seroundtable.com— The picture of the girl whose underwear showed up on Google Maps Street View has been removed. It turns out that you can report inappropriate images to Google. Awww...
Jun 8, 2007View in Crawl 4
imjustabill wrote: "How is being able to read a license plate number an invasion of privacy?? "If you'll notice, many MANY television news programs and programs like "Cops", etc. will blur out license plates of vehicles in the background when they air programs. Now why do you think they do that? They are respecting the privacy of the individuals of that vehicle. They may not have to do it, but they choose to do so, and that is a respectable thing to do.
Bite me. Like I care what you think anyway. It's just a stupid fuking photo.Maybe you think me and the zillion other people who just read the titles and comment don't deserve to live?
Nobody need this crap? Au contraire, my friend. The easiest scenario to explain its usefulness is to point out that people sometimes want to go places virtually before they go there in real life, so they can have an image in their head of what the place is supposed to look like. I'd never have been able to find my sis-in-law's gallery in NYC if I hadn't taken a look at what the exterior looked like beforehand. Also possible: If I want to know if an address of a store I see online is in a relatively safe neighborhood for me and my kids to stop by when IN that city, street view is a real blessing...Just because you have no need for visualizing the world doesn't mean the rest of us don't find it useful.
Google is so 20th century.....here is the real 21st century.3 years from now.....Everyone will be walking down the street with their miniature, Bluetooth camera lens embedded in their clothing (front and rear), which streams everything it/you see to your WiFi cell phone.Your WiFi cell phone will store everything on its 1 terabyte hard drive while at the same time streaming this video you see via WiFi to a “tracker network”. The tracker network is a social group of similar people ( by geographical area,interest..etc),numbering from 2 or 3 to tens of thousands in size. All of these tracker networks will include retail facial recognition software that will be 10 times more powerful than anything currently available.The TrackerNetwork facial software works by taking every face that is inputted into its database and giving it a unique number. Then the face is identified in two ways.1. The TrackerNetwork facial software has so many thousands of “hits” on any face over a period of day/weeks it identifies where this person starts his/her day, works, shops etc. It does this all automatically without knowing who the person is.2. People who belong to the TrackerNetwork input faces and identify them by name. With the above two, anyone belonging to the TrackerNetwork can track just about anyone by belonging to a network from that city. Just input the name ( or unique ID the TrackerNetwork software assigns to an individual) and the software will either allow you to watch them live or can show you history from as far back as recorded on that individual.The upside: Modern Neighbor Hood Watch: Hit and run? captured on numerous cell phones, instantly uploaded to a tracker network and within seconds the car and driver are identified and sent to the police.You are walking down the street, a drug addict asks you for money and when you refuse, he starts to get violent. Picked up by someone watching from a store, driving by in a car and from the person waiting for the bus ½ a block away. Instantly sent to a tracker network. The downside:Anyone can track anyone all the time! You can track: politicians, celebrities, neighbors, spouse......etc.
verstohlenJun 8, 2007
imjustabill wrote: "How is being able to read a license plate number an invasion of privacy?? "If you'll notice, many MANY television news programs and programs like "Cops", etc. will blur out license plates of vehicles in the background when they air programs. Now why do you think they do that? They are respecting the privacy of the individuals of that vehicle. They may not have to do it, but they choose to do so, and that is a respectable thing to do.
raid517Jun 9, 2007
Bite me. Like I care what you think anyway. It's just a stupid fuking photo.Maybe you think me and the zillion other people who just read the titles and comment don't deserve to live?
lvjianhuaJun 9, 2007
google street view is really cool stuff.
boyhowdy25Jun 9, 2007
Nobody need this crap? Au contraire, my friend. The easiest scenario to explain its usefulness is to point out that people sometimes want to go places virtually before they go there in real life, so they can have an image in their head of what the place is supposed to look like. I'd never have been able to find my sis-in-law's gallery in NYC if I hadn't taken a look at what the exterior looked like beforehand. Also possible: If I want to know if an address of a store I see online is in a relatively safe neighborhood for me and my kids to stop by when IN that city, street view is a real blessing...Just because you have no need for visualizing the world doesn't mean the rest of us don't find it useful.
Closed AccountJun 9, 2007
@qevlhma93 (#7089575)And now you're blocked.
astanhopeJun 10, 2007
If only the internet had other sources for photos of women wearing thongs...
rickdigger123Jun 10, 2007
Google is so 20th century.....here is the real 21st century.3 years from now.....Everyone will be walking down the street with their miniature, Bluetooth camera lens embedded in their clothing (front and rear), which streams everything it/you see to your WiFi cell phone.Your WiFi cell phone will store everything on its 1 terabyte hard drive while at the same time streaming this video you see via WiFi to a “tracker network”. The tracker network is a social group of similar people ( by geographical area,interest..etc),numbering from 2 or 3 to tens of thousands in size. All of these tracker networks will include retail facial recognition software that will be 10 times more powerful than anything currently available.The TrackerNetwork facial software works by taking every face that is inputted into its database and giving it a unique number. Then the face is identified in two ways.1. The TrackerNetwork facial software has so many thousands of “hits” on any face over a period of day/weeks it identifies where this person starts his/her day, works, shops etc. It does this all automatically without knowing who the person is.2. People who belong to the TrackerNetwork input faces and identify them by name. With the above two, anyone belonging to the TrackerNetwork can track just about anyone by belonging to a network from that city. Just input the name ( or unique ID the TrackerNetwork software assigns to an individual) and the software will either allow you to watch them live or can show you history from as far back as recorded on that individual.The upside: Modern Neighbor Hood Watch: Hit and run? captured on numerous cell phones, instantly uploaded to a tracker network and within seconds the car and driver are identified and sent to the police.You are walking down the street, a drug addict asks you for money and when you refuse, he starts to get violent. Picked up by someone watching from a store, driving by in a car and from the person waiting for the bus ½ a block away. Instantly sent to a tracker network. The downside:Anyone can track anyone all the time! You can track: politicians, celebrities, neighbors, spouse......etc.