* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Australia gets its Internet filter after Senate vote

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Ignorance must be bliss

So many people seem to practice it.

Say 'cheese'! Cassini probe ZOOMS IN on Saturn's craggy Dione moon

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Orbital mechanics et al

Somewhat* above my plane of mathematics.

* astronomically

Canadian government websites hosed, Anonymous takes credit

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Oh Canada

I imagine this will result is some very very polite apologising....

Phone scamming up 30 percent last year: Report

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Good morning, this is Robo Dialer, you can call be Rob

Yes, I'm sure the Tax Office would call me at 6:20am asking for me for personal information about a obviously bogus unpaid 'invoice'.

Annoying, yes.

Stupid, very.

YOU ARE THE DRONE in Amazon's rumoured new parcel delivery plan

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WTF?

Umm no

I don't want a random stranger knowing my address and coming to my door.

Also, stalkers would love it.

Trans-Pacific Partnership stalled says Australian trade minister

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Let's hope the TPP is terminal

It's "passing" would not be missed.

Hating on 'Like Farms': boffins trawl for Facebook fakes

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Trollface

Likedin

See above

Sun's out, guns out: Plucky Philae probot WAKES UP ... hits 'snooze'

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Coat

I was less than confident

But now I'm Philae Philae happy!

Boffins rock!

(puns intended)

Australia gets its site filter at LAST

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Facepalm

Abbott's either mad or very very stupid

It would be kinder if he was mad, at least he'd have an excuse.

- Entitlements rorter

- Sexist

- Homophobe

- Kiddie fiddling Priest supporter

- Climate denialist

- Science denialist

- Tilter at windmills

Australia's data retention regime starts October 13th says A-G

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Time extension please

Just until this moronic and spiteful government are thrown from office.

NBN build contracts rejigged, without Telstra

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Wow

Even though NOT in Government, Labor's NBN 1.0 has managed to save $20 billion!

"Turnbull conceded that in spite of the shift to a “multi-technology” model, there are still factors that could cause cost blowouts to the network, but maintains that rolling out fibre would have cost “$30 billion more” (pre-election that number was $50 billion but who cares? – Ed)."

I sadly await being underwhelmed by the LNP's dog of an NBN 2.0

Bill Nye's bonkers LightSail spaceship unfurls solar sails at last

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Pint

Giant space goon bag!

In space, no one can hear your next order!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_wine

Paper driving licence death day: DVLA website is still TITSUP

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Staged roll-out anyone?

"Yesterday was the official launch of the DVLA site, as paper licences became obsolete as of midnight. After a major collapse"

A new site mixed with a global deadline?

Really?

Wow.

Voyager 2 'stopped' last week, and not just for maintenance

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Happy

Come in number 1 and number two

Your time is up.

The $60,000 logo: What it costs to change a website

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Wow

The thing I can no longer connect to has a new logo.

Whoop-de-fucking-do.

Whale-song and hipster beards all round!!

China's hackers stole files on 4 MEELLION US govt staff? Bu shi, says China

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Re: American spy doomsday

Meanwhile: Tinfoil prices are up!

WikiLeaks offers $100k for copies of the Trans-Pacific Partnership – big biz's secret govt pact

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Re: Amongst other dodgy deals....

@ dan1980

Good point.

But I'm sure the TPP isn't going to help the plain packaging laws.

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Big Brother

Amongst other dodgy deals....

....the tobacco industry dearly wants an end to Australia's highly-successful Plain Packaging laws.

Instead of killing their customers, for a change, it's killing the cigarette manufacturers.

Example:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/explainer-victorias-economic-growth-strong-but-tobacco-industry-running-out-of-puff-20150603-ghfyqe.html

Science teacher jammed his school kids' phones, gets week suspension

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Headmaster

In the 1970's

We would get in trouble for passing notes..... the precursor to SMS.

Imagine that kids, a world without the Net.

Hubble spots Pluto's moons are a chaotic mess of tumbling rock

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Call it whatever you like

The science is awesome!

It's not over 'til Saturn's spongy moon sings: Cassini probe set for final Hyperion fly-by

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Seed pod?

Space monsters

S P A C E - M O N S T E R S !!!!

