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In Kentucky where I live another name for a creek is a "lick". Red lick and Paint lick arn't so bad, but the one that takes the cake is "Big Bone Lick". I swear I'm not making this up. They even have a state park! Check it out at mapquest if you don't beleive me!

Wilkes Barre is right next to Forty Fort and just down the road from Koonsville...

And interestingly enough, Lathrop Wells, where prostitution is legal in Nye County, NV, is only 35.42 from the Test Site. So sayeth the MaqQuest

Actually, according to the United States Postal Service ZIP+4 Code Look-up, the standardized address for 3600 North Clarck Street is:

3600 N CLARK ST
CHICAGO IL 60613-3808


According to the Chicago Cubs Ballpark page, (click on "Wrigley Field"), the address is:

Wrigley Field
1060 West Addison
Chicago, IL 60613-4397

If you look up the 3600 N CLARK address or the 1060 W ADDISON ST address at MapQuest you'll see both addresses are essentially correct.

Both Big Sean O and The Blues Brothers were right after all. :-)

Actually, according to the United States Postal Service ZIP+4 Code Look-up, the standardized address for 3600 North Clarck Street is:

3600 N CLARK ST
CHICAGO IL 60613-3808


According to the Chicago Cubs Ballpark page, (click on "Wrigley Field"), the address is:

Wrigley Field
1060 West Addison
Chicago, IL 60613-4397

If you look up the 3600 N CLARK address or the 1060 W ADDISON ST address at MapQuest you'll see both addresses are essentially correct.

Both Big Sean O and The Blues Brothers were right after all. :-)

Actually, according to the United States Postal Service ZIP+4 Code Look-up, the standardized address for 3600 North Clarck Street is:

3600 N CLARK ST
CHICAGO IL 60613-3808


According to the Chicago Cubs Ballpark page, (click on "Wrigley Field"), the address is:

Wrigley Field
1060 West Addison
Chicago, IL 60613-4397

If you look up the 3600 N CLARK address or the 1060 W ADDISON ST address at MapQuest you'll see both addresses are essentially correct.

Both Big Sean O and The Blues Brothers were right after all. :-)

I think it is rather obvious why he chose that target...

Hi!

You mentioned in your reply to me that you'd like to have GPS/cellular tracking in your car. As it happens, there's a company that does precisely this (they're a client of mine):

eTracker

The vehicle position is tracked anywhere in the U.S., giving you vehicle location (including reverse-geocoding, so you get the street, town, and state) at stated intervals. You can also "pulse" the vehicle (akin to sending a page) to ask it to report at other times. Most users use the "bread crumbs" feature to see where a vehicle has been over a given period of time. We've used the system to retrieve a couple of stolen cars so far, and it's also being used to track tractor-trailers, garbage trucks, and (in Sarasota, FL) school buses. It's a very cool project.

And--knowing as much about the technology as I do, its all the more frustrating that I can't hang a unit on Annie. I have--literally--the entire MapQuest database and mapping engine sitting here in my office, and I can't use it.

Please use this link or one like it to find out who represents you in both the House and the Senate. If you don't know your 5+4 digit zip code, you can always use Mapquest to show it to you (with a nice handy-dandy satellite photo of your neighborhood!)

Nevada is a relatively easy place to become incorporated. This O'Bannon guy is using the service of a firm specializing in doing incorporations (Budget Corporate Renewals), which is located in 89107. Upon closer examination of the address, I see that it is located in a residential area behind a Target. Their phone numbers (702-870-5351 and 702-880-7044) correspond with this area of town. My guess is it is some home business thing.

I doubt if O'Bannon has any base of operations out of Vegas at all.

Isn't Mapquest great?! I love sending people pictures of their neighborhood.

That just shows how screwed-up the American mentality has become.

As I see it, being a *very* left leaning Canadian living in Windsor, Ontario this is how I see it:

Americans Live to work *NOT* Work to Live. Simple. Life is about their Job. Their Car. Their money, their House. Getting "paid" is a goal un-to itself, and no concessions are made to those who are not interested in this pursuit.

Competition is a Religion. People are distrustful and selfish. Government is the enemy, it is seen as serving the needs other than those exactly specified by each individual, "'Greater Good'? who needs it? I want 'ZYX'" is the mantra. Cooperation (healthcare, social programs, education) are seen as a method for "others" to take from the individual.

