* Posts by Winkypop

5643 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Australian Bureau of Statistics flip-flops over marriage equality survey

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ABS Clusterfuck 2.0

Ready for launch, probably...

GoDaddy gives white supremacist site its marching orders after Charlottesville slur

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Good for you El Reg

"The Register chooses not quote or link to the site's remarks, on grounds that it is difficult to imagine more insensitive language being used to describe a recently-deceased person, or a more sexist depiction of a woman being used under almost any circumstances."

Truly sad for everyone else.

Trump's America?

HMS Queen Lizzie impugned by cheeky Scot's drone landing

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Flechettes!

Massed flechette strike.

See John Birmingham's book "Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time)" series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birmingham#Axis_of_Time

Highly recommended.

Tech billionaire Khosla loses battle over public beach again – and still grants no access

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Simples

Just arrive by sea

Good Lord: Former UK spy boss backs crypto

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In response, a Government spokemans said today:

LOOK

LOOK OVER HERE

MAGIC SHINY THINGS

TERRORISTS!!

LOOK

Hey America! Your internet is going to be so much better this January

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Re: And low and behold

Correct.

Low and Behold are an accountancy firm in Slough.

Lauri Love and Gary McKinnon's lawyer, UK supporters rally around Marcus Hutchins

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America (today)

Has become the kind of place your mother warned you about travelling to...

We all deserve a break. Pack your bags. Four Earth-like worlds found around nearby Tau Ceti

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Packing bags now....

Try and keep this NEWS from Trump and his miserable cronies.

There's just gotta be an escape.

Manchester firm shut down for pretending to be Google

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Google My Business

Google are hard enough to deal with without these leeches climbing in and extorting money as well.

For fork's sake! Bitcoin Core braces for another cryptocurrency split

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Bit wait!

Is there enough pop-corn in the world to cover when this whole thing goes BITS-up?

Foot-long £1 sausage roll arrives

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Foot Long Snag Rolls

What's not to like?

Hotspot Shield VPN throws your privacy in the fire, injects ads, JS into browsers – claim

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Never mind the quality

Feel the width

Parents claim Disney gobbled up kids' info through mobile games

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Re: Oh peeps of no taste!

Should'a turned left at Albuquerque!

Space Duck 2.0 is New Horizons' next destination

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Giant Space Ducks!

If they ever decide to organise, we're doomed.

WannaCry-slayer Marcus Hutchins 'built Kronos banking trojan' – FBI

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Possibility of US prison?

That'd make anyone WannaCry!

I'll get my prison-issue coat.

'Real' people want govts to spy on them, argues UK Home Secretary

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Amber alert

Shit ahead.

Go fork yourself: Bitcoin has split in two – and yes, it's all forked up

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In related NEWS....

Unicorn futures are UP.

Fox News fabricated faux news with Donald Trump, lawsuit claims

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Fox and NEWS

People still use those words in the same sentence?

nbn™ blames cheap-ass telcos for grumpy users, absolves CVC pricing

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NBN and other mythical creatures

I've given up waiting.

No longer any network plans where I am.

I'm now at the stage where I no longer believe the NBN is real.

Dragons however, beware people!

Steve Bannon wants Facebook, Google 'regulated like utilities'

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More batshitery

This is just Bannon reclaiming the headlines, ala election mode.

The guy is a BS artist, just ignore.

Apple removes VPN apps in China as Russia's Putin puts in the boot with VPN banlaw

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Big Brother

The future is almost here

Prepare good citizens, prepare!

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: Crypto ban won't help trap terrorists

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prime minister Malcolm Turnbull

...what time is it?

Scary news: Asteroid may pass Earth by just 6,880km in October

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NASA's impression of 2012 TC4

Needs to get a better press agent. That impression is rather unflattering.

Hopefully 2012 TC4 will remain unflatterning...

Apple exits music player biz by killing iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle

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Arse! Feck! Bollocks!

I rather LOVE my 160G iPod classic. (Long may it live) I don't want an i-phone thingy with a network contract. I am happy with MY music on MY device, anywhere.

I know I'm a dinosaur in this instance but....(see title)

It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines

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Say what you want about the Russians

At least they have a wicked sense of humour.

