* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Welcome to the Wipe House: President Trump shreds climate change, privacy, LGBT policies on WhiteHouse.gov

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Trump 45th POTUS

This will not end well.

Assange reverse-ferrets on promise to fly to US post-Manning clemency

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WikiLeaks

Cast and crew always stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy, London.

And stay

And stay

And stay

Lord of the Dance set to deliver high kicks at Trump’s big ball

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That's a shame...

"Harvey the farting wonder-horse" wasn't available.

Oh well, Flatulence of another kind will do.

NASA fires first shot in plan to bring a chunk of asteroid down to Earth

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This aint Pismo Beach!

Nice Bugs Bunny reference there.

Euro space agency's Galileo satellites stricken by mystery clock failures

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"no longer be a functioning scientific institute"

Well, that's their warranty and call-out support up the spout.

Boffins link ALIEN STRUCTURE ON VENUS to Solar System's biggest ever grav wave

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"a background wind that moves at approximately 100 metres per second"

Like a Bank Holiday weekend at Llandudno then...

Chelsea Manning sentence slashed by Prez Obama: She'll be sprung in the spring

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Happy

Manning up

The Trumpolumpa won't be happy!

Watch out Twitter.

Australia's Department of Social Services pushing ahead with data-matching plans

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What could possibly go wrong?

Data is never wrong, poor people are!

McDonald's forget hash, browns off security experts

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Fillet of Mcphish?

Is the site managed by Hamburglar?

RIP Eugene Cernan: Last man on the Moon dies aged 82

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Unhappy

Vale another of life's heroes

Not passed.

Lifted-off for places unknown.

Flight 666 lands safely in HEL on Friday the 13th

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Re: damn

I've been to Hell and back.

No much there as it turns out.

Just give up: 123456 is still the world's most popular password

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Hey! No fair!

No wonder my passwords are so popular, when you keep publishing them!

NSW bus Wi-Fi privacy, regulation: 'Move along, nothing to see here'

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With the name: "Catch"

What else could be their business model?

Oz government on its Centrelink debacle: 'This is fine'

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Alan "Chemical" Trudge

Problem?

There is no problem.

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Pharma hate figure Martin Shkreli suspended from Twitter

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Re: He has a ticket for the inauguration

I found 4 inauguration tickets in my packet of Frosties this morning.

Feds cuff VW exec over diesel emissions scam

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An executive, arrested?

Surely there's some mistake?

If convicted, maybe he could try a body double.

Asteroid nearly gave Earth a new feature, two days after its discovery

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One of these days...

POW!!! Right in the kisser!"

Bank robber reveals identity – by using his debit card during crime

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Regardless of any previous

Things must be very bad if 4 years in US chokey is preferable.

TV anchor says live on-air 'Alexa, order me a dollhouse' – guess what happens next

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Kill them with fire

Then bury the ashes.

China to Donald Trump: Twitter diplomacy 'undesirable'

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How dumb?

Donald Trump level dumb!

Australia telcos warn: Opening metadata access will create a 'honeypot' for lawyers

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Because.....

All the other Government IT initiatives are going so swimmingly.

NBN

Centrelink

Census

Puny galaxy packs a big punch: A gazillion joules' worth of radio bursts

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Science

Even more amazing than you ever thought

Amazon files patent for 'Death Star' flying warehouse

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AKA bombs!

"they can navigate horizontally toward a user specified delivery location using little to no power, other than to stabilize the UAV and/or guide the direction of descent,"

Twas the week before Xmas ... not a creature was stirring – except Microsoft admitting its Windows 10 upgrade pop-up went 'too far'

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Bullshit!

see title

Australian Internet policy remains years behind reality

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Geoblocking is great!

Brandis must be stopped.

If nbn™ can't say when it will arrive in your street, you're getting a Telstra HFC connection

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FAIL

Looks like it's 3Mbps for another 2 years +

And 3Mbps is on a good day...

Strong non-backdoored encryption is vital – but the Feds should totally be able to crack it, say House committees

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Hokey cokey

Ya put the encryption in...

