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- Author of this story = Hoagaboom

- Hoagaboom's slashdot ID link leads to www.hoagy.org

- whois on www.hoagy.org leads to:

Ryan Hoagland
1 Infinite loop
Cupertino, CA 95014 US

- Map quest verifies this address is real

- Terraserver verifys what appears to be a corporate plaza

- A Google search on this address reveals that this is "Apple Corporate Headquarters"

- Crap. Dead end. Hoagaboom is a liar. :)

My goal was to find out where he lived, systematically pinpoint his neighbors residence, obtain their contact information, then notify them by phone that their neighbor Ryan thinks they are ugly, then post the recorded phone conversation for you all to listen to. Oh well. I tried. :)

One of these?

Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
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Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

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Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

Springfield, IL
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Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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One of these?

Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Springfield, OH
Springfield, OR
Springfield, FL
Springfield, MI
Springfield, NJ
Springfield, PA
Springfield, TN

or how about Springfield, USA?

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Courtesy of map quest ;-)

Springfield, MA

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I figure that if the students aren't providing a security risk, it shouldn't be an issue. I wonder how the students will work around the school's demands.

I propose that the Air Force approach Darl and ask him to participate in a modified mid-air capture program. One that involves Darl out in the middle of the desert with a baseball glove.

Interestingly, when I was watching this live over the internet, they appeared to go to a picture of the capsule underneath a canopy, in a very grainy b/w sequence that lasted just a few seconds, then they switched to another camera, and later said they didn't yet have visual on any chutes.

Too bad I don't have cable, I'd have loved to have this on my Replay, to show you some caps of the sequence.

BTW, I did catch the LAT/LON, they said it was 40 07 40 and 113 30 29, that would actually show up in China. If you say -113 instead of +113, you get a location in the Deseret Test Center. Here's a Mapquest map. They also said it was "just north of the road." Of course, they could have accidentally or deliberately been a bit off on their coordinates, but this is what they said.

Interestingly, when I was watching this live over the internet, they appeared to go to a picture of the capsule underneath a canopy, in a very grainy b/w sequence that lasted just a few seconds, then they switched to another camera, and later said they didn't yet have visual on any chutes.

Too bad I don't have cable, I'd have loved to have this on my Replay, to show you some caps.

BTW, I did catch the LAT/LON, they said it was 40 07 40 and 113 30 29, that would actually show up in China. If you say -113 instead of +113, you get a location in the Deseret Test Center. Here's a Mapquest map. They also said it was "just north of the road." Of course, they could have accidentally or deliberately been a bit off on their coordinates, but this is what they said.

Sorry to be a stickler, but there is nothing but mountains to the west of Rocky Flats. But I actually think you know that and just made a slight grammatical error. Prevailing winds would carry any sort of airborne waste into very populated areas, as they go west to east and the cities or Broomfield, Westminster, Northglenn, and Thornton lie to the east. Farther to the east lies Denver International Airport. Here is a map of northern Denver metro area. Rocky Flats is located on the left side of the map just north of Rocky on highway 93. As you can see, much of Denver would be in trouble. Although, as I understand it, there really is no danger of this occuring.

FYI, I live in Wheat Ridge, just northwest of Denver. I went to school in Boulder and drove past Rocky Flats every day. There is some farm land surrounding RF, and the cows all looked fine to me :).

Where's Alviso?

(hint for the cluebies: You are seeking out THIS street map, around 8 feet tall, standing among the peeps.)

No, more likely via Lindon Utah. Who but an eevil space alien could handle the Revenue Accountant job? (Earth Defence Missles, locked on!)

True, so far as it goes; however, Ms. Jones might not need to start her suit there, since she already has her possession-is-nine-tenths. For suit over damages to that conceptual propery, she might also need to use Virginia's legal system. Perhaps a suit even over the bandwidth might have to end up there.

But I don't know if all roads lead to Virgina (since there is no Rome in Virginia). It seems she is a legal resident of the UK, so if UK law supports such, she might be able file suit over the emotional distress issue (which someone else suggested) on her home turf. However, IANAL.

And fur coats. Honestly, that's in northern russia, and would be freezing cold. Hence, shared bodily warmth.

Here's a mapquest link

According to the linked article:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&co untryid=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=address&searcht ype=address&address=1941+W+PASSYUNK+AVE&city=&stat e=&zipcode=19145-3620&search=++Search++
or
http://tinyurl.com/58zlc

Especially since you can leave that 542.75 km extension cord at home.

