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...There is a Google Earth plug-in you can download at fboweb.com that shows realtime flight traffic for many airports, and even has an hourly snapshot of all planes currently in the air that have a U.S. departure or arrival. (Once you have Google Earth installed, go to fboweb.com and click on the "Google Earth Primer" button.) It's a dramatic piece of software: there you are, in your own home, and you can monitor planes taking off and landing at LAX, O'Hare or a handful of other impossibly busy airports. The SpaceNavigator improves the experience, by giving...
...three letters are visible everywhere along the Saint-Martin canal in northeast Paris. They're on makeshift traffic signs warning "Attention, SDF." They're on sheets of paper tacked to trees, titled "SDF Manifesto." But most of all, they're inked on the sides of some 250 lightweight tents planted along the canal's frigid banks, alerting passersby, "An SDF Lives Here." SDF stands for sans domicile fixe and refers to the nation's estimated 86,000 homeless people. Though usually scattered around the city and hidden from view under bridges, in Metro stations or in parks, nearly 300 Parisian...
...some, the outage illustrates the robustness of Asia's telecommunications infrastructure, since the quake did not cause a total blackout. Some traffic was quickly re-routed away from damaged Asian arteries through Europe and the Middle East. But for many, the unexpected return to the pre-Google era was a shocking reminder of the fragility of the technology we depend...
...Southeast Asia is unusually vulnerable to such an outage because most of the region's data travels via a handful of major cables located in north Asia that link with the rest of the world. But not only Asia was affected. As traffic was re-routed, networks on other continents were swamped with the digital overflow. "Our (corporate network) based in Germany has been completely clogged," says Ken Oka, who works for an IT consulting company in Tokyo. "All the re-routed traffic has been causing a slowdown in other parts of the world...
...reality is that there is no quick fix. Turning the air traffic control system over to a more accountable civilian body would be a start, and investing money in modernizing the system and training new and more people to run it is also crucial. For now, passengers taking off for a Christmas break can only heed the advice of Defense Minister Waldir Pires. As he put it, "Have faith and pray...