Yes, because when life safety and big money is on the line, our first action is to introduce MORE fragile complexity that only benefits a held-harmless 3rd party who's sole goal is to insert themselves into our revenue stream.
> Those people know what they're doing, they know they're storing even "deleted" data and they know they're building very detailed profiles on every user.
Kind of makes you wonder what happens if Facebook hires a Scientologist.
Yes, wholly uncivil. Meanwhile, you appear to suffer from a severely myopic persecution complex.
Last I checked, most IP trolls aren't interested in what is civil or reasonable, either. In fact, some already have tried to claim ownership of a simple number. You clearly did not know this if you missed the joke. How convenient that you call someone a **AA shill, and then completely forget that such entities exist.
You also don't seem to be very "up" on international Intellectual Property treaties that are in force, or are being negotiated.
> great significance in a discussion of the FCC implementation of US net neutrality rules.
It wasn't supposed to be. As opposed to "I can guarantee that the website I run has no illegal content, "because a website uses HTTP, and HTTP ".
No need to reply, you've demonstrated what you are. Have a great day, anyway.
Like hell. I happen to own the copyright to the number 0x65, which happens to be a secret key, and you're distributing it. Luckily, I don't need to tell you about this - I only need to tell your provider. Start packing, buddy.
Also, just because your website is legal *here* does not mean it's legal in The People's Republic of Zabundi. The Zabundi Grand Council has stated numerous times that your site is grossly illegal due to the forbidden topics you mention, and would arrest you on the spot if it had an extradition treaty with anyone.
No, VBBs will never eclipse my concept of real life "Pop-up Billboards" on interstates and highways. Well, once we figure out the whole "windshield replacement" thing.
> Show the area as it existed at some time in the past
Already done and buried here in NY. It was a nice concept, but the base maps are wrong, the GPS isn't accurate enough, the compasses are totally crap (go play with a star map AR viewer some time), the facility maps are wrong anyway, and the facility depths are always changing with erosion and landscaping.
An excavator is typically required to hand-dig / vacuum excavate within 24 inches of a marking, and will use a backhoe right up to that point. Considering the stacked errors and different mapping accuracies and coordinate systems involved... you'll be lucky to get 5 meter accuracy on your best day. And then there's the large quantity of plastic pipe that's been buried with no tracer wire. Nobody knows where that crap is, nor will they find it without GPR. Same with drainage, sewer and culverts, CATV drops - none of that stuff is typically mapped.
People often mistake how inaccurate GIS systems are, and don't understand the implications of that inaccuracy. They see it used for 911 and fire trucks and whatever, but GIS in the Facility Location World is not the same as 911 routing. 911 does NOT use the map to decide IF an ambulance will be dispatched - it merely decides WHICH. Make sure you read and understand that statement - while totally obvious, many people don't get it. Especially the map providers. More, the ambulance does NOT go home if it reaches the exact long-lat of the call and finds nothing. The ambulance will help the screaming people who are one inch outside the perimeter of where they claimed they'd be. In that sense, 911 GIS does not require any more accuracy than Pizza Delivery - and Pizza Delivery Accuracy is exactly what most maps have.
Facility location is different. If the geo lookup says there's no facility under the exact dirt you're referencing, then no utilities are sent to mark anything. The device you've proposed is asking a very simple question - "can I drive this bucket five feet into the dirt, HERE, yes or no." That question can tolerate about six inches of total error on a good day. Wrong? You're dead.
This may sound silly from a myopic "google maps" perspective - but in places with no landmarks, or with callers who have no idea where they are, or facility owners with no clue where their stuff is (water companies, DPWs, sewer, etc) - facility location stops being about where the facilities are. Facility location becomes a process of proving where the facilities are NOT. In that sense, the 811 centers must hedge the facility location data with every place a person might say they are, when they're actually somewhere else. "We're a half mile from the intersection". Yeah, sure you are. "We're digging on the right side of the street." Uh, seriously, NSEW? "Ok, and which direction are you facing when you say that?" "Oh, I'm facing the left side." Facility mapping is little better - "water line runs 1500 feet along river edge and turns right at oak tree.", circa 1966. "Chart shows the gas line under the lawn, so replacing the sidewalk should be clear." "You know they widened the road two years ago, right?"
That is the general case that must be covered on every single call. And as I said, AR is a neat concept that does not cover it - the base maps are wrong, the GPS does not have the six inch accuracy needed, the stupid "compass" sensor can't truly figure out which way you're actually facing most of the time, and the facility maps either don't exist, are wrong, or are relative to a different coord system and accuracy. The result would be an anecdotal curiosity, at best. No reasonable person would actually base a LIFE SAFETY decision upon it. About the closest you can get to such a thing is the head-tracking system on a directional bore - and even that takes a magician to make work, and that's with active sensing.
