* Posts by Winkypop

5643 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Techies CAN sue Google, Apple, Intel et al accused of wage-strangling pact

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WTF?

Suing, a career enhancing move?

Not

Chinese Moon rover, lander duo wake up after two-week snooze

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Boffin

Lab coats and safety specs all round!

Well done those boffins.

I was lucky enough to be a 7 year old when Apollo11 landed on the moon.

That early influence set the scene for my life-long interest in all things scientific.

Conspiracy theorists be damned!

Tech titan Bill Gates: Polio-free India one of the 'most impressive accomplishments' ever

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Good for them

I went to school with kids who were Polio victims.

I remember my Sabin dose, best tasting medicine ever.

Vaccines are one of man's greatest discoveries.

Anti-vaxers and religious nutjobs need to be targeted and eradicated next.

Hackers slurp credit card details from US luxury retailer Neiman Marcus

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Devil

Missed it by that much

"The security of our customers' information is always a priority..." the retailer said,

Just not on that day...

Judge orders Yelp.com to unmask anonymous critics who tore into biz

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Hadeed Carpet Cleaning

Anyone else thinking: Flying carpets?

Or is it just me?

Workers, guards clash in hours-long Samsung factory RIOT in Vietnam

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Devil

Maybe

Those lunches contained the fruit; Durian.

I'd employ tactical nukes if this was the case.

TPP treaty nearly ready to roll over us, says Oz minister

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Big Brother

America gets what it wants, and...

...minor officials from AUS/NZ get to feel important for a time.

The rest of us get screwed each way till Sunday.

Cicada 3301: The web's toughest and most creepy crypto-puzzle is BACK

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Alert

tl;dnr

Who's got time?

There are so many cat videos to see.

Don't panic! Japan to send nuke fuel rod into MELTDOWN in Fukushima probe

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Alert

No safety concerns....

Hello !!

Godzilla...... !!

Classy Oregon diners tipped waitress with 'crystal meth' – cops

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Pirate

Tatts, drugs and low IQs

The unholy trinity.

ANYONE on Google+ can now email you, with or without your Gmail addy

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Devil

My cunning plan to thwart the evil social media...

I don't have any friends!

Bwahahahaaaaa!

ALIEN WORLD Beta Pictoris snapped by Earth's Gemini 'scope

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Alien

I watched Apollo as a kid

Before I return to star-stuff I'd LOVE to hear of "life" elsewhere.

Even the slightest hint.

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Boffin

Science porn

Well done those boffins.

I look forward to your future discoveries.

No sign of Half-Life 3 but how about FOURTEEN Steam Machine makers?

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HL3 is all fine and dandy

But will they ever finish the story line for HL2.2?

Optical Express 'ruined my life' attack site wins Nominet takedown battle

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Terminator

+1 for "Radial keratotomy"

Yes indeed.

I too followed this very closely from the 80s.

I finally achieved my dream to be 'spec free' about 8 years ago.

I waited for the tech to improve and the risk to diminish, oh, and I was also a tad scared.

It is your freaking eyes AND you have to watch!

All good now though.

Two guilty over 'menacing' tweets to feminist campaigner

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Linux

From tweeter

To jail bird.

Ouch!

Intel ditches McAfee brand: 'THANK GOD' shouts McAfee the man

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Flame

Norton gets my vote

Kill them with fire!

NHS carelessly slings out care.data plans to 26.5 million Brits

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Trollface

Re: If they are anything like ATOS

....and how is that rash coming along?

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Devil

In other NEWS: 15 Terabyte USB drive developed

Because, otherwise, you'd never fit such a large database on a lost USB drive...

Naked Aussie gets wedged in washing machine

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Flame

She wasn't impressed

But she did get the phone number for one of the burly Firemen....

US BACKDOORED our satellites, claim UAE

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Black Helicopters

Non Standard Architecture

Better get used to it.

There appears to be no escape.

How the NSA hacks PCs, phones, routers, hard disks 'at speed of light': Spy tech catalog leaks

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Mushroom

Ripley got it right

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...

BT tweaks WORDING of sex-ed web block after complaints

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Facepalm

Heck

As kids we found out about the naughty-bits and what they could be used for WAAAAAY before the Internet came along. Of course we also 'learned' a lot of crap.

I think it's better for kids to be properly educated, not ignorant.

I've never understood why all these deities (and their followers) are obsessed with what people (adults) do with their squidgy bits. Their obsession is unnatural and very creepy.

