Deep thinking on the legal front

“The defendant [Idaho's Larry Craig], a career politician with a college education, is of, at least, above-average intelligence,” Judge Charles A. Porter Jr. ruled in Hennepin County District Court.

(NYTimes)

Craig was in court trying to withdraw his earlier guilty plea (plea of "guilty," too) to a little social encounter in the Minneapolis airport. In his defense, Craig complained the initial judge had not questioned him about the "factual basis" of his plea - presumably if he had he would have realized magically made the whole thing go away or something, I don't know - but the second judge, Porter, noted Craig had filed his original plea by mail. So there ya' go.

In other legal news, a bunch of disgruntled noobs are muttering about suing Apple because they, the noobs, hacked their shiny new iPhones and now the phones don't work any more. Go figure that. Apple released a software upgrade earlier this week which was clearly labeled (I saw it, I installed it myself) do not install this if you have modified your phone because it will break your phone, but the noobs installed it anyway. And it broke their phones. Will wonders never cease?

Moral: Don't hack it if you can't hack it. Or, if you can't figure out how to un-hack it you shouldn't have hacked it in the first place, Dude.