I have a scanner in my office, to hear what's happening in the county on fire and police bands. Probably 4? years ago, city dispatch alerted a police officer that a "reported suspicious vehicle" would soon be passing his location on the interstate. "Onstar says the driver normally exits at Geddes Street, will hang a right onto Belden Ave, and normally parks with the engine running, in the 1200 block of West Belden Ave."
I wouldn't have paid much attention, except for that whole "normally" thing. And I'm not sure about police parlance, but "reported suspicious vehicle" does not carry the same "due process" implication as "suspect" or "suspect vehicle". Regardless, time passed and the rest was a fairly predictable outcome:
"Onstar says the car has stopped and has just been put into park in front of xxx Belden Ave, doors have not been opened yet. They want to know if you want them to flash any lights for you."
...is having an address that retards accidentally use as their own - e.g. if you were to score the address, "fred@gmail.com".
Very soon you discover that few "opt in" companies actually verify that you own the address you're submitting - and more, you discover that there's no provision to get out of it, unless you know the account name/pass.
> It costs X to do something. It costs X plus a reasonable profit to get someone else to do X....over and over again, you see post after post about people getting groped by blue handed agents who don't want to be there.
That means it is TRIVIAL to make profit since they will staff the checkpoints with illegal Mexicans who DO want to be there, for less.
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I'm pretty sure they'll run out of eyes long before then.
Meanwhile, assassination is NOW...? What rock have you been living under for the past 200 years?
Scientologists completely agree with you. Nothing to see, here. It doesn't facilitate anything, better.
My pics on a certain dating site don't show my face!
Is that you, Congressman?
You mean it spat out a pile of Liefeld comics?
Yes, because when life safety and big money is on the line, our first action is to introduce MORE fragile complexity that only benefits a held-harmless 3rd party who's sole goal is to insert themselves into our revenue stream.
Reality much?
"It seems that Oracle's inability to play well with others is locking them out of the multipolar future"
Sounds great in my book. I might actually buy some of their crap just to encourage them to keep going.
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Oct/56
Never forget it.
That argument would have merit if they weren't selling 5-Laptop hotspots.
No kidding. The 1980s just called, they want their VT100s back.
When you say "exceptions", you're clearly excluding Airbus in your history, yes?
> Those people know what they're doing, they know they're storing even "deleted" data and they know they're building very detailed profiles on every user.
Kind of makes you wonder what happens if Facebook hires a Scientologist.
Yes, wholly uncivil. Meanwhile, you appear to suffer from a severely myopic persecution complex.
Last I checked, most IP trolls aren't interested in what is civil or reasonable, either. In fact, some already have tried to claim ownership of a simple number. You clearly did not know this if you missed the joke. How convenient that you call someone a **AA shill, and then completely forget that such entities exist.
You also don't seem to be very "up" on international Intellectual Property treaties that are in force, or are being negotiated.
> great significance in a discussion of the FCC implementation of US net neutrality rules.
It wasn't supposed to be. As opposed to "I can guarantee that the website I run has no illegal content, "because a website uses HTTP, and HTTP ".
No need to reply, you've demonstrated what you are. Have a great day, anyway.
No, he had Yet Another iPhone5 prototype... and he's merely the world's first victim of Holding It Wrong 2.0(tm).
Like hell. I happen to own the copyright to the number 0x65, which happens to be a secret key, and you're distributing it. Luckily, I don't need to tell you about this - I only need to tell your provider. Start packing, buddy.
Also, just because your website is legal *here* does not mean it's legal in The People's Republic of Zabundi. The Zabundi Grand Council has stated numerous times that your site is grossly illegal due to the forbidden topics you mention, and would arrest you on the spot if it had an extradition treaty with anyone.
That would be a homeLESS office in his box, you insensitive clod.
Well, she has to make certain she wasn't holding the card wrong.
No, VBBs will never eclipse my concept of real life "Pop-up Billboards" on interstates and highways. Well, once we figure out the whole "windshield replacement" thing.
> Show the area as it existed at some time in the past
This: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-ghosts-of-world-war-iis
Utterly fantastic, and terrifying in some cases.
Already done and buried here in NY. It was a nice concept, but the base maps are wrong, the GPS isn't accurate enough, the compasses are totally crap (go play with a star map AR viewer some time), the facility maps are wrong anyway, and the facility depths are always changing with erosion and landscaping.
