* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Death row inmate claims allergy to lethal injection

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Pick something from the Bible

If Americans are so pious, why not pick an execution method from the good old book?

If it's good enough for God, it must be good enough for us....

</sarcasm>

US gov cries foul on MPAA piracy claims

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Joke

Thank God* say the MPAA and RIAA

"we haven't lost nearly so much money as we had feared" **

* Insert make-believe deity name

** Not a real quote, but I thought it funny...

Facebook starts random application shutdown

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Unhappy

Facebook starts random shutdown

Well, that's what I read.....probably just wishful thinking

Internet abuzz with BitTorrent bypass code

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Joke

What?

There's free stuff on the Internets?

Who'd a known it?

Antarctic boffins obtain prehistoric deep ice core sample

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Coat

"the Bruce Plateau"

Must be in the Australian Arctic Territory then...

[mines the really thick one with the tinnies in the pockets]

A multitasking iPad? Let's bin the netbook

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WTF?

The big apple

The iPhone is too large as a phone. Yes, really.

The iPad is too large as a web/computer/non-phone thingy.

What's the deal with this Apple obsession with BIG?

Is it the show-off factor?

Popular Facebook game caught serving malvertisements

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FAIL

Pharming

These guys certainly know their likely clientèle.

Milkman skewers Google Street View over garage break-in

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Linux

sabre-tooth guard penguins!

Admit it.

You have been casing my joint, haven't you !!?

Brit science vessel probes hot cleft for weird lifeforms

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Pirate

The Earth still smokes?

How old fashioned.

You'd think it would know better..

One fifth of humans say aliens walk among us

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Troll

20% agree with Aliens

Does that include deities?

Sky-gods

Faeries?

Glitch diverts net traffic through Chinese ISP

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It was just...

It was just our very own "wrong-way" Conroy testing out his new you-beaut Aussie "Naughty Net Filter" [TM].

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Oooh nasty

"thanks El Reg for giving me something to show the MD who had steam coming out of every orifice!"

A cheap Chinese meal will do that to you every time...

Windows mobile Trojan poses as war game

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FAIL

No free lunch

Download a pirated copy of anything....and you should expect the unexpected.

Self

Shoot

Foot

Labour unfriends Twitter rant candidate

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FAIL

A political wannabe who swears!

Oh my, we all know that Politicians NEVER swear!

Tories offer automated boring of friends and neighbours

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New election terminology?

Which Party will be 'unfriended' at the coming general election?

I'm glad to be on the way out....

Google tweaks search results with mystery site speedometer

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Yay for fast web pages

I like em quick and clean.

Upon demonstrating a new site I had built, I was accused, by your typical over-paid consultant, of "not making it complicated enough".

I wore that as a badge of honour for years!!

Bloke threatens BT with giant plywood cheque

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May 2010 - Pay by giant cheque month

Let's make May 2010 - "Pay by giant cheque month"

Yay!

German group urges boycott over Facebook privacy shake-up

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Stop

At what point.....

...does a popular cause become an obsession and then turn into a religion/sect/cult?

The cult of FaceBook

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All praise the great Book of Face !!!

May all your Friends be for ever connected.

May you never be unfriended...

[etc]

Mandybill: All the Commons drama

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Stop

errrr yes, indeed

what that chap said...

Israel using Facebook as 'spying tool' in Gaza

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Joke

I'm starting "De-facebook"

Where everyone posts utter tosh and lies about themselves...

What?

It's already been done?

iPad security broken in less than 24 hours

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WTF?

Hey, what about me?

I don't (won't) have an iPad.

I read news for free.

Am I missing something here?

Child abuse frame-up backfires on stalker

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and...

will the original suspect be cleared?

100% ?

No.

Wikileaks video shows US gunfire on Reuters staff

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WTF?

I'm always amazed how....

....the incredibly ignorant and stupid can be taught to operate complex machinery like a helicopter..

Apple's iPad - 'Will It Blend?'

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Fantastic

That is all.

Cartoon Law goes live

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Megaphone

Spend the money on offender detection

Not on political-masturbation!

Normal Human Being™ reviews the iPad

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FAIL

Too big, too lacking, too silly...

There, is that plain enough for you?

New Reg comments system ready to launch

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Joke

You're trying too hard...

Leave it to old Rupe' he's a master at Fail.

Booby-trapping PDF files: A new how-to

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PDF

Pre Determined Fail ?

MS sees Windows 7 leap, but XP workhorse refuses to die

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Stop

Win7

If it were $20 I'd think about it.

Otherwise, there's zero incentive to upgrade and go thru the pain and agony....

Your internet policy sucks, US tells Aussies

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FAIL

It's all god's fault

At least that's what drives insane god-botherers like Conroy and Rudd!

Come the election we have the following to vote for on the other side:

Abbott

Bishop

Ye gods*

* if he existed

A quarter of underage children have social networking profiles

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Big Brother

Get em young. keep em for life...

Big Corporation likes a servile drone.

Tinfoil Condition Red! LHC 7 TeV mega-blasts today

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Compact the moon, put out the sun!

Great.

There's absolutely nothing on TV to watch!

Bring it on.

BT hijacks business browsers

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WTF?

WTF

Phorm Lite?

Phorm 2.0?

Eh?

Radio lobby 'hides' 2m analogue receiver sales

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WTF?

Radio?

Who listens to the radio?

Facebook prepares for another privacy row with its users

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Stop

I read "facebook"

I just saw; "blah, blah, blah".....

How's getting tired of all this crap?

Web2.0rhea indeed.

Microsoft's Hotmail flicks finger at UK students

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WTF?

Hotmail?

Who in hell uses Hotmail?

Complete ACTA text leaked online - at last

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Big Brother

Remember

The Man always wins, always.

Times websites want £1 a day from June

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FAIL

Pay?

Hahahahaaaahahaa

"deliver a terrific experience for readers "

see above

Segway + motorbike = futuristic dorkmobile

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Hey!

Just like Segway 1.0, I wouldn't buy one of those....

Facebook gives you the clap: Official

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Facebook gives you the clap: Official

Funny.

It only ever gives me the shits !

US couple jailed for TV shoplifting brag

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FAIL

Stupid is as stupid does

Hahahahahaaaaa

Victorinox offers hackers £100,000 challenge

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PR stunt

100% certainty

Tory 'Cash Gordon' campaign suffers Web2.0rhea bum rush

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Joke

Don't feed the Tory shills...

....anything but the finest beluga caviar...

Google redirects China to uncensored Hong Kong servers

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Big Brother

Ahh the communist system....

...so totally flawed and so difficult to maintain...

In a nut shell, old men hanging on to corruption via guns.

Pandora plus Endor: Multi hab-moon motherworld discovered

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Grenade

Ewoks?

Nuke the place from orbit, it's the only way to be sure!

Facebook stands up to UK.gov's cyberbullying

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The Internet is like real life...

It can be great

It can be bad

You can learn interesting things

You can learn things you'd rather not know

Don't like it?

Tough.

Like real life.

You can opt out of using the Internet

LHC boffins crank beams to 3.5 TeV redline

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Giant Pinball Machine?

I bet that sucker is hard to tilt.

Home Office planning to brick version 1 ID cards in 2012?

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Stop

I think I'll wait until....

iD 7

Muso turfed off train for 'suspicious' set list

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FAIL

Move along citizen...

"We would like to thank him for his co-operation and understanding of the need to be vigilant in the current environment."

Mein Gott

Ex-worker blamed for car immobilisation hack

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Joke

Come in AA0 0001

Your time is up!