* Posts by Winkypop

5643 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

WikiLeaks claims 'significant' US election info release ... is yet to come

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Devil

Re: Ah, now Trump makes sense

I never expected to see those words in a sentence...

I want to launch thousands of drones, says Facebook's flying Wi-Fi router chief

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Joke

Just wait until

One of those suckers falls on a driver-less car!

The Twitterati will light up!

South Australian mega-storm blacks out whole state

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Devil

Silly LNP are blaming renewable energy

Silly LNP

Australia wants law to ban de-anonymisation of anonymous data

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attorney-general George Brandis

C L U E L E S S

Elon Musk: I'm gonna turn Mars into a $10bn death-dealing interplanetary gas station

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Re: Holy Shit!

"Yep, that's ... ambitious!"

So was Apollo.

Think big and build an even bigger rocket!

Microsoft paid me $650 to scrub Windows 10 from my grandpa's PC, says man

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Is my cheque in the mail too?

I had to re-install the wife's laptop from the ground up after a borked and unwanted Win10 "update"

I won't be holding my breath.

IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia's census

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FAIL

ABS new culture

Rules

  • Blame everyone BUT ourselves.
  • See 1

Moron is late for flight, calls in bomb threat

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Only 1 year?

Seems pretty light.

I'd have thrown the flight manual at him.

Game over: IANA power-grab block pulled from Congress funding bill

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Devil

Well

There really, really should be something in place to deal with what can only be deliberate lies and manipulation of facts purely for political or personal campaign purposes.

That would end Trump's rather tawdry campaign!

TRUMP: ICANN'T EVEN! America won't hand over internet control to Russia on my watch

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Headmaster

Re: All hail the new Golden Don!

Hmmm,

7/10 for sheer volume (tl;dnr all of it)

2/10 for accuracy

1/10 for use of a Poe.

Needs slightly more nut-jobery!

Have you ever considered investing in river-based NY infrastructure

Target lost, Cruz missile misses: Ted's ICANN crusade is basically over

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The Bill, and Ted's excellent adventure

Not

Party on dudes.

NASA starts countdown for Cassini probe's Saturn death dive

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What is Saturn's policy on recycling?

Do we get some money back for scrap?

Fanbois iVaporate: Smallest Apple iPhone queues ever

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Devil

Vacation days..?

LOL

This is Australia, we take 'sickies' for this type of lark.

Map to the stars: Gaia's first data dump a piece of 3D Milky Way puzzle

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Coat

And when they open that 40 gigs of data

It's full of stars!

--> space coat

Ted Cruz channels Senator McCarthy in wrongheaded internet power grab crusade

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Cruz

Seriously elevated above his capability.

Using a thing made by Microsoft, Apple or Adobe? It probably needs a patch today

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Meh

I patch

Therefore I am

Peccant pwners post 670,000 Pokémon punter MD5 passwords

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Joke

I use PNITD 1.0

Postit Note In Top Drawer

(see icon)

Microsoft thinks time crystals may be viable after all

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Words on a page

Arranged carefully so as to escape my comprehension...

Curiosity rover likes big buttes but it cannot lie around

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Beaut Buttes

I long for the day when that photo also contains a boot print.

Seagate sued by its own staff for leaking personal info to identity thieves

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FAIL

HR departments

A law unto themselves run by bright young things.

Petulant Facebook claims it can't tell the difference between child abuse and war photography

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Facebook

It's a bit shit really.

What's up, Zuck? FTC to probe Facebook for WhatsApp phone number mega-slurp

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Angel

Re: I'm so anon...

No, I'm now thinking: " fatbuddha"

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Joke

I'm so anon...

I'll have a blank headstone.

Pains us to run an Apple article without the words 'fined', 'guilty' or 'on fire' in it, but here we are

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Meh

Jacked off

So, will Apple also remove the head-phone connection from their stable of iPod products?

I like my no-name wired ear buds and iPod Classic. I never lose the ear buds as I wind the cord around the unit between use. Always being careful to first disconnect the jack, a sure-fire way to screw the jack connection and the ear bud wire!

