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Plow Operators Object to GPS Tracking System
An anonymous reader writes "The Boston Globe is reporting on a dispute between private plowing contractors and the state highway department. The state has mandated all trucks to equip with GPS enabled cellphones for tracking. The drivers have refused, just in time for a big winter storm. The latest seems to be that they have reached a compromise (no details yet), but the dispute highlights the public safety versus employee privacy issue. Presumably plowing could be more efficient and possibly save lives during storms if the trucks could be tracked.. a good thing. Or is this simply a step closer to an Orwellian society, where the State knows where we all are?" This earlier story does a much better job of detailing their grievances - apparently it's about money as much as anything, with the GPS tracking system being only a secondary issue.
And moderators need at least a little sense of humor.
O, well...
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Really.
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ha ha
I just read the article so I could prove you wrong, but I found nothing!
The word "privacy" doesn't appear even once. The word "private" appears twice, but both times are refering to "private companies". Orwell etc. isn't mentioned anywhere..
etc. etc. michael must have a quota of articles to post.
Come over to the dark side Luke...
Every day America becomes closer to totalitarism. Even closer than we (russians) were in 1900's. You haven't learned our lessons.
Well done, you've discovered the Magic SysRq key. Nice try idiot, jump for the cookie!
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by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 30, @12:01PM (#7592801)
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eating it/at all? (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 30, @10:02AM (#7592314)
?eating? in 3rd wwworld countries, for example
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see you there? tell 'em robbIE?
A couple of years ago here in Pennsylvania there was an entertaining little worker's compensation claim. The injury itself is immaterial. The entertaining part is what was discovered during the investigation.
A female employee of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation enjoyed giving oral sex. Not surprisingly, a great many male employees enjoyed receiving it. She would park her truck out in the woods, and all day long, PennDOT employees would pull into the woods for a bit of a relief from a stressful day.
I'm not saying all PennDOT employees are screw offs, but there are enough people not doing their jobs in the department that it makes sense to track what they are doing during time when they are on the clock. If a computer programmer leaves his desk in the middle of day, his boss asks where he's going.
We need this in PA.
I don't know about yall... but I'm from BumFuk Georgia , USA... and I'm sick of plows/tractors on the roads, hiways, and sh1t going 25 in a 75. Anything to keep them where they are supposed to be is fine with me... Orwellian or not...
;-) At 7 in the morning, they are hungover, and they think driving at 25 on a hiway is funny. You think I'm joking... but when I was 17, before I started writing code, I worked with these guys on the weekends grading asphalt, so I know... heh.
A tractor and/or plow is meant as a utility vehicle, period, only. Anything to keep track of thier movements can only be good. Because the guys that drive them are freakin rednecks, and I'm related to most of them so I know what they are capable of...