* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Westminster Abbey cashes in on Royal Wedding with ... App

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Oh dear....

....I still remember Chuck and Di's wedding.....I can't take any more of this quaint buffoonary!

Pope says gravity proves technology can't supplant God

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God

I'm sick of religion, all of them!

So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?

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Walter Tevis - Mockingbird

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_%281980_novel%29

German prangs dad's £275k supercar

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Joke

I clicked on the news link...

....but I'm having trouble working out which is the *before* image and which is the *after*....

Victorian cops collar camera cooker

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Wow!

People from Craigeburn have jobs!!!

Who knew?

MYSTERY of huge Canadian chicken-shed EXPLOSION

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Avian Mythbusters?

There's your problem, right there...

RadioShack gun giveaway: A clarification

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More guns?

We all know America needs more guns....

Earthquake emergency drives Kiwi copyright bill

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Shame on them

Using the cover of a major disaster involving untold human misery to hide their dirty schemes.

Oh wait, they're Politicians....

Red Dwarf to blast off on new adventure

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Unhappy

Agreed

Especially with that Hitchhikers travesty.....I think I even threw the DVD away.

World pays tribute to Yuri Gagarin

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True heroes

Not your plastic-soldiers of today!

Flame for a safe re-entry.

'Thickest burglar' leaves passport at scene of raid

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No ID card then?

How did the Police manage?

Feds defend Twitter dragnet on WikiLeaks supporters

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America

Give me your logs, your files,. Your secret encryptions yearning to breathe free,

US gov mulls issuing terrorist warnings on Twitter, Facebook

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Big Brother

1. Get 'em scared

2. Keep 'em scared

3. Control

Dutch astronaut unleashes 155 mph 'Superbus'

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FAB

Thunderbirds are GO!

Facebook closes today ... NOT!

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Correction

"Would-be marks", why not just say "Facebook users" and be done with it?

Anti-social media in defence a token of chronic stupidity

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Charged!

I don't think they saw that coming....oh wait the did.

Wannabe baby-kisser lies on political honesty phone-in

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Paul from Normanton...

No.

I'm, Paul from Normanton!

Virally spreading scam spreads over Twitter

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Revoke access...

....OR

...go to Profile > Edit your profile > Connections and click the button that says "Delete my account"

Photoshopped image scam used in rogue Facebook app trap

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"Such survey scams are all too common on Facebook."

Is the word "survey" redundant?

Isn't FB just one giant scam?

Firefox 'Do Not Track' header wins first convert

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There are adverts on the Internet?

Who knew?

Oz network hits serious speed bump

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Blame the cockatoos mate!

Apparently they eat the data as it passes through the old copper network.

Mobiles really do fry your brains: JAMA

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Oh noes

I best CALL my enemies and TEXT my friends!

Deleting 'innocent' DNA will cost £5m

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I started work when index-cards were the norm

Now, managing thousands of hand-written paper cards was difficult.

Imagine having to store, collate, sort and search these all day?

You needed a pretty sharp HB back then.

I can understand £5M for major changes to that kind of chaos.

But £5M to update a computer system?

Computers; we were promised speed and efficiency.

I am also waiting on my flying car!!

Irish cop child abuse image plan attracts data protection ire

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Oh the Police want to block the interwebs now.

What on earth could go wrong?

Messenger delivers first Mercury orbital snap

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Science!

Who said it was boring?

Flame: It's rather warm on Mercury, however not as hot as on Venus.

Air NZ safety vid provokes terror in the skies

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The rugby one was OK

Just flown with them.

Take-Two talent call betrays Grand Theft Auto V

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GTA V eh?

I just bought GTA IV

It was in the bargain bin, a steal at $15.

I'll play V in a few years and let you know.....

Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate

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But what happens when....

....the radiation reaches the sea floor, surely we'll get a visit from Godzilla, or even Mothra?

Oz gov kicks off censorship review

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Stop it....

or you'll go blind!

Hackers make off with TripAdvisor's membership list

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Trip Advisor site rating

Beds: *****

View: *****

Security *

[getting coat, checking out...]

Facebook traffic mysteriously passes through Chinese ISP

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Chinese farm productionz

"Even more likely is it that big brother is trying to find out what your Farm is producing, as Comrade Wen brings his two year quest for domination of Facebook games."

LOLZ

Aus gamers set to get adult rating?

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Never....

Underestimate the fundies !!!

Judge mulls 'wasted costs' as ACS:Law cases close

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Hey, Crossley!!!

Suffer in ya jocks!

Wi-Fi security befuddles clueless home users

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What else are neighbours for?

If you can't 'borrow' stuff....

Anti-religious campaigners smack down census Jedis

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So how do you become God?

I didn't vote for him...

Julian Assange sets out bid to appeal extradition to Sweden

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What about the Bill Clinton defence (defense) ?

"I did NOT have sex with those women!"

Qld police warn against Windows service scam

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WTF?

WTF !!

Less than 10 hours after posting the above, I get a call at home.

I told them where yo get off, they hung up.

See previous title.

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Evil bastards

This happened to my elderly Father.

Fortunately, he listened to my general advice regarding the Internet and scammers....

He managed to get a phone number out of them, which he called and confirmed.

He then reported them, not that anything will happen.

See title...

German 'minister for cut'n'paste' resigns over PhD plagiarism

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But

His full name is almost as long as a Thesis itself....

Patent row gets Playstation 3s banned from Europe

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Perhaps Sony is reaping...

....what it has sown?

Gmail users howl in anguish at 'disappeared' accounts

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Dead Vulture

What the cloud giveths

The cloud taketh away.

The Register and Australia-New Zealand

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Yay (I think)

As long as us antipodeans don't miss any of the UK and US stories...

Yes, I want it all, and I'm not prepared to pay for it.

: )

Customs officers get X-ray machines for down under searches

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Correction 2

"quickly exonerate the innocent....." = guilty until proven innocent of course!

We'll have no kangaroo court at border security!

iiNet wins AFACT appeal

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They lose again

and that's Afact.

Doctor Who co-star Nicholas Courtney dies at 81

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He played his character very well

Top show!

Jacqui Smith 'shocked' to discover we're drowning in sea of porn

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Extraaaa Extraaaaa, there's pron on the Interneeeeet !!

Extraaaa Extraaaaa, politician makes fool of herself!

Sites the bleeding obvious!

....

Who needs 600 friends when you're a bride of Christ?

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Proof *

FB is the devil's work!!!!

* as much as the RC Church understands evidence.

Oz news team pays homage to Carry On

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Terminator

Get this...

...Karl Stefanovic is in fact a robot.

This is widely known in Oz.

Airport face-scanning robots switched off

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Pareidolia

It LOOKS like a face....It MIGHT be a face....hmmmmm.....yes, I think it IS a face.

Or then again, maybe not.

NASA's Stardust braves cometary flak

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Space Boffinery 1

Flat Earthers 0

Yay!