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There is a program for bicycle rental/sharing in Paris called Velib.
You can rent a bike from a kiosk and return it to any other of the kiosks located around the city. It does have a number of logistical and operating issues too that are detailed in the wiki.
It's just a single line of escalators that either move uphill or downhill depending on the time of day (down in the morning, up in the afternoon/night).
I found this out the hard way when i took the 20min escalator to the top of the hill and then had to walk 2 hours back down the zig-zag streets.
Lesson #1: don't follow moving stairways to heaven....
An anonymous reader writes: This first surfaced on TribalWar around seven o'clock last evening and on Overclock.net around midnight last night. Newegg still hasn't commented on this. It's not known whether this happened as fraud by another Newegg customer or it happened in shipping. The "processors" are made of Aluminum, and the "fans" look to be made of some kind of synthetic molded material. The "factory seal" was printed onto the box. The holographic stickers on the boxes were also faked.
parkland writes "Federal CIO Vivek Kundra described some dismaying government inefficiencies in a speech on Thursday at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs in Seattle. It takes 160 days to process benefits for veterans, he said, 'because the Veteran's Administration is processing paperwork by passing manila folders from one desk to another.' Another example bound to make you grind your teeth is why it takes the Patent and Trademark Office 3 years to process a patent. 'One reason,' says Kundra, 'is because the USPTO receives these applications online, prints them out, and then someone manually rekeys the information into an antiquated system.'"
Rambo Tribble writes: Google has announced that YouTube will offer an automatic captioning feature on its videos. Expanding a project that started in November of last year between Google and a small number of its partners, the service will first be applied to English-language videos, then the program will be broadened.