* Posts by Winkypop

6147 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Dogecoin off the leash after Doge Vault admits server attack

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FAIL

Surely people are awake up by now to this made up coin stuff

Such continued fail, such nil sympathy, wow.

Archive.org web trove hits FOUR HUNDRED BEEEELLION pages

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Ahh the wayback machine

How many times have I used ye to retrieve old content long since deleted from our servers?

Praise be to the wayback machine!

The ULTIMATE space geek accessory: Apollo 15's joystick up for sale

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Alert

Ooooh

Want

NHS patient data storm: Govt lords SLAP DOWN privacy protections

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FAIL

These peer fellows...

...unelected, aren't they?

'Bladdered' Utah couple cuffed in church lawn sex outrage

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Devil

Re: Mormons?

They MIGHT have been Mormon, you don't know, they were involved in a sect act!

NBN to expand wireless, rejig satellites, spend more

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Compared to the Abbott/Hockey puppet show...

Yes.

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Unhappy

Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN)

Lite

To upgrade to the full version, please elect an adult Government.

Alien invader plunges tool into virgin 'Windjana', sniffs powders

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Driller thriller in the chiller

Good work Curiosity!

El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse back on the bacon

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Yikes!

I've stepped over things on the footpath that look like some of those meals.

But seriously, well done noshers!

Turnbull says internet governance can ignore privacy

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Malcolm is out of the way as Tony Abbott's leadership crumbles

Smart more Tony.

Your first one yet.

Scariest NSA revelation yet: Spooks are RUBBISH at CIPHERS

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Big Brother

They have already selected who they want

In fact, they are incubating in the Neo-Pavlovian conditioning rooms right now.

NBN Co hoses down 'user pays' story

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FAIL

NBN, pay, not pay

Chance would be a fine thing.

I'd pay!

Quid-a-day Reg nosh posse chap faces starvation diet

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Gimp

It's a gas, gas, gas!

Lentils and beans meanz fartz, no?

--> Think gas mask.

Teen jailed for ARMED ROBBERY says he and pals had been inspired by Grand Theft Auto

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Devil

Anti-game crusaders in 5, 4, 3......

Computer games!

We are all going to die!

Horror!

Sony nanotechnicians invent magnetic tape that stores 148 Gb per square inch

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Joke

Yea!

More space for kitten video backups!

NBN Co must wait until mid-2015 for fast cable modems

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FAIL

These words don't belong in the same sentence

Progress

NBN

Speed

Liberal National Party

Immigration Dept: we have NO IDEA how many people saw asylum-seeker data

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FAIL

If it's related to immigration minister Scott Morrison

Then it's an automatic fail.

Joe Hockey caught in his own .Net with Centrelink IT criticism

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FAIL

Sloppy Joe makes it up as he goes

Rule 1: Blame Labor

Rule 2: Make up shit

Rule 3: See rule 1

Lost treasure of Atari REVEALED

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Alien

Excavating Trash

30 years in the ground and still crap.

TBH, I didn't like the film either.

Microsoft's naughty Cortana NOT ALLOWED NEAR CHILDREN

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Joke

Cortana?

I had a Ford Cortana, with go-fast stripes!

Privateers race to capture forgotten NASA space probe using crowdsourced cash

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Headmaster

Complicated maths from a smart guy

I struggled with basic algebra at school.

Calculate me as: in awe.

Vladimir Putin says internet is a 'CIA project'

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Black Helicopters

Then, Russian president Vladimir Putin...

...is a "piece of work".

I have no view on the CIA.

(They told me to say that)

Asteroids as powerful as NUCLEAR BOMBS strike Earth TWICE YEARLY

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Mushroom

Forget a detector satelite

Is Gary Burghoff available?

INCOMING!

Och aye! It's the Loch Ness Monster – but only Apple fanbois can see it

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Joke

"My first thought was that it was the monster "

First thought!

Methinks basic critical thinking is lacking in this monster fan.

Clearly, it's aliens!

A L I E N S !!!

Tooled-up Ryobi girl takes nine-inch grinder to Asus beach babe

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Happy

Bump and grind

Grinder?

What grinder?

Oz crime-busters' calls for data retention get louder

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Devil

Hey, asshats!

Record this: Fuck off

NBN Co to government: 'unchain us'

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FAIL

As NBN 1.0 becomes a distant memory

Malcolm's NBN 0.4 (beta) becomes a dismal mish-mash...

