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images projected onto giant screens

On: Sculpture to Reflect Campus Wireless Traffic

their online activity will appear as sound, color, patterns and images projected onto giant screens

They actually mean images of beautiful naked women and bank account balances ;-)).

crime in Germany is low cause it's against the Law

On: Germany Accepts Strict Piracy Law

I guess they fight unemployment among jail guards this way
and in other news crime in Germany is low because it's against the Law! ;-))

US Live traffic maps

On: Tracking Cell Phones for Real-Time Traffic Data

A few usefull links to US Live traffic maps

• Atlanta http://www.georgia-navigator.com/maps/atlanta http://wsbradio.com/MARKET/traffic/map.html
• • Tallahassee http://smsdmz12.state.fl.us/bin/CgiAtmsMap.exe?Are a=Overview&Layers=L&submit1=Show+Map
  • • Orlando http://www.traffic.com/Orlando-Traffic/Orlando-Tra ffic-Reports.html
    • Tampa
    • http://www.traffic.com/Tampa-Traffic/Tampa-Traffic -Reports.html
    • Miami http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/traffic/sfl-traff icmap,0,2300850.framedurl
    • San Francisco http://www.sfbaytraffic.info/map.htm
    • Maryland http://www.chart.state.md.us/travinfo/travinfo.asp http://www.chart.state.md.us/MapNet/MapDOTNET.aspx ?Browser=NS6&ViewName=Triangle&Cmd=switchtheme&tab =Traffic&DoPanTo=False&Direction=&PanFactor=&DoZoo mScaleFactor=&x=&y=&Encoder=&timestamp=72586&x1=34 7511&x2=458427&y2=207368&y1=123548
    • New York, LA, San Francisco http://www.metrocommute.com/
    • For more links visit http://www.joegivens.com/traffic.htm http://www.traffic.com/ http://www.shgresources.com/fl/traffic/
    • Manufacturers of systems based on cell phone tracking http://www.delcan.com/prod/index.php?id=295 http://www.airsage.com/case_study.html

Re:Actually I'm impressed....

On: US Senate Allows NASA To Buy Soyuz Vehicles

So they have to eat some humble pie, buy Russian equipment and realize there is something wrong with the way NASA does business and try to fix it. My opinion is that the problem with NASA is also a problem with the military and pretty much every aspect of high tech government spending. That is that there is prevalent corruption, no free market economics and an eagerness to drive costs up by designing ever more complex and failure prone systems.

Must agree with this.... Situation reminds me Detroit car design before Japanese remake US car market. Seems that balance between engineering excellence and marketing, cost cutting, deadline hitting (Christmas shopping season upon us!) is shifted too far away from engineering. Also hiring and firing practices is not in favor of folks who make things, design, etc. - they can't sell, can't make money, they have to go...