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  1. Re:MTA Proposed photography ban by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable

    sorry, forgot the link!

  2. insecurity through obscurity by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1 · on Cities Building Own Fiber Networks

    In NYC, the I-Net municipal fiber network is guarded so tightly by its government administrators, that the City Council which oversees it has been regularly denied a map of the fiber paths, on the grounds of "security": terrorist red tape. If the cat weren't already out of the bag, subway maps would be covered by this policy, too. The security angle is also a smokescreen for keeping the City out of allowed competition with telcos for City government network services, already worth about $100M:year in Verizon voice service to City government desktops alone. How do we transfer to the express?

  3. Re:I wouldn't suggest it by Reverberant · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job?
    Sure, I figure that Macs might have a place in a business or accounting context but not for engineering.

    Engineering!=CAD

    I am an engineer. I've worked on many engineering studies over the past few years. I run a engineering company now. The number of times I've had to use a propriety CAD package I can count on my right hand.

    Thanks to all of the open source packages out there, there are plenty of engineerng apps available for Mac OS X.

  4. Re:Look out... by NickV · · Score: 1 · on Los Angeles Gets Own TLD

    Well if it makes you feel any better, I think NYC is the only city in America that has a second level domain name under .gov for itself... (ie the official NYC gov web site is nyc.gov).

    So yea.. and our MTA (and i'm sure there are a ton of organizations called MTAs) is just mta.info :)

  5. Re:Uh ... by noctrnl9 · · Score: 1 · on Sony's Cashless Smart Card Catching on in Japan
    YES. Now if they could get metrocards (or sony's smart card) to work with point of sale transactions such as one would use an ATM to purchase everyday items.

    I could see paying $0.25 per transaction if the extra revenue stoped the $2.00 rise in April.

    I imagine the best way to introduce any smart card technology would be in the mass transit system of a major city. Too bad there would have to be a LOT of people that would be in line for palm greesing.

  6. Re:Uh ... by noctrnl9 · · Score: 1 · on Sony's Cashless Smart Card Catching on in Japan
    YES. Now if they could get metrocards (or sony's smart card) to work with point of sale transactions such as one would use an ATM to purchase everyday items.

    I could see paying $0.25 per transaction if the extra revenue stoped the $2.00 rise in April.

    I imagine the best way to introduce any smart card technology would be in the mass transit system of a major city. Too bad there would have to be a LOT of people that would be in line for palm greesing.

  7. Re:Segway Banned in San Francisco by martyn+s · · Score: 1 · on My Segway HT "Month-iversary"

    By the way: the MTA has a new (and easier) domain name. Try mta.info . It works

    subway

  8. Re:levitrain by zilly · · Score: 1 · on NYC Subways Testing Flywheels

    They do have a timetable, and they do publish it. Copies on paper are available in most stations, in fact, if you ask for them.

    Of course, these timetables have nothing to do with how long you actually have to wait for your train to show up. This seems to be more a factor of the temperature in the station (sweltering hot or freezing cold: add ten minutes), what time you were _supposed_ to be where you're going (for every five minutes late, add another ten) and whether or not you have to pee (add half an hour to an hour, depending how badly you have to go).

    Although, if a train is running too early, sometimes the conductor will hold the train in the station so people on the local/express across the platform can make their connections. As far as I can tell, this only happens to you when you're on the train being held. If you're the guy hoping to make the connection... well, let's just say I hope you did your number one before you left.

    ken

  9. Re:New York's metrocard by halfpastgone · · Score: 1 · on Hong Kong's Octopus

    Sorry if I was unclear, I didn't want to confuse non-New Yorkers with subway/bus line names. My friend took the JB62 (schedule available here) from Jones Beach to Freeport, then the LIRR train from Freeport to Penn Station, then went from Penn to Grand Central to get the MetroNorth to New Rochelle. So yes, she did start outside of the city entirely (Jones Beach being in Long Island and technically not within the bounds of NYC). My point was that, since all of this is operated by the MTA, it would be nice if she could have used a metrocard for everything.

  10. Re:New York's metrocard by halfpastgone · · Score: 1 · on Hong Kong's Octopus

    Sorry if I was unclear, I didn't want to confuse non-New Yorkers with subway/bus line names. My friend took the JB62 (schedule available here) from Jones Beach to Freeport, then the LIRR train from Freeport to Penn Station, then went from Penn to Grand Central to get the MetroNorth to New Rochelle. So yes, she did start outside of the city entirely (Jones Beach being in Long Island and technically not within the bounds of NYC). My point was that, since all of this is operated by the MTA, it would be nice if she could have used a metrocard for everything.

  11. Who cares? by surfacearea · · Score: 1 · on Mobile Gaming with BREW

    I have an Ericsson T28w, meaning I can play a fully functional version of tetris and solitaire. Anyway, I play 99.9% of said games on my cell phone while waiting in the subway for my train. Now, maybe if the MTA could install some high powered cell transceivers in the tunnels to bounce around calls/data...