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coreymetrics writes "Anyone have one of these things? While it's no substitute for an improved mass-transit solution in the Puget Sound area, TrafficGauge's new gadget sure looks like it beats any PDA or cell phone auto traffic map I've used. It uses the same data that powers the Washington State DOT's indispensable website. Now why can't auto makers put this kind of thing in a dash instead of mostly worthless GPS navigation and DVD units?"
"How would you feel if your webmaster maliciously took your web-site offline, then, when you demanded its return, put up a site attacking your company at your old URL? It happened to a group I was involved in, the Censorware Project, currently at http://www.censorware.net. The purpose of this essay is to put the behavior on record, and to give you some impressions and inferences about it."
- excerpted from censorware.net
Thanks a bunch! IIS complain? No... it is the best product Microsoft has ever released. Oh wait, that says a lot.:)
Let's-put and-End to-this unnecessarily-generous-hyphenage!
GIVE ME KURO%HIN BACK AND WHY IS RUSTY USING THE OLD MOD_PERL ERROR PAGE WE HAD A FRONT PAGE POLL FOR LIKE A MONTH AND IT WAS DETERMINED THE TERRORISTS WOULD BE REFERRED TO ON THAT SITE AS THE PARTY RESPONSIBLE.
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
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Slashdot@W32.MM has attacked a IIS-based server. Uses common DOS attacks to kill a targetted server.
Yeah, all you idiots who waste time reloading the page for first post, I just saved shitloads of time and accomplished the same thing: posting absolute garbage. Trolling be damned.
Supposedly the Audi navigation systems were going to support this as well...as early as 1999 or 2000 in the US, but to my knowledge they're still not doing it; I have no idea about the euro units. I think it was mostly an infrastructure problem- either lack or incompatibility.
I haven't heard that before from Audi. But Audi has always been an innovator and on the leading edge of technology. Did you know the Audi A8 has an all-aluminum body? And Audi's been doing all-aluminum bodied cars for over 10 years now? very cool.
Honestly, I question the value of such information in the first place. Rarely are other routes unblocked, at least here in Boston. You're pretty much screwed no matter which way you go. If that wasn't enough, they randomly close/open exits due to the massive construction(the Big Dig), and in the last 6-12 months, lots of big changes have been going on as new tunnels and exchanges open(which is going to wreak havoc with people with old databases for their nav systems!)
Seems like it would be more useful in some cities than in others. I'm in DC and there are several different highways and/or bridges that I could choose to use to get from point A to point B. I use different routes depending on what time of day it is, but having real-time traffic maps would be great for the DC area and all it's traffic problems.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Anytime you're moving and your eyes aren't on the road, you're putting yourself and everyone around you at much greater risk. When my regime rises to power, everyone will be required to ride a motorcycle for 1 year as their only motor vehicle before getting a license for a car. Weed out the bad drivers...
Amen. I just want to kill people when I see some dumb bitch soccer mom driving a Hummer or Expedition and yapping on a cell phone. She can't drive for shit to begin with, but add the poor visibility and bad handling of an SUV with the distraction of the cell phone, and that's why we have so many traffic accidents (and therefore so much traffic).
Or some fat slob chumping on a Big Mac in his crappy wife-made-me-get-it minivan while on the highway.
Damn that pisses me off.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Sorry, I had to add you to my foes list due to your ignorant and inflamatory sig. You are unfortunately one of those irrational extremist left-wing people. I feel sorry for you.
Did you know the Audi A8 has an all-aluminum body?
...ho hum....
You mean like the Ford/AC Cobra, back in 1965? Or the Land Rover?
A CARCASS OF GIANT SEA MONSTER FOUND ON A SHORE OF CHILE
Whale-Size Mystery Creature Washes Ashore in Chile
John Roach
for National Geographic News
July 3, 2003
A mysterious, 41-foot-long and 19-foot-wide (12.4-meters by 5.4-meters) gelatinous mass of flesh washed ashore in southern Chile serves as reminder that the sea may be full of creatures yet discovered by humankind.
The creature was first thought to be a dead whale when it appeared last week on the coast near the town of Puerto Montt, but scientists who went to inspect the creature determined it was an invertebrate, or spineless, creature
"It had a very particular smell, very different from a dead cetacean and from anything we have smelled before," said Elsa Cabrera, director of the Center for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago, Chile.
After showing images of the fleshy blob to an Italian zoologist and comparing them to reports from a stranding off the coast of Florida in 1896, Cabrera said that the decomposing fleshy blob is most likely a giant octopus (Octopus giganteus).
The Center for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago is sending skin samples to Chilean and international organizations to try and identify the species, which was originally discovered by the Chilean Navy floating alongside a dead humpback whale.
"If the analysis confirms the finding of a giant octopus, this will be a major scientific finding for the Chilean and international scientific community, and it will be one step forward to increase our knowledge about the incredible creatures that are still unknown to humans," said Cabrera.
Whale Skin?
Steve Webster, a marine biologist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, was one of the scientists contacted by the organization and shown a photograph of the specimen.
"Based on what I see in the picture, I would opt for whale skin since that is a part of world where whales are not uncommon," he said.
Webster also said that reports describing the specimen as both leathery and gelatinous were conflicting. If it is indeed leathery, he said, it is most likely a whale skin. But if it is more gelatinous, then it could be something else. One possibility is a giant salp, a deep-sea fish known as a pyrosome.
The possibility that it might be a giant squid does not make much sense to Webster.
"If it is skin of squid rather than a big intact sheet like that, you would expect to see some indication that it once had arms or tentacles--and I dont see anything that speaks to that," he said. "And for just a body of a squid to be that big, then you are talking about a squid that is larger than any known to man. That seems less likely to me than whale skin."
Cabrera said that she does not believe the blob is a whale because the texture, smell, and coloring are different from known decomposing whales.
"We also consulted experts from the National Museum of Natural History that confirmed to us that when a whale decomposes at sea, the smell and texture of its blubber and skin are still recognizable," she said.
Giant Squid?
William Gilly, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who has studied the behavior and biology of squid for more than two decades, said that the creature as described in news reports was a mystery to him, but that it could be a giant squid.
"Over the last few years they've found several big sorts of new species of squid that were surprises or extra-colossal-size specimens of species previously known," he said.
There is much to be learned about giant squid, said Gilly. For example, little is known about their habits. Scientists with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC suspect that giant squid mostly live at depths of 660 to 2,300 feet (200 to 700 meters).
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