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“Fixing” Electronic Road Signs

Opinion
May 12, 20061 min

From Zug: Electronic road signs are annoying. I don’t have a problem with these signs warning me about road construction, except when they’re left up — flashing their stupid warnings — well after the work is completed. Recently a construction company left a pair of these signs in my neighborhood, blasting out their pointless messages. Being a creative tinkerer, I decided to do something about it …

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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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