Facebook Creeping Anyone Else Out?

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motorheadmike

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I have 2 aliases that made it through FB purge of fake names. I could never understand why anyone would use a real name on FB and let the world know what they had for breakfast. My 2 fake names are Moe B. Dick and Jerry Cann but I have not logged in years so maybe by now they are dead.....

I lost my Guy Incognito profile in the purge (it was a Simpsons reference). Funny thing is my account URL was actually my full and proper name... my wife (7 years my junior) created created it for me in 2007 when I went away on training for the Summer.

Now I am just me with a bunch of fake info populating the data fields. I am over 100 years old, ya know?
 
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I lost my Guy Incognito profile in the purge (it was a Simpsons reference). Funny thing is my account URL was actually my full and proper name... my wife (7 years my junior) created created it for me in 2007 when I went away on training for the Summer.

Now I am just me with a bunch of fake info populating the data fields. I am over 100 years old, ya know?

happy belated birthdays.... :giggle:
 
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BuickOldsPontiac

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They have tons of cameras at regular intersections around here. Some intersections have multiple cameras pointed at the same position. I don't know what they are for, but I know they aren't red light cameras.

Those cameras serve the same function as the push to walk buttons or the loop detectors that you see cut into the pavement at other intersections. They let the traffic control system, housed in the box near the intersection, know there is a vehicle present. Normally all the cameras at an intersection would be pointed at different locations within the intersection simply because its cheaper. Certain locations could, because of site specific requirements such as sun glare, justify additional cameras to ensure they function properly.

While it could be possible to configure an intersection to store or transmit those images, I doubt that is happening on any wide scale basis. I say this because there is not a specific reason to store them in the controller, and the amount of additional bandwidth to send them off site (x number of cameras per site by y number of intersections) is a cost that most agencies (State DOTs, County Road Commissions, etc.) either can't or don't want to bear.

Red light, toll plaza, and speed cameras on the other hand do need to record and store images, but they either generate or prevent (in the case of cameras at a toll plaza) revenue that would cover the additional costs associated with them.

I'm a former civil engineer, however most of my experience with traffic control systems occurred during my undergrad work. My work experience involved bridges, part of which involved remote monitoring systems for them and there is a bit of overlap there.
 
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fleming442

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Those cameras serve the same function as the push to walk buttons or the loop detectors that you see cut into the pavement at other intersections. They let the traffic control system, housed in the box near the intersection, know there is a vehicle present. Normally all the cameras at an intersection would be pointed at different locations within the intersection simply because its cheaper. Certain locations could, because of site specific requirements such as sun glare, justify additional cameras to ensure they function properly.

While it could be possible to configure an intersection to store or transmit those images, I doubt that is happening on any wide scale basis. I say this because there is not a specific reason to store them in the controller, and the amount of additional bandwidth to send them off site (x number of cameras per site by y number of intersections) is a cost that most agencies (State DOTs, County Road Commissions, etc.) either can't or don't want to bear.

Red light, toll plaza, and speed cameras on the other hand do need to record and store images, but they either generate or prevent (in the case of cameras at a toll plaza) revenue that would cover the additional costs associated with them.

I'm a former civil engineer, however most of my experience with traffic control systems occurred during my undergrad work. My work experience involved bridges, part of which involved remote monitoring systems for them and there is a bit of overlap there.
I dunno, Wally. There's a tag reader stuck on top of a stainless steel cabinet in a seemingly random location on SB MD32 near the Ten Oaks Rd bridge of you want to check it out on street view.
 

fleming442

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Yeah. Go southbound on 32; it's on the right by the bridge (after). This one:
Screenshot_20200212-153421_Maps.jpg

Kind of ironic that that I just drove the road on my phone, and got that picture given the topic....
 
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Ribbedroof

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When you blow through a toll gate it will snap the driver's pic along with your tag and send the ticket to the tag owner, along with the photo so you know who did it. Saw plenty of those at the old job when people's rental car pikepasses or Texas tollgate tags didn't work right. Pretty sure its to reference that the pikepass matches the car on file, too. I doubt there's some joker sitting at a monitor watching turnpike gate cameras looking for ... well whatever. They've probably been using the data to build up their photopass system (or whatever its called) to recognize tag numbers so the pikepass itself isn't even required.
Yeah, knew that thanks to a former roommate (did get a cool pic of the back of my Rallye350 out of it).

It's very noticeable at night, every car that rolls through the plaza lane gets a flash. You could be right though, BUT, I couldn't find any explanation on OTA's site for it. Of course, the people I talked to about it might have been wearing foil hats under their stocking caps.
 

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Here in NY if the EZ-PASS doesn't register, you get photographed. When the plate is read and if your vehicle is registered with EZ-PASS it gets deducted from your account and I guess they just figure it didn't register for some odd reason. So I actually don't need to carry the EZ-PASS on my windshield anymore. Someone said that when he and some friends were driving upstate they had a real fast car and did like 100mph or more the whole way. Later at a tool booth a NY State Trooper was waiting for them with a huge speeding ticket. The EZ-PASS concluded they got there way too fast, calculated the speed, and ticketed accordingly.
 
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