* Posts by Eden

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Police have more than 10,000 ANPR cameras

Eden

Sadly...

Most motorbikes get lifted into the back of a van then either shipped abroad or broken into bits and sold as scrap and parts so this isn't very handy for finding those.

Also it relies on Databases which are a pain in the ASS when they go wrong.

Case in point when I bought an SV650 a few years back from a chap way up North, me living down south.

Got pulled over randomly by the plod who ask me my name etc.

When I ask why I was stopped they said it was a random stop check as they were wondering what I was doing so far away from home.

I explained I was 2 miles from home thankyou very much.

Seems the plods Database still had the bike registered to this guy up north, not me, despite the DVLA paperwork and tax all being up dated (the tax and my ID i had naturally - bike ownership docs, of course not).

Queue subtle allegations of me having stolen the bike etc etc and 10 minutes by the roadside before someone finally comes back over the radio telling them to let me go.

I was NOT impressed to say the least and don't look forward to a massive growth of these which will be inevitable.

That said just as Inevitable is that a lot of clones/crimes/thefts will be stopped or solved with this system so meh....

Tesco store bans shopping in pyjamas

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Go

Hmmm

I've seen a few people in Jammies and slippers in various places in my time, i've accidently left the house in slippers once and not realised until I walked into the Chinese in London (having left Harrow with them)...but then I was 8 at the time and in a hurry to get some yummy food :).

I live litteraly a stones throw (Litterally litterally for a change) from large 24hr Tescos and have a baby due in May so I may well find myself in need of some slippers and a night gown for those 3am runs where every second counts and I need to get SOMETHING from over the road fast. ...anything less urgent and I'll be stopping to get dressed.

*Note - would it be more acceptable to take screaming baby with you so people know what you're about, or to just turn up and blend in with the other nutters.

Aussie man convicted for Simpsons smut

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FAIL

OK the biggest problem here...

The biggest problem here is that if having Drawings, sketches, or cartoons of completly fictional characters that "look underage" (Lisa and bart are actually over 20 years old now...) is treated the same as real CP, then FFS why not just go get real CP! seeing as you'll be treated the same either way. *sigh*.

I mean wasn't there a case a while back of someone convicted of CP for taking a perfectly legal pic of a topless girl and "reducing" her breas size as he prefered petite girls but to the police this now looked like CP and because it was "edited" was treated as such even though it wasn't?

The worlds gone crazy

I hope they never find the pics of me and my ex! she was an A cup and young looking (but 19), would I get done for CP if I decided the picture was too dark and "edited it" to make it look brighter because the judge thought it made my GF look underage?

DVLA data powers likely to be abused by foreign officials

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Terminator

Rise of the Clones!

Expect to see a MASSIVE increase in cloned vehicles then !

Google sues alleged work-at-home scammers

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FAIL

Failbook

Facebook was forcing this Google Cash down my throat for bloddy months no matter how many times I told it to stop.

Despite being a blatant scam, the fact they are on facebook would convince some idiots.

Spook firm readies Virgin Media filesharing probes

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I wonder

If you join a TOR network and someone uses you as an end point to copy down some copyrighted material, are you held liable?

Of course this wil hopefully just fuel education and prolifiration of encrypted P2P etc.

The problem however comes down to wireless networks and spoofed IPs and how far they are going to go to proove an IP was genuine, and how far do you have to go to protect your network to avoid liability, how do you proove it!

What about my Sky Broadband? the Modem is a black box system, I can't even change the KEY on it or monitor it to see if anyone else has connected to it!

Filesharing laws to hit websites and newsgroups too

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FAIL

Good timing

So basically they are pushing ahead with this using the same "evidence" as before that has already been proven to be very unreliable and subject to no quality control or level of accuracy - IE Lists provdied by the "Rights Holders" with incorrect time stamps, incorrect or spoofed IPs or just plain no proof they didn't make the whole list up down the pub...

Your defence is to appeal to a toothless organisation...or take it to court just as they've announced they will be the costs you can claim back for representing yourself in court to the legal minimum while you will no doubt be up against multi million pound defence and technologically ignorant courts....nice!

German boffins produce sim of 'invisibility carpet' in action

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Solid Snake approves

Solid snake will approve of this.

While all other tech nijas are trying to work out their stealth cloaks and ceiling hiding shinanegans he's already mastered the art of hiding in an invisable box and will be well ahead when this tech comes out.

Police sitting on forensic backlog risk, says top e-cop

Eden

Ahhh

They flag up renamed extentions? that used to be my favourite trick for hiding stuff ...back when I was 8yrs old =p

But good to know all the same.

