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Apple's maps are in the news again![^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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The real question is, how the f*** does a runway and taxiway get joined to a publicly-accessible road? The moron who laid out the airport should be shot.
Software Zen: delete this;
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There are a lot of access roads leading to airports service areas and runways, usually they are all fenced off and locked.
And in all fairness, Fairbanks might not be such an important/strategic airport to have that high a security.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: they are all fenced off and locked
Key phrase, that.
Maximilien wrote: Fairbanks might not be such an important/strategic airport to have that high a security
To my mind, this isn't a security issue, it's a safety issue, which has absolutely nothing to do with the prominence of the area served by the airport. I still believe this sounds like inept design of traffic flow around the airport.
I live in the area served by Dayton International Airport[^]. None of its taxiways or runways are accessible from public roads.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Apple's mapping app obviously still has issues... there is no denying.
The other thing that struck me about the article is the apparent ease at which civilian vehicles could access the airport's taxiways and runways. We routinely get irradiated and molested going through security but anyone can just drive up to the planes? 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Couldn't view the link, was blocked by a content blocking div. Bounce.
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In Apple's defense, their route was shorter...
I agree with the other posts, how in the elephant does one just drive onto a runway from a public road?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Companies["Apple Computer, Inc"].Products[AppleApps.iOS.AppleMaps].Fail(FailTypes.Epic | FailTypes.WTF);
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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It's not exactly unheard of. Gibralter International has a highway running straight acrossed the only runway. Pics[^]
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That's ubercool. 
/ravi
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Yes, it's cool. I've walked over it too (quite quickly...)
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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In fairness to Apple, until a few years ago both Mapquest and Google map services led me across the main runway of the Laughlin/Bullhead City International Airport anytime I tried to map a route east of here. The airport was built in 1986 or so, and the road specified was a dirt trail used by the US Army cavalry (yes, the one with horses) to carry supplies to Fort Mojave, where US troops were busily engaged in subduing the local Indian tribe and securing the resident beavers' hides for fashionable hats.
Perhaps both services would have been better off selecting more recent government maps for digitizing...
Will Rogers never met me.
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A day dedicated to Guinness[^] criticised for encouraging drunkenness.
In other news -
- Bears Sh*t in the Woods
- The Pope IS a Catholic
- Whales Cannot Tap Dance
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: - Whales Cannot Tap Dance
Tis true I can't dance 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I guess Octoberfest does not encourage drunkenness?
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What about Siptember?
speramus in juniperus
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Febrewary is a real problem.
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My rule is only drink during a month that starts with a 1.
speramus in juniperus
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Conversely, pigs can indeed fly, provided sufficient acceleration.
Will Rogers never met me.
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There are too many do gooders in this world.
They are ruining it for us and our children.
We used to have fireworks on Guy Fawkes Night.
They changed this to the Queens birthday, so that it wasn't so seditious.
Then they banned them all together.
There are no fireworks any more.
They have taken all the fun that we had as a child with fireworks and stopped us from enjoying this with our children.
All the fun is being drained out by these do gooders.
Guinness, Gin, smoking, fireworks, firearms, drugs, sex, music and now they are talking about food promoting obesity.
....and whales can tap dance. They just do it really really really slowly.
...at least drunkenness should have some style and history.
It may be an excusable thing if it was cater's pack fruity Lexia day.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Samsung Announces Gold Galaxy S4[^]
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Definitely golden[^]
speramus in juniperus
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 What is it all with this "gold" thing ? It is ugly.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I don't particularly hate the color. I don't think I'd choose a gold colored phone but "to each their own".
I just think Samsung is ridiculous...
Apple releases the iPad and within months Samsung's tablets look nearly identical (even the packaging and marketing materials).
Apple announces a 64 bit mobile chip / OS and within days Samsung says it's next phones will have a 64 bit chip (never mind the fact that Android is not currently 64 bit)
Apple announces a gold colored phone and again within days Samsung announces a gold colored phone.
It's one thing to copy others (they all do it to some extent) but Samsung is totally obnoxious about it. No shame!
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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