comparators websites"

Those sites are OK for getting a ballpark value of what to pay and what not to pay.

But I'd never actually click on any of the links or take them too seriously.

Icon: Attention shoppers!!

Flying Toaster screen savers return on GitHub

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Pirate

Ahhh yes, the After Dark screensaver

The most pirated software of the day at my place of work, and all on 3.5" diskettes.

Forget superstars, this HYPERGIANT star is 1,300 times the size of OUR SUN

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It's full of stars!

And bloody great big ones too.

NZ bloke's drunken poker bet ends in 99-letter name

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Facepalm

Even if he changes his name back...

...he's locked into showing his previous name as "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova." on government forms, bank documents, employment forms, etc.

Cherry-pick undermines NBN business case: Switkowski

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FAIL

LNP - fail train

All aboaaaard!

FTTP is already looking like a non starter.

Rupert WILL be happy.

There was a good reason to go with FTTH.

MtGox, that bastion of unregulated e-currency Bitcoin, turns to Texas judge for protection

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Devil

New fangled Bitcoins disappear

Lawyers still getting rich.

At least some things stay the same.

Florida bloke cuffed for pit bull shag outrage

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WTF?

Taking the bull by the horn!

The poor dog will have nightmares

The long war on 'DRAM price fixing' is over: Claim YOUR spoils now (It's worth a few beers)

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WTF?

Really?

Just give the lot to some secular charity.

Blimey! ANOTHER Bitcoin bleed brouhaha

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Holmes

Hmmmm

State sponsored hacking or just regular criminal behaviour?

Big Content wants Aussies blocked from Netflix

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Unhappy

Relax

Between Malcolm Turnbull and Rupert Murdoch, Australians wont have a fast internet service anytime soon.

Old Rupe' killed off the NBN by making sure the LNP got into power.

He will keep Netflix (etc) at bay to save his Foxtel pay TV empire.

The Trans Pacific Partnership will simply be the 100 tonne slab that seals many Australians in.

Fortunately, some of us have cheap and easy solutions at hand.

Apple 'hid AUD$9 BILLION' from Australia alone: Report

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It may not be illegal

But it is immoral

Taxes feed and clothe people in need, and provide support/infrastructure.

Bitcoin ban row latest: 'Unstable, loved by criminals' Yup, that's the US dollar – Colorado rep

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Hang on there!

Is he REALLY a US Congressman?

Telstra 'snot boxes' challenge Turnbull's FTTN plan

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FAIL

Re: Look on the plus side . . .

Perth.

Oh no it isn't better, new or not.

We live in an isolated city surrounded by ocean and desert.

The Internet infrastructure is appalling just outside of the CBD.

I'm very lucky in my street, I have ADSL2+.

Many have dial-up and are stuck on pair gained lines.

10 year old estate.

We had pair gain until I complained and persisted to the point of getting our address re-wired from the nearby pillar.

Turnbull's plan is just BULL.

NASA's 2015 budget plea: Jobs, pork, small business – OK, science

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Facepalm

Because....

....what could we possibly learn from the universe?

MtGox: Yup, we're pretty sure your Bitcoin were stolen. Sorry about that.

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Trollface

Phew, that was close!!

The ZERO Bitcoins I had in Mt Gox are still there!

MtGox to customers: Your call is important to us … NOT!

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Devil

There's more (Bitcoin) apologetics here than....

....at a creationists science fair!

Flying fondleslab causes injury after plane hits turbulence

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Windows

Saw a bottle of wine fall out once, onto someone's head!

It was OK, the bottle didn't break.

True story though.

Qantas' biggest problems are … Apple, Samsung and Google?

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No escape for us

QANTAS will soon stop all international flights from Perth.

So the decision is clear.

Emirates all the way. They are superior anyway.

They even have power sockets and USB in their seat backs on the 777.

RSA booked TV's Stephen Colbert to give the final speech. This is what happened next

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Black Helicopters

Good for him

Im sure they recorded it all for his file.

How a Facebook post by blabbermouth daughter cost her parents $80,000

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FAIL

Ouch!

That's gotta hurt.

No Gulliver travels for the Snays.

Crap hospital databases next goldmine for cyber-crooks, say Microsoft's botnet slayers

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Yes indeed

A backdoor thief can make piles!

Steve Jobs statue: Ones and ohs and OH NOES – it's POINTING at us

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WTF?

I have a soft spot for the statue

It's down near the swamp, it should sink without trace quickly.

Google Glass: Reg man tests tech specs

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Trollface

Glasshole

The "GL" sound is silent, as in "Twat"

Oz feds kick the metadata retention can, again

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Thin edge, meet wedge.

“This is not data that contains content of conversations or content of SMSs or contents of emails”

Y E T

MtGox boss vows to keep going despite $429m Bitcoin 'theft'

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WTF?

To lose one bitcoin.....to lose two....but

....to lose 750,000?

Hmmm, there's something decaying in a Scandinavian country methinks!

Worlds that could support LIFE found among 715 new planets

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You want planets?

We've got planets!

US Senator lobbies feds to BAN BITCOIN

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FAIL

"the currency helps facilitate criminal activity"

And of course the good old green-back has NEVER been used for illicit purposes!

AWA calls in administrators

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Happy

Memories of '69

The whole school was a-buzz * when one day an AWA van appeared.

Two men in brown coats unloaded a huge wooden cabinet, complete with lockable front doors.

They positioned the cabinet in pride of place inside the room used by 2nd class.

Later, the whole school sat on the floor, about 80 kids, to watch parts of the Apollo 11 mission. Some probably chose the kneel *

Not a word was heard but the scratchy voices from a distant mike* emanating from the black and white TV.

Amazing.

* intended

MtGox has VANISHED. So where have all the Bitcoins gone?

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Alert

ALL

GONE

China in the grip of a 'NUCLEAR WINTER': Smog threat to crops

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Gimp

China: Breathtaking views!

Cough, cough, splutter....

Gas mask --->

Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations stall again

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Unhappy

Whatever they decide

The man/woman on the street will get screwed over.

Battle of Bletchley Park: TNMOC chief calls for review of museums' Mexican standoff

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Megaphone

"Change is necessary to..."

WARNING: weasel-words and spin ahead!

Pics: 'Bitcoin ATMs' spring up in the US

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Trollface

Next: California

"You can deposit any time you like, but your coins can never leave"...

Muslim clerics issue fatwa banning the devout from Mars One 'suicide' mission

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Nut jobbery versus nut jobbery

Please don't export religion to a second planet.

One is bad enough.

Missing matter found by squinting through gravitational lens

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Science is never satisfied!

Great, isn't it?

French youth faces court for illegal drone flight

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Nice work

Pity about the legal issues.

But good job!