115,000 nabbed for in-car calling

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Grenade

Idiots

Having nearly been flattened by an idiot who decided not only to use his phone while driving through heavy traffic but that he could write a Frikken EMAIL on his blackberry while coasting along I really think some of these idiots should be strung up attempted manslaughter =/

But then I'm sure a lot of people can talk and drive just fine at the same time.

If we had more actual cops on the road then we wouldn't need this stupid law and it could just be a case of pulling over dangerous and stupid drivers and using the fact they were on the phone as an additional pointer when it comes to deciding how hard to slap them...but that's far too sensible..

Westminster readies 'wave and pay' parking meters

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WTF?

Errr...

OK with pay wave stuff, normally these terminals are just at check outs, if every parking meter now has one do you have to be careful where you cross the street now if you have one of these cards? walk too close to a parking meter and poof goes your money to the council??

ID Card scheme banking on 28 million volunteers

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Self funding

No no he doesn't understand, the funding doesn't come from people paying from the cards, it comes from them selling every joe bloggs access to all the lovely valuable data on the database.

Auto thief foiled by guardian satellite

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Pirate

I bet there are hordes of people...

Just waiting till this is cracked so they can start messing with peoples cars by remote.

Boffins 'write directly to memory' of living brains

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WTF?

Errmmm..

"to "give the flies the memory of an unpleasant event that never occurred""

....you mean like having you head cracked open and your brain probed while being subjected to "Odours" ?

That would cause me to freak out a bit whenever I met that odour again!

CCTV website recruits video vigilantes

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An interesting idea but....

That's a hell of a lot cheaper than the normall "CCTV" monitoring companies will charge but then you don't get any of the garuntees or service so maybe it could appeal to people who figure £20 a month for something is better than nothing for nothing.

BUT....most people who want this sort of monitoring when they factor in the cost of getting a CCTV rig that can broadcast and the cost of the Internet connection and data costs for constant broadcast will quickly realise for the same cost you can get a decent CCTV kit that has sensors and programable "zones" so you can get it to trigger on certain events and notify you directly with live feed or clips to your mobile or laptop and record everything to Local Storage or online storage, much better!

Post Office will snap and dab for ID card scheme

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Brazil

I saw Brazil a couple of nights ago and I agree, far more like Brazil than Orwell's nightmare vision.

Panicky Plod apologises to Innocent Terror Techie

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Stop

I acutally stopped wearing my leather trenchcoat

After being stopped 3 times in one week (twice at Kings Cross, once at Euston), I finally gave up wearing my trenchcoat and started wearing my far more dangerous leather biker jacket (Lots of armour and bulky enough to hid nasty things in).

Not been stopped since :)

That said I also started riding my bike in a few months later :p

Demon splurges details of 3,600 customers in billing email

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FAIL

Facepalm

Someone's going to be missing out on their Christmas bonus this year!

North Wales Police says the law is what they say it is

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@Batton them in the knees

Actually any responsible biker will be wearing shin/knee armour as well so no joy there I'm afraid.

Personally I think it's just the issue with them assuming powers they don't have and confiscating equipment in general but that said if I identified a car as a firearms vehicle and was asked by said officer not to take photos with the intention of publishing them, especially if the vehicle was unmarked, then I'd have to say I can understand they'd get irate if I refused.

If however it was a marked vehicle I really can't see the issue =/.

Boffins build Flash-like chip from graphite

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hmmm

How resistent is that to being dropped? and if it breaks or your desperate to give someone some data and don't have a PC to hand can you just crack it open and write the data down manually (albeit in truely write once operation)

Met steps up stop and search with mobile phone scanner

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Stop

Hmm

I suppose the problem with typing in the IMEI is the plod then has to manually enter it into their device and records (Imagine having your phone confiscated for a fat fingered plod making a typo!)

I have a Blackberry Storm and I'm often on call, with all the security encryption and policies on it rebooting it is a 20 minute job and when I drop it and the battery falls out it's VERY annoying.

That said if the IMEI sticker is gone and a user forgets their blackberry password (happens a lot!) what then? do they get arrested and hauled down the nick or forced to enter the incorrect password 5 times to wipe the device (2 hour job) so they can then get in and check the IMEI?

Will it be like not handing over encryption keys? default 3 years in jail?

Interesting times.

At least I now have a use for the 349 old phones in our cupboard! if I see them doing this in London I may just keep walking past in my tench coat and with a big bag until the stop me and have to scan em all :)

Disconnection phone scam targets UK consumers

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This ones giving me grief!

Given that I work in IT (Albeit supporting the IP phones), a lot of users are calling me about this as they get the call on their home phones, either from the scammers or in a few cases, from friends and family who have heard about the scam and are messing about.

