Posts by Winkypop

OSIRIS-REx succesfully delivers NASA's first asteroid sample

Typical delivery courier

Sorry I can’t give you an exact drop off time and your parcel will be (checks clipboard…) somewhere in Utah.

Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024

“a core consideration“

How very generous of them!

Good design considers accessibility to be a core necessity.

That's gas: CO2 found on Europa surface may hint at some possible sign of life

CO2?

Just look for the ULEZ cameras!

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

As a kid in the 60’s in Australia

It was tinned pineapple on and with everything, thanks to “Women’s Weekly” recipe books.

Pineapple is lovely on its own, no doubt there.

IMO. On pizza, or mixed in with anything else, it’s an abomination.

Robocall scammers sentenced in US after netting $1.2M via India-based call centers

Just checking

Gibbeting is out of general practice, right?

Shame.

Neuralink's looking for participants willing to be part of human trials

PRIME you say

So almost impossible to cancel then?

I prefer my chips in my mouth thanks.

Uncle Sam names three Amazon execs as Prime suspects in subscription ripoff case

Dark patterns on-hold

Try getting a refund from certain airlines.

Some handle it as a 3 minute web request, thanks Air NZ, others a 5-6 hour phone queue. Actual experience.

Looking at you QANTAS.

'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk

Containment is the best policy

Like a septic tank, collect the effluent in one place and let it consume itself.

—> Gas mask

Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads

AIDS 2.0

Advertising Induced Device Spying

Meet Honda's latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase

I’ve been “designing” this very device in my head for years

Nice to see someone actually making it. I’d have one.

Coming soon, Case-Racing at Brands Hatch!

Scientists spot startlingly close black holes in Hyades star cluster

4,000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire

Black holes can ruin your day.

But I find all the A holes more annoying.

NASA wants to believe ... that you can help it crack UFO mysteries

Easy

1. Are there any Aliens? Probably. Somewhere in a galaxy far far away.

2. Have they visited Earth? Highly unlikely.

End.

UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible'

That square peg

No matter the beating, just won’t fit into the round hole.

The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue

He’s just a rich opinionated twat

Who actually cares what he has to say?

What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?

Good Moaning

“You.Stupid.Woman” appears to be outside a cafe in a small village in France.

Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists

Re: Haven't they heard of the Streisand Effect?

I don’t think they’ve heard of the Streisand Effect

Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster

I can’t wait.

It may finally wake Godzilla and Mothra for another epic battle!

Japanese versus Chinese seafood

I’d happily consume Japanese sushi looooooooong before I’d ever buy imported Chinese toilet shrimp!

Neighbors angry as another North Korean 'satellite' launch attempt fails

Rocket Boy on the phone sir

Wants to know if you have any “not documents” about rockets in the basement near the swimming pool.

Two teens were among those behind the Lapsus$ cyber-crime spree, jury finds

What next?

Kindergartener sets up fake betting agency.

Defence barrister insists his client be back home for 7:30 bed time.

Blazar Token creator accused of using investor funds for renovating bathroom

Seems appropriate

Crypto is like pissing your wealth down a toilet.

Concorde? Pffft. NASA wants a Mach 4 passenger jet

Heat

Concorde was affected by heat created by the air rushing across control surfaces. This problem was engineered out. The internal expansion joints were quite wide. M4 sounds so much harder for a large passenger jet.

Would I fly it? Definitely.

Musk's latest X-periments: No more headlines, old posts vanish, block gets banned

All this money and bother, for what?

It’s just social media.

If only the same money was put into affordable public housing.

Budget satellite drag sail shows space junk how to gracefully exit orbit

Life’s a drag

And then you de-orbit!

YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn't do that

YouTube adverts

All the credibility of a chocolate tea pot.

LG's $1,000 TV-in-a-briefcase is unlikely to travel much further than the garden

But why?

If I go away camping it’s to AVOID all access to TV, wifi and even phone reception.

Your TV is not a pet, it can stay at home.

Internet Archive sued by record labels as battle with book publishers intensifies

There’s nowt as strange as folk

Greedy folk, well, they take the cake.

Corporate avarice knows no bounds.

You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak

Bring out yer dead!

A great time to fess up.

Breach now and avoid the rush!

Curiosity finds evidence of wet and dry seasons on ancient Mars

Re: Life's history

… where the singing potatoes end up breeding with the un-drunk beer, going on to start a lager based society.

FTX crypto-clown Sam Bankman-Fried couldn't even do house arrest. Now he's in jail

Last seen

Setting up a financial fiddle with the prison commissary…

Northern Ireland police may have endangered its own officers by posting details online in error

Let it go…let it go…

It’s not called “freedom of information” for nothing!

Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI

Evil you say

If only the big C was without sin.

Taking moral advice from the Pope is like taking an ethics course with Hitler.

UK voter data within reach of miscreants who hacked Electoral Commission

Re: "The registers did not include the details of anyone who registered anonymously."

I blame those pesky kids!

We'd pay good money to see... oh dear, Elon Musk 'needs an MRI scan'

Sorry, Elon can’t come out to play today

He’s busy hiding under his bed.

Read lips? Siri wants to feel them, according to fresh Apple patent

Read my lips

(Guess what I’m saying)

Astronaut-menacing sunstorm spotted rippling across inner solar system

How do you like your astronaut?

===> Well done

Tesla steering problems attract regulator eyes for second time this year

"We love our Tesla but why and how [do] these things pass their quality checks?"

Hmmmm

Take a peek at the geezer you’re buying a car from.

Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

And look at that mileage!

Thank you for holding

Meanwhile at Voyager 2: Elevator musak…..

And now, a walk in the Black Forest.

Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps

Ban ‘em

Ban ‘em all.

Get the kids off the Soma and the Victory Gin.

Twitter's giant throbbing X erected 'without a permit'

Holy X signal Batman!

I imagine Musk’s lair to be on a severe tilt, like all villain lairs should be!

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

Go you good things!

Go!

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

In jail with DJT

Now THAT’S a reality show I would watch!

==> cell search

James Webb spots water vapor in rocky planet-forming disk

It’s not just water

It’s proto-beer!

NASA's DART kicked up swarm of 37 boulders after Dimorphos asteroid crash

Meanwhile

The Dimorphos defence agency is formulating its response plan to this unprovoked attack.

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

Outstanding British effort there!

Under BREXIT, I would’ve thought Britain had run out of feet and toes to shoot by now.

Remarkable.

Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone

In other cult NEWS today

Steve Jobs' worn-out Birkenstocks sell for $218,000 at auction

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136637908/steve-jobs-auction-sandals-birkenstocks-apple

Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher

It’s WA mate!

I’d be more worried about the locals than some space tat.

1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel

AI is like that smart arse relative

“Facts” aplenty.

However when you push for sources, evidence and proof you get absolutely nowhere.

And a dirty look from the wife.

First of Tesla's 'bulletproof' Cybertrucks clunks off production line

Just awful

And his truck is pretty nasty too.