Are these opinions "true"? I dont know, I am simply one man, with one opinion. Do I have pre-disposed bias? Sure. Am i flatly wrong? No, it is doubtful. There is ample evidence of this characterization. It is, at-best, unflattering - and I am certain to be modded off as flame or somesuch, but I can tell you that people *outside* the US understand this description.. if Americans would look past their jingoism, myopia and ethno-centrism -- just a *little* -- they could really begin to grow again.

CMD TACO You suck as a newsperson... no wonder people don't take Slashdot seriously

This link shows that the address on the company's website is a cul-de-sac in the middle of a regular neighborhood. Not some company location, or warehouse, or buildings...

This is a bad fake.

Mabidex.

It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after - Hazlit

Yucca Valley is in *California* a hundred miles or so east of Los Angelos. Please check your facts next time.

1) There is no company called "Lindows", "Lindows, Inc", or anything like it registered with the Secretary of State of the Great State of California.

2) The "lindows.com" domain is not registered to any company, but rather to a no-name PO Box is Woodside, CA. I'm not familiar with the area, but I took the liberty of running a MapQuest between those two cities and found that they're 482 miles away. Now THAT'S a commute.

3) Come on, look at the picture of Michael Robertson... isn't that an obvious parody of Steve Jobs? :)

Anyway, you heard this evidence here first, and ReadParse said it.

Later,
RP

In case you don't know about it yet, you can type in your address in Mapquest, click on "Aerial photo," and see a pictue of your neighborhood in which it's quite easy to pick out your own house. Best of all, you can pan and zoom all you want and look at landmarks around where you live.

I used to live in Sarasota FL ("Peter Pan Kindernook" anyone?) and also Bartow FL (Floral Avenue Elementary anyone?) and it is true that central Florida is the lightning capital of the nation. The weather can be genuinely awe-inspiring.

You are right, property there is reasonably priced.

...on TreoPlayer.com reveals some interesting facts:

Check out the source code. Lovely ol' Frontpage inserted an author meta tag with the name "Jerzy Bilyk".

Here is where it gets interesting. Run a Google search on "Jerzy Bilyk", and you come up with this page (Google cache used because the original doesn't exist anymore). It lists a "Bilyk, Jerzy" as having a supended license (among other crimes.) The police department is in Plano, IL.

Now here's the really interesting part: a WHOIS on treoplayer.com shows a John Bastion as owning the domain. His address? Sugar Grove, IL: about 12 miles from Plano. (Mapquest proves it).

I think, from this, we can safely declare one golden rule: if you're going to do a hoax and submit it to Slashdot, don't freakin' use Frontpage! :D

P.S. I'm available as a consultant if anyone from Slashdot would like to hire an editor/story checker. ;)

Here's the mapquest link

Here's an aerial photo of 122nd and Rockaway: click!. The intersection, I believe is just east of the large building.

With real estate prices as they are in Cambridge, I bet Polaroid could cut a chunk of debt just by renting or selling off their land. They have properties in some very desirable locations.

Commercial space in Cambridgeport rents at around $60/sq foot, when it can be found. Even with the current "recession" prices haven't budged. Hop on over the the WSJ for some insight.

With their name, their engineering talent, their land (to provide some cash) and a reasonable restructuring, Polaroid could relaunch themselves as a player in the digital market in under two years.

In Ellijay,GA, the local phone company offers DSL to 95% of it's customers.
We're talking in the mountains too folks!
Over 18,000 voice lines, 105 wire centers; they've converted hundreds of miles of copper to fiber, and are considering cable tv over fiber next year.
And nearly EVERY customer has DSL access.
The company spent about 1.5 million to make it happen, and customers get speeds up to 1.5mbs; they've yet to make a profit on the DSL, but, the customers are happy and are eating it up.
My point: if a small company can do it, in rough and nonlinear terrain ANY company should be able to follow suit.
Screaming broadband is dead is ludicrous.

The cool part: it was in a retired federal bank. Literally a fortress: fully bulletproof, tempest-shielded, multiple sub-basements, iron gates and fully enclosed by fences or walls, the works.