Also, I never need to recharge my ear buds, and they cost so little I carry a spare set.

Publishing military officers' names 'creates Islamic State hitlist'

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Psssst

[It's the people in military-style uniforms]

[Pass it on...]

Meet Deliveroo's ‘bold and impactful’ new logo. No, really

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Up yer kilt!

Reminds me of this old car sticker

https://kiltsandmore.com/upload/artikelbilder/medium/1884.jpg

Retired Philae lander slouches on Comet 67P

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350,000 years from now....

Earth receives an infringement for Fly Tipping by the Galactic Council.

Well, the Esperance Shire Council did it to NASA.

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2009/07/09/2621733.htm

"The skylab crash put Esperance on the map, but it didn't stop the shire council having a light hearted dig at NASA for scatter space junk over the town, sending them a $400 fine for littering, which they never paid."

Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options

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FAIL

Never hold an enquiry unless...

...you know what the outcome will be.

Microsoft thought of the children and decided to ban some browsers

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Devil

Hi kids!

I looks like you are trying to use another browser!

Good luck with that.

- Evil Clippy

Second 'dimmer switch' star spotted

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Who needs religion?

The universe is both strange and beautiful at the same time.

Celebrate what we know and what we are yet to know.

Telstra wins AU$39 million for data retention costs as grants revealed

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George Brandis knows all about expensive storage

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/second-george-brandis-bookcase-costs-15000-after-first-was-too-big-to-move-20140224-33cm1.html

Patch now: Apple emits fix for Pegasus spyware bugs in OS X, Safari

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What do flying horses eat?

Apple.

FBI Director wants 'adult conversation' about backdooring encryption

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FAIL

Why have an adult conversation?

When even a child can see that this is a very bad idea.

Good job, Oz feds: Conroy wants you investigated for privilege and contempt

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FAIL

Meanwhile in the burbs.....

....[BUFFERING]....

Fifty bills for new Oz parliament, nothing much for tech

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Abbott Govt 2.1

Not much is ever new with this mob.

Facebook replaces human editors with McChicken romping, Fox News faking AI bots

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Yet another great reason

To avoid the great Zuckerberg Experiment.

NBN HFC scaled down to stave off financial disaster

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FAIL

End of the line for decent Internet speeds

Who needs the future anyway?

I fart in your general direction! Comet 67P lets rip on Europe's Rosetta probe

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Alien

Bin night?

67P denizens need to toss their garbage somewhere.

Juno probe to graze Jupiter on Saturday

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What a time to be alive

Fantastic effort.

The science here is amazing.

Pizza delivery by drone 'trialled' in New Zealand

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If you live in line of sight of the pizza shop

Get off the couch and walk dude!

Voyager 2's closest Saturn swoop was 35 years ago today

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A stellar achievement

No, an INTERstellar achievement.

North Korea unveils its home-grown Netflix rival – Manbang

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You assume these units have user-controls on them.

PS: Please stand each time glorious leader appears on the screen. He will know if you don't.

Australian Federal Police resume NBN raids, this time in parliament

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Don't be fooled

This LNP Government is tricky, deceitful and morally lacking.

The Labor Government wasn't a lot better in some cases.

Hacked hookup site Ashley Madison's security was laughable

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Deceivers deceived by deceivers

You can't make this shit up!

Australia Post says use blockchain for voting. Expert: you're kidding

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Come to our CENSUS

After the census debacle, we don't need another pretender in this space.

Gimme a piece of paper and a pencil any day.

Former RN flagship HMS Illustrious to be sold for scrap – report

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The ultimate Airfix model

Scale 1:1

Das ist empörend: Microsoft slams umlaut for email depth charge

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Don't mention the umlaut

I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right.

This MySpace investor keeps spamming Google with lawsuits – and the ad giant just wants him to stop

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Greed

Makes people do the strangest things

Microsoft can't tell North from South on Bing Maps

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Melbourne: World's Most Liveable City six years in a row

Now claimed by the Chinese.

Now that's off-shoring!

NASA to begin first asteroid sample mission: Seeks 'pristine' specimen

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A great opportunity

Let's also "Banksy" that sucker after we scrape it.

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