* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

South Australia bins emergency alert app, contract

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Devil

New in-app purchase

You're getting WARMER

Nebula spotted with more super-sized bodies than a gym on Jan 2nd

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Coat

It's full of

stars...

Big shock: $700 Internet-of-Things door lock not a success

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FAIL

Sometimes

The Internet is not required.

Time's up: Grace period for Germany's internet hate speech law ends

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Trollface

If you say "Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz" 3 times....

.... a troll will appear!

That was fast... unlike old iPhones: Apple sued for slowing down mobes

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Windows

Planned obsolescence

So by this standard, I should just throw my 5S in the bin....

TPG joins the NBN speed-fail refund club

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Meh

25 Mbps

This seems to be the only really achievable plan.

The other plans seem to be pure marketing fantasy.

Still, 25 Mbps is 7 times what I get now.

Space.. the fi, er, New Frontiers: NASA to hurl space robot at duck comet – or Saturn moon

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Up with this kind of thing

Imagine HD video of Titan.

Autsch! Germany slaps Facebook in its abusive little face for 'limitlessly amassing data'

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Facebook et al

Just don't.

Sea-Me-We 3 cable down, again, Oz-Asia traffic slows down

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Black Helicopters

Upset Chinese?

The Australian Government recently upset our northern neighbours over their 'new island' ...

HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy

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Coat

There's a hole in the bucket

Dear Eliza...Dear Eliza...

Facebook: Who needs millennials? The cops love us more than ever!

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Meh

But I don't got none

I have documented my entire social media presence in the space below:

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Twitter's not dreaming of a white supremacist Xmas: Accounts nuked

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If you want to be a dick online

Forget: Twitter

Start: Dicker

No hack needed: Anonymisation beaten with a dash of SQL

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Facepalm

Brandis

Recently expected to become High Commissioner to London.

We already have Numpty-in-chief Joe Hockey as the ambassador in Washington.

Such a shallow talent pool.

Such plum appointments.

Sigh. It's not quite Star Trek's Data, but it'll do: AI helps boffins clock second Solar System

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Feeling Lucky

GooooooOOgle

5 reasons why America's Ctrl-Z on net neutrality rules is a GOOD thing

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Facepalm

Murrica!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6WD7B_I_9c

How fast is a piece of string? Boffin shoots ADSL signal down twine

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Meh

Don't tell Malcolm Turnbull

Mind you string can be expensive, when compared to wet tissue paper....

Signing up for the RAF? Don't bother – you've been Capita'd

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Just recieved my Grandfather's RAF service records

Lovely experience dealing with the RAF historian.

All done by paper form, cheque and mail.

Maybe the old ways ARE best.

Trump to NASA: Fly me (or some other guys) to the Moon

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Mars one way?

You're on Mr President *

* I use that term loosely.

La La La, I can't hear you: FCC responds to net neut concerns

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Facepalm

Trickle down bandwidth

Because trickle down economics has been soooooo successful.

</sarcasm>

nbn™ chair Ziggy Switkowski says HFC remediation mess is business as usual

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FAIL

HFC

But the Coalition promised HFC would deliver adequate broadband ahead on Labor's plan!

Seems like that's a NO.

Prison hacker who tried to free friend now likely to join him inside

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Devil

Cell 99, Schadenfreude wing

Will his friend be out before him?

Damian Green: Not only my workstation – mystery pr0n all over Parliamentary PCs

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Coat

Re: Poor excuse for a politician

I'm ready to be outraged and disgusted too!

Anyone got the link....?

(rain coat)

US credit repair biz damages own security: 111GB of personal info exposed in S3 blunder

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All your leak are belong to us

They only had one job...

Hardly anyone uses Australia's My Health Record service

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WTF?

Never heard of it

How does one opt-out?

My opt-out hand is itching...

nbn™ pauses hybrid fibre-coax build and will fix current connections

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Facepalm

Terminal

Can it get any worse?

You bet it can.

Maybe my 3 Mbps ADSL2 isn't that bad afterall.

You're such a goober, Uber: UK regulators blast hushed breach

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FAIL

Brand destruction

Epic style

Royal Navy destroyer leaves Middle East due to propeller problems

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Coat

Interesting article

Props to El Reg.

What?

Firefox to warn users who visit p0wned sites

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Joke

Maybe

The default could be: "You've been hacked".

Just code the remaining 23 or so secure web sites as "OK".

Cops jam a warrant into Apple to make it cough up Texas mass killer's iPhone, iCloud files

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Another fishing trip

If only they would put this much effort into gun control measures.

Why Boston Dynamics' backflipping borg shouldn't scare you

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Pint

Spotmini

Attach a bottle opener to the side and you have a great Esky (cold beer) carrier down at the beach!

It does the heavy lifting and you don't even need to share the beer with it.

Kaspersky: Clumsy NSA leak snoop's PC was packed with malware

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Who to trust? NSA or Kaspersky?

No brainer.

Kaspersky.

Donald Trump's tweets: Are they presidential statements or not?

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There's NOTHING presidential about Donald Trump

Zip, nada, zilch.

Boffins on alert: Brace yourselves for huge gravitational wave coming within a decade

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Surf's up!

I imagine this will be long-board territory.

WikiLeaks is wiki-leaked. And it's still not even a proper wiki anyway

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Shower of shites!

If WikiLeaks had any remaining credibility....WHOOSH.....it's completely gone now.

Ride-share upstart 'Fasten' revealed as Hive of insecurity

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TAXI !!!!

See title

Sean Parker: I helped destroy humanity with Facebook

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If not joining is a test

I PASSED!

Activists launch legal challenge against NHS patient data-sharing deal

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Joke

Doctors WITH borders

Puts a new slant on it.

Nurse!

Let out the dogs!!

Boffins: We can identify you by your typing, and we're gonna sell the tech to biz, govt – yay!

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Boffin

But what

If you hold it wrong?

'Sticky runway' closes Canadian airport

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Coat

I found this story to be quite tacky

OK, I'm taking off.

Alexa, please cause the cops to raid my home

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Alert

Better check the drinks cabinet

Alexa

Did you drink all the absinthe?

Brit moron tried buying a car bomb on dark web, posted it to his address. Now he's screwed

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FAIL

A link to religion

That's usually enough.

Stop worrying and let the machines take our jobs – report

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Mushroom

14 months 'til retirement

Almost there...

Almost there...

Almost there...

Then:

Take over R2

- Red Leader

Telstra drops nbn™ in it as it wears compo for broadband speed ads

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FAIL

Nationally Buggered Network

Yes Minister

You know what's coming next: FBI is upset it can't get into Texas church gunman's smartphone

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Unhappy

Barking up the wrong telegraph pole

Worry about the raging gun problem, don't worry about motive.

In this case, would motive change anything? (serious question)

Scientists think they've found primordial goop whence life first sprang

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Science for the win!

Back it every time.

PS: Can you eat it?

Official US govt Twitter accounts caught tweeting in Russian, now mysteriously axed

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Devil

Not Russian

Trumplish

Google, Twitter gleefully spew Texas shooter fake news into netizens' eyes

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FAIL

Google and Twitter

Both are NOT reliable news sources.

This is not the news you are looking for.

Who's to blame for the NBN? Hardly anyone remembers, or cares

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It's a bit shit really

And the Liberals are on the nose.

NASA reveals Curiosity 2020's 23-camera payload

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That's not a rover camera pack

THIS is a rover camera pack!

A draft US law to secure election computers that isn't braindead. Well, I'm stunned! I gotta lie down

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Joke

Cut out the middle man

Just appoint a Russian software firm!