The ICBM silo gets me thinking about the same thing. They have on-site power generation and battery backup and an obviously pretty damn secure setup. So, why not open a secure hosting facility? It's not HavenCo/Sealand, but it's not bad.

The main problem is it's in the middle of nowhere (Mapquest link ), about 50 miles from Topeka. Paying the local loop charges for dedicated (and redundant) Internet access is probably going to cost a fortune.

• Greg

Voyeur Dorm's business does not encourage "guys with bloodshot eyes to tromp around the suburbs of Tampa, looking for naked ladies," he said.

Speak for yourself...

Find the closest Canadian city using Mapquest, then use TVGrid or Canada.com to find the TV listings there, so that you know what channel number to look for.

Gee, I hope it wasn't a hoax. It came from my first-born, in the US Navy. Maybe the Germans have negotiated a way to get back into the world. If you'll notice, they do have coasts on the North and Baltic Seas, and even though we kicked their asses back in the 40s, U.S. are a forgiving lot. See where that got U.S.? (no matter)

You can find a listing here and good old MapQuest here.

My boyfriend and I are going to Goveurnor's on the Lower East Side. You can also call 800.933.BLOOD (800.933.2566) for locations, but good luck getting through.

Peace, everyone.

If you want privacy, go get some acreage of land in the mountains and stay out of civilization.

I don't know about that. Pick an address. Any address. Let's try this one: 30 Highway Construction Route, Lincoln, MT (it's Ted Kaczynski's address). Plug it into Mapquest, pick the Aerial Photo tab, and you get this. OK, so you can't see the cabin in this photo; the FBI carted it away. But Mapquest still has a picture of his acreage in the mountains.

This is a small airship, obviously meant as a demonstrator. Their site says the concept can scale from here without much trouble.

Airships wouldn't replace jet aircraft, but they could certainly supplement them as regional transportation. Despite their large size, they can land in a relatively small amount of space... the Goodyear Blimp's landing field, here in Southern California, is the size of a large store parking lot. Couple that with their quieter (than a jet) operations, and you have a great short hop commuter aircraft between smaller markets (Akron to Pittsburgh, for example) or as a transfer vehicle between metropolitan airports and bedroom communities that would otherwise be a multihour bus or van trip away.

As opposed to Switzerland in Oregon, Germany in Georgia (thats all in the USA). Tim

As opposed to Switzerland in Oregon, Germany in Georgia (thats all in the USA). Tim

Slashdot's traveling, I guess.

Once again, someone fails to realize that just because we CAN do a thing, it doesn't necessarily follow that we MUST do this thing.

This article is so full of horseshit, it makes me want to laugh... The rental agent claiming that it's about public safety, and not money? Is $150 what most people would call a mild deterrent?

Then there's the fact that it tracks you across state lines. Even a state trooper doesn't have the right to ticket you for speeding violations just across the state line.

Also, the article mentions that the system allows the agent to set a particular 'safe' speed on each car. Suppose the agent decides 55 is the safe speed... Do they fine you for going 65 in a 70? No mention is made of whether ACTUAL speed zones are linked to the GPS data to determine if you were ACTUALLY breking the law. That could be even scarier, since speed zones change and data in geographic systems can sometimes be incorrect... How many times a week does a site like MapQuest steer someone wrong?

Yes, we're that much closer to big brother, and once again, we see that it is the corporate world who will bring him to life. Even if we disregard, for a moment, the threat to the constitutional right to privacy and the issues of contract law, the government by rights SHOULD step in NOW in a BIG WAY to put a stop to this. It usurps power from a countless number of state and municipal authorities. Then, supposing you DO get a 'real' ticket from the local PD, you get home and you're fined by the rental car agency? Can we say 'double jeopardy'?

Excuse me, that's Moose Jaw thankyouverymuch.

Looks like RMS isn't too far away from this! :^)

Well since I live in a Comedy Central black out zone, I don't get to watch the show much, but Daily show one for two reasons. First, everyone else blew the election coverage and second, no one else actually forcasted the outcome. We ALL know when NBC changed from Decision to Indecision 2000, they had something there. Pretty impressive comedy or not ;-).

There's no such place as Surrey in America.

Actually, there is... At least three of them, actually. Surrey, ND; Surrey, IN; and Surrey, IL.

MapQuest

Though, I doubt any of them have Universities.