Church altar smites devout Catholic

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Flame

Maybe

Maybe embracing a stone pillar was seen as worshipping idols and he was stoned as per the book?

New web filter laws questioned by top child abuse cop

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@aTallPhotoPerson

But what about people who can produce photo realistic paintings or digital images!!

Bank of America demands thumbprint from armless bloke

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Joke

Oh dear...

Maybe it's their new ploy to get new customers?

not working to well.

Thumbs up to the guy for walking away, lets give him a hand!

Swedish bloke attempts lactation

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@ Man milk = bad, moo milk = good?

I love Milk, as long as it's from the Female of the species, Bulls Milk I'm not so sure I'd be happy to chow down with my Maryland cookies....

Azerbaijani donkey bloggers face seven years' jail

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here we can air our views

As long as they don't fall foul of extreme pr0n (pictures not included as Girls aloud have shown) or offend any minorities or expose any crime commited by our masters *sigh*

Man blames cat for child porn downloads

Eden

Good grief

As stated it's "possable" just not probable.

P2P is a minefiled though!

You type in ANYTHING, you'll get pr0n in there, but even misclcicks aside, when I DL anything, I play/preview it as soon as there is enough data down as even something named what you want "EG Naruto episode 210" could be pr0n.

I've had videos someone has obviously tried to "hide" by renaming them, not realising that they are still sharing them resulting in me bleaching my eyes instead of enjoying Anime.

That said double checking the file properties will sometimes filter those out as well!

BOFH: Hammer time!

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NIce

Nice to see the Boss coming out on top for a change.

Even if doing so does do horrible unspeakable things to his projected life expectency :)

Bloke uses nail clippers to go roundhead

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FAIL

Notable Mention

Surely a candidate for honourable mention in the Darwin awards.

'Lunatic' Smith doubles ID card costs for Mancunians

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Oh dear

I have a problem with finger print scanners, apparently this is fairly common in oriental blood as we have shallower prints?

I have a fair bit of difficulty with the fingerprint logon on my laptop if there is even a tiny bit of grease/dust, and my trip to New York was VERY interesting when my finger prints wouldn't scan at all *sigh*

IP minister rules out 'three strikes' disconnection law

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Stop

Hmmm....

If they did pass such a law, could we all go using our local MP's and parliments wireless networks for a bit of latest conveyor belt crap chart music torrenting to get them all banned from the inter-tubes forever?

Knee X-ray biometrics plan to fight spoofing

Eden

Good grief

Hey we have a great way to proove your identity and the only downside that it will eventually cause cancer!!! YAY!!!!

Oh and don't dare break your leg in an accident or you'll become a non person*

Please feel free to point out if either comment is inaccurate for any reason =p

* whilst maybe Knees are harder to spoof than finger prints it's much harder to change your real prints than it would be to accidently change your knees by say, getting hit by a car :)

Doc-in-chief targets 'passive drinking' with price hike

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GEINUS!!!

Has no one seen the GEINUS! of this man!

They force this on so everyone has to go to France for their booze and fags but for that you need your Passport, but wait, no it needs an ID card too.

Suddenly EVERYONE wants an ID card to go off and get cheap booze!

Wackies comment that everyone wants an ID card comes true and ID cards fly off the shelves!!

GENIUS!!...evil genius...but genius never the less

Debt collection can be harassment, rules court

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ARGHHH

Bulldog DSL were sending me bills and threats of courts for 2 years for a phone line that NEVER EVEN EXISTED!!

Shame I never thought of suing the B******Ds for the stress.

KTM: electric dirt-bike out next year

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Noise = Saftey

I've always considered a nice loud can a saftey measure as indeed people seem to have trouble seeing and hearing motorbikes and often even when they do see them, continue on anyway....

I find sounding and looking like an angry Artillery piece roaring down the road makes people thing twice about that sort of thing.

Though I can see this would have appeal in some areas and KTM have picked a good market to release to.

Oh and for those muppets, especially the London Lemmings, that walk out in front of you even after making eye contact, I tend to find running a half tonne bike over their toes discourages repeat offenders.

Child porn in the age of teenage 'sexting'

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So are the Gov guilty of condoning child abuse

Well obviously they are but with all this pushing for contraceptive inplants for 13yr olds and free pills for preteens aren't they incouraging and condoning this?

(Still, I'd prefer that approach to the US pretend it doesn't happen and push abstinance and ignorance approach!)

Plod hopes Bluetooth messages will stem drinking

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Pirate

Am I evil or....

