What if you can't hold a driving license, e.g. for medical reasons?
Posts by Daniel Snowden
88 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jul 2007
Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme
New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level
Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops
Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree
Make masses carry their mobes, suggests wig in not-at-all-creepy speech
BBC Telly Tax heavies got pat on the head from snoopers' overseers
You're SAP-ing my will to live: Licensing debate lumbers on as ERP giant tries to rebuild trust
America 'will ban carry-on laptops on flights from UK, Europe to US'
Road accident nuisance callers fined £270,000 for being absolute sh*tbags
S&M Cloud's IBM hookup
You should install smart meters even if they're dumb, says flack
Zombie SCO rises from the grave again
Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage
Five Eyes nations must purge terrorists from the web, says Theresa May
Your boss yells 'build a secure IoT gadget' and you don't know where to start. Take a look at this
German music moguls slammed for 'wurst ever DMCA takedown spam'
TalkTalk and Three want to make it easier to switch mobe networks
TorrentLocker unpicked: Crypto coding shocker defeats extortionists
No anon pr0n for you: BT's network-level 'smut' filters will catch proxy servers too
WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters
Fedora 19 lands in beta with updates for devs, cloud
Will this fix the installer?
I've used Fedora for a while now, but I found the installer on 18 to be virtually useless for dual booting as it tries to handle everything automatically (including partition resizing) in place of the option to use existing free space only which was present in previous versions.
Installing on a new desktop, I ended up using a spare disk just for Fedora!
Sex offenders need internet access, judge rules
Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman
US nuclear aircraft carrier George Bush crippled by toilet outages
Google Docs
The new killer app is … MMS
iPhone crashes car stereos, Toyota warns
WD embiggens Scorpio Black notebook drive
Nice disks but...
The WD Black range is known for being noisy and power hungry, so not all that great if you're going to be spending time on the move, but if you tend to use mains power at remote locations then brilliant (seems to be a popular popular choice for portable CAD workstations though)
BOFH: Pepper-packing bot plot
Robot goes berserk in Balkan lab: 6 boffins given dead arms
Cinema chain bans laptops, tablets
New iPod crew: 'Phoney, futuristic, retro, doomed'
Mafia Wars dons deprived of pit bulls
Android on an iPhone? There's an app for that
Interesting
The CPU in that generation of iPhone is underclocked so it's slower than a Hero but if reset back to its original speed it would be more along the lines of a Legend. Combine that with a larger amount of flash (that can actually be used for installing apps, one thing that annoys me about androids) and there could be the makings of a nice littel android phone.
My only concern is the lack of a "back" hard key, would this cause problems for day to day use I wonder?
Either way, I'm sticking with HTC, I love their Sense UI :-)
Survey: Call centre data standards 'routinely ignored'
Beeb tech boss seeks to expand TV licence online
Or........
Users can pay for online services via their ISP. If we have a seperate online services charge (that way internet only users do not pay for TV broadcasting costs and those without broadband do not pay for the costs of online services) that is collected vis ISPs then we would have a fairer system that (at least for iPlayer) would be imposibble to evade as it forms part of your subscription fee.
Of course Crapita would not like that one bit, les work for their jackbooted TVLA
Cops foil Level 3 burglary
Sysadmins get Quake tools
More woe for SCO as Nasdaq says 'go'
Presenting the inaugural Vulture Central Hall of Lame™
3G still trapped at 2.1GHz
Say what?
So they want to move 3G in to the frequency range used by 2G? I'm not a telecoms expert, but that sounds like shutting down 2G
Does this mean that everyone is going to have to have an expensive gadget that does everything you could possibly want, and nothing that you need?
If so, great news for those of us who don't use mobile internet, don't make video calls, don't want to download games etc
Microsoft spits out final XP service pack, beta version
Fire stations too much like fire stations, says Govt
How to prevent stupid ideas
Next time there is a meeting for the purpose of discussing pointless ideas (like the one this fire station idea was dreamed up at) and make a few changes to the room.
1) Place a handles on both sides of the door
2) Make sure the door opens inwards to the meeting
3) (Optional) Place a "pull" sign on the "push" side
Most rational people will (eventually) figure it out. These cretins will give up
"They don't meet the needs of diverse communities" - where do they get this stuff? It's a building designed to serve as a base of operations for personnel and the appliances.
Maybe it's the same person who suggested renaming "Manchester Road" (Bradford) to "Personchester Road"
Flash-based iPlayer is go
Not working properly
Tried using it last night to watch "watchdog" - Sometimes cut out part way through and the timeshifting control didn't work (annoying when you are halfway through and need to reload)
I expect this is probably a temporary problem. Other than that it's a good service (much better than that kontiki based crud)
Novell vs SCO will go to court after all
Yahoo! and! Adobe! sign! ad-packed! PDF! pact!
Cyber cold war fears grow
Honeypot
Best approach, set up a honeypot. A relatively insecure system (not so much that it is obvious) and load it up with bogus intelligence. Something that makes one of Chinas own agents look like a traitor, or make it look like one of their allies is about to double cross them.
Sowing the seeds of distrust between your enemies could work nicely
Celebrity spam gang whips up a storm
Not Exactly
"Please tell me you don't really think that idiots running Linux are in less danger of being compromised than idiots running Windows."
I'd have thought that people who are smart enough to install an OS (be it Windows or Linux) would be smart enough to not do stupid things.
Then again the smartest people tend to have the least common sense.