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WHAT'S $12 MILLLION AMONG FRIENDS?

MARICOPA COUNTY IS SCRAPPING A BRAND-NEW, VERY EXPENSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM SO IT CAN BUY---SURPRISE!---ANOTHER NEW, EXPENSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM

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MARICOPA COUNTY IS SCRAPPING A BRAND-NEW, VERY EXPENSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM SO IT CAN BUY---SURPRISE!---ANOTHER NEW, EXPENSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM

Hacker, Cracker, Watchman, Spy

Some old-school Valley hackers grew up to be high-tech cat burglars. Some went to work for the man. Some just never grew up.

System Failure

Two years later, Maricopa County's computerized inspection effort is still struggling to get online

BEST ARCADE

Golfland-Sunsplash

Can the perfect pop song be calculated?

Golfland-Sunsplash

Breathalyzer Software Issues Give Attorneys Hope for DUI Dismissals Across Arizona

"I can tell you with absolute certainty that every breath test result on an Intoxilyzer 8000 is inaccurate," Nesci says.

Top 10 Country Records of 2008

By Michael McCall Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGra ... More >>

Heartland Payment Systems Waits Till Inauguration Day to Release News on Massive Data Breach

A New Jersey company that processes payments for tens of thousands of American restaurants and other small businesses had its electronic pockets picked in a data breach that may be the country's largest ever.And it waited until Inauguration Day to let us know about it.A Washington Post article by ... More >>

Cyberspace Invaders

County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

How to Restore a Photo

Memory enhancement

Doubting Thomas

County prosecutors charged a teenager with looking at kiddy porn. Turns out they hadn't done their homework

Unnatural Beauty

The bare facts

The Art of Darkness

What's inside

Hacked

Ford runs smack into it, poor guy

Burning the Faithful

New copy-protected CDs screw over the only honest customers the music industry has left

All Bark and No Bite

The county attorney could've forced elections department reform, but he backed down

Legal Love

Getting the cream for free

County Connivers

Maricopa officials let the hospital system collapse financially, costing taxpayers $82 million-plus

Blood on the Dance Floor

Art, commerce and ideologies all collide in the strange world of the remix

HIGH-TECH'S MISSING LINK

IS JAMES J. DILETTOSO A TECHNO GOD OR JUST ANOTHER FLOPPY DISCIPLE? EVEN HE CAN'T SAY FOR SURE.

THE STATE OF REAL ESTATE

COMMISSIONER JERRY HOLT MAY FACE SENATE GRILLING, DEFENDS HIS WORK

Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Open Investigation Office in Flagstaff

  Image: ICE PowerPoint presentationThe U.S. Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is seeking a supervisor and agents to operate a recently approved investigation office in Phoenix. The news, (first reported in the Arizona Daily Sun yesterday), comes after about t ... More >>

Cisco Company Partner in Tempe Giving $527,000 "Donation" to County; Sheriff's Office Questions Deal

​ A planned $527,000 "donation" to Maricopa County's IT department by Tempe-based Insight Networking (a.k.a. Calence) looks suspicious to the sheriff's office. After a hearing last week over the sheriff's takeover of the ICJIS system, Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott told New Times and oth ... More >>

Metadata in Electronic Government Records Must be Released to Public, Arizona Supreme Court Rules

Phoenix police Sergeant David Lake may get to find out whether his supervisors screwed him over, thanks to unanimous pro-public-records ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court. As we related back in January, Lake was halted twice by the court system in his quest to obtain the metadata embedded in a Micr ... More >>

Google Launches Fancy New Music Search

Google has launched - albeit slowly - their new music search feature, making it easier to immediately hear an artist's music right awayEvery wonder how many Google searches are music related? Two out of every 10 searches just so happen to be music related, you curious cat, you. Google, the internet ... More >>

Careful With Your Email; Swine-Flu Virus Now Comes in Computer Form

​Swine-flu virus is causing more than just a case of the runs and a high fever -- now it's affecting our cyber-health, too, in the form of a new computer virus.Centers for Disease Control officials say there is a new computer virus stemming from an email that claims to give information ab ... More >>

Community Collage

Photoshop for the common good at @Central

Fishy Fundraiser -- Part Two: Arpaio's Office Goes North to Alaska, Spends County Money, Brings Home Bacon for Joe

A couple of weeks ago, we related how a top official with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office met with some rich guys during a fishing trip in Alaska three years ago. As we were told by the lawyer for the rich guys, Grant Woods, the Alaska trip -- which was attended by MCSO Director Larry Black -- ... More >>

Twitter Phishing Scam Warning; House Speaker Kirk Adams Doesn't Really Want Your Twitter Login Data

The Twitter direct message from Kirk Adams, Arizona House Speaker,  looked suspicious at first glance: ​ It turns out that someone may have hijacked the Speaker's Twitter account temporarily and used it to spread a phishing scam that began blazing across the Internet this weekend. C ... More >>

Ruby Suns

Indie-pop band rolls through the Valley

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Rites of Spring Ball, Tim Barry, Miss Derringer, and More

