* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Kiwis rally against 'snoops' charter' law

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Go Kiwis

Bring the Icons Back Home

Oh, and no snooping, OK?

Hooker in Dudley man's car 'just helping to buy tomatoes'

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Joke

Ladies, don't drive in car with a fruiterer / greengrocer!

Even if he does have a lovely pair of coconuts.

Chinese government to spend $277 BEEELION on air-quality improvements

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New Chinese export opportunity

Every Chinese made item for export will be accompanied by an equivalent (by weight) bag of Beijing air.

I'll get my HAZMAT suit.

Texas man charged in multimillion-dollar Bitcoin Ponzi scheme

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WTF?

So soon after Madoff?

Stupidity and Greed, joined at the hip..

Only 1 in 5 Americans believe in pure evolution – and that's an upswing

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I suspect

I suspect that a decent number of theologians know that (their) religion is false.

They simply don't know how to switch it off and/or find another career.

http://www.clergyproject.org/

100-metre asteroid 2013 NE19 zipped past Earth today

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Joke

Meh

It'll never make the "news".

There's a royal bub doncha now?

Planetary paparazzi snap candid pics of Earth, Moon from space

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Alien

Now THIS is awe inspiring.

Makes deity worship seem, well, primitive and very silly.

US Marine Corps misses target, finds and bombs Nemo

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Mushroom

Fine for littering?

Like the one NASA received for Skylab debris perhaps?

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/14/1556228/nasas-skylab-400-littering-fine-paid-by-dj

US town mulls bounty on spy drones, English-speaking gunman only

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Guns, civillians, town limits, depleted uranium, what can possibly go wrong?

Makes note to self: Don't visit Colorado.

UK investigators finger emergency beacon for 787 Heathrow fire

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Joke

I think I'll stick with the 'tin tops' for now

I don't have the mettle for plastic planes.

Tweet like escaping Hell depends on it, Twitter Catholics told

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FAIL

Silly men, playing at silly games

What a load of antiquated codswallop.

Superstition playing at being hip.

PM writes ISPs' web filter ads for them - and it must say 'default on'

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FAIL

The kids are way ahead of these numpties

So it's a clear fail then.

US Congress proposal: National Park will be FOUND ON MOON

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Alien

InterNational Historical Park: Yes

National Historical Park: Not so much.

HP admits to backdoors in storage products

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FAIL

Help Please

All your backdoor are belong to us.

Texas teen jailed for four months over sarcastic Facebook comment

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FAIL

Ya gotta love the US justice system

...ahh no, actually you don't.

Run for your (private) lives! Facebook's creepy Graph Search is upon us

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Big Brother

Creepy

Just got a whole lot more creepier.

Upturned boat sails to Shed of the Year title

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Always be suspicious...

...of a man without a shed.

Mastercard and Visa block payments to Swedish VPN firms

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Alert

You can take my payment method

But don't take my VPN!

Going lo-tech to avoid NSA snooping? Unlucky - they read snailmail too

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100% certified safe method

Don't have any friends or acquaintances!

Facebook's Winklevoss Bros file to launch Bitcoin Trust for investors

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Pop!

Goes the Winklevoss!

France sets antitrust watchdog loose on Apple, raids premises

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French fried

I'll bet Apple were croissant!

Idaho patriots tool up to battle Jihad with pork bullets

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FAIL

Re: ::pops some corn & grabs a beer::

@ AC

The burden of proof of a god-fella rests squarely with the religious. Us non-aligned non-believers are only asking for scientific evidence.

Until then, meh!

Flippin' Equus! Unfeasibly old horse bone DNA triumph

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Coat

Re: How

I would have gone with:

Love thy Neighhhhhhhbour.

Secret US spy court lets Microsoft, Google reveal their petitions

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Big Brother

The truth is a funny thing

There's their truth, your truth and THE truth.

When it comes to the latter, your mileage may vary.

'Do the right thing and tell on a pirate' - software bods

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Big Brother

Remember kids

People are either a criminal or a thought criminal, may as well dob them in now.

Snowden: 'Hey, Assange, any more room on Ecuador's sofa?'