His personal quest is to visit every company-owned Starbucks and he's not doing too badly. After 7 years he's hit over 4,000 locations in the United States and 167 in Britain and Japan.

Taking on Manhattan alone in this challenge is simply too mind numbing for me to conceptualize. It seems like all the dope dens that open in NYC on a weekly basis can't even REMOTELY compete with Starbucks.

Why, at Astor Place alone one can almost LITERALLY stand in front of one starbucks, and shout across the square and above the din of the traffic to your friend at the OTHER STARBUCKS can will you!

Slightly hyperbolous. But ONLY by a might!

Maybe they are already here...

Yes they are. They are at the following address.

1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
U.S.A.

West Addison, Chicago, Illinois, 60613 is the address for Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. the joke is that in the movie The Blues Brothers Elwood Blues gives a policeman who stops him the address for wrigley field as his home address.

Suchetha

Eh Almost all of Rio Rancho is desert. Literally, well over half of it is void. There's practically nothing east of Unser. As for all of you wondering how this will be secured, I worked at one of the local ISPs until April. There wasn't a solution as of when I left.

I don't know for a fact, but my guess is that it's Prescott, OR... not too far from Hillsboro where the Prescott CPU was designed.

In addition to that, if he's working at the old Sequent building (a. la. OSDL), there is a really kickass McMennamins just up Cornell Road.

Here's a Mapquest link.

Actually, I think in his later years he had made his permanent residence in Santa Barbara, California....

-If

....what I really want to know is if it has the range to get here?

Not to be an ass, but don't be stupid.

Portland, OR

I can tell you that even the "mountains" are in the right "spot" - the west side of Portland has some small hills that top out around, oh, I dunno, 500 feet or so. The Cascades are a bit further out west (60 miles).

The point is truly that Springfield, NT *could* be virtually anywhere. Obviously, The Simpsons' Springfield borrows from multiple cities, some of which are completely fictional. The attempt to point to a city and definitively say "This is THE city that Springfield is based upon" is a pointless and impossible one.

I wonder if the parent poster was referring to Portland, Maine?

Doesn't look like it, though...

Springfield is the most common city name in the United States. But how many Springfields are close to a Shelbyville? See the map at the bottom.

Oh yeah? Compare this with this. They even got downtown in the right place :)

(I know, I know, but the resemblance is striking!)

I thought somebody should mention that a little city in Peru, called Iquitos (it's in the Amazon basin), used to be the center of the rubber industry. Then somebody smuggled the rubber tree out of the country and the industry moved somewhere cheaper.

It seems to me, Peru is just trying to prevent a similar disaster with their pricey alpaca fleece.

The place where this stuff is being installed is a pissant little town in FL whose wealthy 341 residents are demanding that police take action after burglars netted $400,000 worth of jewelry from the area.

Here is a MapQuest pic of Manalapan. You may want to zoom in. As you can see, it is located on a peninsula with not many ways in. So I'm guessing that they will place these detectors at these few arteries. Even so, I doubt they will be effective. As anyone here knows, OCR from camera images taken in anything other than a controlled environment is dicey at best.

But it doesn't matter anyway, because reading the article and taking note of the geography of Manalapan has led me to wonder if they've considered the burglars could come in BY BOAT.

"Courts have ruled that in a public area, you have no expectation of privacy..." - That's how the "Girls Gone Wild" guy got off when he photographed that 17 year-old. Er...I mean, he was aquitted.

To be fair, the US is a great deal larger than Austria, and has a much lower population density. Other forms of transit such as airtravel or rail don't even come close to sating the need for travel, just because of the range one can find oneself from the nearest population center.

Take one of the trips I make regularly, from my home in West Texas to visit my family in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. Such a trip is about 600 miles or so, which I believe a journey of similar length would take a person into a different nation, were it to start just about any point in Austria. Getting there takes a good 10 hours by car, but making the trip otherwise is prohibitively expensive. Airtravel there involves flying to Albuquerque, and then either relying on a spotty small plane service (Mesa air, which runs planes that hold ~8 people including crew), or renting a car and driving the additional 200 some odd miles there. Flying on that small airline and the larger one for the first leg of the trip would run around $300, depending on season, whereas driving the trip would cost maybe a third of that. This is a case (and not unique by any standard to the United States, especially in the western section) where travel by automobile is much more inexpensive then by other means.

