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05-31-2007, 11:23 AM
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05-31-2007, 11:48 AM
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05-31-2007, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by drarcher That is not google earth, that is some photoshop | That photo? Go look at the other links. They are real.
All of this information is coming from Drudge.
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05-31-2007, 11:50 AM
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05-31-2007, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by shaggy13 no, it looks like san fran and nyc may be the only cities where you can do it. thats pretty surprising though. | Las vegas, denver and miami also Did you find this post awesome? Yes |
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05-31-2007, 12:45 PM
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Rep Power: 19 | | guys, the shots you can see on google earth aren't live shots. They're stills that were taken some time ago. Google your own house and see for yourself. If it's intrusive to see an aerial photo of my house on some random afternoon several years ago, then yes, Google earth is intrusive.
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Originally Posted by pswift00 guys, the shots you can see on google earth aren't live shots. They're stills that were taken some time ago. Google your own house and see for yourself. If it's intrusive to see an aerial photo of my house on some random afternoon several years ago, then yes, Google earth is intrusive. | In the select cities you can view street level images which are also old, but may intrusive to some Did you find this post awesome? Yes |
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Originally Posted by pswift00 guys, the shots you can see on google earth aren't live shots. They're stills that were taken some time ago. Google your own house and see for yourself. If it's intrusive to see an aerial photo of my house on some random afternoon several years ago, then yes, Google earth is intrusive. | Yeah, but how'd you like to be the guy coming out of the porn shop. That's hilarious. He will forever be Porn Shop Guy to the ENTIRE WORLD. Did you find this post awesome? Yes |
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05-31-2007, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by pswift00 guys, the shots you can see on google earth aren't live shots. They're stills that were taken some time ago. Google your own house and see for yourself. If it's intrusive to see an aerial photo of my house on some random afternoon several years ago, then yes, Google earth is intrusive. | Yeah, but how'd you like to be the guy coming out of the porn shop. That's hilarious. He will forever be Porn Shop Guy to the ENTIRE WORLD. | Thankfully porn shops aren't places of national interest. Overt interest, anyway.
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Originally Posted by pswift00 guys, the shots you can see on google earth aren't live shots. They're stills that were taken some time ago. Google your own house and see for yourself. If it's intrusive to see an aerial photo of my house on some random afternoon several years ago, then yes, Google earth is intrusive. | In the select cities you can view street level images which are also old, but may intrusive to some | If you can see it from the street, then how is it intrusive? Maybe Joe Schmoe should buy himself some curtains.
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05-31-2007, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by pswift00 guys, the shots you can see on google earth aren't live shots. They're stills that were taken some time ago. Google your own house and see for yourself. If it's intrusive to see an aerial photo of my house on some random afternoon several years ago, then yes, Google earth is intrusive. | Yeah, but how'd you like to be the guy coming out of the porn shop. That's hilarious. He will forever be Porn Shop Guy to the ENTIRE WORLD. | Thankfully porn shops aren't places of national interest. Overt interest, anyway. | Except for the fact that that photo is now crawling across the WWW, you're right. It's only a matter of time before the nighttime talkshows grab it and go. Expect to see that pic photoshopped a lot to go with different heads. Did you find this post awesome? Yes |
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Originally Posted by pswift00 guys, the shots you can see on google earth aren't live shots. They're stills that were taken some time ago. Google your own house and see for yourself. If it's intrusive to see an aerial photo of my house on some random afternoon several years ago, then yes, Google earth is intrusive. | Yeah, but how'd you like to be the guy coming out of the porn shop. That's hilarious. He will forever be Porn Shop Guy to the ENTIRE WORLD. | Thankfully porn shops aren't places of national interest. Overt interest, anyway. | Except for the fact that that photo is now crawling across the WWW, you're right. It's only a matter of time before the nighttime talkshows grab it and go. Expect to see that pic photoshopped a lot to go with different heads. | You seem a little worried about this, Bipolar. Don't sweat it, brother. The picture's really blurry. Your own mother couldnt' recognize you.
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05-31-2007, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by pswift00 guys, the shots you can see on google earth aren't live shots. They're stills that were taken some time ago. Google your own house and see for yourself. If it's intrusive to see an aerial photo of my house on some random afternoon several years ago, then yes, Google earth is intrusive. | Yeah, but how'd you like to be the guy coming out of the porn shop. That's hilarious. He will forever be Porn Shop Guy to the ENTIRE WORLD. | Thankfully porn shops aren't places of national interest. Overt interest, anyway. | Except for the fact that that photo is now crawling across the WWW, you're right. It's only a matter of time before the nighttime talkshows grab it and go. Expect to see that pic photoshopped a lot to go with different heads. | You seem a little worried about this, Bipolar. Don't sweat it, brother. The picture's really blurry. Your own mother couldnt' recognize you.  | Yeah, she's pissed because I made her drive me.... I mean, I don't know what you're talking about. Did you find this post awesome? Yes |
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06-04-2007, 02:54 PM
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JUNE 4--One of the plotters behind the alleged scheme to explode gas pipelines at John F. Kennedy airport directed his co-conspirators to use Google Earth to obtain detailed aerial photos of the targeted facility. In a federal criminal complaint, an excerpt from which you'll find below, one of the accused, Abdul Kadir, reportedly told cohorts to use the popular satellite software after he determined that surveillance video shot by the men was "not sufficiently detailed for operational purposes." Kadir, a Guyanese citizen and former member of that country's parliament, made the Google suggestion during a February meeting with an alleged co-conspirator and a government informant (Kadir and three other men have been charged with planning the terror attack). According to the complaint, the snitch followed through and obtained the Google aerial images of JFK, which the men code named the "chicken farm." At a May 11 meeting in Guyana, Kadir was shown the surveillance video and the Google Earth maps of JFK by the informant and Russell Defreitas, one of those charged in the airport attack plan. Defreitas, the complaint notes, "identified, among other things, the fuel tank locations and air traffic control tower." For his part, Kadir "asked many questions about the maps, including the distance between the street and the fuel tanks." (6 pages)
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06-04-2007, 03:12 PM
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The 3D photo from the 5 major cities is something anyone could photograph. If there was a picture of you coming out of a strip club as the primary photo for a popular joint, it could be pretty embarrassing.
I'm sure a lawyer will take this one once they have put a ton of time and effort in to developing the new software.
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06-07-2007, 04:11 PM
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Edit: Google has pulled the image from their website, but that is the actual photo courtesy of Drudge.
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