* Posts by Winkypop

5643 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

This maglev turntable costs more than an average luxury electric car

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Meh

How the tables have turned

Back in the day, TEAC was the budget brand that you only found in department stores.

600k+ Celsius customer crypto-coin records revealed

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Devil

Now it’s time to tell the good wife

YOU DID WHAT?!

Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens

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Trollface

Darn it

Someone needs to change the sign to read: It has been [0] days since an Exchange has been robbed

Huge nonprofit hospital network suffers IT meltdown after 'security incident'

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Trollface

Shocked, shocked I am!!!

A non-profit health provider in the US?

India's Mars Orbiter Mission loses contact, burns all fuel, deemed 'non-recoverable'

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A great achievement

Up with this kind of thing!

Microsoft warns of North Korean crew posing as LinkedIn recruiters

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Trollface

LinkedIn

Now there’s ya problem!

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

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Coat

And thus was invented Cow-Fart powered Crypto Mining

Massive cow sheds, methane capturing equipment, gas powered electricity generation = profits!

Jacket keeps the muck off.

Delivery drone crashes into power lines, causes outage

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Joke

The take away from all this

Drive to the store yourself.

Ex-eBay execs jailed for cyberstalking web critics

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Devil

Execs in prison

Cats and dogs living together

It’s the end times folks!!

Meta busts first Chinese campaign prodding US midterms

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Devil

One down

Eleventy billion to go…

TikTok faces $29m fine for 'failing to protect UK kids' privacy'

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Privacy?

Who signs up to these rampant leeches for privacy?

NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship

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Pirate

The poor and the politically weak

These people have always paid the full cost of their leaders wanton expeditioning.

Scientists overjoyed after DART smashes into asteroid Dimorphos, contact lost

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Mushroom

Take only photos, leave only footprints

!!!BLAM!!!

sorry

Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms

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Go

God botherers strike again!

Girls, ladies, women you know what to do.

Code these nut jobs out (oh, and vote).

This hero probe will smash into an asteroid to see if we can deflect future killer rocks

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Alien

Space weevil habitat!

Save the Weevils!

Significant customer data exposed in attack on Australian telco

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Facepalm

Wow

Makes their major competitor, Telstra, look good.

Yes?

'Last man standing in the floppy disk business' reckons his company has 4 years left

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Re: Hmmm

IDE/ATAPI

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Windows

Hmmm

Must get my old Zip Drives working under Windows 10.

How difficult could it be?

: (

America taps 150+ prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime

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Trollface

“cryptocurrency crime”

So very nearly a tautology.

Appeals court already under fire for upholding Texas no-content-moderation law

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Facepalm

Oh Texas!

More insane bagger shite.

Arrest warrant issued for Do Kwon – the man blamed for 'crypto winter'

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Trollface

“investors losing huge sums of money”

“Investors” seems a bit generous.

“Fools” has greater brevity and accuracy.

US border cops harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database

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Travel to or through the US?

Not bloody likely!

Not any more.

Musk seeks yet another excuse to get out of Twitter buyout: This time it's Mudge's severance check

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Trollface

Shoot your mouth off

Win stupid prizes!

South Korea takes massive step toward sustainable nuclear fusion reactions

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Flame

Then, Mr Fusion…

5 years after

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs memorialized with online archive of emails, guff

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Devil

In 500 years

The Jobsian (bible) will evolve.

“In the beginning there was an apple….”

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

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God save our bikkie tin, don’t let the ants get in….

I’m no monarchist, it’s just rich people in silly costumes, but I reckon the Queen was OK!

She did a good job regardless.

Bye bye BoJo: Liz Truss named new UK prime minister

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Re: Bye bye BoJo???

No Top Secret folders found, just a half dozen uncounted offspring….

Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election

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1860: South of the Mason Dixon line

“I said, boy, I said, having a direct relationship with the owner is best for our slaves”

Internet pranksters send hundreds of cabs to Moscow street, cause gridlock

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One minute there’s no cabs

Then dozens all show up at once!!!

Oh no, that James Webb Space Telescope snap might actually contain malware

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Alien

Aliens

Definitely aliens!

FBI: Look out, crooks stole $1.3b in cryptocurrency in just three months this year

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Ya know

It’s as if the whole she-bang is a bit dodgy!

Woman forced to sell 4-bed house after crypto exchange wrongly refunded $7.2m

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Trollface

Craigieburn?

She’s already suffered enough!

Tesla faces Autopilot lawsuit alleging phantom braking

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Devil

Testing in a production environment

Insane? Immoral? Perhaps.

But just look at all that data!

James Webb Space Telescope finds first evidence of CO2 in exoplanet atmosphere

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Alien

In other NEWS

Scam call centres have obtained the dialling lists to WASP-39b and are already busy stealing from locals.

California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035

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Meh

It’s good to have dreams, but

The old ICE will be around for a long while yet.

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

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Re: Get any pics of these teenage girls?

OK I admit it, I laughed.

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Re: Benny Hill

Roomba vids

Big on CaTV I hear

Musk tries to sell Tesla's Optimus robot butler to China

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Terminator

Re: Mow laws and care for the elderly

Save thousands

Get the elderly to mow the lawns!

No bots required!

80,000 internet-connected cameras still vulnerable after critical patch offered

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Big Brother

Not a bug

A feature.

CCP Approved

Google promises to adjust search algorithm to favor 'people-first content'

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Meh

The old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be

Don’t mind the quality,

Feel the width!

NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years

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Alert

Launched in 1977

Golden record is cool, but did they also include THAT swimsuit poster of Farrah Fawcett?

Every teenage boy had one of those in ‘77.

Myself included.

Ex-HP finance manager jailed after going on $5m spending spree using company plastic

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Devil

Bought on HP

Hire Purchase m’Lord

Those bags were only resting in my closet.

Googlers demand abortion searches ‘never be saved or treated as a crime’

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Mushroom

If only, then

Imagine not needing such complicated workarounds and agreements.

A true democracy would care for ALL of its citizens.

Abortion is nobody else’s business after the patient and the medical professional.

Old bible-bashing men should fuck right off.

Australian court overturns 'Google is a publisher' decision

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Devil

Lawyer 0

Lawyers 1

TikTok wants your trust around US midterm elections data

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Devil

Trust?

I laughed until I stopped

Ryugu asteroid: It came from the outer solar system, say scientists

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Coat

Coming soon to a hipster cafe near you

Smashed avocado, mung beans, tofu and aliphatic carbon-rich organics associated with coarse-grained phyllosilicates!

Hmmmm

Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway

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Linux

Re: the Apple representative's audio was characteristically poor

Maybe there was a Penguin standing on the wire?

Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom

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Deere John

Thanks, but we’ve got this from here.

So long.

- Farmers

Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone

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Trollface

I tried social media once….

Nah

No I didn’t, just kidding.

Google fined $42.5m over misleading Android location settings in Australia

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Coat

$60 million

OK guys, can you please search down the back of the Executive Lounge couch again.

We need some loose change.