One could also make the case for people living in smaller (~100,000) areas whose city and county governments cannot maintain such localized public transit over the widespread city area that is typical of a town in the western US and Texas. Getting around town from most resedential areas requires a vehicle, especially for those who live in surrounding areas of 5,000 to 20,000 people and rely on the 100-200k population centers for much of their shopping and entertainment.

On the other hand, a small attempt is being made at public transport on a small scale in such areas. We'll see if it works, but to be honest, unless the oil supply were to disappear entirely, I doubt such measures will be all that successful. Even if that were to happen, I want my electric car, dammit. =)

A similar system has been in place for a few months on W. Glebe Road in Arlington, VA. I haven't found it particularly burdensome, but it has made me slow down a bit. I think of it more as positive reinforcement than negative: I get to go through the intersection faster in exchange for obeying the posted speed limit.

For those of you who have no idea where Orleans is in Ontario, its very close to Ottawa (minutes away), and about 2 hours from Montreal and 3.5 hrs from Toronto, making it an ideal spot to plan terrorist action in Canada. Ottawa is a couple hours from the US/Canadian border, and for those of you who have never driven the distance, it's a very somber drive, with extremely easy access into the United States. I knew a rum-runner once who would move liquor out of the states at an alarming rate through the St. Lawrence River border; a hardly monitored area concerned more with tourism than security, then. Today, it's a different story, I'm told.

For those of you who have no idea where Orleans is in Ontario, its very close to Ottawa (minutes away), and about 2 hours from Montreal and 3.5 hrs from Toronto, making it an ideal spot to plan terrorist action in Canada. Ottawa is a couple hours from the US/Canadian border, and for those of you who have never driven the distance, it's a very somber drive, with extremely easy access into the United States. I knew a rum-runner once who would move liquor out of the states at an alarming rate through the St. Lawrence River border; a hardly monitored area concerned more with tourism than security, then. Today, it's a different story, I'm told.

The magazine's trick here really isn't that hard... in that for every subscriber they of course have an address, and adresseses can be converted to geographic coordinates using the same technology MapQuest has had for years. It's just a matter of getting a satellite photo that shows that coordinate as the center point, and applying the circling to the image. After that, it's just a typical variable printing job.

Modern printing technologies make it very easy for a 40,000-subscriber magazine to send out a different cover to each and every subscriber. It's just a matter of doing a 40,000 page run of each of the "customized" sets of pages with the image database available, and then the common pages can be wrapped around after printing them the typical way. Here's the homepage for VIPP, Xerox's technology for doign such "variable data" printing jobs on its industrial class printing products.

Manchester is ~300km from London, on the other side of the country, and it's not the side that the undersea cables to North America or Continental Europe go through. 200 miles may not seem that far away to Americans, but as far as the infrastructure goes it's pretty far.

Yeah, if you're going to define "rural" as "more than 2 hours from a city", it's going to be a problem. Sort of depends on what you want to call a city, I suppose, too: my home town in Colorado, Alamosa, has a population of 7500, and is just about 2 hours from Pueblo, a town of 100,000. Of course it's got 3/4th of the population of the whole San Luis Valley, which is about the size of Connecticut.

I dunno about you, but the SLV is pretty damn rural by my estimation.

But here's a map of the Colorado Springs area. I promise you, go east to Yoder, or west to Woodland Park, and it'll seem pretty damn rural.

Go to Woodland Park and you can tell all your friends you live in South Park. That's the little valley west of Pikes Peak. (South Park the town is really Fairplay.)

• Terra Server for "Orient Point", then scroll slightly NW.
• Or MapQuest (same search).
• Or even Google

It looks like a great service, except for one thing:

Just like yahoo (aka Yahoo Maps) and many other online services, google uses MapQuest to provide directions.

I wish more sites would instead start using the company formerly known as MapBlast/Vicinity. Their Line Drive maps are much easier to use, and their directions are much better, at least based on extensive personal experience.

Granted, they got bought by the Beast, but the technology still works...

I wonder what Mapblast is doing wrong that the consistently inferior service gets consistently greater exposure and linkage?

Maybe one of these days I can figure out a way to turn a link like this into a link like this

Maybe a combination of a hosts file entry and a quickie PHP script on my personal Web server to parse and redirect... Or would that be considered a violation of the DMCA? *grin*

Maybe they're afraid of getting sued.

Searching for S2 at https://secure.utah.gov/bes/bes shows their address here.

...albeit a mansion. The mapquest map shows this address about as high as you can go in the salt lake valley.