* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

iOS 6.x hack allows personal data export, free calls

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Trollface

"a sequence of swipes and key presses"

That's probably already patented!

Ask Google this impossible question, get web filth as a reward

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Joke

There's porn? On the interwebs?

Who knew?

Intel's new TV box to point creepy spy camera at YOUR FACE

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Childcatcher

Not a chance

I'd take up origami or stamp-collecting as entertainment before having a Creep-O-Box [TM] in my house.

Get up, shake off the hangover: These 57 Microsoft holes won't fix themselves

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57 Varieties

Life's a minestrone

Public told to go to hell, name Pluto's two new moons

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Devil

Cerberus and Hercules

What better than a dog fight around Pluto?

Illicit phone rings in Sri Lankan inmate's back crack

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Re: No

or maybe even:

I told you, never call me at the orifice!

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Stop

No

I said never call me here!

US company aims patent-gun at Australia’s e-health system

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Stop

Patent Trolls go home

Now.

New Zealand court hands out second peppercorn downloading penalty

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Devil

$7.17 to pay for the actual songs

Now THAT'S criminal!

Australian Parliament issues summons to Apple, Microsoft, Adobe

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Devil

Reasons?

There no reasons.

They do it because they can.

Bioshock Infinite, Devil May Cry, SimCity

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Keep left

I live in hope that one day game developers will allow users to switch between right hand drive and left hand drive vehicles and roads. (Sim City for instance)

Would it be that hard to code?

Honest question.

Tennessee bloke quits job over satanic wage slip

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Devil

He should move to New Zealand

His number could be: Sex Sex Sex.

But no, the xstain fundies don't like that word either!

Electric cars stall in USA, Australia

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Re: utter bollocks

Wot 'e said.

British games company says it owns the idea of space marines

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Alien

They can have "Space Marine"

But they'll never take my "Space Cowboy"

Apols to: Steve Miller Band

Facebook glitch briefly crashes several sites

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Trollface

Sorry

You lost me at "Facebook"...

Microsoft can't even shift Windows 8 slabs in the middle of a tablet frenzy

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Trollface

I'm very concerned

Will Eadon EVER achieve a positive net vote?

PS: I lied about the title.

Fed confirms but downplays Anonymous Super Bowl banker hack

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Trollface

Super Bowl?

What?

Oh riiiight, it's sport isn't it.

Japan hides anti-piracy warning on P2P networks

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Stop

"Please stop immediately."

That'll learn 'em!

Schoolgirl's Hello Kitty catonaut soars to 93,000ft

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Kittiiiieeeees in spaaaaace!

10/10 to all concerned.

UK cookies cop changes own policy to ‘implied consent’

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FAIL

The Internet is safe now, everyone back in

Cookie crisis averted.

Children now safe.

First video inside thinking fish's brain captured by boffins

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Big Brother

Careful there citizen

We knew you were thinking that.

Microsoft Office 2013 vs. Office 365: Is either right for you?

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Re: Buying office for the home

Exactly.

Just bought MS Office 2013 Pro Plus on a home use program for less than US $15.00

Sweet.

Microsoft tries to sell home Office users on subscription pricing

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Re: Never underestimate the IQ of MS Office users

Software development by PowerPoint

I've known plenty of "managers" who think that if their PA can design it in PowerPoint then the real application can be developed just as quickly.

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I'm happy with MS Office Professional Plus 2013

Just US $14.32 under their Home Use Program.

Brit mastermind of Anonymous PayPal attack gets 18 months' porridge

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War!

"It's intolerable that where an individual or a group disagrees with a company they should be able to interfere with its activity,"

But isn't that the basis of war?

Just replace "company" with "country"

Red supergiant Betelgeuse heads for SMACKDOWN with 'dust bar'

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30km a second, eh?

I'll bet at that speed, the bugs that hit its windscreen are instantly turned into beetle juice!

Boffins take the temperature of the cosmos

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Pint

Meanwhile at the nearby Narrabri Pub....

Right Bruce, set the beer fridge to 2.73 Kelvin.