An excavator is typically required to hand-dig / vacuum excavate within 24 inches of a marking, and will use a backhoe right up to that point. Considering the stacked errors and different mapping accuracies and coordinate systems involved... you'll be lucky to get 5 meter accuracy on your best day. And then there's the large quantity of plastic pipe that's been buried with no tracer wire. Nobody knows where that crap is, nor will they find it without GPR. Same with drainage, sewer and culverts, CATV drops - none of that stuff is typically mapped.
People often mistake how inaccurate GIS systems are, and don't understand the implications of that inaccuracy. They see it used for 911 and fire trucks and whatever, but GIS in the Facility Location World is not the same as 911 routing. 911 does NOT use the map to decide IF an ambulance will be dispatched - it merely decides WHICH. Make sure you read and understand that statement - while totally obvious, many people don't get it. Especially the map providers.
More, the ambulance does NOT go home if it reaches the exact long-lat of the call and finds nothing. The ambulance will help the screaming people who are one inch outside the perimeter of where they claimed they'd be. In that sense, 911 GIS does not require any more accuracy than Pizza Delivery - and Pizza Delivery Accuracy is exactly what most maps have.
Facility location is different. If the geo lookup says there's no facility under the exact dirt you're referencing, then no utilities are sent to mark anything. The device you've proposed is asking a very simple question - "can I drive this bucket five feet into the dirt, HERE, yes or no." That question can tolerate about six inches of total error on a good day. Wrong? You're dead.
This may sound silly from a myopic "google maps" perspective - but in places with no landmarks, or with callers who have no idea where they are, or facility owners with no clue where their stuff is (water companies, DPWs, sewer, etc) - facility location stops being about where the facilities are. Facility location becomes a process of proving where the facilities are NOT. In that sense, the 811 centers must hedge the facility location data with every place a person might say they are, when they're actually somewhere else. "We're a half mile from the intersection". Yeah, sure you are. "We're digging on the right side of the street." Uh, seriously, NSEW? "Ok, and which direction are you facing when you say that?" "Oh, I'm facing the left side." Facility mapping is little better - "water line runs 1500 feet along river edge and turns right at oak tree.", circa 1966. "Chart shows the gas line under the lawn, so replacing the sidewalk should be clear." "You know they widened the road two years ago, right?"
That is the general case that must be covered on every single call. And as I said, AR is a neat concept that does not cover it - the base maps are wrong, the GPS does not have the six inch accuracy needed, the stupid "compass" sensor can't truly figure out which way you're actually facing most of the time, and the facility maps either don't exist, are wrong, or are relative to a different coord system and accuracy. The result would be an anecdotal curiosity, at best. No reasonable person would actually base a LIFE SAFETY decision upon it. About the closest you can get to such a thing is the head-tracking system on a directional bore - and even that takes a magician to make work, and that's with active sensing.
Uhm, as opposed to the GIANT YELLOW SIGNS AND MARKERS that are posted all along it?
That's nothing.
I have a scanner in my office, to hear what's happening in the county on fire and police bands. Probably 4? years ago, city dispatch alerted a police officer that a "reported suspicious vehicle" would soon be passing his location on the interstate. "Onstar says the driver normally exits at Geddes Street, will hang a right onto Belden Ave, and normally parks with the engine running, in the 1200 block of West Belden Ave."
I wouldn't have paid much attention, except for that whole "normally" thing. And I'm not sure about police parlance, but "reported suspicious vehicle" does not carry the same "due process" implication as "suspect" or "suspect vehicle". Regardless, time passed and the rest was a fairly predictable outcome:
"Onstar says the car has stopped and has just been put into park in front of xxx Belden Ave, doors have not been opened yet. They want to know if you want them to flash any lights for you."
"Normally". What an interesting word.
...is having an address that retards accidentally use as their own - e.g. if you were to score the address, "fred@gmail.com".
Very soon you discover that few "opt in" companies actually verify that you own the address you're submitting - and more, you discover that there's no provision to get out of it, unless you know the account name/pass.
Even better! They'll get subsidies for hiring ex-con illegal Mexican immigrant sex offenders! Perfect!
That, and combine the failing USPS with this new service, and you'll have the ultimate solution for handling *everybody's* packages! Profits galore!
Heh.
TSA Agents!
Actually, it's the USPS that should be eliminated, and from then on the TSA could finally live their dream of handling EVERYONE's packages.
NO,
> It costs X to do something. It costs X plus a reasonable profit to get someone else to do X. ...over and over again, you see post after post about people getting groped by blue handed agents who don't want to be there.
That means it is TRIVIAL to make profit since they will staff the checkpoints with illegal Mexicans who DO want to be there, for less.
Oh hell... HP? Is that you?