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  Couple who catch cop speeding could face charges. 2007-02-19 14:10 a_nonamiss

Submitted by a_nonamiss on Monday February 19 2007, @02:10PM
a_nonamiss writes "A Georgia couple, apparently tired of people speeding past their house, installed a camera and radar gun on their property. After it was installed, they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit. They brought this to the attention of the local police department, and are now being forced to appear in front of a judge to answer to charges of stalking.

from the article:

The Sipples allegedly caught Kennesaw police officer Richard Perrone speeding up to 17 mph over the speed limit. Perrone alerted Bartow authorities, who in turn visited the Sipples' home to tell them Perrone intended to press charges against them for stalking.
I have the utmost respect for most law enforcement. They have a difficult, dangerous and mostly thankless job to do, but shouldn't they be held accountable for casually breaking the very same laws they are supposed to be enforcing? Additionally, shouldn't we, as citizens, have the right to be able to bring this to someone's attention without having to face laughably bogus charges for our efforts?"
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  Citicard security or lack of 2007-02-19 13:59 BikerMikey

Submitted by BikerMikey on Monday February 19 2007, @01:59PM
BikerMikey writes "I just had a few interesting conversations with the brain trust over at Citi Cards. I had not downloaded my statements since they had redesigned their site until last week. I should say that I tried to login. The login page was unsecured, I tried adding that little "s" to make it secure and got bounced out to an unsecured page again. I could find no links to a secured login page. I decided to give them a call and got Denise in support. She kept telling me that it was ok because there was a lock on the part of the page with the account login and I was on thier site. We went around and around and finally I asked to talk to her boss, she refused to pass me to her boss telling me that he would not take calls, gotta love that customer support. I tried to call again, this time pointing out that my "Identity Theft Protection Packet" that I got from them, for pure enjoyment, told me to "NEVER enter my account info onto an unsecured page". I kept pointing out info from thier packet on how to tell if a connection is secure, her response was that it is ok here on their site. Duh? I wonder how much they paid for the consultant that sold them this load of BS. Are there any responsible Credit Card Companies out that with things like Virtual Account Numbers and Direct Download of transactions?"
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  Broken Daylight Savings Patch? 2007-02-19 13:55 lys1123

Submitted by lys1123 on Monday February 19 2007, @01:55PM
lys1123 writes "Windows Update on our work computers automatically installed an update over the weekend and now the NUnit testing on our current project has gone from all green to all red. The reason? Our test data includes data that was inserted on 11/01/2005 and this is now being treated as Daylight Savings Time instead of Standard time. Has anyone else run into this problem? Have you found any fixes that actually work?"
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  Google developing AI 2007-02-19 13:16 chonny69

Submitted by chonny69 on Monday February 19 2007, @01:16PM
chonny69 writes "Developers at search engine giant Google "are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale," Google co-founder Larry Page said at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference Saturday. "It's not as far off as people think," he said. Page also said that in the programming language of humans the brain's algorithms weren't all that complicated and could be approximated, eventually, with a lot of computational power."
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  Blender 2.43 Released 2007-02-19 12:35 tbcpp

Submitted by tbcpp on Monday February 19 2007, @12:35PM
tbcpp writes "Since the open sourcing of the code several years ago Blender's development has grown by leaps and bounds but no single release can compare with the plethora of features that version 2.43 contains. This release could be nicked the "Multi" version; with multi-resolution Meshes, multi-level UV, multi-layer images, and multi-pass rendering, to name some highlights. Much appreciated are the new Mesh Sculpt and Retopo painting tools. Other features include, fluid particles, render baking, composite defocus blur, to name a few. Artists using cvs versions have already created amazing models. Seven months of development time have resulted in a giant list of features & improvement & fixes.

As always, this release is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris."
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