That'll get these slabs nice and cold.

Dead Steve Jobs' patent war threat to Palm over 'no-hire pact'

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Joke

The real issue

People (resources) have rounded corners!

That makes them ALL the property of Apple.

Hackers on anti-Egypt spree bury Egyptology journal in the sand

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Joke

Not to be outdone

Conservative christian hackers in the US have brought down the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art web sites.

Megaupload outed file-sharers to Feds months before Dotcom raid

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Devil

There can only ever be one outcome

Lawyers - Barristers - Solicitors, et al, make more money.

Record numbers of you are reading this headline right now

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Trollface

Who are these dead-tree competitors you speak of?

Do people still wait hours or days to read static news?

(Page 3 thrills aside)

McDonalds burger app gives it to you straight from the horse's mouth

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Re: "Dead horse" as tomato sauce is often referred to by devotees of rhyming slang,

Dead horse = tomato sauce

Red/dead

Horse/sauce

Correct!

The bigger issue is :

White Crow or Heinz?

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Unhappy

Once every two years is just enough...

...to remind me how awful McDonalds 'food' is.

Sometimes you're in a hurry out on the highway.

Always, you regret the decision.

US taxman joins UK politicoes on hunt for Amazon cash

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Unhappy

Politicians make stupid (tax) laws

Corporations take full advantage of said stupid (tax) laws.

Politicians complain about stupid (tax) laws.

You and I, we just get screwed over.

FAA grounds Boeing's 787 after battery fires on plastic planes

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Flame

The fasten seat belts light has been switched on

Please fasten your belt low and tight, return your tray to the upright position, turn off any electronic devices and extinguish all batteries.

NRA: Video games kill people, not guns. And here's our video game

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NRA

N U T J O B S

White House raises the signature threshold for petitions to 100,000

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Terminator

5,000 or 25,000 signatures.....or more

This is not the democracy you're looking for.

Ex-Doctor Who babe Karen Gillan touts dodgy diet pills in twit gaffe

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Hackers attack Amy Pond's twitter account!

They'd be pond-scum then.

Google ordered to identify bloggers

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Soccer!?

Now that WOULD be defamatory.

NASA snaps pics of China's 'Airpocalypse' pollution disaster

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Pirate

Because, in the West, we like cheap shit

Not now Jianguo, we've gotta get on with this...

Satnav blunder sends Belgian granny 1,450km to Croatia

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Two days!

What?

Apart from fuel, no stops?

No food stops?

No hotels?

BS

Largest ever spiral galaxy spotted - may give birth to dwarf baby

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Surely...

Somewhere in that massive galaxy is something resembling life, not that we are likely to ever know.

Surely.

White House rejects Death Star petition: '$850qn too pricey'

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Re: This

No, I'm pretty sure it said "right for bears to have arms"

Obviously an early form of wildlife conservation.

Razzies set to torpedo Rihanna's Battleship

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Re: Surprised Prometheus.....

There's bottom of the barrel and then there's UNDER the barrel...

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Watched Battleship on long haul flight

Upon reflection, I much preferred the endless drone of the aircraft engines, the airline food and the mindless boredom.

Agreed, the scene where the old tub is fired up and sent out to battle was a head-desk (or head-tray) moment.

Who knew they kept live munitions on a museum ship?

Nipper's toy train enjoys journey to edge of SPAAAAACE

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Express train to space, mind the gap!

Oh that's excellent.

Loved the video.

Latest exoplanet discovery is a virtual CLONE of Earth

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Re: How old is the star?

"The aliens who did invent religion are most likely still at home killing each other with rocks..."

Sentence of the week, well played that person!

Texas schoolgirl loses case over RFID tag suspension

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Facepalm

If you take your lead in life from the book of revelations

Then you have MUCH bigger problems than mere RFID tags.

Japanese cops cuff cat carrying remote control virus

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Mushroom

Catzilla

Send in Moggra!

NASA: There are 17 BEEELLION Earth-sized worlds in Milky Way

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FAIL

What?

What?

If this is a troll, it's a very poor one indeed.