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A quick Google search shows that they have one in Alabama and another in Arizona. Also, if you do a job search for data center positions at WF, results for those cities and more turn up.

Furthermore. according to this story, their entire Minnesota data center shut down after the Halon deployed, yet according to this story, the outages were intermittent. Maybe their DR switchover broke?

A quick Google search shows that they have one in Alabama and another in Arizona. Also, if you do a job search for data center positions at WF, results for those cities and more turn up.

Furthermore. according to this story, their entire Minnesota data center shut down after the Halon deployed, yet according to this story, the outages were intermittent. Maybe their DR switchover broke?

It is actually a 330/220/110 kV substation, with a capacity of around 472 MVA: http://wikimapia.org/19193860/... and http://ukrenergo.energy.gov.ua...

...political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest, where Mindszenty lived for the next fifteen years...

The United States Embassy in Budapest is a large six stories building, with spacious courtyards. Mindszenty could walk outdoors, could walk around the immense building: http://photos.wikimapia.org/p/...

Julian is stuck in a small apartment. He cannot walk outdoors at all. Even in a maximum security prisons inmates can walk outdoors for an hour a day. Even in Alcatraz prison there was a large outdoors ground for prisoners. It is not fair to compare Julian Assange with Mindszenty.

London municipal government could make a small adjacent garden for the Ecuador embassy with a strong grill fence. This way Julian could at least walk outdoors. Julian's inhuman asylum conditions are insult to our common human dignity.

i wonder what will happen to this city

They already have that, it's called Wikimapia.

Like Wikipedia, it has a lot of useful crowd-sourced information that you might not get from a map produced by a central authority, but also like Wikipedia, it also has its fair share of vandalism and misinformation.

The company's franchise locations, as well as stores in Mexico and Asia, are not included in the deal.

I get that the overseas stores are not included in the sale to Sprint, because that would make absolutely no sense, but what I really want to know is what happens to them when Radio Shack goes bankrupt. In other words, I want to know if my local Radio Shack located inside a Borders store (I kid you not) will still be open.

Somehow I envision a Wikipedia of maps

Like http://wikimapia.org/ ?

I looked over the article and abstract, and note that they compared criminal psychopaths with non-criminal non-psychopaths.

The study seems to equate psychopathy with criminality; ie - they didn't compare non-criminal psychopaths with non-criminal normals, nor did they compare criminal-psychopaths with criminal-normal.

I strongly believe that psychopathy by itself is not a problem; only the immorality, and then only when the immorality leads to actions that hurt others. Psychopaths could learn and practice ethics through upbringing and/or training and would have few issues with society. Studies show that many corporate leaders score high on "psychopathic" behaviour.

There's a little-known aspect of people called mob mentality which causes people en-masse to act completely differently from their typically rational, self-interested way. People in mobs have been known to charge cannons and guns with no concern for their own well-being. This could be the empathy/mirror neurons acting to bring crowds of people together as a single organism.

A psychopath would be immune from this effect - they would be able to step back, assess the situation, and question the actions of the crowd. Possibly even stop the crowd or redirect it. A psychopath would be the one, lone voice in the lynch mob who shouts "why are we doing this? This is not who we are!" and possibly redirect the actions of the crowd.

Psychopaths may be important in society simply to keep our mirror neurons in check and make sure that society acts rationally (note: rational != ethical).

For reference, consider this guy. Admittedly brave as hell, but I wonder where he would score on the "psychopathic tendencies" spectrum.

I prefer wikimapia

Can someone please check my impact crater candidates? Maybe they have already been determined.

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Can someone please check my impact crater candidates? Maybe they have already been determined.

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• Number 2
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Can someone please check my impact crater candidates? Maybe they have already been determined.

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In Norway ?

http://wikimapia.org/1456524/Hell-Norway

Well, looking at the satellite map, could this object be the crashed double motor plane in the lagoon?

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-4.6792341&lon=-174.5047772&z=19&l=0&m=b

Wikimapia says the bomb range is here

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.474701,93.509531&spn=0.053604,0.132093&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

And the "odd / chemical" village is shown as the "Nice Village" :-)
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.1131328&lon=93.9937019&z=13&l=0&m=w

And Wikimapia tells us that it has been tagged 35 month ago. Not so new, it seems.