Just look at the nut-job they installed for POTUS!

The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY

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Amateurs!

Bacon, sausages (2), poached egg (2) (runny), fried tomato (half), thick toast (2), black AND white pudding, mushrooms, hash brown, baked beans and HP sauce! Oh, and espresso coffee, no tea.

Adobe will kill Flash by 2020: No more updates, support, tears, pain...

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Smug mode engaged

Rid my sites of all things Flash 3 years ago. It took some convincing of business owners.

Bring it.

China censors drop the soap operas, sitcoms

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No soaps

Lucky devils

Fan of FBI cosplay? Enjoy freaking out your neighbors? Have we got the eBay auction for you

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Ironside

Does it have a wheelchair lift?

Cops harpoon two dark net whales in megabust: AlphaBay and Hansa

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Pub carparks

Ban them now!!!!

UK uni warns students of phishers trying to nick their tuition fees

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Ay Pet

Dance ti' thy daddy, sing ti' thy mammy,

Dance ti' thy daddy, ti' thy mammy sing;

Thou shall hev a fishy on a little dishy,

Thou shall hev a salmon when the boat comes in.

Apple hurls out patches for dozens of security holes in iOS, macOS

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As the designated fam/friends IT support

It's update time!!!!

UK government's war on e-cigs is over

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Smokers / vapers suck

Go find a hill top if you must pollute the atmosphere.

Ban the pong!

UK.gov snaps on rubber gloves, prepares for mandatory porn checks

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Lazy kids these days

We had to ride our bikes all the way to the newsagent to cop a look at a Razzle mag while the shop lady was busy!

Now here's a novel idea: Digitising Victorian-era stamp duty machines

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Old machines maybe

But reliable.

If not antiquated.

UK spookhaus GCHQ can crack end-to-end encryption, claims Australian A-G

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Oh George

You've done it again!

Dear racist Airbnb host, we've enrolled you in an Asian American studies course

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Trump's rules

Should of grabbed her by the pussy.

ITS A JOKE OK?

ATO phone hacking 'tutorial' is tame unless you use a Nokia 1100

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Shock, shock, shocked I say!

MSM get IT story arse-about!

El Reg excepted.

Russia, China vow to kill off VPNs, Tor browser

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Because

Information is power.

Power is love.

Love is power.

Apols to Mr Orwell.

Ransomware-slinging support scammers hire local cash mule in Oz

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What a silly bunt

These are probably the very same scammers who, when told to Get Rooted, proceed to ring back over and over for the next few hours in revenge! One bastard said he would ring all night. We left the phone off the hook...

String them up I say.

LHC finds a new and very charming particle: the Xicc++ baryon

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And I thought school was a forced day care centre.

These guys and girls were the ones listening and learning.

A+

Trump backs off idea for joint US/Russian 'impenetrable Cyber Security unit'

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Oh Donny boy

The series of pipes are calling...

Oz government wants its own definition of what 'backdoor' means

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WTF?

Spurious arguments

How many fairies can you fit on the head of a pin?

Pure bullshit.

Mainframe TITSUP totals Oz tax tech, again

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FAIL

What day is it?

Centrelink

Medicare

ATO

...etc

Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'

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Ban god's rainbow! Too right!!

The biblical rainbow celebrates the end to a world-wide, genocidal, near mass extinction event.

Now that is sick.

On the other hand, any other uses are perfectly fine.

Minister says Oz Medicare breach was crims, not hackers

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Not hackers! Crims!

No worries.

(phew, that was close)

Proof that any fool can call themselves a Minister.

One-third of Brit IT projects on track to fail

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My project is 10% complete

And the estimate of when it will be finished is 100%

- Dilbert

Medicare data leaks, but who was breached?

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Geo will save our data !

So will anyone else who pays for it, apparently.

Sack these fsuckers!

Kaspersky repeats offer: America can see my source code

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Da

The US military's commander-in-chief is a Russian import as well.

So...

Oz attorney-general a step closer to SCNA*

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George Brandis is to privacy, what...

...Mr Burns is to philanthropy.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Mr_Burns.png