iPhone apps helps track sex offenders, spot crime – CNN.com

In Montgomery County, Maryland, police are worried about PhantomALERT, an iPhone app expected to be released in the next few months that warns drivers about DUI checkpoints. To use this app, invented by Joe Scott, the user downloads information from the company’s Web site that specifies where checkpoints, red-light cameras and speeding traps are. For about $10 a month, the phone will send out an audio alert to the driver to help dodge tickets.

“That is a risk to public safety, allowing a potentially impaired driver to avoid detection and possibly harm him or herself or someone else on the roadway,” says Lucille Baur, a spokeswoman for the police department.

Okay, let’s assume somebody actually purchased this for the purpose of avoiding checkpoints while plastered. Do you really think that person would be drunk enough to be a danger to others yet sober enough to pull up the app and avoid checkpoints? It’s like that old joke: “I had the right to remain silent, but I did not have the ability.”

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I’ve started to use WPF on my projects and from what I can see, for data projects its pretty much useless.  I heard it explained on a newsgroup: with Windows Forms, you spent about 10 percent of your development time on the design and 90 percent on function.  With WPF it’s exactly the reverse.  If you’re doing a graphics intensive program it may be the ticket for you but for now I’d recommend staying away from it until it is a little more mature.