Sudbury is 359 miles away from Kingston, so the SNO is nowhere close to where the article said. Check it out.

I mean, I know you 'Murkans don't know much about Canadian geography, but can't you even be bothered to check it out on MapQuest?

The squiggly gray line running north-south through the center of the image is NC Highway 215. The splotch at center-left, with features that look like terraces at this scale, is your destination: the former Rosman Research Station. Mapquest identifies the east-west road running toward the station as Macedonia Church Road, and the last turn into the station as Neil Armstrong Road.

So here are complete directions:

From Asheville, take I-26 east; or, fly to the Asheville Airport.

From either I-26 or the airport, turn right onto NC Highway 280, toward Brevard. If you came from I-26, NC 280 will pass the airport.

NC 280 ends just inside the Brevard city limits, near a shopping center with a Wal-Mart and a Pizza Hut. Go straight through the light. You are now westbound on US Highway 64.

Follow US 64 through Brevard. An alternate route is to turn right onto Caldwell Street near the Brevard Motor Lodge; it rejoins US 64 at its other end.

Past Brevard, US 64 passes a Conoco station and then goes over a mountain. Stay on US 64 for about a half mile past the mountain, until you reach a right turn onto NC Highway 215.

Now here's where my recall is rather fuzzy; Mapquest to the rescue. After about five miles on NC 215 (drive carefully!) turn left onto Macedonia Church Road, and then onto Neil Armstrong Road.

You're there.
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Ooh, moderator points! Five more idjits go to Minus One Hell!
Delenda est Windoze

The squiggly gray line running north-south through the center of the image is NC Highway 215. The splotch at center-left, with features that look like terraces at this scale, is your destination: the former Rosman Research Station. Mapquest identifies the east-west road running toward the station as Macedonia Church Road, and the last turn into the station as Neil Armstrong Road.

So here are complete directions:

From Asheville, take I-26 east; or, fly to the Asheville Airport.

From either I-26 or the airport, turn right onto NC Highway 280, toward Brevard. If you came from I-26, NC 280 will pass the airport.

NC 280 ends just inside the Brevard city limits, near a shopping center with a Wal-Mart and a Pizza Hut. Go straight through the light. You are now westbound on US Highway 64.

Follow US 64 through Brevard. An alternate route is to turn right onto Caldwell Street near the Brevard Motor Lodge; it rejoins US 64 at its other end.

Past Brevard, US 64 passes a Conoco station and then goes over a mountain. Stay on US 64 for about a half mile past the mountain, until you reach a right turn onto NC Highway 215.

Now here's where my recall is rather fuzzy; Mapquest to the rescue. After about five miles on NC 215 (drive carefully!) turn left onto Macedonia Church Road, and then onto Neil Armstrong Road.

You're there.
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Delenda est Windoze

If you thought to bring a small boat (even a jet ski would do, or a 12 ft flatboat with small outboard) and launch it from the Paris Rd boat launch, though, you could sail up and stand right at the spot.

Mapquest shows it here.

41'N, 119'W is not too far from Black Rock City, NV. Maybe Spencer Tunick could do a photo there next year?

Just for fun, I went and looked up their street address on Mapquest, and it shows their business location to be near to a golf course and right next to a park, in an area that appears to be all residential. Just my paranoia, but it would appear that either they're operating out of their apartment or their business location is very idyllic. Here is the map

Numbers are great for routing, but when it comes to user interfaces, Names are the way to go. Making phone numbers as pointers to websites is as advancing as not using IP for 2nd Generation wireless.

The goal is to advance technology... not to regress to a bad system.

Unfortunately, this is the goal of the Geek, not the goal of business. The goal of business is to make money. This is commonly forgotten by geeks, and hence people point and laugh at the non-bisiness business model most web companies use.

Lets consider the technological make-up of the world today:
1. We have the 3rd world. Yes, these people are untapped "web" resources, but the reality is that a TRS-80 is considered high-tech for some of them. Whole towns don't have power, running water, and/or phones. Do you think that these people really care about reverse lookup DNS tables? These people are off of the eBusiness radar.

