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Apparently this guy really paid attention during the Police Academy Ethics Block.

It’s not usually news when a police officer writes a ticket — unless it’s the chief and he gives the ticket to himself.

Village of Kewaskum Police Chief Richard Knoebel said he was driving to work when he became distracted by a truck stopping on one side of the street.

He said he didn’t see a school bus with its lights flashing and a stop sign out on the other side of the four-lane road.

The chief said he didn’t know he had passed the stopped bus until it was too late.

When he realized what he had done, he issued himself a $235 ticket.

“When we get someone for not stopping for a flashing school bus we give them a citation. So I shouldn’t be any different so I did,” Knoebel said.

Not only did the chief have to pay a hefty fine, he gave himself a four-point penalty on his license.

Anyones sees the PR value in this though      source

It looks like Hitachi’s gonna beat Seagate to the gate on releasing their 1 Tb (Terabyte) Drive.

It seems the day of the 1-terabyte consumer hard drive has finally become a reality. Hitachi announced yesterday, just before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it will be shipping a 1TB hard drive by the end of the first quarter in 2007. The drive will be the first of three that the company is expecting to release in 2007;

The 3.5″ Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 will run at 7200 rpm, have a 32MB buffer, and be available as SATA 3.0Gb/s or Parallel-ATA 133.

The company did not max out on areal density on the drives though; instead of trying to cram 250GB (like Seagate has) onto four platters, Hitachi opted to go with a 200GB-per-platter, five-platter approach.

These new drives use Perpendicular Recording, which has been around for a few years (apparently) but is really coming into play now as it facilitates increasing capacity up to 5 (ish) times.  For those lost in the bit/byte world, take your standard 80-100 gigabyte drive that comes in a computer today and multiply it by 10.  This particular drive will run around $399 bucks.

I can’t imagine needing one of these drives anytime soon; but I think it’s interesting to keep up with whats new in this field.  Imagine formatting this damn thing?!