* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Clinton demands net freedom for all... 'cept Wikileaks

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Vacuous twaddle

From a vacuous twat.

One third of Russians say Sun revolves round Earth

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Joke

Does the sun revolve around the earth?

Yes and no.

It depends on what the invisible sky daddy wants !!

Kournikova worm marks 10th anniversary

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10 years on....

....and still they click !

Wii Countdown conundrum brands family 'SH*THEADS'

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What a bunch of...

FKHADSECU

Starbucks' iPhone barcode app easily scammed by screengrab

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But first....

....you'd actually want to actually steal and drink Starbucks putrid muck.

Facebook exploit toolkit dumbs down rogue app creation

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Gates Horns

We need a dedicated Facebook Fail icon

Or, maybe an Evil Zuckerberg icon....

I'll use Bill for now...

Elon Musk's rocket booked by Google X-Prize moon robot

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Alien

In 2 minds

1. Total and pristine preservation of the Apollo site(s)

2. HD video and photos would be super neat-o

Hmmmm

Telephoto lens perhaps..

Bank scorched by stupid Facebook policy

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Which bank?

This is just typical corporate dross written/decided by the know-nothings, usually qualified, usually in their mid 30s.

Move along..

iPhone owners get walked through confessional

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Have you been involved in superstitious practices...

LOL

Now that's a good one.

Who knew Catholics had such a sense of irony?

Australian Liberal MPs splurge on sticky, delicious ... toner

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Who knew...

...you could snort toner?

'Tree Octopus' proves journos no smarter than 13-year-old Americans

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SAVE the North West Pacific Tree Octopus!!

www.greenpeace.org

Iranian state telly bins foreign cuisine

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The Ali-Darabi

What a great name for a Persian-inspired Pizza!

Liverpudlians headbutt Cameron's 'big society'

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Big society?

WTF?

Who else thinks this sounds like double-speak, perhaps from a missing chapter from the book 1984?

Double-plus-good.

NASA hails 'amazing' exoplanetary system

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Millions of planets - wow !!

I wonder what all the other civilisations out there call their (imaginary) gods?

Perhaps the more advanced ones amongst them have shrugged off superstition.

Bradley Manning 'is British' – campaigners urge UK.gov to act

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Didn't work for David Hicks (Gitmo)

He did get British citizenship, but it was then immediately revoked by the UK Government.

You can't beat asshats.

Murdoch & Co unveil iPad news rag The Daily

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"Our challenge was.....

"Our challenge was to take the best of traditional journalism – competitive, shoe-leather reporting, good editing, a skeptical eye – and combine it with the best contemporary technology,"

So they're NOT going to use News Limited resources then...

Photo loss blogger to Flickr: You're f*cking kidding

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Flicked by Flickr

Clouds are quite ephemeral after all.

Official: PhD in 'Essential Oils' or 'Natural Toiletries' = 'a Scientist'

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Not science

Not scientists!

Julian Assange wins peace prize

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Peace prize for our Jules?

Well, he is a PIECE any way...

US lawmakers eye internet 'kill switch'

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Law maker meet Logic

Logic meet Lawmaker, have you two met before?

Japan plans space debris fishing trip

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PARIS II

Better factor space-nets in for the next launch lads....

Assange relishes US banks 'squirming' over 'megaleak'

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"venerable US television news magazine 60 Minutes"

Venerable?

60 minutes?

LOL

UK.gov braces for Anonymous hacklash

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The Wikileaks Five

I the great tradition of anti-terror justice.

Stitch em up, send em down.

Rinse, repeat.

With net unplugged, Egypt cracks down on journos

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Aljazeera

And yet, I watched hours and hours of the protests LIVE on the net with Aljazeera online (English)

They seem to be getting TV/Cable signal out, at least from their office windows....

Google to settle state 'Wi-Spy' spat out of court

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Justice eh?

Real justice should be SEEN to be done.

Back-room deals help no-one but the big players.

Malawi poised to outlaw farting

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Pull my finger...

...no, pull the other one.

They must be pulling their leg!

UK a 3D TV nation? Not half

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You need to wear (expensive) nerdy Glasses?

I paid $$$$ to get my vision corrected by laser.

There's no way I'm going to choose to wear specs again, certainly not for todays visual crap-fest.

Vodafone confirms Egypt lock-down

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"Who needs Twitter when everyone's at the mosque."

Communication v1.0

Still effective, still more intelligible.

Mexican army interdicts dope-slinging catapult

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International Spliff Chucker Mk 1

Way to go amigos.

Google disappears torrent terms from autocomplete search results

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Big Brother

Thin edge of the wedge?

Perhaps...

State of the Internet Down Under?

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Stop

Simple

Big country

Vast empty spaces

Small population

Dumb-arse Politicians

Scotland bans smut. What smut? Won't say

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Stop

Stop it !!!

Or you'll go blind....

NASA rovers to lose comms this week as Mars moves behind Sun

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Ahhh, the Mars rovers

Cracking stuff that!

Beeb say sorry for Stephen Fry A-bomb quip

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Death Marches anyone?

Insane cruelty,

Starvation,

Forced labour?

No?

Thought not.

Tunisia plants country-wide keystroke logger on Facebook

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Another day....

....another Facebook scam....

Just sayin'

Lawyer wants WikiLeaker kept off suicide watch

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Thanks

That saved me a load of typing...

Facebook defends security strategy

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"The scams take advantage of human stupidity"

Ahhhh. now there's ya problem.....

Texter who fell in fountain threatens to sue

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CCTV

Customer

Caught

Tripping

Violently

'NBN is like a bathroom' says opposition, BCA agrees

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The Mad Monk (T. Abbott)

Tony just doesn't get the yoof of today and what they want. He's tool engrossed in cycling and swimming in budgie smugglers to notice.

Get with the program Libs, it's time to move on to the future.

It's been waiting long enough.

Oh noes – they've stolen the internet!

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Stepney Green....

....best check Oil Drum Lane, in Shepherd's Bush, Steptoe and Son might still be at it....

Creepy as hell: Facebook developers get to know you better

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Facebook

Just say no.

Oz pair in blow-up sex doll whitewater ride

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The Police later laid charges...

....the pair were said to be deflated by the ordeal.

Sainsbury's techie jailed for loyalty card scam

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Obviously an amatuer

If he was really clever, he'd be a proper crook, running a corporation...

No need for speed, says Oz communications shadow

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Turnbull's not stupid....

...he's just an old rich guy who likes to spoil.

Why is it that rich white guys never want the rest of us to progress?

Men sentenced for role in international ATM skimming ring

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Suspect Mints....

..are they like Junior Mints?

When one oligopoly screws another

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Reminder:

Don't feed the trolls.

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Hardly Normal

Oh Jerry, you old dinosaur, get with the program.

However, nice to see you promoting online sales via expensive adverts!

Repeat after me:

Traditional retail costs too much.......repeat.......Traditional retail costs too much........repeat.....

Feds subpoena Twitter for info on WikiLeaks backer

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Black Helicopters

Typical US intelligence fishing expedition....

When you don't have any evidence........make it up!

It worked for Guantanamo.

SWAT team besieges Illinois school in 'butt dialling' incident

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Megaphone

Exactly...

hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut .....

ESA releases splendid new space-'scope pic of Andromeda

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Alien

When you see images like that....

...the thought that life only exists on 1 planet seems ridiculous!