* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

NASA: Yup, thousand-pound meteorite exploded over Texas

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Dang Chinese!

First it's balloons, then it's rocks!

Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon'

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Bomber jackets

Seems apt.

Twitter is bombing now.

I can't do that, Dave: AI drowns top sci-fi mag with story submissions

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Terminator

It was a quark and stormy night…

Who knows, maybe soon all books will be written this way.

I’m not saying it’s good, mind.

Amazon mandates return to office for 300,000 corporate staff

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Big Brother

Come back to the office!

We don’t trust you.

Meta to add verification to Facebook and Insta under scheme that should avoid Twitter's Musk-stakes

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Re: Avoiding impersonators

I came here to say the same.

+1 from me.

Tesla fires gigafactory staff after someone made the mistake of mentioning unions

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Big Brother

For a country that claims to be all about equality and freedom.

America sure is weird when it comes to unions and workers rights.

Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else

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Pirate

The Law of security

The less benign a person is the greater the required security.

Tesla's self-driving code may ignore stop signs, act unsafe. Patch coming ... soon

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Just two things

1. It is not full self drive

2. It is a recall

More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register

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“victims of fake crypto investor scam”

Is the word “fake” redundant?

99 year old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots

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Crypto Crapto is such a great description

The other day upon the stairs

I saw a scam that wasn’t there

It wasn’t there again today

It must have been a Ponzi, ay?

Most Londoners would quit before they give up working from home

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Stop

The noise!

Open plan offices are super noisey.

Not so much for the managers who have offices.

WFH is so peaceful and productive.

In the office I had to listen to inanely stupid, loud, conversations about reality tv shows and who’s bonking who on level 4.

Musk says he ain't going anywhere as Twitter CEO until at least late 2023

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He sure does talk some tripe

And to think, people invest with this guy.

Musk's view count antics are perfect cover for Twitter's paid API failure

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Not waving, drowning!

The Emperor is going under.

US teases more China tech sanctions, this time to deflate balloon-makers

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What next?

Shooting down the fat guy in the red suit near the North Pole?

Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport

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Self driving monkey brains

Infection subscriptions now available

SpaceX cuts off Ukraine's 'offensive' Starlink use

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Devil

Vlad the imploder

Musk the appeaser

A match made in LEO.

Pakistan’s PM overturns Wikipedia ban, seeks end to whack-a-mole content blocks

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Devil

There’s nowt as strange as folk

Religion just adds extra spice.

Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme

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Re: This is not the first time

Tudge was also accused of “kicking” his mistress out of bed. The staffer was later awarded mega-bucks in a secret settlement.

Education Minister Alan Tudge stands aside amid abuse allegations, PM tells parliament

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-02/alan-tudge-stands-aside-amid-abuse-allegations/100669592

Guy accused of wrecking crypto exchange now hauled into court

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Trollface

As they say

A fool and his mango are soon parted.

As Apple sales slide, Tim Cook says fanbois will tolerate higher iPhone prices

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Devil

Obscene profits

Grossly underpaid factory workers

All praise the god of Avarice (may dividends be upon him)

Microsoft swears it's not coming for your data with scan for old Office versions

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But, what could possibly go wrong?

[Extra paper available if required]

Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping

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Big Brother

Ergo

Don’t put your personal data on the Internet.

Should Google location data be a tool for cops?

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Going equipped

I know bank robbers aren’t usually Einsteins, but why take your phone with you on a job?

Going interstate for an abortion?* Leave your phone in the motel on the day.

Despite popular belief, a human does not require a mobile phone with them 24/7 to get by.

* The US is f$cking weird.

McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs

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Re: print car number plates on takeaway bags to discourage customers from littering

“willing to eat in McDo”

Post of the day!

Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps

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Flame

What a bunch of…

And yet millions continue to be used by this “service” every waking moment.

California toys with digital vehicle titles on private DMV blockchain

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Blockchain

The solution still desperately in need of a problem.

Truck-size asteroid makes one of the tightest fly-bys of Earth ever recorded

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Elephant

In Oz, this was reported as “elephant size”.

That’s more in keeping with the Reg standard.

UK Cyber Security Centre's scary new story: One phish, two phish, Russia phish, Iran phish

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Trollface

LinkedIn

Now there’s ya problem!

Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

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Eat the rich

Give their money to the poor

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

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Headmaster

Circa 1966 Sydney, a school classroom

Right children, put away those old rulers and forget about pounds, stones, furlongs and chains.

We’re doing metric now!

We also converted from inkwells to biros. Heady times.

Ireland’s privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp €5.5 million

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WhatsApp

Isn’t its whole business model just to act as a data harvester?

The messaging part is just the shiny things to attract the users.

Three billion objects, 10TB+ of data – yup, it's the largest-yet survey of our galaxy

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Alien

Three Billion + just in our galaxy

Statistically, we are not alone.

Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

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What, what?

Restrict cakes?

But what about hot sausage rolls, spring rolls and party pie Wednesdays?

Netflix changes CEO-sharing arrangement, teases paid password-sharing

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I can’t imagine

Paying $$$ to watch TV.

This seems wholly unnecessary and unattractive.

Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories

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Terminator

AI says

Try me, meat bag!

Laser-wielding boffins bend lightning to their will

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Re: It has been said

Perhaps.

And it might also lower the churches fire insurance policy.

Tesla faked self-driving demo, Autopilot engineer testifies

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Full Self Denial

Make these clowns drive at walking pace with their hazard lights flashing.

Maybe then, they will be safe.

FTX audit finds $415m in crypto mysteriously vanished

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Facepalm

These massive loss figures just roll off the tongue

And yet it’s still not enough to put “investors” off the crypto merry go round.

Wyoming's would-be ban on sale of electric vehicles veers off road

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Brian Boner

Did he ever work with Ron Jeremy?

Crypto exchanges freeze accounts tied to North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group

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Coat

Norkocoin

Now you see it, now you don’t.

Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko

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Facepalm

When you’re in a hole

Keep digging?

Euro-cops shut down crypto scam that bilked millions from unwitting punters

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What makes things difficult

Is knowing the difference between crypto fakes and crypto.

Both offer much the same product.

Amazon's attempt to crush New York union slapped down

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Megaphone

The only employers worried about unions…

…are those that have something to worry about.

Natch

—-> All out!

Twitter's Singapore landlord says avian network still a tenant, despite eviction reports

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FAIL

Hello, Twitter Accounts Receivable?

Anyone still there?

Hello?

[Tap Tap]

Hello?

Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks

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Stage 2

Online gaming while in the shower!

Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real

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Kids these days

They have it so easy.

In my day, we had to convince a smart kid to show you their work while you quickly scribbled something similar right before class.

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

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Re: "the island had become his petri dish of experimentation on health, wellness and sustainability"

The Professor has set it up to run on coconut cream pies!

Tesla fails to push racial discrimination lawsuit into arbitration

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FSD

Full

Staff

Discrimination

?

FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty on eight charges

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Devil

Not guilty your honour.

Some big boys done it and ran away!