* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

No Skype traffic released to cops or spooks, insists Microsoft

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Black Helicopters

Nothing to see here, move along.

Yesterday upon the stair

I met a man who wasn't there

He wasn't there again today

I'll bet he's from the CIA

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Apols to: William Hughes Mearns

Curiosity out of safe mode, doing science again

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WTF?

Re: cryptic missive

Muppet!

(AKA: Pigs iiiiiiiiin Spaaaaaace)

GoPro accused of using DMCA to take down product review

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Pint

Re: This comment is protected by DCMA

....except for replies mentioning upvotes and beer!

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FAIL

This comment is protected by DCMA

Unauthorised replies will be subject to legal proceedings.

You have been warned.

Microsoft, Adobe, wilt during Australian price gouge grilling

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Pirate

Gouging

Plain and simple.

Because they can.

Amazon boss salvages Apollo engines from watery grave

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Joke

The US Government sure is thorough

They faked all the Moon missions, but to make sure no one found out they even sunk some 'damaged' rocket engines in the ocean. That's very thorough.

</sarcasm>

Voyager goes off a (helio) cliff

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Unhappy

Imagine

Maybe there's a probe from some place else headed our way!

Then again, probably not.

Another MYSTERY evacuation: Google UK empties swanky offices

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Alien

They almost look like normal people

Almost.

Breakneck star orbits black hole at record speed

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Alien

Galactic scale canival ride

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

First sale doctrine survives US Supreme Court

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Devil

Possesion is 9 tenths of the law

If you don't hold a physical copy, you're not doing it right.

Celebrity conspiracy as Apple attacked over customer service

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Big Brother

State-run CCTV

You couldn't make this stuff up!

Who needs a TV rating system when you have CCTV?

CCTV hack takes casino for $33 MILLION in poker losses

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Devil

Crown

Suffer in ya jocks!

New nuke could POWER WORLD UNTIL 2083

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Mushroom

But where's my "Mr Fusion" ?

Hello McFly?

It's 2013 already!!

Plucky Swede glides spaceplane to Earth from edge of stratosphere

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Swede..t

Nice job!

Every SECOND there are EIGHT more Seagate drives in the world

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Coat

Re: You know on Time Team how they...

.... in a Roman Temple.

Fake fingers fool Brazilian biometrics

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Coat

Also used by workers at the Opera House, Sao Paulo, Brazil,

You must have heard of the phantom of the opera?

Take a temp job in Oz and become office pariah

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FAIL

Re: Tony Abbott will fix it

...including the aboriginal people themselves.

Out of Africa much?

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Meh

LarsG

I've been to Manchester a number of times.

It's certainly nothing to boast about.

Although the good wife does hail from there.

Comixology cloud fails to Make Mine Marvel

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Meh

Meh

Now if they were back issues of old Beano and Dandy comics.....YEAH!

Elon Musk's 'Grasshopper' hover rocket scores another test success

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Unhappy

Flying bedstead Mk2

Pity Neil's not around to give it a spin.

UK's £500m web dole queue project director replaced after JUST 4 months

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Alert

Plan B

Yes there is, but you should see all the forms you have to fill out.

Mozilla to Apple: we don't care about iOS

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Trollface

Someone mentioned "fruity company"

But I think they got away with it.

Dear Facebook: I heard the news today, oh boy

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Stop

Facebook eh?

No

Oklahoma woman cuffed with loaded .22 in pork holster

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Flame

Prisoner banged up

Jailer gets to grip with the problem.

Congratulations, copyright infringers: You are the five per cent

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Pirate

Just 5%

In the retail industry that would be a reasonably low "shrinkage" rate.

Some people want stuff for free, it's always been this way.

Deal.

Canuck rumps resist Street View arsebusters

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Arsetastic

Well done those guys.

RBS and NatWest FAIL downs services across UK

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FAIL

Banks and money

What could possibly go wrong?

Farewell, Reg: This hack is hanging up her Apple jacket

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Goodonyamate

Seeyalater!

Oz Senator says Google Glass could 'end privacy as we know it'

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Flame

"Liberals claim kinship with ....the USA's Republicans"

But they're just not as clever as their American brethren.

Google in the dock over elephant ivory ads

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Pirate

Scientific research?

So is this related to Japan's needless slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean?

Asshats!

Incoming comet will probably miss Mars, says NASA

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Megaphone

Wall-e!

Clean up, planet 4!

Welsh bureaucrats busted for getting political on Twitter, Facebook

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Trollface

Social Media

A communicable disease.

Some people should just abstain.

Pirate Bay 'seeks asylum' in, er, 'North Korea'

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Happy

Caroline?

Now that would certainly be piratey-enough, if not rather damp.

Report: Danish government hits Microsoft with $1bn tax bill

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Devil

Remember the golden rule

Those with the gold make the rules.

Chinese search giant Baidu launches free AV

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Chinese AV?

Oh sure.

What a top idea.

Health pros: Alcohol is EVIL – raise its price, ban its ads

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Re: £6.50 pints - doesn't seem to have had any impact

$10 is cheap, have you tried the Belgian Beer joint in Murray St?

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Stop

Stop it!

Or you'll go blind (drunk)

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Trollface

Re: All Methodists?

Jesus was a binge drinker.

I mean, water to wine.

FFS!

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Re: Having

Sorry to hear mate.

I'll have a few coldies in your honour.

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Pint

What next?

Urine testing before you buy any booze at a bottle-shop (off-license)

Shop keeper: Son, can you fill this?

[shows customer a specimen jar]

Customer: Yes, but not from here.

Storage glitch sends Curiosity into safe mode

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Only one man can save it now!

Flash!

Flash Gordon!!

(I'll get my cape)

Spies in the sky: The leaps and bounds from balloons to spook sats

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Excellent article

Well done.

Can you do one on hand-held spy equipment?

Texan contends iPod EXPLODED IN HER FACE

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Syncing feeling

What's that ticking sound?

Browser makers open local storage hole in HTML5

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WTF?

Fill me up?

I don't know about massive cookies, but my El Reg screen is currently awash with wall to wall, giant, orange adverts for MS Office 365!

My eyes!

I trust Eadon is enjoying this too, should he get served the same adverts.

Jimmy Wales: 'I'm Wikipedia's monarch'

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Joke

Re: "The secret's in the sauce"

Oh, I thought it was "beef".

As we all know: Wikipedia is full of Bull.

Super-fast super-massive black hole spins at nearly light-speed

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Super massive

Super science!

US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'

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Trollface

End times

The Pope has resigned

Assault weapons might be banned

Italy has a farcical parliament *

Girls are going out with pigs

Cats and dogs are living together!

REPENT

REPENT

THE END IS NIGH!

* Not so strange really

BBC World Service in a jam as China blocks broadcasts

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Devil

Ahh China

Their produce is cheap and a bit shoddy, just like their brand of democracy.

Microsoft secure Azure Storage goes down WORLDWIDE

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Megaphone

I dedicate this thread to Eadon

He/she must be like a pig-in-poo right now.

Dalek designer Ray Cusick passes away aged 84

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Alert

Somehow scarier in B&W

Daleks scared the tripe out of me as a small kid in the early 60s.

Men in suits?

Never!