Salient facts from the video:
- the car owner uses an access card to get in and a pin to retrieve the car
- The garage holds 312 car on 7 levels
- there are 14 movements possible at the same time
- it shows the operator console (can't make out much detail from it)
- No tipping required
The other thing that's clear is there are some folks here who have no idea what it costs to develop software and to do anything (like putting someone up in a hotel while on-site) in New York City and vicinity. The disputed license fee works out to less than $20/month per parking space. Typical parking rates in Hoboken's garages are $20-$40 per day. http://www.hobokeni.com/park_lots.asp
Anticpating the... "But down here in Texas we can park on the street for free!... boy are those Yankees stupid".... Okay, but how is that relevant? It's a long commute daily from Texas to Manhattan.
A really interesting question... Since Reuters now has released the pre-Photoshopped version, did they have both versions all along? - indicating the photoshopping was done within Reuters. The only other explanation would be that the photographer gave Reuters the original after he was caught to try to defend his work - which seems a bit unlikely given how balatant the image manipulation was.
If the submitter lived in England, he would have spelled it neighbourhood, no?
Also interesting that the phrase "our harrassment" was not in quotes, which if I was on the jury I would interpret as admitting to harrassing the old man as part of their "day to day activities" which is also stated as happening before the man installed the device ("get back at us")...
Trust me - you'll be an old man yourself a lot sooner than you think (if you live long enough).
"In a meeting yesterday morning at the company's Dulles headquarters, chief executive Jonathan Miller told employees that 5,000 of the company's 19,000 worldwide positions would be eliminated."
By selling off the AOL business in the.uk, France and Germany, that eliminates AOL positions... but whether the people are laid off or not will be up to the telcos that acquire AOL Europe.
So for the anti-American haters on SlashDot, most of the layoffs are on you! Enjoy!
(German unemployment rate: 10.6% US Unemployment rate: 4.8%)
Actually, being a bit more specific.... around 1995ish, AOL opened their portal into Usenet. While they didn't promote Usenet to their members (they preferred that AOL users stay inside the AOL castle where it generated hourly connect charges and ad revenue), a small percentage of AOL users did wander out into the Dangerous World Outside AOL of Usenet. However, a small percentage of a large number is still a lot of people.
The legend of "Me too" is based on a thread in a porn group in usenet, where someone posted a message something like "If you would like to receive free porn in your mailbox, send me your email address"... which was followed by someone posting to the newsgroup with a message of "Send me the free porn!" followed by a large number of (mostly) AOL users saying "Me too!" asking for the free pr0n.
Or so the legend goes... Probably if one wanted to spend the time, you could find it in the Google Groups archive. Beyond a certain point, it just became non-AOL users mocking the people who used AOL as being not intelligent or computer-saavy to be allowed to express their opinions on Usenet. Shortly after that, news.new-users.questions was made a moderated newsgroup because of too much "noise"... (not really from AOL - more that the Internet started to become availabe globally and millions of people were logging on without conforming to the required rules of netiquette).
Just curious - if any slashdotters still read Usenet - since AOL pulled the plug on their Usenet service a year or so ago, has anyone noticed any changes in Usenet activity?
Apparently you did not read the story (so what else is new) or even the summary...
The police were called in because the kids were not merely "climbing the tree" - they were breaking off all the branches in order to "build a den".
The quote from the police supervisor:
Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour.
You do want to protect the environment, don't you?
If ICANN's function was taken over by the UN, how would they deal with China demanding that the.tw TLD be deleted?
When Arab countries demand that.il be deleted because there is no such country as Israel. Just look at the map on the wall.
When Israel demands that the.ps TLD not be named "Occupied Palestinian Territories"
What happens when a group in Kurdistan claims sovereignty and demands its own TLD?
When some country in Africa complains that http: needs to be translated to Swahili instead of using an acronym based on a language of one of the European colonizers - in order to express their cultural identity and further the process of decolonization...
I look forward to Unicode encoded URLs. You think the internet has problems now...
Slashdot's Owners might want to consider making it a requirement that the submitter provide a direct link to the actual source of their "stories"... This is not the first time that a story is 5th hand information that is grossly wrong - only interesting because the accumulated errors or misstatement of facts create a false story that is "red meat" for the Slashdot groupthink.
Submitter says "I saw on a web site that another web says they got a press release from a company saying that France Telecom is buying some of our stuff" is *not* a reliable source. Show me the original press release on the France Telecom web site that says "X" - now you have a useful story.
Possibly not a coincidence, France Telecom reported its earnings today. This could have been nothing more than an attempt to manipulate the stock price based on erroneous information.
The title of this article as well as its description is wrong and misleading (and no I'm not all that new here)...
The issue of the lawsuit was not "Wiretapping" - it was Call Detail Records.