California OLDSTER in WILD golf course SKATEBOARDING spree

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Trollface

Oh my

Why do American even have legs?

Just asking....

Silk Road 2.0 busted! At least two arrests as federal crackdown begins

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Kids these days.......

What's wrong with the traditional venue; meeting in the pub car park?

Hypnotic wind map captures Earth's heavenly currents

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I don't bookmark much these days, but...

..gotcha!

NSA spies should clean up their act, says Prez Obama-picked panel

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FAIL

Oh, well that's OK then

idiots!

Harvard kid, 20, emailed uni bomb threat via Tor to avoid final exam, says FBI

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FAIL

What a blow!

To bomb out of College like that...

No anon pr0n for you: BT's network-level 'smut' filters will catch proxy servers too

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Big Brother

We are a loving Government

We worry about what you get up to in your own privacy.

We worry who you might want to marry.

We worry who you choose to associate with.

We worry you might not like us anymore.

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Kiwi inventor's court win rains on Apple's parade

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Coat

IPONZ

Heeeeeeeeey!!!!!

Turnbull's NBN is startup-land's litmus test

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FAIL

The LNP are lying

It's what they do best.

They are still in opposition mode, someone should wave them off, maybe then they will start governing.

Hockey has raised the deficit all by himself

Turnbull has already reneged on even his version of the promised Fraudband

Pretty soon, Abbott will introduce Work Choices 2.0

NSA alleges 'BIOS plot to destroy PCs'

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Facepalm

These guys are telling porky pies!

Would they be telling us ANYTHING if they hadn't been exposed?

Sensation: Chinese Jade Rabbit FOUND ON MOON

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Communist nations 2, Capitalist nations 1

Although the capitalists still win on countback due to them having landed and returned 12 men.

Good job China, see you can do good things!

Snowden latest: NSA stalks the human race using Google, ad cookies

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Black Helicopters

Apols: to William Hughes Mearns

Yesterday upon the stair

I met a man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

He must be from the NSA

Cassini spots MEGA-METHANE SEAS on the north pole of Titan

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Terminator

Down to just "4 per cent of its maneuvering propellant"

Hydrocarbon reserves as far as the sensor can see, and not a drop to drink!

Cut through the winter chill with these Rupert Murdoch tweeting cards

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Don't encourage the old git

He should be singing like a jail bird, not tweeting.

'Mixed tech' NBN needs a super-sized HFC net

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In other words

Same clusterfuck, different colour.

Telecom New Zealand exits Australia with AAPT sale

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Windows

Meanwhile, here on the west coast.....

.....we are still using camels, smoke signals and strung tin cans.

Mexican Cobalt-60 robbers are DEAD MEN, say authorities

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Coat

Do something good; get left with a warm glow

Do something bad; same result + death!

Customs cops shutter 700+ domains in global anti-piracy blitz

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Joke

Free trade and open markets are great

As long as they are manipulated properly.

NSA collects up to FIVE BILLION mobile phone locations daily

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Black Helicopters

Simple rule

Assume everything is being monitored and analysed.

Amazon's non-existent drone delivery army ALREADY P0WNED

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Boffin

Hello, this is Amazon?

Yes, I see....

Your parcel has not arrived yet, hmm

Let me check.....tap tap tap

Says here it landed at 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan

Ink cartridge scammers forced to pen cheque for $AUD100k fine

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Trollface

I don't believe this story!

Who on earth can even afford printer ink?

French court: Google, Microsoft en ami must say 'au revoir' to pirates

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FAIL

Where there's a www

There's a way.....

Amazon floats 'Prime Air' drone delivery plan

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Black Helicopters

Just how noisy are these flying critters?

Can you imagine the airspace near a distribution centre?

Kite flying anyone?

India's Martian MOM leaves the nest

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Well done those Rocket-wallahs!

Great effort.

Our irony meter exploded: Apple moans ebook price-fixing watchdog is too EXPENSIVE

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Trollface

Imagine that

Paying over the odds for a service/device one can get elsewhere!

How awful.

That toolbar you downloaded is malware? Tough, read the EULA

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WTF?

Browser toolbars?

What year is this again?

Foxtel announces broadband, Australia yawns

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Megaphone

The real picture emerges

Rupert: The (Labor) NBN is dead, long live the NBN (of my choosing)

Sceptic-bait E-Cat COLD FUSION generator goes on sale for $US1.5m

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FAIL

A field of red flags!!

Clearly fake.

Clearly too good to be true.

Clearly a scam.