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Comment Its a start (Score 1) 96

Being familiar with multiple FedEx facilities, this was a good place for them to start. Though transporting packages by tuggers is a small part of the process and time/manpower consumed as the real efforts will be Loading/unloading trucks/airplanes that will require a redesign of their entire process and once that is complete tugger integration would be part of that. Right now tugger drivers account of 5 to 10% of the normal shift work force. Tugger drivers also load the tuggers and unload them. These employees would still be necessary until full automation is achieved. My point is for now those employees still have jobs assisting tuggers. Once automation is fully embraced the total work force will decrease and will never equal the current work force and during peak seasons no new hires will be necessary. My only hope is wages will rise for those with the experience with working in an automated environment.

Submission + - New home automation? 1

An anonymous reader writes: Ok, fellow geeks... I have the luxury of finally building my dream home from scratch. It's going to be good sized (~4000 sq ft over 3 levels), and rather than run around at night to make sure my lights are off, doors are locked, garage is closed, etc, I really want to put in a home automation system. Since the walls aren't up, this is the time for complete flexibility as to my options.

The last time I did a whole house, it was years ago, X10. Since then, lots of other protocols, both "proprietary" and more general (like WiFi) have come on the market for devices — all better than what I've worked with in the past. What do you all have experience with and recommend as reliable, secure, and fairly easy to use? Something with a good chance for long term availability of parts and features would be a bonus.
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Submission + - National Opt-Out Day Called Against Body Scanners (wired.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Air travelers, mark your calendar. An activist opposed to the new invasive body scanners in use at airports around the country just designated Wednesday, Nov. 24 as a National Opt-Out Day. He’s encouraging airline passengers to decline the TSA’s technological strip searches en masse on that day as a protest against the scanners, as well as the new “enhanced pat-downs” inflicted on refuseniks.
The goal of National Opt-Out Day is to send a message to our lawmakers that we demand change,” reads the call to action at OptOutDay.com, set up by Brian Sodegren. “No naked body scanners, no government-approved groping. We have a right to privacy, and buying a plane ticket should not mean that we’re guilty until proven innocent.”

The U.S. Airline Pilots Association and other pilot groups have urged their members to avoid the scanners and have also condemned the new pat-down policy as humiliating to pilots. They’ve advised pilots who don’t feel comfortable undergoing pat-downs in front of passengers to request they be conducted in a private room. Any pilots who don’t feel comfortable after undergoing a pat-down have been encouraged to “call in sick and remove themselves from the trip.”

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