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Have you ever suspected that your city or town is trying too hard to catch traffic scofflaws in the pursuit of ticket revenue? A Florida woman received a ticket based on evidence from a red light camera, but believed the ticket was unfair because the yellow light was too short. The power of math proved that she was correct..

Her math tutor husband took a stopwatch to the intersection where she received the ticket, and set out to vindicate her. He discovered that yellow lights at that intersection are eight tenths of a second shorter than county guidelines require.

“I said, ‘If it’s really short, then you got short-changed and you got a ticket illegally,'” said [Mike] Mogil.
The speed limit on Collier Boulevard, where she was cited, is 45 mph. According to county guidelines, the yellow light should be 4.5 seconds.

Mogil said he tested it 15 times with an average of only 3.8 seconds.

Crime prediction software? Ummm, even Hollywood couldn’t make that look like a good idea. What makes anyone think it would be a good idea in the real life?

The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents, putting potential offenders under specific prevention and education programs. Goodbye, human rights! They will use this software on juvenile delinquents, using a series of variables to determine the potential for these people to commit another crime.

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Four of the seven vehicles on our list of the worst-made cars on the road come from GM brands. And all of the cars on the list — including Chrysler’s Dodge Nitro and Jeep Wrangler — are made by Detroit’s Big Three. Only one car on the list is made by Ford Motor.

The biggest surprise on the list, given recent automotive news: It includes no Toyota (NYSE: TM) made vehicles. In fact, Toyota reported a 40.7% gain in sales last month over March 2009; its Lexus division was up 42%.

Cadillac Escalade
Chevrolet Aveo
Chevrolet Colorado
Dodge Nitro
Ford F-250

We’ve heard of dropping laptops before, hell…we’ve dropped a few ourselves, but we’ve never dropped one out of a helicopter almost hitting a 10 year old kid.

Grayson said the computer made a loud sound when it hit the ground, almost like a gunshot. The 10-year-old’s aunt was nearby when she heard the same noise. “‘What’s that?’ It was really loud and not more than two seconds later my little nephew comes around the corner and says ‘Auntie Laura, something just fell out of the sky and it almost hit me,'” said Laura Colon.

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Often referred to as the ‘third founder’ of Apple Computers, Ronald Wayne has revealed he has no regrets over selling his share in the company. Working alongside Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Wayne was given a 10 percent share in Apple but quickly sold them for just $800 in 1976.

A report in the News Of The World this morning claims those shares would now likely be worth £13.6 billion. Under the headline ‘If Only iPad Known,’ Wayne tells the tabloid newspaper he has no regrets over the decision.

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