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Re: Berlin public transport in real time

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The URL: > http://fahrinfo.vbb.de/bin/help.exe Who would run this on a webserver?

RewriteRule /bin/help.exe /node/whatever.js [L,QSA] # where's your CGI now?

I have seen such rewrites in place to keep old CGI URLs from breaking, as their consumers were scattered all over time and space, and it was easier to internally remap the old URLs (which have over the years essentially become a public API) than have them stop working.

Re: Berlin public transport in real time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? In my country every single station has a timetable saying which metro/train/bus stops there at exactly which minute. Are you suggesting we should randomize public transport schedules?

Randomise the destinations as well. Will play havoc with the terrorists.

Dark City comes to mind...

  John Murdoch: Excuse me. How do I get to the end of the line?
  Train Passenger: You want the Express.
  John Murdoch: [after train blows by him] Hey, how come that 
  train didn't stop?
  Station Master: That's the Express.

Re: Berlin public transport in real time

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post #44
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Randomise the destinations as well. Will play havoc with the terrorists.

Dark City comes to mind... John Murdoch: Excuse me. How do I get to the end of the line? Train Passenger: You want the Express. John Murdoch: [after train blows by him] Hey, how come that train didn't stop? Station Master: That's the Express.

That sounds like the switchman by Juan Jose Arreola.

Full text: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25293822

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