2. On the other extreme We have the Uber-geeks. These people are all about making everybodies lives easier - as long as they hold the secret knowledge as to how everything works. Why pay for a phone call, when you can email them? Why email them when you can ICQ them? why ICQ them when you can use voice over ip for free? ...and so on... For many, a phone is becoming outdated technology. For us to remember an email address or a website no problem... for us to find a website or an email address... well there's google, 411 and maqpuest so that about covers finding almost any company or private informaton necessary.

3. Then there are people like my inlaws... Who have internet access and a slough of questions, but don't care to listen. They waited patiently for 3 months until I was around over thanksgiving to remove a stuck CD becuase they didn't feel comfortable with a paperclip. Anyway, they can enter in a URL from the TV screen, but when toyota doesn't say www.toyota.com on their advertisement - they don't think to type it in. Some day they may figure it out - but I figure I'll have a few more trips out there before then...

4. People who aren't don't know anything about computers at all. There are actually a few people in business that still don't use a computer - and not all of them are auto mechanics. A lot of them are older, and very set in their ways. A phone number is a familiar item. They can punch it in and they know what they can expect to hear - someone from that company on the other end of the line. They can type it in on a computer, and amazingly it would take them to the website. Not only have you adapted current technology now to a familiar frame, but you have actively encouraged someone else to see your business model. This are the largest untapped but available customer base for online companies PTFMA.

In addition, a telephone crossreference fixes many problems with domain squatters, two companies with similar names/different prodcuts, and provides most of america with an existing directory structure to find the company they are looking for (the Yellow Pages).

Lastly, I personally prefer to shop locally when I can't get a better deal elsewhere. I could run through (617) business lines for the product I wanted. This would allow me to shop online - and have the convenience of doing so - but put the company close enough that if it broke, I could easily return it or exchange it.

anyways... phone numbers aren't a bad system - just one you wouldn't think to use given the current direction of technology. I however, see where this could be useful - and hence, profitable.

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If you'd like to verify that signature, my public key is posted on my user page here on /. and also on the common key servers. I can't however provide any was for you to actually verify that I correctly keyed in the location displayed on my GPS receiver, nor do you have any way of verifying that the position it reported was accurate.
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Or imagine you're the driver of a van delivering groceries and blankets to the homeless. Do you know how many lives are lost every year owing to exposure, simply because of miscommunication between relief agencies and dispatchers? A continuous link with home would solve that dilemma while providing incidental benefits like letting the homeless check their email or search for jobs on the internet.

However, I think you, Anne Marie have a career writing commercials for wireless web providers. This sounds like exactly the kind of saccharine bullshit they'd use to sell their product.

Radio will get you somewhere, but cbs are subject to a lot of abuse. Recently in NY, disgruntled ambulance drivers were (illegally) jamming the airwaves by blowing on the receiver each time a dispatch went out to a non-union ambulance. Thankfully, no one was (apparently) killed by the practice, but just the same, it's a scary prospect, and it'd be a lot harder to jam a satellite feed.

The sooner we realize real lives are at stake, the sooner we'll embrace this technology, for the greater good of humanity.

Well, Freedonia (actually Fredonia) is about 40 miles south of here (Buffalo NY). Heck, it's not all that far from Celeron (OK, (Celoron) NY for that matter.

Well, Freedonia (actually Fredonia) is about 40 miles south of here (Buffalo NY). Heck, it's not all that far from Celeron (OK, (Celoron) NY for that matter.

I've been there quite a few times, since I grew up in Morgantown, WVa. Greenbank is something surreal. You drive down the road, between these mountain ridges, and turn the bend, and right above the tree tops are these huge dishes. Just unreal, right out of Star Wars. They have bikes that are free to the visitors, since autos will distrube the radioscopes. You can walk up any of the scopes and look around, walk in and talk with the operators, etc. You'll see plenty of deer (watch out for deer ticks!), birds and other wild life, all which basically have run of the place. Take along a good camera, (a 18mm-36mm lens and a telephoto are suggested), and a sense of adventure. Also leave behind you cell phone, and other radio equipment, since it will not work there (radio free zone, don't want to go and goof up the science). I'll dig around and see if I can locate any pictures I have of the area while the dish was being built, it was totally mind blowing. Location wise, if you want to take a hike down to Greenbank, it's about 4 hours south of Morgantown, WV, 3 hours from Elkins, about 2 from Bluefield, and 3? from Charleston.