A Call Detail Record says "This Phone Number called that Phone Number at this time and the call lasted this long. Their primary purpose (especially for a long distance company like AT&T (pre SBC merger)) is for billing purposes.
A *wiretap* is the government listening to or recording the *Content* of your phone calls. Those are very different things.
Surely if you believe in stamping out vote fraud, then we can count on your support in requiring voters in Federal Elections to present a State issued photo ID that required proof of US Citizenship to obtain - right?
The submitter should have pointed out that Telus is a *Canadian* ISP, and US laws and legal princicples would not apply to whatever the contract issue is. They probably assumed that all slashdotters know that.
MySpace pulled out the plug on their server in order to plug in Michael Moore's electric car.
Given the week+ long power outages in Saint Louis and Queens (in New York City) and Westchester County(NY), do we need any more evidence that the US electrical system is not prepared to add in the load of millions of plugin electric cars?
We need to solve the first problems first... The massive power outage that cascaded from Ohia and Indiana, through Ontario, and knocked off the entire Northeast US in August 2003 for days was a big wakeup call.
So the people who have been trying for decades to shut down the Indian Point nuclear power point - where do they think the power is going to come from to power the central air conditioning in their mansions? The Electricity Fairy?
On an even more off topic aside, these people in Westchester County (and Fairfield County CT) are the same people who opposed spraying insecticides to kill mosquitoes when West Nile virus was first detected across the East River from the United Nations and when the disease might have been eradicated completely. As a result of that "conservative" approach to controlling the Virus, West Nile has now spread nationwide and has now killed at least 771 people, including 119 people in the US in 2005 (not to mention the huge number of birds and horses that have suffered horrible deaths).
The closest the FBI comes to having that power is they can ask for a Federal Arrest Warrant if the suspect has crossed state lines or attempts to leave the country to flee prosecution or confinement.
This is the relevant FAQ question about this precise issue which seems to have fired up the anti-Bush moonbats:
"Can I obtain detailed information about a current FBI investigation I see in the news?
No. Such information is protected from public disclosure, in accordance with current law and DOJ and FBI policy. This policy preserves the integrity of the investigation and the privacy of individuals involved in the investigation prior to any public charging for violations of the law. It also serves to protect the rights of people not yet charged with a crime."
If you took the time to RTFA (well, actually a blog), it mentions:
"I got in contact with a spokesperson for the FBI's New York field office, who confirmed that the FBI had executed one arrest warrant without incident at around 4 p.m. ET today at the Hotel Pennsylvania where HOPE Six is behind held."
So the FBI *DID* have a warrant which would have stated the reason for the arrest.
By "someone", are you thinking the person who has been arrested has a right to be told - or that *you* (someone not involved with the case) has a right to know? Those are two very different things.
*You* have no right to know what is in a sealed court document that does not involve you.
The term you are thinking of is "Habeas Corpus".... that a person cannot be held for an unreasonable time without being informed of the basis of their detention and offered reasonable bail. IANAL.
If you can find something in that "goddamned piece of paper" that says otherwise, please cite your fact.
If they built in the assumption that the electricity was generated by nuclear power (or pixie dust)... they could claim that they caused no CO2 effect.
Has this White Paper been published in any journals and subjected to peer review?
A few days ago, the New York Times ran a feature about how the New York City water system is going to have to spend billions of dollars to deal with clay sediments starting to get to unacceptable levels in the watershed where they draw the water from.
Some of the solutions involve drawing water from only the top layer of the lake and letting the water stay in the lakes longer as a way to settle out the particles. The story specifically mentioned that their current solution - which involves dumping alum into the lakes to cause the clay particles to clump together - means having to incur big costs and environmental damage from having to dredge the lakes behind their dams. You can get away with it for decades, but not centuries.
Weren't the Hydro Quebec hydro projects more than a bit controversial with environmentals and native tribes whose land was flooded in order to build them?
Slashdot Mirror
It's not a "company" video.... it is a story than CNN did on this garage in Hoboken done by Jeanie Moost.
http://www.robopark.com/video/cnn_bb.wmv
is the direct URL.
Salient facts from the video:
- the car owner uses an access card to get in and a pin to retrieve the car
- The garage holds 312 car on 7 levels
- there are 14 movements possible at the same time
- it shows the operator console (can't make out much detail from it)
- No tipping required
The other thing that's clear is there are some folks here who have no idea what it costs to develop software and to do anything (like putting someone up in a hotel while on-site) in New York City and vicinity. The disputed license fee works out to less than $20/month per parking space. Typical parking rates in Hoboken's garages are $20-$40 per day.
http://www.hobokeni.com/park_lots.asp
Anticpating the... "But down here in Texas we can park on the street for free!... boy are those Yankees stupid".... Okay, but how is that relevant? It's a long commute daily from Texas to Manhattan.