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.4375406&lon=93.5410309&z=12&l=0&m=b/
It says "Test target".

no it doesn't. not everyone wants to be julia roberts or another top tier star. they don't even make that much money after all the taxes and agent fees are accounted for.

You're right, I'll be she can barely scrape together the money make the payment on her $20 Million house in Malibu, or her two ~$4 Million apartments in Mahnattan. I just don't know how she survives.

I personally love roundabouts. As long as people signal and drive carefully (read: Properly) they are quite safe. Also they can help avoid clusterf*cks like http://wikimapia.org/1698209/Simms-Corner which is one of the most dangerous intersections I've ever had the pleasure of driving through.

Thanks for correction.

On a related note.
About the most radioactive object findable in the Chernobyl zone on the surface, available to tourists (as opposed to stuff buried deep or hidden in hard to access cellars, and other than the reactor sarcophagus itself) is a metal grabber used to extract/insert fuel rods in the reactor.

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.4013409&lon=30.0474089&z=19&l=28&m=b
http://oclab.pl/art/spinn/17_czarnobyl/czarnobyl_25_lat_pozniej_67.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5aDoVnF8B8

The radiation level by its surface is about 200-300 microsieverts/h. Meaning you'd have to sit in it for a month to get elevated risk of cancer.

Or...

http://wikimapia.org/

It probably isn't, but that sounds exactly like Selma, TX, back in the days before the town hall became a Hooters. Selma regularly made the annual "Top Ten Worst Speed Traps" list in one of those gearhead magazines (Car and Driver?), and for good reason. Though the town has grown up a lot since then, with much more revenue coming from a horse racing track, strip malls, and the aforementioned dry-hustle restaurant chain, the local LEO's still beat up on unaware drivers coming down that hill into town on I-35.

[citation needed]

No citation needed because what the GP claims (HF DF done by criminals) is impossible and unbelievable. HF DF requires huge installations ("elephant cages") and this technology is not available to many nations, let alone vagrants. VHF DF is theoretically doable with a man-portable equipment, but in practical terms it isn't. Besides, any DF in mountains will result in tons of multipath, so you need to be in an airplane if you want to perform DF with any hope for accuracy.

It is true that there may be danger present when you are out there. There may be danger from weather, from [lack of] luck, from poisonous plants, from dangerous animals ... and from people. People would be the last on your list, unless you hike in Central Park of NYC. Criminals are not entirely stupid, they don't wait for people in the middle of nowhere; and hikers aren't likely to have their diamond rings and thick wallets with them. Some hikers may be armed. The most dangerous place for a hiker is probably the sidewalk in front of his home.

To get a perspective on the Maldives, start here and then click to zoom in 14 times. I suggest opening the link in a new tab or window (Slashdot code won't let me make the link tag do that for you).

And now Taco will be sued.

After all everyone knows that he and Cowboy Neal are the only two Anonymous Cowards on SlashDot and this particular post has better spelling than Cowboy Neal's norm.

My advise to Slashdoters in the Chicago region. Start scraping together what cash you can. A lot of the properties managed by this moronic company will be on the market soon. Cheap.

On a side note, We have a residential facility named Horizon in Jamaica.

So they just ported Wikimapia?

Or... dare say, they're using Wikimapia itself?!

So they just ported Wikimapia?

Or... dare say, they're using Wikimapia itself?!

Not THE Claudette Colbert!
Her ghost still haunts a bus-station in Barbodos!
And Stephen Colbert holds seances there apparently!
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So if they did photograph the air force base then they basically broke the law and have been charged. What's the problem?

The problem is that the secret is already out. Wikimapia has a detailed photo of Jamnagar Air Force Base, the exact same base that these guys have been charged with taking photos of. Not only that, but metadata has been added that is obviously from people who work on the base - check out the Mig 29s, 28 squadron air force, Mig 21s, choppers, swimming pool, school, gymnasium, canteen; it's all there, even the very personal tag "SSQ (Anshu was born here 11 Dec 02)". The proud father who wrote that is going to be in trouble...

