I'm not the one who needs help here...THEY do. Once you start breaking laws on this level you are in trouble. I'm just posing a theory here, they are actually doing it, don't forget that...

@Tom Smith

There are laws, and they are there for a reason. Some laws are of the kind that one could call "unimportant" because they don't really mean the difference between life and death, but speeding is a serious offence and it CAN mean the difference between life and death. Bad driving or good driving have little to do with it. What use is it if I can handle my car at 200kph but the guy going 80kph and turning into the road a few m in front of me can't? We'll still both be dead...
Speed cameras can make people nervous, they can perhaps even cause accidents because people slow down too much when they see one, the point is that nobody would stick to the rules if there is no risk of getting caught...sad but true...

What these guys are doing is just about on the same level as if I would carry a shotgun in my car and would chase down and shoot any speeder I see, and I would probably make 2-5 kills on every 100km I drive here in Germany...

Well, I don't actually live in Berlin, so I don't see how...and even if I did, how large are the chance of me knowing the person you want?
Maybe you should be trying www.telefonbuch.de?

I think what is really needed is a system of speed-limiters that simply prevents people from going fast than they ought to.
These cameras are fine, but they really only catch a small percentage of bad guys. I see so much bad driving here in Germany, people overtaking on a 100kph road when I'm alredy going 110 (the "legal limit" because you get those 10% extra)even when there is a lot of traffic coming the other way and stuff like that.
One should think that laws and some simple method of enforcing them (those cameras for example)would be enough to stop people from behaving like savages...but apparently it is not.

These guys should not be burning cameras, they should be burning the guys who don't stick to speed limits!!! I don't know how difficult it would be to make all roads speed-sensitive or (even better) to give every speed-limiting sign a little transmitter that tells cars (all new cars would have to be equipped with this) how fast it's allowed to go. I know this is something that would cause a huge outcry of "It's a free country..." and so on, but if you don't draw the line somewhere, then where will you draw it? If I choose to earn my money by robbing banks then I'm pretty sure people would also object, and I would not even be endangering any lives by doing so...

Well let me give you my take on this:

I think what the boy did was right. He managed to surprise the robbers. They probably thought the house was empty (that's when you usually rob a house) and thus weren't prepared for what happened.
If he had stepped out in front of the robbers saying something stupid like "Surrender Scumbags" like some guy in a braindead Hollywood movie then he would have been lost, with or without sword, whether the robbers were armed or not. However, he did the smart thing and jumped out at the guys, thus getting in the first blow before they could have even drawn guns (even had they had them). Following them out of the house and chasing them down seems a bit too much and was probably a bit stupid, but maybe he just realized that the robbers are total noobs and wanted to have some fun...

Now let's look at the counter arguments...
Let's say he would have hidden just like his sister in a cupboard somewhere. The robbers would quite probably have found both of them at some point. Maybe they would have done nothing, but leaving witnesses behind does not do your career as a criminal a whole lot of good I'd say...so they'd posibly either have kidnapped the kids, killed them or at least knocked them unconscious (and done who knows what damage)...and that's always hoping the criminals weren't weirdos in which case the children's fate could have been a lot grimmer...

@Engadget

There was never any mention of an iBook...it's called the lBook (LBook) just like the previous versions...please try to read the news on mobileread.com more carefully next time.. ;)

I'd love to see SSD Harddisks in computers soon since I hate the rattling, powerhungry and slow disks we are using now. If they don't manage to get prices down to comparable levels in the next year or two, I highly doubt this will happen. Probably some other tech will develop in the meantime and erase the SSDs from the roadmaps...

Well, I hope the Steron Orbo thing works, then maybe we can finally see some true alternatives to petrol engines. As much as I like electric cars, they still need to get recharged...:-)

Now let's see...I think Apple and EMI created a very strange experiment here...

Users are somehow expected to pay more for DRM free tracks. That is an insult. DRM costs money, leaving it out should make the tracks cheaper. Also, the higher bitrate is cool, but it also does not justify a higher price. It might take up some more space on the servers and use some more bandwidth, but that's all and I don't really believe that justifies a 30% price increase...

The whole thing gives off a decidedly unwholesome smell...I'm not sure why, but somehow I don't believe this is about trusting the user or anything...maybe they just want people to keep on buying the cheaper tracks so they can say nobody wants DRM free music after all...or they think everybody will now pay 30% more for the same music...or maybe they just want to get people to buy whole albums instead of single tracks?

I'm not really sure we need this kind of tech. It#s certainly more appealing than one of those expensive Optimus things, but what's the point with any of this? As long as you have fixed keys (be they physical ones or printed ones) it's just messing around.

Even if you take the huge amount of money and time it must take to fully customize an Optimus, you still have all the same keys in all the same places just with other pitures on them.

Either leave the keyboard as is or go the fully-configurable StarTrek stile (although it remains to be seen how well that would work in reality).