* Posts by James O'Brien

1064 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Oct 2007

Extra large condoms hit UK supermarket shelves

James O'Brien
Coffee/keyboard

@Too little too late...

ROFL!!

You owe me a keyboard and monitor. Awesome post.

Texan judge outlaws Word

James O'Brien
Joke

Hehe

2 things I see here. . .

So what are they going to do about the fact there are probably 10million copies of Office out there on store shelves (and yes I know my guess is probably missing a 0 or two)? Are they going to fine M$ more each day until M$ tells said companies to stop selling or else? Also what about the OEMs who include Office?

Secondly:

How is it that this company has a patent for this and Apple didn't already try to get one for the same thing? What with all the BS patents Apple has been applying for lately has me rather surprised they don't already have one.

I hope this end patent trolls.

Texting makes kids faster and dumber

James O'Brien
FAIL

DOH!!!

"and the way their friends txt and I do not think a single one of them use T9."

That was the sentence I saw, for some reason I didn't see the other 'their' the second and third time I read what he wrote.

Yep FAIL does goto me for not having eyesight checked ;-/

James O'Brien
FAIL

@Skeptic Al and @Nate Phillips

"Wiv txt lik dis hu neds T9"

ROFL Keyboard sir TY

Nate -

Im pretty sure he had the right word. "There" is as in OVER THERE, "Their" is possessive. Think before you type next time. As for his use of the word txt, why not complain to whoever invented 8.3 file names.

Notepad = .txt file and everyone just about knows what that is.

Images = .jpg and again just about everyone knows what that is.

Txt = Do I really need to continue right now?

So the FAIL goes to you sir.

ttfn

Apple and Google kept (unwritten) no poaching pact

James O'Brien
WTF?

Only in the US of A

Gotta love it. I can understand possible issues being raised by having the sameperson on both boards but common, having a "no recruit" policy is being investigated by the government here?

@Big Al

"Surely you can't legislate to *force* companies to headhunt from each other?"

This is America bro. We can legislate ANYTHING. Im sure there will be a law that a couple no name senators or congressmen sponsor to make it where this is not only an illegal policy but also one where you HAVE to do it or else. Im sure some sort of fine is going to come because of this.

Telco offers 911 by txt

James O'Brien
Joke

Hold up

"Anyone not using i wireless, the local carrier for T-Mobile, will receive a text message suggesting they call 911, at least until the service can be rolled out more comprehensively."

Not using *i wireless*? Some newfangled for of wireless I dont know about? ;-)

Now the other question is this, do standard txting charges apply if those people who use it dont have a txting plan?

the kidnapped persons next month bill:

Txt charges for 911 txting service: $16,527. . .

Man blames cat for child porn downloads

James O'Brien
WTF?

Words fail me for this story

Im going to go drool in a corner

IT admin charged in Xmas Eve rampage on charity

James O'Brien
FAIL

Excuse me?

"The former IT admin for a Florida-based charity stands accused of ransacking the organization's servers and phone systems last Christmas eve, more than a year after his employment there ended."

More then a year after his employment ended? Why weren't the passwords changed no more then 5 minutes after his employment ended? Seriously, shit like that is why these companies keep getting smacked by former admins. I agree he should pay but there should also be a fine involved for those companies too stupid to do normal security related stuff.....LIKE CHANGING THE BLOODY PASSWORDS AFTER SOMEONE LEAVES!!!!!

On a side though what I would like to know is why he did this. What was his reasoning to be so pissed off about it for over a year that he finally decided to do something? What were his terms of discharge?

Apple denies censoring App Store swear words

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Welcome

*snickers*

I for one welcome our [CENSORED] dictionary overlords.

/Ok no I dont but meh

Twitter goes titsup

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Paris Hilton

@Lis 0r

My question is this, amanfromMars 1? There's more then one?

Top vendors flunk Vista anti-virus tests

James O'Brien
Joke

@Dave 129 and EJ

I would if I were you :) Been happily running Vista 64 for 2.5 years now without AV and loving it....and no I havent gotten a virus.

EJ:

That because its too busy finding infected files on your system and telling you that you need to pay for it :)

Feds seek $566m from man in online gambling case

James O'Brien
Joke

@Tom 35

Its called the conversion of American dollars to Canadian.........