Record labels sue Pandora over vintage song royalties

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Unhappy

RIAA concerned for artists?

No, it's the record labels (the music owners) that they are fighting for.

The artists are almost irrelevant to the RIAA.

Spanish village called 'Kill the Jews' mulls rebranding exercise

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@ Don Jefe

S L O W

H A N D C L A P.....

Oh the irony...

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This message brought to you by religion

Because what harm could it cause?

Opportunity selfie: Martian winds have given the spunky ol' rover a spring cleaning

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Re: ha!

Must have got caught at some traffic lights.

Solar panel wash mate?

No?

I'll do it anyway....

Borked Bitcoin bunker MtGox in administration: Lawyer seizes control

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Linux

They are not lost

They are just pining for the fjords.

NBN Co in 'broadband kit we tested worked' STUNNER

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Facepalm

And if you like that

I know a guy who has some magic beans for sale!

Russian deputy PM: 'We are coming to the Moon FOREVER'

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Joke

The moon is a harsh babushka!

Forget Reds under your beds!

It will be Reds over our heads!!

Obama allows NSA to exploit 0-days: report

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Meh

Has there ever been a "line"?

I can't imagine any security (or criminal) organisation deciding to ignore any reasonable exploit.

In the case of Governments, it's easier to seek forgiveness than ask permission.

NSA denies it knew about and USED Heartbleed encryption flaw for TWO YEARS

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Facepalm

Sick and tired

Of explaining this to family and friends.....my heart bleeds!

Murdoch says Microsoft needs 'big clean out'

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FAIL

Meh

This from a guy who is still trying to sell "news" printed on dead-trees.

Content that is out of date before it is even distributed.

I use the term "news" very lightly.

Come to Oz for sun, surf, ratting on co-workers and surveillance

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FAIL

We don't have a Government at the moment

We are being led by a neo conservative think tank.

Look up: The Institute of Public Affairs. (IPA)

Turnbull leaves Australia's broadband blackspots in the dark

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FAIL

Firmly stuck in "Opposition Mode"

They are making this crap up as they go along. They appear to be rudderless.

They have no intention of creating a contemporary NBN, let alone one for the near future.

This current LNP mob only seem to understand being in opposition mode, this is one of Abbott's greatest weakness.

Curiosity finds not-very-Australian-shaped rock on Mars

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Devil

Even for pareidolia, this is a stretch

If it were accurate, you'd be able to see Clive and Gina as well.

Mt Gox's 'transaction malleability' claim rubbished by researchers

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Holmes

Zurich researchers, eh?

Because nobody knows how to hide funds better than the Swiss.

In Australia, protesting against Brendan Eich will be a CRIME

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King Tony

The LNP government here in Aus is a barking-mad, right-wing, bagger-wannabe, xstain-fundy bunch of idiots.

Too harsh?

Not even close.

Get your MOON GEAR: Auction to feature Space Race memorabilia

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Unhappy

Sad face

These items are about as far out of my reach as the moon itself.

Want, but can't afford!

Too late, Blighty! Samsung boffins claim breakthrough graphene manufacturing success

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RE: Where will our cats relax on summer days until then?

Every bloody where they like, like they do now.

My workstation is cat hair infested.

The Punch and Judy show is LIVE NOW cancelled

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Trollface

Cancelled due to wind?

Too many kebabs last night lads?

Bay of Tweets: US sought to disrupt Cuba with covert social network

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WTF?

What are the US afraid of?

Cuba's universal health care?

That Cubans can keep a 1958 Dodge running all these years?

Their lifestyle?

Lego is the TOOL OF SATAN, thunders Polish priest

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FAIL

It's quite telling really

Grown man, a priest: concerned about imaginary souls and evil beings, etc.

5 year old: concerned about building the best spaceship, castle, lair, robot, etc....

iiNet to Senate committee: metadata retention an expensive joke

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Big Brother

A truly free society wouldn't need such laws

Data kleptomania is a disease.

I wonder how Orwell proposed they monitor all the telescreens in 1984?

El Reg's Deep Outback XP upgrade almost foiled by KILLER ARACHNIDS

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That's not a State (It's a Territory)

THIS is a State:

Western Australia: 2,645,615 km²

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

Nice article BTW.

Systems cock-up plagued new hospital in Melbourne

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WTF?

Epic Fail

To do this with regular patients would have been foolhardy enough.

But to do it to cancer patients, many of whom won't speak/understand English, is beyond incompetence.