Deja Dance will participate in the Rites of Spring Ball on Friday at the Alwun House.According to the calendar on our wall, more than a week remains until spring has officially arrived. But for all intents and purposes, it feels like it's already sprung. The last gasp of winter has come and gone, te ... More >>

Brain Scans on Your iPhone? Yeah, There's an App for That, and They're Testing it Out in Scottsdale

www.thepreppyprincess.com​At last, an iPhone application that does something a little more useful than finding the closest Applebee's.Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale are conducting clinical trials on a new iPhone app that would allow doctors to view brain scans with their iPhone ... More >>

Gilbert Man Arrested After Trying to Trade Weed for iPad on Craigslist

Jacob Walker allegedly tried to trade weed for an iPad on Craigslist.​A Gilbert man was arrested Wednesday after police say he and a friend posted an ad on Craigslist hoping to trade an iPod Touch and some weed for an iPad. Based on what we've heard about the iPad, 20-year-old Jacob Walker ... More >>

Marcia Powell Cage Death: County Attorney Releases ADC PowerPoint, Internal ADC Investigation Not Reviewed by CA

Marcia Powell, whose death remains unavengedThe Maricopa County Attorney's Office did not review a 3,000 page internal Arizona Department of Corrections investigation into the 2009 cage death of Perryville Prison inmate Marcia Powell.The County Attorney's office last week declined to prosecute anyon ... More >>

Wanna Complain About Graffiti and Pot Holes? If You Live in Avondale, There's an App for That

www.fairfax.cc​Complaining to the city about mundane crap like potholes and graffiti isn't just for geriatrics with rotary phones anymore. The city of Avondale has unveiled a new smart phone application that allows residents to alert city officials to municipal eye sores like graffiti, weeds, and ... More >>

John McCain Thinks iPad/iPhone Are Built in U.S. -- Which They're Not

John McCain thinks iPhones are built in America.​Like most things, Apple's iPad and iPhone are not built in the United States, which may need to be explained to Arizona's senior senator, John McCain, who recently declared that the two products were assembled right here in the U.S. of A.Kudos to th ... More >>

Best of Phoenix: Yup, There's An App For That

​Introducing the Best Of App for iPhone (pictured right). Don't worry, the good, old-fashioned paper version of Best of Phoenix isn't going anywhere. Still, the print and paper version isn't exactly pocket friendly. Consider this a smaller version of your favorite guide to Phoenix (and severa ... More >>

How Reddit Came to the Rescue for a Chandler Couple and Their 5-Year-Old Son

Volney DouglasReddit users helped out 5-year-old Sagan Douglas​On March 12, Chandler resident Volney Douglas went to the internet with a problem -- someone had stolen a $3,500 device that helps his 5-year-old son Sagan communicate. The family had just purchased the ALT-Chat device for Sagan, who ... More >>

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Computer in Joel Fox's Home Contained Dan Saban "Timeline," Links to Teen Porn Sites, Records Say

A computer found in the home Captain Joel Fox (above), its operating system registered to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, contained evidence of a scandal -- and links to teen porn sites. ​A laptop used by Captain Joel Fox and registered to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office contain ... More >>

Saffron Kitchen Pops Up with a South African One-Night-Only Dinner

​If you frequent local farmers' markets, no doubt you've been tempted by Andrea White's sassy, swanky, sexy (can you tell we love her names?!) Saffron Kitchen pies. Now White is presenting a one-night pop up dinner, Thursday, May 19, at Cycle, called "Ubuntu in Phoenix." The price ... More >>

Arizona Department of Public Safety Hacked Again, by "Hackers Without Borders"

The hackers strike DPS again! The officer at the Arizona Department of Public Safety's media line sounded pretty hangdog when I called about the latest hacker attack on DPS's computer system, this time by a LulzSec spin-off calling itself "Hackers Without Borders."He told me someone will get back t ... More >>

Alleged LulzSec Hacker Busted in Phoenix; Faces 15 Years in Prison For Hacking Sony Website

LulzsecLulzSec's official mascot​A Phoenix man was arrested this morning for allegedly being a member -- or former member -- of the computer hacking group LulzSec, which claimed responsibility for the security breach of the Arizona Department of Public Safety's computer system earlier this year.Co ... More >>

Tommy Reed Gets Life in Prison For Murder of Man He Met Through an iPhone Gay Social Networking App

Tommy Reed was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder.​Tommy McKey Reed was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where Judge Paul McMurdie sentenced him to life in prison for the 2010 murder of a man he met through a gay social networking app for his i ... More >>

Sexual Predator Trolling on Free Smart-Phone App Farm Story For Victim, Police Say

www.market.android.comA sexual predator found a victim on Farm Story, a free smart phone app, and then lured her into a private chat room, police say.​Detectives from the Peoria Police Department's Special Victims Unit arrested Jose Sanchez, a 37-year-old Colorado man, for allegedly engaging in se ... More >>

John Landrum Jr. Was Downloading More Kiddie-Porn As Cops Raided His Home

MCSOJohn Landrum Jr.​We finally got our hands on the arrest report for alleged kiddie-porn connoisseur John Landrum Jr. Aside from having hundreds of images and videos of "child erotica" stored on his computer, he was actually downloading more as the cops entered his home to arrest him.It also tur ... More >>