Twitter sued for patent infringement

James O'Brien
Joke

Solution found

Just change the limit to something other then 140 character limit. I patent this at this time. You heard it here first.

Google turns up nose at ebook monopoly claims

James O'Brien
Paris Hilton

@This HAS to be wrong...

What about Apple and their iPlods?

Surely you didnt forget about that fire storm.

IT grad sues school over failed job hunt

James O'Brien
Happy

*snickers*

What a numpty. Cant wait to see this one play out.

On a side note Rik kudos on something that isnt about Apple :)

Fraud groups ding Bing for illicit pharmacy promos

James O'Brien
Jobs Horns

@Ah well ...

Well if Apple DID have a search engine we would lose all pron, have to pay for a crappy copy of each web page and make anyone who designs a web page sign a NDA so they couldnt talk about lack of support. Hmm come think about it.....

Nah, started to feel the evil stirrings of St. Jobs in my soul.....*shudders*

Toshiba unveils new external 3.5-inch drive

James O'Brien
Joke

A few rebuttals:

@Sampler: not like it's rocket science to fit a drive in an external caddy.

Yes it is....you havent met my parents....

@thomas k.

No, there is no chance of it being alive....it is from the land of Sweet and Sour Ca....Chicken

Microsoft's Windows 7 price gamble - and why it's flawed

James O'Brien
Paris Hilton

Im Confused

If someone can shed some light on this for me...

I took advantage of the pre-order for Windows 7 Professional when they were having the half off pre-order. That cost me $99 for my copy instead of the MSRP of $199. Now it sounds like they are lowering the price if you have Windows Vista Ultimate (or the equivalent to the Win7 version you are getting) or lowering the price overall. So wtf am I missing here. Are they lowering the price even more or did I miss something?

/I may get accused of being a troll but Ive been sleeping on my desk all day at work and am a little out of it because of how dead it is here....to many numbers after a 7 hour nap make my brain hurt :)

Amazon sued for sending 1984 down Orwellian memory hole

James O'Brien
WTF?

Seriously?

First of all why cant he repurchase the book in a legal form if it is available and link that to his notes? I don't have a Kindle so I do not know if this is possible but cant see why it wouldn't be possible. On a side note gotta love the country I live in, we sue for anything. Why spend $300 on the Kindle and THEN whatever the book cost? I personally am a tactile person. I like to FEEL what I am reading in my hands, turn the pages myself etc etc. This is total horseshit. I hope the judge throws this out a frivolous and the kid learns a very valuable lesson......

KEEP A HARD COPY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE IT!!!!!

/Coat please as I'm going home

Vote now to name El Reg space plane

James O'Brien
Paris Hilton

@@Xris M

God that was awful :P

This line is what hurt it

"Get your protein fix by munching carrion"

It just doesnt roll off the tounge. Although I know this isnt much better I think it is more encompassing of TheReg and the comment boards:

Get your protein fix Paris Hilton style

Cheerio

Microsoft kills Zune phone talk

James O'Brien
Coffee/keyboard

@EnigmaxxUK

"Purchase and install the Ultimate upgrade, set the phone up and enjoy using it, resolving never to let it go flat as it takes 2 full batteries just to boot the phone.

Move on 2 months, your mobile bill looks suspiciously like the number for an american premium rate phone sex service. You investigate and find that 30 viruses (virii?) have infected your phone from your home PC and have been spamming iPhone users with 'buy cheap online prescriptions' emails and that all your contacts, including the hot blonde you met at the club the night before now dial guatemalan minicab firms first."

As much as I want to say stop being a fanboi I will refrain in this instance. The 2 full batteries boot up started the chuckles but what really sealed the deal was the American premium rate phone sex number comment and the Guatemalan minicab firm.

I will say that you owe me a keyboard though. Nice job on the post

Windows 7 Ultimate product activation hacked?

James O'Brien
Joke

Microsoft was unavailable for comment at the time of writing.

Probably because they are too busy trying to figure out who leaked this.

Or at a company feel good session....theres a thought Ballmer closing his eyes and falling backwards to be caught....oops my hands slipped :)

Virtualization payback, now and in the future

James O'Brien
Pint

Do you really want to join this pool party?