Is anyone else tickled by the image of someone crashing because they decided to check their bluetooth message while driving past one of these =p

Teen-bothering sonic device now does grownups too

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MK Centre has these

I'm 26 and these things set off my Tinitus somethign rotten to the point it gives me a splitting headache, a shop in the MK Centre deployed one of these so I just avoid that entire stretch of the centre (as it actually causes me pain) so that's about 13 shops loosing out on my business, fine, plenty of others happy to have my money =p.

Grand Theft Auto reportedly inspires teen rampage

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So...

How are they sure it's the game and not all this "OMG THE GAME" idiot scare mongering that drove the kids to do it.

What with the barrage of if you play this game you'll go psycho! out there it's just as likely that these particular retards were reacting to that in a "OK if you say so" spree as a "OMG This game is so awesome we so go out and do this shit" spree.

Either way they are clearly retards who would of no doubt gone on this spree as soon as they saw the next hollywood gore fest or a particularly slapstick advert because EVERYONE is so easily influences *roll eyes*

Stray left foot washes up on Vancouver beach

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An Invasion? May I be the first to...

Welcome our moist plantigrade overlords.

Cambridge woman in £90m 'leccy bill shocker

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Black Helicopters

I'm amazed...

That the rozzers didn't kick the door down looking for the secret terrorist bunker complex/cannabis factory hidden beneath the house as clearly that explains the juice!.

Stunned commuter finds more secret papers on train

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Black Helicopters

Hmm...

So lacking any serious criminal masterminds they set about leaving what are basically (how to) documents on the very public transport systems that are considered the prime targets detailing how to smuggle arms and money and exploit weaknesses in the HO systems, HMMMMMM....but then again I've long ago learnt not to assume malice when simple stupidity will suffice, which lets face it...it does in spades.

PayPal ambushes users with mystery Skype charges

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I think I got hit by this

Funny, I've just finsihed mailing Paypal asking them what the hell that transaction on my account last night was that has now seen me go overdrawn and fined by my bank *sigh*.

Daily Mail cites video game as proof of terrorist doomsday plot

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@Ryan

"What's next? jihad training camps in second life?"

Err actually I seem to recall them "The Intellegence (sic) Community" bemoaning their lack of power and survilance capability for just that (terrorist training on social networking sites like 2nd life and face book....)

Also I think Sky and the BBC recently had a "Terrorist Training Video" of a few likely lads who had been arrested that consisted of....

"Them Paintballing"

"Them crouching and aiming sticks at each other"

"Them Ninja Rolling"

The Ninja rolls had me on the floor in hysterics and the voice over talking about the "Terrorist Training" finished me off, I think I died, I should sue the BBC.

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Flame

Bashing?

I remember seeing that article and thinking WTF but this just makes it even funnier, It also makes me want to play Fall out....

I check a range of papers (Daily Fail, Times, Guardian, Reg, WSWS and BBC just as you get a fuller story from a few different views) but don't consider myself stupid for daring to check the Daily Fail...if anything there is some amusement to be had there, case in point.

Just because you read it doesn't mean you agree with it...that said I still can't bring myself to read the sun as the two of three times I've tried I've wanted to hit somone for the sheer stupid biggotry of the thing and not made it past the first 3 pages.....what...why are you looking at me like that....

Mines the mac with the crusty copy of the SUN in the hidden pocket.

Grand Theft Auto IV misses week one million sales mark

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So I assume

That all the Games = Violence advocates will be predicting

926,000 Murders or serious assults by frenzied brain washed gamer killers in the next few days then?

Top cop brands CCTV a 'fiasco'

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Flame

Warning Signs

I was looking at getting CCTV to cover my bike after 4 thefts and several attempts (If they can't steal it they'll smash it to bits it seems) and 3rd party doesn't cover it.

The idea of having to have huge reflective signs that basically say please double check your hoodie and blaclava before stealing this bike and flipping a bird to the camera made it so pointless it hurt.

Deterent my butt, if they are happy to steal it with me there in the house (and the police didn't care to come out of course) a warning sign isn't going to suddenly scare them off, the ABSCENCE of the warning sign however may let me catch their scum faces on camera and get them locked up if the police are interested.

As far as I'm aware as long as it's private property WHY THE HELL SHOULD I HAVE TO WARN THEIVES TO PROTECT THEMSELVES WHEN ON MY PROPERTY! GARGHHHH!!

Lesbians turn on lesbians in battle of Lesbos

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I need

Citizenship so I can delcare myself officially a Non Dom Lesbian (Male).

Homeland Security takes pity on terror list Ted Kennedys

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I'm clearly smarter than the terrorists

So if they also block anyone who shares an "Alias" with a know terrorist all said terrorist has to do is change his name several times a day until he covers most possable American and European names et voila! most of the western infidels are instantly grounded, the western economy starts to grind to a halt and victory is our...er...theirs...oh dammit *Runs*

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