* Posts by Winkypop

5625 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship

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Mushroom

Basically

Musk is just littering now.

Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months

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Devil

"We take safeguarding your information seriously,"

Our professional team were right onto the breach in as little as four months!

Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

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Joke

Batik Air, a serious rebranding is in order

Now known as: Aero Batik

Your air-miles may vary…

Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone

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Flame

Ahhhh Windows Update

Like an Apollo capsule reentering Earth’s atmosphere.

- Reentry starts…

- Blackout, radio silence, waiting…

- Still waiting…

- Starting to worry a bit…

- Should it take this long?…

- Hmmm…

And then: (write your own adventure here)

Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout

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Devil

Re: Ranking

Yeah

But Ted Cruz is quite rank.

OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans

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Man who regularly talks $&@?

Talks more $&@?

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

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And for just a short period of space time

Humanity, as a whole, gained an imperceptible amount of intelligence and evolutionary advantage.

Alas, it was not to last.

Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker

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Devil

It could be much worse for him

He could be sharing a remand cell with Donny J Trump.

Lordstown Motors to pay $25M in SEC settlement over misleading investor claims

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Devil

Well how about that

Exaggeration in the world of EV development.

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

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What is it with these hard-right muppets?

Stiffing people, not paying bills, talking utter shite, discrimination, attention whoring.

No wonder they get rich.

Toyota admits its engines are overrated – by its own power testing software

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Joke

Despicable acts

“Liter”

Oh, and you Toyota!

Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure

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Trollface

Who?

There’s such a wide field to choose from.

Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract

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Devil

Government staff are too disorganised and inefficient to run a large service

Instead, let’s pay a third party mega-bucks to be just as disorganised and inefficient.

Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp

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What’s truly amazing…

They had signal outside a main regional centre.

Give me paper maps any day.

Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance

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Devil

But

What would FOX News do without all the “woke” outrage?

Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage

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Devil

Check out my junk

By sending up more junk!

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped

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Joke

The rock and dust, the scientists can explain

But the carrot tops and the Pismo Beach hat might take a while longer…

'Scandal-plagued' data broker tracked visits to '600 Planned Parenthood locations'

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Anti abortionists

Need to mind their own freaking business.

Ladies, please vote these Bronze Age thinkers out of office.

North Korea running malware-laden gambling websites as-a-service

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With or without the malware

Online gambling sites are well dodgy.

Life’s too short, and money too hard to come by, to waste time there.

Angry mob trashes and sets fire to Waymo self-driving car

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WTF?

Re: I used to love visiting San Francisco

RE: “Nobody cares about YOU.”

Don’t have a cow, man!

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Unhappy

I used to love visiting San Francisco

Seems the love affair is over.

ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand

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Devil

Oh YES!

Fewer staff

Trickier software and conditions of service

Greater fees passed on to customers!

Bank CEO’s wet dream.

Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported

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No problem

Remember.

You can always still turn far right!

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

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Terminator

The clue is there for all to see

We, the people, are the “Zuckers”

He, the man in charge, is the “Borg”

The literal Rolls-Royce of EVs is recalled over fire risk

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Alert

Yikes

The spirit of electricity

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

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The silicon chip inside her head, gets switched to overload

Who, in their right mind…

X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety

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Stop

Just declare it unsuitable for children and gentle folk

Let the wretched hive of scum and villainy devour itself in a walled garden of hatred.

AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan

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Terminator

Pretty soon…

and with prices rising so quickly, your local supermarket will also be a cop shop.

“Clean up in aisle 5, perp in cell 7”

eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered

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Meh

Workers shunted

Executives rewarded.

It always was thus.

OSIRIS-REx's stuck asteroid sample canister finally cracked open by NASA

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Coat

Finally

Someone found the 10mm

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

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WTF?

Way too little

Add a zero!

The US prison system is a hell-scape.

I’d be suing them as well.

Remind me never to go to Texas, or those states like it.

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned

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Everything old is new again

Marvellous

Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens

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Booking sites

An absolute abomination.

Savings? My arse!

Find the genuine website for the intended stay and book direct (often the best deal).

Don’t give these middle-men a break. They’re only leaching off the businesses they claim to serve.

Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion

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Devil

Payload you say?

There’s a guy in Florida who’s qualified to be roll on cargo, and he’s always up for some self promotion.

Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain

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Alert

Cold, calculated and heartless

Just wait until AI starts doing the work.

- Sackings

- Redundancies

- Death knocks

Going green Hertz: Rental giant axes third of EV fleet over lack of demand

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Re: The Polestar 2: A Cutting-Edge Electric Sedan for the Tech-Savvy Traveler

“Swedish”

LOL

Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges

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Facepalm

Hey Elon

Don’t go away angry, just go away.

Data wrangler Zuckerberg becomes world's least likely cattle rancher

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Terminator

Robotopia

Westworld 2.0

Do robots dream of electric cattle?

Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors

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I gig, therefore I am not

US labor laws have got to be the worst in the developed world.

People need to pay what real wages are worth.

Yes, prices will go up, deal with it.

Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight

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Coat

Apparently

The phones both survived because they were in “flight” mode.

Tesla's latest Autopilot safety patch hits 1.6M Chinese vehicles

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Mushroom

Oh, I don’t know

The new BYD “Fat Man” looks quite the bomb.

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Devil

BYD or Tesla

What’s third prize?

Irony alert: Lawsuit alleging Chrome’s Incognito Mode isn’t will settle on unknown terms

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Big Brother

To be fair

They did use a “spy” icon for the service.

It’s a clue guys.

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

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A bird in the hand

Is worth two in the stream

Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies

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Great

A whole new vector for scammers.

They’ve done huge damage with traditional gift card scams.

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

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Re: Ooooooooo-K

This was an antipodean facility.

Who knows. They wouldn’t let me drive it.

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Alert

Ooooooooo-K

I had an MRI just yesterday.

(Checks self)

All good!

Pakistani politician deepfakes himself to deliver a speech from behind bars

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In the future

The ultra rich will be able to sent their simulant to do the jail time while they cruise the Mediterranean.

Internet's deep-level architects slam US, UK, Europe for pushing device-side scanning

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Big Brother

It’s an argument for Orwell’s “Telescreen”

Everyone will have one, everyone will be monitored because of the <1% of miscreants who (insert relevant cause here).

Regards, Government.

Mr Cooper cyberattack laid bare: 14.7M people's info stolen, costs hit $25M

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Mr Cooper?

And I thought this story involved a man stealing info and jumping from a 727.

I’ll just pack my parachute…