Is there free beer? If so Im down with it :)

Want Gmail? Best have your mobile handy

James O'Brien
Grenade

Yep it's true

I just decided to set up a new account for shits to see if this was for real and it is. I'm over here in the states and I'm guessing that it may not be worldwide yet. Or something to do with the EU privacy laws why you may not have it there yet.

Cant be assed with a screen of it but you can read up on the FAQ they have about this here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=114129#nophone

Personally I am curious as to what would happen if say my 14 yo sister went to sign up and doesn't have a phone and the parents don't want to get SMS about stuff. should be interesting.

On a side note I have had a gmail account for years now and never added a phone number to it nor have I been asked. Little curious as to why they assume I am legit just because I had an account before this went active.

/Frag cause I can see this one blowing up in their faces.

James O'Brien

Some more information

Been bouncing the forums at Gmail and found a few interesting threads:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=594d1f76a0491649&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=2e6348a5d06840f8&hl=en

This is gonna be good. . .

/Grabs the popcorn

Apple says jailbroken iPhones endanger cell towers

James O'Brien
Flame

. . .Woooooooooow

I don't even know where to start with this one. I mean seriously. WTF? Not only is Apple playing scare tactics with this but they are flat out BSing people. Ill stick to just one area of the article that really caught my eye:

"It also depends on ensuring third parties provide the services and functionality that help make the iPhone the revolutionary product it is. Hacking thus undermines the overall iPhone experience, diminishing Apple's copyrights and, ultimately, the overall value of the iPhone and its ecosystem to consumers."

iPhone a revolutionary product? Really? It is good Ill give it that. It has the best mobile browser I have seen. But revolutionary? So I'm guessing its revolutionary for being made by Apple? Or that they invented* iCut 'n iPaste? Umm right. Well lets move on shall we?

Hacking undermining the iPhone experience? Umm wouldn't that only bother the people who JAILBROKE their phones and not the ones who like being done up the jacksie by an 800lb gorilla by the mobile companies charges? Diminishing Apples copyright and the overall value of the iPhone and its ecosystem? SERIOUSLY?? They are referring to their phone as a fucking ECOSYSTEM? Since when does a god damn phone have life* on it? Also what is the predator that eats the iPhone? I have several friends who have the jesusPhone and I will be the first to say that there are smart, intelligent people out there with it but for the most part the majority of those with the iPhone have about as much brains as my left nut. And even my nut isn't as stuck up about its status in the world.

Hell ive taken shits that have done more damage to the ecosystem then a jailbroken iPhone would do to it's ecosystem*.

The more Apple throws out patents for things that are/were previous and blatant prior art, the more they try to use scare tactics like this, the more I start to believe those that follow them blindly in the cult of Jobs are iTards. Morons.

*note the sarcasm on those points

/For those about to flame. . .I salute you. Twats

Opera chief: history will silence Unite doubters

James O'Brien
FAIL

Excuse me?

"But if you're technical enough to do this from Apache or anything else, one, there's no problem with that, and two, you're probably not going to understand Unite anyway."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*wipes the tears away from eyes and takes a breath*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Not going to understand Unite even if your more then capable of setting up Apache.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What a jack ass. And he wonders why not only do people shun Opera but they also think hes an asshat.

From tracking sex performance to tracking sex offenders...

James O'Brien
Coffee/keyboard

@Alan 6

Damn beat me too it but it is definitely funnier reading that instead of typing it out :)

Landlord sues tenant over moldy Tweet

James O'Brien
Paris Hilton

@DJ Particle

I have to ask DJ, why, pray tell, were you up at 4am ;-)

Was she the reason :P

James O'Brien
FAIL

Hmm

So seeing as they just took this public and all that, I guess emailing them and telling them in verbatim the 1st Amendment rights and SLAPP suits. Being that im from NY does this mean it will now become a Federal case?

/Credit goes to AC Tuesday 28th July 2009 21:55 GMT for this idea.

Let the good times roll I say

James O'Brien
Pint

Can I be sued now too?

So seeing as your suing a former tenet about a post on Twitter that I never heard of or saw (and probably the rest of the world), there by drawing attention to it which is more then likely to harm you more then it would have. And not to mention the classic comment ""We're a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization," Jeffery Michael" from your owner (Boy that one is a winner), your going to sue for damages you brought upon yourself by bringing this to light. Problem is this guys and gals, I quote verbatim so sorry if this bothers you:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

-The Constitution

and you might want to read this page FYI:

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

You fail :) Enjoy the adverse attention people you earned it.

