In the endless conflict between law enforcement officers and driving enthusiasts, technology has given an edge to the combatants on both sides. Consumers have been able to purchase more accurate, longer-range detectors with nearly each passing year, while the police have been armed with guns that can minimize the time for detection across a growing spectrum of frequencies.

2005 Radar Detector Buyer's Guide - Motor Trend News

What started as a sale turned into a mob scene as thousands of people pushed their way through the Richmond International Raceway gates to buy a $50 iBook laptop computer from Henrico County Schools this morning.

Just wait until it's oil, or food, instead of laptops.

Mob scene, several hurt in rush for cheap laptops

When they arrived at his crib, McClain allegedly tried to strike a cop with a four-foot sword. After missing, McClain retreated to his basement, where he donned a chainmail armored vest and leather gauntlets to protect his arms. He also added a giant wooden mallet to his arsenal and beckoned officers to come downstairs and get him. "I'm gonna crush your fucking skulls," McClain warned. Then, in a nice rhetorical flourish (for a lunatic, at least), he added, "I have a thousand years of power." That omnipotence, however, was no match for a police Taser, which felled McClain. He was then carted off and charged with felony assault and a misdemeanor count for failing to remain at an accident scene.

By the Power of Greyskull... I... HAVE... THE {ZZZAAAPPPPPPPPPPP}!

Medieval loser tasered by cops.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

The parellels between Steve and I are sometimes uncanny. I hope to do him one better though, since I learned a lot of these lessons before I turned 30.

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

I'm having a lot of fun with this.

Church Sign Generator

Apple Computer this month is expected to update its retail copies of Mac OS X 10.4 to includ the first two maintenance releases to the Tiger operating system, ensuring that all new customers obtain the most stable and reliable version of Mac OS X directly out of the box.

The company's online store in Canada is already listing for sale the current version of Mac OS X as "OS X V10.4.2 'Tiger' Retail," although the latest official release remains at 10.4.1. Developers contacted by AppleInsider also said they are expecting to receive Mac OS X 10.4.2 on optical media -- something Apple did not offer with the release of Mac OS X 10.4.1 last month.

Mac OS X 10.4.2, which is due for release from the company this week, will reportedly deliver over 80 fixes and enhancements to Tiger, in addition to those included with Mac OS X 10.4.1.

Among the many fixes expected in the release are Finder updates to finding by kind and using Slideshow, updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers, and improved autologin for managed user accounts.

Other areas of change will reportedly improve user experiences with AirPort and wireless access, iDisk synching, installation reliability, and file sharing using AFP and SMB/CIFS network file services.

The release is also rumored to deliver enhancements to Address Book, Automator, Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, iCal, iChat, Mail, Safari, and Stickies.

Sources tell AppleInsider that Mac OS X 10.4.2 will likely arrive in two versions: a 42MB Delta release containing only the changes made since Mac OS X 10.4.1, and a 55MB Combo update that will pack all the enhancements made to Tiger since its inaugural release on April 29th.

According to reports already present on several Internet sites, Apple over the weekend provided its developers with Mac OS X 10.4.2 build 8C29, which at the time contained no known bugs.

Still, it's rumored that Apple continues to work on Mac OS X 10.4.2 this week and is considering builds from the 8C3x milestone as final candidates.

Almost as many fixes as new features for tiger.

AppleInsider | Apple to refresh retail copies of Tiger with 10.4.2

A frustrated Teesside hacker who planted a message on a cable TV company's voicebank telling customers to f*** off has walked free from court.

This article touches on so many subjects, it's amazing! Hacking. Law enforcement of technology crime. Crappy incumbent telecom carriers. And obscenity law. All in one event!

Now it's F for freedom

] Young white men get the most 100-mph tickets. Nearly
] three-quarters are younger than 30, nearly two-thirds are
] white, and eight of nine are male.

] Three-quarters of the high-rollers are in cars, most
] commonly Hondas, Fords and Nissans. An additional 12
] percent were on motorcycles, and the rest were in sport
] utility vehicles, vans and pickups.

hmmm... guilty, I guess. What about young white males in suped up Kraut-rockets?

I guess I disagree with the premise of this article to some degree. I mean, I've had my license suspended. A lot. And I can tell you that the bureacracy and unmitigated extortion that happens when you just get a ticket is unbelievable. I've had pretty much every situation you can imagine happen to me in this regard, from people of trust and power lieing to my face, to being trapped in some kind of Kafka-esque nightmare trying to clear my license because the computer system at the Department of Safety for TN had an error in my record (resulting in my arrest!).

If you tallied up all the time, frustration, and real money that's been extracted from me (lost wages, insurance fraud... I mean premiums, fines, fees, etc), then I feel that it's ample compensation. Yes yes yes... people always talk about the 'danger' aspect of it and that I'm potentially risking people's lives. I suppose that's true statistically speaking. But given that I've been forced to take literally dozens of hours of driving classes, and I actually do my own track time on both bikes and autos, then I feel as though it's a calculated risk. Granted, the street has innumerably more variables and a much higher degree of unpredictability than any track, but that's what reflexes are for, right?

100-mph drivers often get just a slap on wrist

For Python fans. And to think I turned down the LiveVault franchise for Nashville. sigh.

Institute for Backup Trauma

] Members of the small East Waynesville Baptist Church say
] Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who did
] not support President Bush. Nine members were voted out
] at a Monday church meeting in this mountain town about
] 120 miles west of Charlotte. Forty others in the
] 400-member congregation resigned in protest.
]
] Chandler told WLOS-TV in Asheville on Friday that
] the actions were not politically motivated...

Thought you'd get a kick out of this.

N.C. Church Kicks Out Members Who Do Not Support Bush