* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Anti-gay Uganda's premier backs pride march in protest hack

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Premier Amama Mbabazi

Sounds like a stage name to me.

Like: Priscilla, Queen of the desert.

Just making an observation.

Apple's lone wolf approach to security will bite it in the rear

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Joke

Virus?

Do we have an app for that?

Curiosity's new OS upgrade ready to go live

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Amarzing!

Top marks to the boffins, whatever their hair-style.

Moderate comments or face penalties: ACCC

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Mana from heaven

For trolls anyway

Google to skew search results to punish PIRATES

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Hang on!

I think there are other search engines on the intertubes.

Or are people convinced that Facebook and Google ARE the Internet?

Chinese man's six-ton balls save lives

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A springly chinese seat in a ball

Spring Roll ?

Now Curiosity rover beams back 3D snaps of Mars

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It's like I'm there

Gasp!

First full landing site and colour pictures back from Mars

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Great pics

I haven't been this inspired in space since Apollo.

Success! Curiosity Mars lander arrives precisely on schedule

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You beaut!

Beer o clock here!

Google offers panoramic views of Kennedy Space Center

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Thanks Google

Very nice

Daily Mail group in screeching U-turn on parody tweet persecution

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FAIL

Daily Mail Fail

See title

Martian lakes seen where NASA Curiosity rover WON'T BE GOING

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Mars must be looking really big about now

Go, plucky, not-so-little, lander!

AIIA takes the ‘Australian’ out of price-gouge concerns

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Asshats

Retailers and other price fixers

Jackson’s Hobbit becomes a trilogy

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Smaug would approve

All that lovely, lovely loot!

US flags from the 1970s SEEN ON MOON

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Apollo

The program that keeps on giving.

+1 for the steely eyed missile men/women.

IOC asks Olympic spectators to cut back TXTs and tweets

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Oh

Are the Olympics on?

AAPT confirms attack, through Melbourne IT

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MELBOURNE IT, EH?

JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT.

OK!!

Anonymous to expose 40GB of ISP data

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Wait and see...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/anonymous-threat-to-isps/story-e6frgakx-1226434704432

"The leak, as promised by Anonymous on the (Australian) ISP will be dumped today," the spokesperson said,

The individual said that the file that the hackers were working was very large and that they were taking steps aimed at preventing the ISP's customers' privacy being compromised.

"We're trying not to hurt people with (the) information but this is a rather large amount of data to deal with so we must be patient," the individual said.

Skype: Nearly half of adults don't install software updates

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Annual update sessions

So, nothing new.

I'll still be asked to do my annual PC fix-a-thon for family and friends.

Surely once a year updates are just dandy? (joke)

Coles signs up for Office 365

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More with less

More staff interaction (work) for less cost (overtime/shift payments)

Or is this just the status quo?

Qantas to provide wireless iPad entertainment on 767s

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Perth, Sydney, Perth, rinse, repeat

Oh joy, something, anything to pass the time.

Indonesia in pre-Ramadan web porn blitz

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WTF?

Re: Religious nutjobbery

Oooh, I hit a nerve there.

ouch.

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Religious nutjobbery

Indonesia is a heavily populated country.

SOMEBODY must be doing the horizontal-polka.

But what ever you do, don't look at it on the net.

There be demons!

Apple boots privacy name-and-shame app Clueful from store

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It's our walled-garden, no looking

OK?

Scotland Yard collars seventh computer-hack suspect

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Did they leave a phone message?

Can we all listen in?

Hubble spots ancient spiral galaxy that SHOULD NOT EXIST

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This is why science is so cool

Just when you think you know everything about this or that.

.......BOOOM

Right in the kisser!

McDonalds staff 'rough up' prof with home-made techno-spectacles

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Terminator

Hey! We don't serve their kind here!

Luke: What?

Bartender: Your droids. They'll have to wait outside.

Olympic Security cock-up was down to that DARN software

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FAIL

Fail writ large

When you can't even get security-theater right...

Slash for cash: boozers' bladders primed for Olympic pee game

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I prefer the old fashioned analog games

Like: Blast the fag end.

Yes, you can be sacked for making dodgy Facebook posts

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Re: Might need to look a little deeper

This is as good a theory on how 'staffing reviews' are decided as I've seen.

I remember a review when a bunch of managers sat in front of a list of names and took turns picking a name each. Those names that were left, ahhh, left. It reminded me of picking kids for competing sports teams at primary school.

E-Cat pitching cold fusion to Australians

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I'm sure it provides a great source of usable energy

...when the unit is set afire.

Expert: BA doesn't need permission to google your face

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Re: Hmm...

I've turned left many a time getting on a plane.

Mind, I was boarding via the rear stairs.....

Religious wars brewing in ICANN gTLD expansion

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Re: Dear religious groups

What he/she said....

Microsoft hires hippy to lecture resellers on being nice to the world

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WTF?

Deepak Chopra?

He has as much credibility as a homeopathic neutron bomb.

Smartphone-wielding Obamaniacs trounce Romney in poll

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56% of statistics

...are made up.

ISPs step in to supply DNSChanger safety net

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Stop

Shut down, turn off

Find the box it came in

Return

Revealed at last: Universe's intergalactic dark matter skeleton

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Michele Bachman

Now there's some really empty space.

Wish you were here? NASA rover beams postcard from Mars

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Windows

Oh for some windex and a rag to wipe those panels

Do they have homeless guys at intersections on Mars?

The Archers INVADE Guernsey, rebrand it Borchester

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Borgchester

We are the Borg. Lower your firewalls and surrender your servers.

Texas Higgs hunters mourn the particle that got away

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The fundies control the funding

Science is definitely not on their agenda.

Trekkie pays £45,000 for rusty shuttle

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Star Dreck

What a piece o'crap!

Take a look at atom’s shadow

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Impressive

Mind-bogglingly impressive.

Full Tilt Poker boss arrested over $430m 'Ponzi scheme'

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The odds are...

I'll never understand people gambling online.

Microsoft sets the price for a Windows 8 upgrade at $40

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Win 8 the new Vista?

Is Win 8 the 'one to skip"?

Facebook phone app attempts to seize ALL YOUR MAIL

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Engage smug mode

Facebook?

Hell no.

Multimillion-pound hoard of 50BC GOLD PIECES found in Jersey

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Motherlode

This has got to be the reason why honest 'detectorists' ply their trade.

Telstra’s filter supplier also blocks for Qatar, Yemen, UAE

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Sprung

Sprung, bad.

'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

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RBS: "No evidence" this is connected to outsourcing

Well, no evidence you are going to see anyway....

LulzSec suspects plead guilty to DDoS attacks

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DDoS

Definite

Denial

of

Sense

Mars has more water than thought

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Of course they do

How would Martians make beer otherwise?