BTW your more then welcome to contact me regarding this message.

Yup I just sent that to them. Lets see if I can get my name added :)

Sun tripling RAID protection

James O'Brien
Headmaster

Not going to add much to this debate

But. . .

"Every added terabyte adds four hours to the rebuild time, half a day"

Since when is 4 hours half a day? Last time I checked half a day was 12 but I could be wrong what with clocks being inaccurate and all. Unless of course we are talking about half a WORK day, whihc in that case I can understand.

/end pedant

SpinVox: The Inside Story

James O'Brien
Thumb Up

AHAHAHAHAHA

THANK YOU DREW for honoring my request for more of this company. The Pakistan SOS was great. Seems like they took more time composing that message then they did yours from the previous story.

Be F'n classic if they had a call center in Nigeria....

This is your long lost couisn Bob and I need you help. Please txet me back with your personal details so I may get strted on retreiving funds being held by (blah blah blah*)

*Ran out of energy typing that

Keep em coming man keep em coming.

Hackintosher aims 'blazin' guns' at Apple

James O'Brien
Troll

@Ty

Umm seriously? Your going to post a comment about the goodness of Apple stuff when there have already been multiple comments from those who run *nix, who are questioning the EULA or the support questions? SERIOUSLY??

Wow bro you couldnt have come off as more of a fanboi/troll then you just did. You managed to take a comment thread that hasnt had a mention of Windows and turned it into an all out flame war. Good Job bro.

I wish I had the Apple Syndrome. Atleast then I could feel as if I am in an elite crowd when a story about Apple gets posted.

Good day to you fanboi/girl.

/Why should I bother explaining the icon? (looks at Ty)

eBay hands badges to top-rated sellers

James O'Brien
Stop

@Philip Cohen

Bro as much as I respect what that person said and you trying to tell us about that post, but seriously bro. . .WARN US ABOUT A WALL OF TEXT NEXT TIME.

The person who posted that had a very well detail and outlined point but seriously holy fuck bro. I think I just lost 5 years of my life reading that.

Otherwise NJ cluing atleast me intot that. It was a rather interesting read )well till i passed out on keyboard :P)

TTFN

Microsoft offers EU choice on Windows browsers

James O'Brien
Paris Hilton

Question here

If they are going to do a ballot system of the top 5 browsers being used on the net and offering them up as choices* Does that mean that the top 3 options will be IE 6, 7 and 8 followed by Firefox and Chrome? Or are they going to limit the choice of IE versions just to the current? On a side note from what it appears (if they only go with one IE version) that Opera will actually make it onto the list but will there also be the percentage of people using it listed there as well? Double edged sword for the whiners at Opera, you made it on but now the whole world can see your no where near the top of the list.

*http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

/PH because Im sure shes about as clueless on this one as I am

iPhone security cracked, smacked and broken

James O'Brien
FAIL

@My New Handle

*sniffs* I smell a fanboi/girl.

Problem with this boss is this, if you saw an iPhone, a WinMo phone and a Crackberry which would you steal?

Now chances are you probably said iPhone because they are all the rage and chances are the street price is alot higher then the other two.

Now say said phone came with interesting files on it (Financial, Photos, Work secrets) and you stole it for the intent purpose to gain access to those. You would be able to do so very easily, without so much as a hiccup when you broke the 'encryption'.

Gotta love people. And Apple for the apparent 'security' they seem to love talking about. Me'thinks the next 5-10 years are gonna be good as more stuff comes out for Macs and the false illusion is shattered.

Palm restores Pré iTunes synchronisation

James O'Brien
FAIL

@Dana W

Why is it that those who utterly adore Apple always claim that anyone who tries to make something that works with the predominate (and dont tell me its not) music app, always claim the company who did it its ripping them off and start frothing at the mouth?

Personally it was Apple who specifically started this. No reason why other devices should be blocked form using something just so a company (Apple) can continue their monopoly (and don't tell me its not).

As for the Pre being the next "iPhone Killer" I will say that it wasn't Palm that gave it that title. Its the news media. So why not pull your pretentious head out of the sand and open your eyes to the world around seeing that it isn't just Apple out there?