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Trollface

From ridiculous

to farce.

Facebook bug leaks contact info of 6 million users

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FAIL

Facebook has a security team?

And they're still employed?

Icelandic biz baron: 'I have a private jet waiting in China for Snowden'

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Assange will be mightily pissed off

But what about me?

LinkedIn DNS hijacked, site offline

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Stop

LinkedIn?

I bat away LinkedIn requests like I swat at flies.

Go away, I'm not interested in your signup spam service!

Microsoft caves on Xbox One DRM and used-game controls

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'Sony money

Looks like Sony has starred down Microsoft. Good news for gamers, but I think neither is all that trustworthy when it comes to DRM and spying.

NASA serves up Curiosity's billion-pixel panorama

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Simply amazing

Who cares which "device" it works on or not?

It's frikken Mars!

Internet fraud still stings suckers

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Trollface

Had the bog-standard phone scammer just last night

They were so adamant that I had a Windows PC, they insisted I did. I said I didn't have any PC, she said (almost screamed) "You are a liar!"

I asked her if she knew she was scamming people or whether she was just a phone-drone. She was very upset by this and said that I was a liar again, ergo: she was in on it.

I suggested that ringing people up and calling them a liar wasn't the best strategy.

I politely recommended that she call her employer a bastard, ....she hung up.

Hubble spies unlikely planet being born in hostile neighborhood

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Mind the gap

Obviously.

Who's to be the next Dr Who? Sherlock beats Maurice - says you

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If it's not Sue Perkins

I can go with Tilda Swinton.

Scientists investigate 'dark lightning' threat to aircraft passengers

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"omnidirectional terrestrial gamma-ray flashes"

That might explain airline food.

PRISM snitch claims NSA hacked Chinese targets since 2009

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Meh

Yeah, but no but yeah

I've always operated under the expectation that everything I do on the net is discoverable, somehow.

Therefore: no Faceberk, etc.

Facebook, Microsoft beg Feds: Let us tell users what YOU asked for...

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Joke

The good old days

Ahhh, I remember a time when even my teacher didn't have a clue what I was up to....bliss.

NSA accused of new crimes ... against slideware

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WTF?

What?

A "slideware professional" is a THING?

Thanks, NSA: Amazon sales of Orwell's 1984 rise 9,500%

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FAIL

Re: People are so F'en dumb

...says an anonymous coward...

NSA PRISM-gate: Relax, GCHQ spooks 'keep us safe', says Cameron

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Black Helicopters

You always operate within the Law

When you ARE the Law.

Author Iain (M) Banks falls to cancer at 59

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Unhappy

Farewell and thanks!

So many really interesting SF books with thought provoking themes and concepts.

I particularly enjoyed the audio book of The Wasp factory.

Amazing.

Microsoft parades Windows 8.1, the version you may actually want

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Stop

Please

Don't feed the Eadon.

Leaked docs show NSA collects data on all Verizon customers

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Big Brother

Speak up citizens

We have a bad line.

It's a fiddle! Funnyman's Irish tax flashmob floods Apple flagship store

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Megaphone

Up with this kind of thing!

If only to make PR towks squirm and weep as they try to smooth over the "negative brand issues".

Thirty-five years ago today: Space Invaders conquer the Earth

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Happy

All those 20c pieces!

All those hours in the local fish and chip shop.

Ahhhh childhood.

Sacred islet Rockall defeats Brit adventurer

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Trollface

British seaside resorts

I always suspected that British seaside resorts were a tad grim, but this is going too far.

A Bluetooth door lock that puts the kettle on? NOW we're in the future

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Maybe

But only if it can make all the house lights go on and off to a 'blib blib' sound when locking and unlocking.

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 secrets REVEALED ... sort of

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Devil

Windows 8 ?

Don't get me started !

Microsoft links Skype to Lync

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Meh

Is that what Lync is?

I got it with Office 2013 Pro but Ive never bothered to run it.

Probably never will now.

Kettle 'which looks like HITLER' brews up sturm in a teacup

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Flame

Ve haff vays of making you tea!

Heinrich, turn up ze gas!