A really interesting question... Since Reuters now has released the pre-Photoshopped version, did they have both versions all along? - indicating the photoshopping was done within Reuters. The only other explanation would be that the photographer gave Reuters the original after he was caught to try to defend his work - which seems a bit unlikely given how balatant the image manipulation was.
Management by proxy?
If the submitter lived in England, he would have spelled it neighbourhood, no?
Also interesting that the phrase "our harrassment" was not in quotes, which if I was on the jury I would interpret as admitting to harrassing the old man as part of their "day to day activities" which is also stated as happening before the man installed the device ("get back at us")...
Trust me - you'll be an old man yourself a lot sooner than you think (if you live long enough).
That's a really important point.... Time/Warner used language that is quite misleading (and slashdot's editors ate it up of course)...
c le/2006/08/03/AR2006080301401.html
.uk, France and Germany, that eliminates AOL positions... but whether the people are laid off or not will be up to the telcos that acquire AOL Europe.
Time Warner is currently in the final phase of negotations to sell off its AOL European operations, which have about 3,000 employees...
What Time Warner said was they expected to have about 5,000 fewer AOL employees *worldwide* within six months. Here is the quote from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
"In a meeting yesterday morning at the company's Dulles headquarters, chief executive Jonathan Miller told employees that 5,000 of the company's 19,000 worldwide positions would be eliminated."
By selling off the AOL business in the
So for the anti-American haters on SlashDot, most of the layoffs are on you! Enjoy!
(German unemployment rate: 10.6% US Unemployment rate: 4.8%)
Actually, being a bit more specific.... around 1995ish, AOL opened their portal into Usenet. While they didn't promote Usenet to their members (they preferred that AOL users stay inside the AOL castle where it generated hourly connect charges and ad revenue), a small percentage of AOL users did wander out into the Dangerous World Outside AOL of Usenet. However, a small percentage of a large number is still a lot of people.
The legend of "Me too" is based on a thread in a porn group in usenet, where someone posted a message something like "If you would like to receive free porn in your mailbox, send me your email address"... which was followed by someone posting to the newsgroup with a message of "Send me the free porn!" followed by a large number of (mostly) AOL users saying "Me too!" asking for the free pr0n.
Or so the legend goes... Probably if one wanted to spend the time, you could find it in the Google Groups archive. Beyond a certain point, it just became non-AOL users mocking the people who used AOL as being not intelligent or computer-saavy to be allowed to express their opinions on Usenet. Shortly after that, news.new-users.questions was made a moderated newsgroup because of too much "noise"... (not really from AOL - more that the Internet started to become availabe globally and millions of people were logging on without conforming to the required rules of netiquette).
Just curious - if any slashdotters still read Usenet - since AOL pulled the plug on their Usenet service a year or so ago, has anyone noticed any changes in Usenet activity?
"Regular expressions (regex to their friends) are an incredibly powerful addition to most programmer's personal toolkit of techniques"
Can you cite a source?
Since NBC purchased Telemundo, can we trust NBC to report objectively on illegal immigration through the porous Mexican border?
Apparently you did not read the story (so what else is new) or even the summary...
The police were called in because the kids were not merely "climbing the tree" - they were breaking off all the branches in order to "build a den".
The quote from the police supervisor:
Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour.
You do want to protect the environment, don't you?
It puts their DNA into a database so if they do something more "anti-social" in the future, they will have their DNA sample on file.
Not saying whether that is good or bad - just answering your question.
I'm going to sign up now to take courses in ASP, C# and .NET
and I could or could not care less or care more if you care.
Is Taiwan a sovereign country?
.tw TLD be deleted?
.il be deleted because there is no such country as Israel. Just look at the map on the wall.
.ps TLD not be named "Occupied Palestinian Territories"
If ICANN's function was taken over by the UN, how would they deal with China demanding that the
When Arab countries demand that
When Israel demands that the
What happens when a group in Kurdistan claims sovereignty and demands its own TLD?
When some country in Africa complains that http: needs to be translated to Swahili instead of using an acronym based on a language of one of the European colonizers - in order to express their cultural identity and further the process of decolonization...
I look forward to Unicode encoded URLs. You think the internet has problems now...
Time to pop some popcorn.
Slashdot's Owners might want to consider making it a requirement that the submitter provide a direct link to the actual source of their "stories"... This is not the first time that a story is 5th hand information that is grossly wrong - only interesting because the accumulated errors or misstatement of facts create a false story that is "red meat" for the Slashdot groupthink.
Submitter says "I saw on a web site that another web says they got a press release from a company saying that France Telecom is buying some of our stuff" is *not* a reliable source. Show me the original press release on the France Telecom web site that says "X" - now you have a useful story.
