* Posts by Sir Barry

279 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Apr 2011

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Icahn sues Dell's board over Big Mike's buyout bid

Sir Barry

Abstain - To refrain from something by one's own choice.

Based on that definition I think the abstained votes should not be count for or against.

Hundreds of UK CSC staff face chop, told to train Indian replacements

Sir Barry

If I was going to outsource to this bunch of mercenaries I would make sure that the contract included a clause stopping the work and jobs being sent outside of the UK forever and not for a fixed term.

WHOMP: Mega UK services player Phoenix IT falls back into the ashes

Sir Barry

I thought something was going on. I noticed that one of their two warehouses in Northamptonshire had shut down around three weeks ago.

Murdoch machinations mean Microsoft must rename SkyDrive

Sir Barry

NotSkyDrive

Comrade! If you dare f$%^ing swear on the internet, WE'LL SHOOT

Sir Barry

Gosh.

That is all.

Carry on...

'Wandering Dago' tuck truck ejected from NY race track

Sir Barry

"Last year, Wandering Dago was denied a permit to sell food at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, on similar grounds"

Maybe they should of taken the hint and gone for a name change.....

Assange™ names a Senatorial stand-in

Sir Barry

I've just had a thought, Westminster City Council should be charging him council tax.

'Nearly 1,350' HP Enterprise Services staffers strike over redundancies – union

Sir Barry

"According to the PCS, HP is transferring those Sheffield roles to Newcastle and north of the border to Erskine to bag a multi-million pound grant from the Scottish government."

And that is why Scottish Gov should tell HP to sod off.

But they won't because that would be an ethical action.

Burger-rage horse dumps on McDonald's: Rider saddled with fat fine

Sir Barry

No video, but the Daily Fail has some crappy photos....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2373248/Woman-takes-horse-inside-McDonalds-Whitefield-defecates-floor.html

Boffins want toilets to become POWER PLANTS

Sir Barry

I'm waiting for the Apple iPiss or the Microsoft Win 8 Shitphone.....

Google Groups blunder exposes thousands of Japanese govt emails

Sir Barry

So it isn't just UK Gov that is incompetent....

Why would any government/official body/corporation use cloud services anyway?

IT bloke inadvertently broadcasts smut on vast public screen

Sir Barry

Breaking News...

The next broadcast of this movie will be 6PM tomorrow at Kings Cross station.

Love in an elevator.... testing mast: The National Lift Tower

Sir Barry

Good article.

It is also known as the Northampton Lighthouse, coined by Terry Wogan

O2 and Capita finally ink £1.2bn outsourcing deal

Sir Barry

"so the promise of local employment in the event of site closure should calm nerves."

What a load of crap. Capita will just wait a year or so and then start shunting the jobs overseas as they usually do.

Offensive, iconoclastic internet trolls will not be prosecuted, says DPP

Sir Barry
Joke

So, does this mean Eadon has got start being nice to Microsoft?

Rackspace sues 'the most notorious patent troll in America'

Sir Barry

Re: A Very Good Thing Indeed.

"A bit drastic, but in the Ol' US of A, there's already so many of them, they're starting to trample each other chasing ambulances!"

Nope, they are bloody well driving them now!!

Squillionaire space tourist offers oldsters a holiday to Mars

Sir Barry

I wonder how many men will nominate their Mother in Law....

US woman cuffed for 'booking strippers for 16th birthday bash'

Sir Barry
Pint

In the UK she would be up for Mother Of The Year.

Beer coz it's Friday

Muslim vid protest hackers turn web-flood hosepipe away from US banks

Sir Barry
Joke

Did you get permission to type that?

Jokes of no more than 2 lines

Sir Barry

When I was in the pub I heard a couple of chaps saying that they wouldn't feel safe on an aircraft if they knew the pilot was a woman. What a pair of sexist pigs. I mean, it's not as if she'd have to reverse the bloody thing.

Facebook's CHAIR sat on by 1 billion people ... bitch

Sir Barry
Joke

I nearly fell off my chair watching that ad

Rapper rips up Microsoft's Atlanta store during performance

Sir Barry
Thumb Down

And the kids today call that music?

When I was a kid etc etc....

iPhone queue ‘superficial and pretentious’ says queuing fangirl

Sir Barry

I am getting sick and tired of these 'news' stories regarding Apple and their products.

When Apple create a product that cures cancer, then write about it.