Long, sticky summer ahead: Win 10 will be with OEMs by 31 August

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Meh

New task bar thing-a-ma-jig has appeared. Win7

"Get Windows 10"

Hmmmmm.

Taming the Thames – The place that plugged London's Great Stink

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Thanks

Another excellent article.

NBN must limit downloads to 12 Mbps downloads until copper handover

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Stop the bytes

Oh Malcolm, what a cluster-fuck.

Hardcore creationist finds 60-million-year-old fossils in backyard ... 'No, it hasn’t changed my mind about the Bible'

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Loaves and fishes

Is the fossil wrapped in an old copy of the Creation Times?

BTW: It's 2015, are we really still doing the bronze age myth shit?

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Bog-standard boxty

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Boxty +

Irish bacon = yum

2.8 million victims squared up by malicious Minecraft apps

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Carefull kids

It's a minefield out there

Messerschmitts, Sinclairs and a '50s living room: The Bubblecar Museum

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Stop

For the Love of Cars - Series 2 Ep4

This episode is about a Fiat 500 but features a tour of the Bubble Car Museum.

Polygraph.com owner pleads guilty to helping others beat lie detector

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WTF?

Polygraphs

LOL

As if they even work!

However, if you think they do:

I have an IED detector for sale, you might THINK it's just a stick, but...

China decrees local internet must go faster to stimulate growth

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Devil

Speed it up

So we can block it more efficiently.

That DRM support in Firefox you never asked for? It's here

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FAIL

Don't innovate

Just restrict!!

Pakistan URINE STORM: Google Maps chokes off user editing

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So

If a farmer were to cut their grass in a particular androidy-pissing-on-an-apple way it would be OK then.

Not grass, but similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marree_Man

Telstra builds trans-continental land bridge for data

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Re: Living in Perth....

Easterners eh?

Come over here stealing our meager bandwidth!

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Meh

Living in Perth....

Ya wouldn't know it.

1998 asks to speak to Turnbull about local calls

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Oh Malcolm

You're not very good at this, are you?

'Photof*cket' men manacled, indicted over Photobucket password-protected pic plunder

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Call me old fashioned but...

...if you'd prefer no one saw your pics why put them on the Internet?

I'm not joking.

Astroboffins eyeball MONSTER GAS HALO hugging Andromeda Galaxy

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Good article

More mind-stretching science please!

ALIEN HUNT: Water similar to life-bearing Earth lakes FOUND ON MOON of Saturn

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Alien

Let's go

I'm up for it...

Online pizza order saves woman and children from knife-wielding kidnapper

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Unhappy

Cops arrive - perp cuffed - kids safe and all

But no pizza?

FOUND: NASA's stray balloon located in the middle of nowhere

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XXXX marks the spot

Perfect landing, time for a beer.

Australia!

Pacific nation accidentally does good thing in web crackdown

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Imprisoning kids

Never justified.

iPhone case uses phone's OWN SIGNAL to charge it (forever, presumably)

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Fantastic

Add 1000 more covers to the phone and power YOUR WHOLE HOUSE!!!!!1111

Mars needs TRAFFIC COP to stop probe prangs, says NASA

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Americans, Indians and Europeans....

So, is it give way to the right or give way to the left?

Bridge, ship 'n' tunnel – the Brunels' hidden Thames trip

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Excellent article

Now I need to return to London, again!

Tesla Powerwall: Not much cheaper and also a bit wimpier than existing batteries

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Good article Richard

Thanks

Kill all geoblocks says Internet Society of Australia

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We are so screwed

TPPA...

(ineffective) new filtering...

Talk of a VPN ban...

We will be hosed, good and proper.

Tesla reveals Powerwall battery packs for homes, Powerpacks for cities

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Devil

USD$3000

So that would be roughly eleventy-million once 'converted' to Australian currency....

NASA's Messenger craft SMASHES into Mercury: See ya later, alien crater

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Mushroom

Ooops

There goes their no claim bonus.

What is Apple's idiot tax on Watch these days? 'About $265 or 80%'

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Do the kids even wear watches these days?

And doesn't iTime just stop when your iThing battery gives out?

Apple to devs: Watch out, don't make the Watch into a, well, a watch

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APPLE: This is not the time you are looking for

FAN BOIS (monotone): This is not the time we are looking for