World of Warcraft (sort of) returns to China

James O'Brien
Joke

So what now?

They come back without their former accounts and we will start having youtube videos along the lines of:

5 gold suckee for farmer?

Windows 7 prepped for August 6 release

James O'Brien
WTF?

So can someone tell me please

WTF?? So basically I preorded (yes at 50% off but still) Win7 Pro to be one of the last in line for it? Fuck you very much M$.....asshats

Adobe spanked for insecure Reader app

James O'Brien
Paris Hilton

(Title Required My Shiney Metal Ass) :)

"will notify users of any pending updates"

How many of us here have seen someone with a copy of Reader thats just been installed and the user clicks 'Cancel' or 'Remind me Later(indefinatly)' therefore leaving themselves open?

Me around 10k or so.

Knobheads.

/PH because she would never go around unprotected.

Music industry busts jukebox piracy scheme

James O'Brien
FAIL

Erm...

So umm they send 100 police to round up those jukeboxes but when I go into downtown Syracuse and see dealers everywhere there isnt a cop left to be seen? Wonder if the boys in blue we pay to protect us were there. Might explain what they were doing.

Medical cannabis app rolls out on iPhone

James O'Brien
WTF?

So umm

When are we going to see 'Steve' who is usually found at the corner of 76th and 175th around the hours of midnight and 4am chatting with his homies on this app?

How about Jaquan the friendly gang banger found at 7th and Lincoln? He drives a black Escalade with 24 inch spinners?

Sighs, whats next iHooker? Only legal in Nevada but we wont tell?

Kingston's thumb drive is tiny Tardis

James O'Brien
Thumb Up

Hell since its a pissing contest

I have a Sandisk 2Gb Titanium Cruzer that spent a winter in a snow bank, two washes with bleach and dry cycles and been run over by a car...nary a scratch on it and the data was fine in each instance :)

/Sandisk FTW

Metallica sticksman gloats over Napster downfall

James O'Brien
Flame

@Several

@Stephen Gray

Umm It is illegal to UPLOAD the music ya numpty.

@Tom Paine

Its called Napster Bad you can find it somewhere on campchaos.com

Now for the obligatory. . .

Lars Ulrich is a cock

Lars Ulrich is a cock

Lars Ulrich is a cock

Lars Ulrich is a cock

/Fire cause....well....NAPSTER BAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!! Beer Good though :)

Apollo 11 vets urge Mars mission

James O'Brien
Joke

@Mars, yep, couldn't agree more .....

Umm I think your wrong about it being vacant bro. Unless I'm mistaken amanfromMars came from there and probably has a claim tothe land. . .

Course maybe he would be willing to lease it :)

Apple sued over shrink-wrapped Mafia death threats

James O'Brien
WTF?

April Fools Day??

Umm (checks calendar) nope not the 1st and definately not April. Rik did Lester hijack your authors account? Because I understand you handel pretty much all Apple related news but come on. Even you had to have had the taste of bile in the back of your throat from this idiot. Though with how worried he is about things could this not be Aaron K. in disguise?

@Mike007

"i thought new york had its own mafia - is there anyone left these days that don't outsource? whatever next - indian companies putting their call centres in the UK?"

Wouldnt that be a story to read

Riot police raid birthday barbecue for 'all-night' Facebook tag

James O'Brien
FAIL

Ummm what

"wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats,"

Isnt that what pretty much ALL music is? Not to mention how is it that when the police got there they couldnt see that it was a bunch of old folks sitting around having a good time at a b-day party? I bet they had assault rifles and all for busting this up. Why didnt they just come up nicely and ask what was going on and if they could have a beer and burger?

/Fail for obvious reasons

Memory-hogging bug offers universal browser crash exploit

James O'Brien
Flame

What? No mention about Safari?

All the other browsers have either fixed it or are letting it be (M$) but what about the golden child of the computing world?

Oh wait, thats right. Any mention of it on the forums will be deleted the user account deleted and the long arm of the lawyers with a defamation lawsuit to those who dared to badmouth Apple. My bad.

/Yes yes let the flames commence.

Swedish devil girls fingered on Street View

James O'Brien
Pint

Fridays

This is what all Fridays should be. I want to buy the fearless Reg photographer a drink for all the pain and suffering he with through at the hands of the little piggies in trying to get us his photos.