* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Facebook denies silent stalking of punters (again)

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"stalkerbase"

Ooops, what a give away!

Dick Smith faces tricky times

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Unhappy

DS taught me to solder stuff together

Their DIY electronics projects were popular when I were a lad.

In my case, none of them ever worked but they were well soldered.

Probably too well.

Mars probe crippled by buggy SSD successfully jury-rigged

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Science, even at a distance...

Still beats bronze-age beliefs in the hand....

Report: Popular CAPTCHAs easily defeated

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FAIL

I hate captcha

The site I run uses Google.

We get more complaints about our captcha test than we get for general complaints *

* or we would if they could get past the captcha.

Google signs Deepak Chopra and Madonna in TV blitzkrieg

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FAIL

Deepak Chopra and Madonna

The FAIL equivalent of Fred and Ginger?

Airline strikes, unions outraged

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Remember

Don't feed the trolls

Pete Townshend condemns Apple as 'digital vampire'

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Linux

What sort of bike?

Asking for a friend of course.

ASX down, blames glitch

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Facepalm

Safest my money has been....

...while the ASX is frozen.

Army of 'socialbots' steal gigabytes of Facebook user data

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FAIL

Failbook rides again

See above

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Joke

"test purposes" eh?

Just like those midget porn site accounts, no doubt!

Assange loses High Court appeal against extradition to Sweden

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Gimp

Brown trouser time

I'm sure Uncle Sam is making a place ready for him right now.

World heading for massive jobs slump

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Once one Jobs goes.....

....others will follow.

Argentina stakes online claim on Falklands

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Linux

Us penguins were here first

So Falk off, the lot of you!

5 SECONDS to bypass an iPad 2 password

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FAIL

Fondleslab

Fingered!

Facebook 'bug' temporarily disappears some .co.uk links

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Fair's fair

I don't recognise Facebook either.

US decommissions massive Cold War nuke

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Terminator

Where's the Kaboom?

There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!

Tweens would miss web and mobes more than TV

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Big Brother

TeeVee....?

....is that what that thing in the corner is?

German boffins BREAK LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS!

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So...

No "Mr Fusion" then....

Anonymous shuts down hidden child abuse hub

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Unhappy

The human mind has so many facets, not all of them good

At one end of the spectrum it can be creative, thoughtful and nurturing.

At the other end, not so much.

Anything that exposes these creeps is OK with me.

But an action that lands a successful prosecution is much preferred.

Last mystery of first recorded supernova laid to rest

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Mushroom

Goddidit

Perhaps the big fella sneezed?

Linehan turns IT Crowd off but NOT on again

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Unhappy

Non-System disk or disk error

Show cannot boot

Aww well, I enjoyed it.

Can the iPad save newspapers?

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Rupesaurus

Going the way of his ancestors.

And not before time.

Rupert's MySpace mea culpa

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FAIL

Fail bosses and millions all around

Way to go Rupe.

Meanwhile back at the coal face us grunts get back to survival.

'Occupy Wherever' movement goes transgalactic

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Hmmmm

I think I'll wait until the "Cliffsnotes" version comes out.

Netbook shipments slump in face of tablet rise

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Happy

Netbooks

Oh yes, I remember them.

How soon we move on and forget.

Cable employee admits replacing Superbowl feed with porn

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Cox Communications

Of course.

Apple's iPod: ten years old

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I always wanted one...

...even before they were invented.

As a kid I wanted some way to carry around all of my music.

Years later the iPod (and their like) arrived.

Brilliant.

UK has enough sheep shearers, needs more coders

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Code for the UK.

Live in India.

Libel reform vows to slay anonymous trolls

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WTF?

I'd like an argument.

Sorry, this is abuse arguments are located next door.

Surely this whole idea is Pythonesque?

Irish DPC to investigate Facebook

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Facebook - the black hole

It wants your data, all of it.

RIAA-led mob threatens innovation, Senator warns

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Good laws are the most prifitable

Remember the 'golden rule'

(Those with the gold, rule)

Blow for McKinnon as extradition treaty ruled 'not biased'

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American justice eh?

I'd never like to experience it.

Solar Challenge leaders whizz towards Adelaide

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Ahhh Adelaide

The city of churches and shallow bush graves.

4chan founder bashes Facebook, Google+ on identity

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Black Helicopters

"Facebook and Google are forcing people"

Forcing?

Really?

Oh, must go, there's a knock at the door....

And they're off! Day one at the solar races

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Alert

Don't sleep under a tree out there.

Drop-bears!

Samsung takes another hit in patent punch-up

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Big Brother

The Jobsian cult

I didn't really want a tablet.

I'm now curious.

I'll try and buy Samsung if I go ahead.

Norton blocks Facebook as 'phishing site'

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I won't touch either

Not even with yours.

Top Tory 'lost voters' personal info' days before ID fraud week

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WTF?

In the park!

In the fucking park?

Winning new UK pylon design may never be used

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Joke

Doesn't matter which nation won the design

They will be put up by Poles.

Swedish court confirms jail for Pirate Bay cofounder

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Freed Swedes

Up with this sort of thing!

Facebook accused of violating US wiretap law

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In ya face Zuckerberg

Yeah!

Social net sites do wonders for crooks, spooks and bosses

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No way Jose!

No, LinkedIn - check

No, Facebook - check

No, 4Square - check

No, Twitter - check

No, Google+ - check

Holier than thou attitude - check

World+Dog goes bonkers for iPhone 4S

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WTF?

Went past the Perth store today

Darn well had to walk on the road to get past.

They even had trestle tables outside to flog the phones.

The actual shop was awash with Apple-fans of all shapes and sizes.

I have an iPhone (4)

But c'mon, it's kust a phone guys.

Billion dollar telescope snaps galactic head-on

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600 million years?

Isn't it supposed to be 6,000 years?

Australian National Broadband Network secures backhaul

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Where do I sign?

Where?

Smut oglers told to opt in to keep web filth flowing

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Politicians and the Internet eh?

Bring on the younger generation, those born after the www started.

Hopefully by then we'll have some net-savy leaders*

* even if obsessed with FaceBook, et al.

Biker gang plunders Covent Garden Apple Store

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Facepalm

The great train robbery it aint

Mopeds!

Brit boffins' bendy bamboo bike breakthrough

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Joke

Gilligan was first

I'm sure the professor made him a bamboo bike.

He probably got the idea from the radio they had with the inexhaustible battery technology

Starbucks extends gratis Wi-Fi to UK

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Starbucks sell coffee?

Who knew?

I always thought it was overheated tramp sick?

Galaxy Tab Oz ban ruling due next week

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Just bought a Samsung 24" HD monitor

Lovely!

Bring on the Galaxy Tab 10.2 or whatever.