CSC pockets £68m in truce over NHS patient database fiasco

Sir Barry
Thumb Down

I cannot believe that CSC is still in business. With all of the screw ups recently I'm surprised that any company would want to do business with them..

LG execs fingered in Samsung OLED tech theft

Sir Barry

Re: it stands to lose “trillions of won” from the leak.

I read that in the voice of Jonathan Ross...

Brit anti-terror hotline hacker teen pleads guilty

Sir Barry

Hussain (aka "PriCK")

There, fixed it for ya

Naked Scarlett Johansson pic snatch 'is worth 6 years' porridge'

Sir Barry

I could not possibly comment on the length of the prison sentence without seeing the photos first...

Capita poises axe over 1,000 staff - jobs headed to India

Sir Barry

I wouldn't hand contracts to firms that are going to take the work overseas, how is that helping Britain?

New iPad can't get its Wi-Fi up

Sir Barry
Coat

I think I've worked out what is going on. Apple have closed their quality control dept to save money.

The customerbase is a free worldwide QC team who can perform real world testing, and, they pay Apple for the pleasure...

SMS compo firms fined £200k for typosquatting, misleading punters

Sir Barry

Re: I dunno, but...

Yeah, PhonePayPlus does sound dodgy, but they were originally called ICSTIS and are an agency of Ofcom specifically regulating premium rate phone numbers and services.

Google swings new mobile unlock patent punch at Apple

Sir Barry

I should have chosen a career as a patent lawyer, I'd be a bloody millionaire by now.

This is really getting out of hand and is patently stupid.

PARIS soars to Guinness World Record

Sir Barry
Pint

Absolutely smashing news chaps, next mission... the moon!

Cheers

Teen hacker claims smut site hack

Sir Barry

"Teen hacker claims smut site hack: 'I didn’t do it for money'"

No, I would expect the average teen would do it to get to the smut...

Apple sends independent inspectors into Foxconn factories

Sir Barry

I assume Foxconn will be paying the inspectors bills so everything will be hunky dory.....

Eolas falls at first hurdle in bid to tax browser apps

Sir Barry

"All involved may just chose to swallow their legal costs and walk away"

Screw that, the patent troll should have to pay everyones legal costs, that may make patent trolls think twice before going to court.

Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion

Sir Barry
Coat

I'm finding trying to understand all this a little taxing.

Mines the one with the tax return in the pocket.

Brit space agency sends up 1st satellite

Sir Barry
Pint

So thats what happened to the BT phone boxes....

and a Friday pint

Portland Jedi jailed for lightsabre rampage

Sir Barry

Whoo ooo oo ooo can you feel the force?

It's the Real Thing...

The Register Comments Guidelines

Sir Barry
Unhappy

Aaw, I'm being pre-modded, can I have my pint back please?

Sir Barry
Pint

Excellent news, have a pint.

Apple fined $1.2m for flouting Italian warranty law

Sir Barry
Pint

Excuse me people, but I think everyone has missed the real story here.

Italy has a huge financial deficit and this is effectively a way of grabbing some cash to help out.

Don't be surprised to see this same story a few more times, just change the company name...

Pint as I'm not working until 3rd January ;-)

Can 24/7 porn rescue Google TV?

Sir Barry
WTF?

People still pay for porn?????

Wooden Mars ark voyagers set to step out on Earth

Sir Barry
Pint

17 month trial?

Can my missus join the next test crew?

Blogger freaks after airport lackey fondles checked-in vibrator

Sir Barry
Happy

@Shagbag

I did a google image search and would certainly volunteer to provide the personal service.

End of UK local dialling in sight as numbers run out

Sir Barry

ABC

"The price of calls for Joe Public won't be affected by either of the new measures."

That's nice for Joe, but what about the rest of us?

Sun rises over .xxx smut domain

Sir Barry

Hmmmm

These domains just don't seem enticing,,,,,

www.dixons.xxx

www.argos.xxx

www.cocacola.xxx

www.ladieswhocannotaffordclothes.xxx

Oooh, wait a minute.

New trojan masquerades as Microsoft enforcement-ware

Sir Barry

Put some text here

Billy boy should take a close look at this, t could be a new revenue stream for Mickeysoft....

Court bans man called Peter from calling himself Peter

Sir Barry
Pint

It's very early and I have a hangover

He could just sign in as Tw@t....

Beer = hair of the dog.

French bloke fined for failing to shag missus

Sir Barry
Trollface

Doobie doop da doop doop

Is she ugly then?

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