The engineers were initially arrested for GPS surveying - despite the fact that Google Maps appears to have quite a detailed map of Jamnagar (including the airforce base).

The fact that the police actually found some incriminating photos afterwards doesn't mean that the original arrest was reasonable - using a GPS device isn't a crime, and shouldn't give the police license to search the rest of your equipment looking for further evidence.

As to whether photographing an air force base should be a crime in the first place - let me introduce a detailed aerial photo of Jamnagar Air Force Base! Also try searching for Jamnagar AFB on Google images :-) You can't put the cat back in the bag, and this kind of inadvertent information leakage is exactly what I was talking about when I noted the conflict between the traditional secrecy of the military/government and cheap, accurate personal electronics.

Curtman. so you live in Toronto then, as it thinks its the center of Canada.

No. I very close to the longitudinal center of Canada. Not the imaginary political one.

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=37.8347044&lon=-122.1835095&z=19&l=0&m=a&v=2

A location which I visited with sadness.

-CS

If a structure doesn't have to be cost-effective or inhabitable, you can build almost anything with concrete. The most prominent example of this phenomenon is the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang.

Not inhabitable, certainly not cost-effective, but it is over a thousand feet of concrete structure and interesting in a creepy way.

Cue the "In Communist North Korea, concrete builds you!" jokes.

A photo gallery of Lituya Bay today it's a part of Glacier Bay National Park I'm awestruck by how beautiful GBNP is.

A wikimapia of Lituya Bay and a photo gallery from a local tour company, I'd love to go there one day.

Two sites that are fine examples of collaborative creation of maps and adding info to maps are:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/
A from scratch volunteer effort to map the world using GPS, as people visit places.

http://wikimapia.org/
An overlay on Google Maps where people can mark their landmarks and comment on others.

Really really nice efforts.

http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=38930337&x=-77219886&z =17&l=0&m=h&v=2

Check out the two CIA buildings in the center.

Now check their edit histories...

You could build a neat digital location tagging game, à la electronic geocaching...

Something like WikiMapia?

It's only one extra coordinate pair, and they're much more descriptive. You also don't have to store a zoom level, as you can calculate it with getBoundsZoomLevel. As used by wikimapia and photolibrary.

The link you posted to the picture of Spaghetti Junction wasn't the UK's SJ, it appears there's lots of complex junctions around the world that are known as Spaghetti Junction. I know Birmingham's Spaghetti (last went through it, twice, on Friday), and your link just didn't look right. This is the Birmingham one:
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=52511115&x=-1866367&zo =1&l=0&m=a&spnx=0.008592&spny=0.005932
And the Wikipedia article for completeness.

I do think though that complex motorways junctions will actiually be relatively easy to monitor: There's only a few possible places for vehicles to enter or exit the junction system, and vehicles cannot easily join/leave the closed motorway system lead up to and leaving SJ. The government would simply watch all entrances and exits, and as long as their system reports close to 100% successfully read the state'll be happy. A small town or village may have many more possible entrances or exits than Spaghetti, from an A-road or two, all the way down to public bridleways (though clearly major motorway hubs handle significantly more traffic and would be the first places the state would want to get tracking hardware installed).

Sorry to disappoint you, but for Russia it is much more logical to become ally with China

Just take a look at the map.

As to the joining NATO: Clinton's Russia specialist Strobe Talbot put it in his memoir "The Russia Hand," NATO expansion is inevitably seen by Russians as spearheading a U.S. strategy "to replace their influence and exploit the vast oil and gas resources of the Caspian Sea basin." NATO Expansion May Prove a Fateful Error

the site of the jonestown massacre is censored on google earth. You don't need to go to China.

According to http://wikimapia.org/#y=48857205&x=10211020&z=14&l =0&m=a, it's only a big bug.

The term geotagging is being slightly misused by Flickr in my opinion.

For some real geomapping (and a great way to waste time), see Wikimapia which lets you tag Google Maps.

www.wikimapia.org

"I agree that Wikipedia has trouble dealing with locations"
Try wikimapia -- it's like a wiki mixed with google maps.