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One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX 293

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @03:56PM from the comp-dot-risks dept.

The card in question experienced a partial failure that started about 12:50 p.m. Saturday, said Jennifer Connors, a chief in the office of field operations for the Customs and Border Protection agency. As data overloaded the system, a domino effect occurred with other computer network cards, eventually causing a total system failure. A spokeswoman for the airports agency said airport and customs officials are discussing how to handle a similar incident should it occur in the future.

Verizon vs. the Needham Fire Department 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @08:35AM from the never-had-that-problem-before dept.

netbuzz writes "At issue is whether — or not — there was a minor fire in a house on Pine Grove Street in Needham, Mass., caused by a Verizon employee drilling through an electrical main. Everyone agrees that whatever happened — or didn't happen — was indeed the fault of the Verizon employee; it's "fire or no fire" that is at issue. Verizon says no fire, not even smoke. The Needham Fire Department begs to differ. New eye-witness reports are emerging ... and it's not looking good for Verizon."

Manhattan 1984 545

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:10AM from the watching-you dept.

Etherwalk writes "The New York Times is reporting on developments in the quest to charge driving fees for all vehicles headed below 86th Street in Manhattan. Notably absent from any part of the discussion is that a record is made of every car or truck that enters, together with the vehicle ownership information and the date and time of travel — either as part of EZ-Pass or in license-plate photos taken for subsequent billing."

Feed Engadget: Vibrating GPS rings could make traversing foreign lands easier (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Monday July 23, 2007 @09:32AM

Filed under: GPS, Wearables

To be quite honest, there's been an awful lot of gadgetry lately tied to rings, and while it's a curious fascination, you won't find us griping over the latest ring-based device. Gail Knight's vibrating GPS hoops are nothing short of a traveler's dream come true, as these fanciful finger adornments work in conjunction with a neck-worn GPS controller to direct you to your destination via simple buzzing cues. The rings vibrate in a variety of manners to instruct the wearer which direction to go, which could certainly help an English tourist in Japan feel a lot more at home. Granted, even the inventor admits that the current design is entirely more suited for a lady, but we can envision quite a few macho gents putting their pride aside in order to refrain from being lost.

[Via NaviGadget]

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Feed New York Times: Debates to Connect Candidates and Voters Online (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday July 23, 2007 @09:12AM

Members of the public will pose questions to candidates via homemade video in a new kind of debate Monday night.

Comment Re:Should we invoke the "Do No Evil" clause here? (Score 1) 216

by A_Duck_Named_Ping on Monday March 20, 2006 @02:04PM (#14958276) Attached to: Nike and Google launch Joga.com

No need to quote 'sweatshops'. They are sweatshops.

Re: your question, 'Would they be better off...' understates the complexity of the economic factors. In an either/or situation, workers have no real choice, so I agree with the short view that the job is good. But, albalbo has it right: Nike perpetuates the environmental conditions that provide this either/or choice in the first place. Not only that, but when corporations exercise the option to employee workers in violation of US labor laws, they subvert the sound labor policies in this country. Why care? The implications of this choice affect U.S. productivity. In is not in the interest of the U.S. to allow U.S. corporations to behave in this way. Whether the U.S. has the right to legislate a remedy is a separate question, but in my opinion it is the right thing to do.

Ucklak, you may be playing the Devil's advocate by making a case for free markets rather than human rights. That's fine, but the economics of the free market are skewed by the low-cost labor overseas.

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