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Comment: Re:You don't own (Score 5, Informative) 191

I agree completely with parent. There is a difference between passing an inheritance to your children and providing access. I can leave the keys to my house to my children, but that doesn't mean the legal possession of the house will pass to them. Very different concepts.
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Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town 63

Posted by samzenpus
from the new-fallout-map dept.
mdsolar writes in with news that Goolge has released Street View pictures from inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima disaster. "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. Google, operator of the world's biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town's mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement. All of Namie's 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world's worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."

Comment: Re:Should be collected by the feds (Score 1) 434

by captaindomon (#43238457) Attached to: Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate
The point is not the database structure, it's collecting the data to populate it. Large tax companies have teams of hundreds of people that keep track of all the local tax laws, and charge a large amount of money selling the data to large retailers. It's not trivial to keep the laws of every 10,000 person municipality in the database up to date.

Comment: HR? (Score 1) 51

by captaindomon (#42575273) Attached to: Telepresence Robot Rundown
On a serious note, what kind of strange issues will this create with HR? Am I working in the office or not? If not, why do they say I'm not? I personally think these things are pretty hokey, but it will be interesting to see how they jive with a real office and the people in it.

Comment: Re:Here's a nickel kid, buy yourself a real laptop (Score 1) 453

by captaindomon (#42438609) Attached to: A Wish List For Tablets In 2013
The difference is that economies of scale are extremely important in the electronic device world. It's easy to drop $100 million on R&D when you can spread it across 10 million device sales. If you're only going to sell them to ten people, then you need to sell them for $10 million each just to cover R&D costs. With Ostrich boots, the "R&D" cost is one tailor for one afternoon to make the pattern, maybe a couple hundred bucks in "R&D". That means they can produce very limited quantities and still turn a profit.

Comment: Re:Books? (Score 3, Insightful) 46

by captaindomon (#42266441) Attached to: Australian Uni's Underground, Robot-Staffed Library
Out of around 130 million different books in the world, only about 20-25 million of them have been scanned. Also, a book and the content are different things. A rare 400-year old book has a lot of intrinsic value even if the text is available in digital format. So storing physical objects in a library will be with us for a long time.

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