[OT] Happy New Year and E911

1. Happy New Year (by whichever calendar) to 
one and all. This list continues to be a source of 
enjoyment and education for me and I hope my 
many friends on it are safe and happy and have 
a great year!

2. Brian (whose comments brought to mind 
Arnold's line from Raw Deal "You should not 
drink and post"....) B said:
> G'night and HAPPY NEW YEAR, 
> especially to our moronically-lead
> neighbours to the south,

The irony of a Canadian commenting on 
Moronic Leadership goes beyond funny. I'm 
a Canadian and I'd gladly trade the corrupt, 
self-serving, spineless, public-trust-abusing 
rat-weasel we've got for GWB. And I live 
right at the edge of Ottawa, so if anyone 
ought to know....

3. When I worked in E911 stuff, my 
company (prime system integrator for the 
RCMP) had a couple of programmers and 
some GIS types involved in developing a 
car location -> map location and an 
incident location -> map location (based of 
ANI/ALI information returned by the E911 
interfaces from various E911 systems). 
Myself, I wrote the protocols for our 
system to handle feeds for an arbitrary 
number of E911 protocols (Canada, not 
counting Ontario, has at least 11 I know of) 
in arbitrary combinations. I wonder if 
anyone realized that might be patent 
infringing? The RCMP didn't seem to find a 
problem with it, and they should have had 
solicitors general/etc. to check it out. Of 
course, no one may have thought to. And it 
may be in Canada vs. in the US. :) 

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Mr. Thomas Barclay
Software Developer & Systems Analyst
thomas.barclay@stargrunt.ca
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