Possibly not a coincidence, France Telecom reported its earnings today. This could have been nothing more than an attempt to manipulate the stock price based on erroneous information.
The title of this article as well as its description is wrong and misleading (and no I'm not all that new here)...
The issue of the lawsuit was not "Wiretapping" - it was Call Detail Records.
A Call Detail Record says "This Phone Number called that Phone Number at this time and the call lasted this long. Their primary purpose (especially for a long distance company like AT&T (pre SBC merger)) is for billing purposes.
A *wiretap* is the government listening to or recording the *Content* of your phone calls. Those are very different things.
Surely if you believe in stamping out vote fraud, then we can count on your support in requiring voters in Federal Elections to present a State issued photo ID that required proof of US Citizenship to obtain - right?
Can Australian cane toads eat Kudzu?
The submitter should have pointed out that Telus is a *Canadian* ISP, and US laws and legal princicples would not apply to whatever the contract issue is. They probably assumed that all slashdotters know that.
MySpace pulled out the plug on their server in order to plug in Michael Moore's electric car.
t rolCaseCount05_detailed.htm
Given the week+ long power outages in Saint Louis and Queens (in New York City) and Westchester County(NY), do we need any more evidence that the US electrical system is not prepared to add in the load of millions of plugin electric cars?
We need to solve the first problems first... The massive power outage that cascaded from Ohia and Indiana, through Ontario, and knocked off the entire Northeast US in August 2003 for days was a big wakeup call.
So the people who have been trying for decades to shut down the Indian Point nuclear power point - where do they think the power is going to come from to power the central air conditioning in their mansions? The Electricity Fairy?
On an even more off topic aside, these people in Westchester County (and Fairfield County CT) are the same people who opposed spraying insecticides to kill mosquitoes when West Nile virus was first detected across the East River from the United Nations and when the disease might have been eradicated completely. As a result of that "conservative" approach to controlling the Virus, West Nile has now spread nationwide and has now killed at least 771 people, including 119 people in the US in 2005 (not to mention the huge number of birds and horses that have suffered horrible deaths).
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/surv&con
The FBI would only make an arrest with a warrant if there was a violation of Federal Law over which they have jurisdiction.
http://www.fbi.gov/aboutus/faqs/faqsone.htm
The closest the FBI comes to having that power is they can ask for a Federal Arrest Warrant if the suspect has crossed state lines or attempts to leave the country to flee prosecution or confinement.
This is the relevant FAQ question about this precise issue which seems to have fired up the anti-Bush moonbats:
"Can I obtain detailed information about a current FBI investigation I see in the news?
No. Such information is protected from public disclosure, in accordance with current law and DOJ and FBI policy. This policy preserves the integrity of the investigation and the privacy of individuals involved in the investigation prior to any public charging for violations of the law. It also serves to protect the rights of people not yet charged with a crime."
If you took the time to RTFA (well, actually a blog), it mentions:
"I got in contact with a spokesperson for the FBI's New York field office, who confirmed that the FBI had executed one arrest warrant without incident at around 4 p.m. ET today at the Hotel Pennsylvania where HOPE Six is behind held."
So the FBI *DID* have a warrant which would have stated the reason for the arrest.
Thanks for the delicious red herring.... yum....
By "someone", are you thinking the person who has been arrested has a right to be told - or that *you* (someone not involved with the case) has a right to know? Those are two very different things.
*You* have no right to know what is in a sealed court document that does not involve you.
The term you are thinking of is "Habeas Corpus".... that a person cannot be held for an unreasonable time without being informed of the basis of their detention and offered reasonable bail. IANAL.
If you can find something in that "goddamned piece of paper" that says otherwise, please cite your fact.
So Tesla asserts that their car is the "best" option for CO2 emissions - 12.6 g/km...
e es1a.html
But that is based on their assumption that the electricity was generated from Natural Gas.
But that's not the reality. Less than 20% of US electric power is generated from Natural Gas:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/tabl
If they built in the assumption that the electricity was generated by nuclear power (or pixie dust)... they could claim that they caused no CO2 effect.
Has this White Paper been published in any journals and subjected to peer review?
Planets have needs?
That could be a record example of anthropomorphism.
A few days ago, the New York Times ran a feature about how the New York City water system is going to have to spend billions of dollars to deal with clay sediments starting to get to unacceptable levels in the watershed where they draw the water from.
Some of the solutions involve drawing water from only the top layer of the lake and letting the water stay in the lakes longer as a way to settle out the particles. The story specifically mentioned that their current solution - which involves dumping alum into the lakes to cause the clay particles to clump together - means having to incur big costs and environmental damage from having to dredge the lakes behind their dams. You can get away with it for decades, but not centuries.
Weren't the Hydro Quebec hydro projects more than a bit controversial with environmentals and native tribes whose land was flooded in order to build them?