'Law Enforcement IQ Trainwrecks' Category
We all know toddlers are terrors…
… but this story (again culled from The Register.co.uk) shows the lengths the US government goes to to stop these known terrors from getting on planes via the Terrorist Screening lists maintained by the Dept Homeland Security.
“USA Today tells the story of a Disney World-loving 6-year-old who shares a name with someone on the “additional […]What’s in a number?
From the ever vigilant The Register comes a story of a man who was detained by authorities for 50 days due to an error on the part of his ISP in identifying who had used a particular IP address to upload satirical images of a revered Indian (as in sub-continent, not Native American) leader of […]
“Problems with the quality of the data” cause process traffic jam
Hundreds of Irish motorists (this author included) have technically driving uninsured because of delays with the National Car Test (the Irish equivalent of the UK MOT). This was reported by the Sunday Business Post on the 19th of August.
The Irish Road Safety Authority has confirmed that some motorists may not have been informed that their car was […]CSI - won’t get fooled again?
According to The Register the UK’s police forces have a bit of an IQ trainwreck with their police DNA database (like the one that they use on cop shows like CSI to absolutely identify the criminal with flashing lights and snazzy computer graphics -only slightly slower and less ‘rock and roll’ in the user interface […]