Ya take the encryption out..

You do ya time in chokey...

And ya turns around!

China gives America its underwater drone back – with a warning

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Leader of the free world...

Legend in his own lunch-time..

Stupid law of the week: South Carolina wants anti-porno chips in PCs that cost $20 to disable

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Chumley

Anyone else old enough to remember Chumley and Tennessee Tuxedo?

Just as clueless.

Los Angeles to extradite bloke from Nigeria after scores of city workers fall for phish scam

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Meanwhile at Trump HQ....

Huuuuge deal being thrashed out with Nigerian Prince Ubetcha to get hands on $1442 umpty-trillion to sort out the US dept.

Elon Musk wants to get into the boring business, literally

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Alert

Lower Wacker Drive, meet

Lower lower Wacker drive

Men at work -->

New US rules on 'vehicle-to-vehicle' communications under consultation

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Sexist cars?

Hey baby, nice trans axle!

Not OK Google: Tree-loving family turns down Page and pals' $7m

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$7M you say?

Hell, I'd stand up from my desk, not even log off, leave everything, and just walk away to retirement....

Heck, I'd do it for $700K...at my stage in life.

Uber to Cali DMV: Back off, pal, our 'self-driving cars' aren't self driving

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Re: Uber are such douchebags

Sadly, this may be true.

Just prior to a crash, the self-drive management system announces to the meat-based driver "You have control" and then safely ejects itself from the vehicle to be picked up by an auto-drone later.

Icelandic Pirate Party sails away from attempt to form government

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Fear not

The Donald [TM] will happily govern Iceland via Twitter, for a huuuuge fee, of course.

CIA: Russia hacked election. Trump: I don't believe it! FAKE NEWS!

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A useful fool

Definition: Donald Trump

Nice NBN rival you built there. What a shame if someone taxed it

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A $7 charge

.....soon becomes $8.45......then $9.50......then $15.......

Government budget wonks never allow a tax to rest.

Remember that brightest supernova ever seen? It wasn't one

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Science was never this cool at school

But, back then Pluto was still a planet.

Russian hackers got Trump elected? Yeah, let's take a close look at that, says Obama

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Trump is a looney

But it's Pence that truly worries me!

Now HE is a hard-core right-wing nut-job.

Donny is just a lazy peacock.

Japanese robot space maid will incinerate Earth's dead satellites

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Crafty Japanese

Deploying fishing nets in space, going for space whales no doubt.

I hear Sea Shepherd are developing a new (space) ship too.

Going underground: The Royal Mail's great London train squeeze

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Nice article

Thanks very much, from an old ex-Post guy.

RIP John Glenn: First American in orbit – and later, the oldest, too

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An amazing man for an amazing time

I am lucky to have lived through it.

NASA spunks $127m on SSL-powered robot to refuel satellites in space

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OK Satelite K2123B7, your refuel is now complete

Would you like 2 chocolate bars for $3 ?

New British flying robot killer death machines renamed 'Protector'

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Maxwell's silver hammer

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer

Came down upon his head

Do do do do do

Bang, Bang, Maxwell's silver hammer

Made sure that he was dead

Beardy Branson's space bird spreads its wings

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Happy to help

If they need some dead-weight, they can call me anytime.

I can bring my own sick-bag.

Cassini tickles Saturn's rings ahead of final death plunge

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Ladies and Gents of the Cassini project

Take a bow!

Excellent work.

Take that, creationists: Boffins witness birth of new species in the lab

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God of the gaps / Special pleading in, 10, 9 8.....

Meanwhile: Go science!

King's College London staggers from outage, replaces infrastructure services head

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CIO, Nick Leake

A name to inspire data security..

Icelandic Pirate Party asked to form government

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The Crimson Permanent Assurance

If the take over is not done in the style of Gilliam's "The Crimson Permanent Assurance", then they are a poor excuse for a Pirate Party!

Violin Memory axes staff just before Christmas, gives CFO $150k bonus

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Forget the quality

Feel the width!