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DigitalGlobe To Sell 61cm Resolution Satellite Photos
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Sample images from DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite are now available. This is the highest resolution commercial satellite with the ability to take panchromatic images at a resolution of 61cm." Space Imaging's best offering is a 1m panchromatic resolution image, so they have some competition it seems.
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I wouldn't be too concerned about privacy, we can just submit a slashdot story about them each time they get on your case. Of course it would have to be accepted first.
THIS SPACE FOR RENT
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2833 255,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02
Osama Bin Laden come out, come out, wherever you are !
"freebsd guy"
You do know, of course, that most of the code you use and love was written by people who smoked pot? Many of them also dropped acid (a HARD drug, oh no!).
Don't be stupid.
so it's good enough to pick Ron Jeremy out of a crowd
Only if Ron finds the crowd arousing.
"Far Behind" - Candlebox.
Now maybe
I didn't mean to treat you bad
But I did it anyway
And now maybe
Some would say your life was sad
But you lived it anyway
And so maybe
Your friends they stand around they watch your crumble
As you falter to the ground
And then someday
Your friends they stand beside as you were flying
Oh you were flying oh so high
But them someday people look at you for what they call their own
They watch you suffer
Yeah they hear you calling home
But then some day we could take our time
To brush the leaves aside so you can reach us
But you left me far behind
Now maybe
I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
Now maybe some would say you're left with what you had
But you couldn't share the pain
No, no, no
Couldn't share the pain, they watch you suffer
Now maybe I could have made my own mistakes
But I live with what I've known
And then maybe we might share in something great
But won't you look at where we've grown
Won't you look at where we've gone
But then someday comes tomorrow holds a sense of what I feel for you in my mind
As you trip the final line
And that cold day when you lost control
Shame you left my life so soon you should have told me
But you left me far behind
Now maybe I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
Now maybe some would say you're left with what you had
But you couldn't share the pain No, no, no
Now maybe I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
Now maybe some would say you're left with what you had
But you couldn't share the pain
I said times have changed your friends
They come and watch you crumble to the ground
They watch you suffer
Yeah, they hold you down
Hold you down
Now maybe brother, maybe love
I didn't mean to treat you bad
But you left me far behind
Left me far behind
Left me far behind
Copyright Candlebox, 1993.
Stand*Still
"I want to set your first post on fire."
- The Guy Who Likes To Set Things On Fire
Wow! The pictures from the McMurdo station gave me vertigo!
:)
If this is available commercially, what is not then available to the military?!
cave man?
(in case the absurdity of this post and all the exclamation marks didn't make it entirely clear)
The scary thing is that a lot of whiny arseholes actually believe the content of your post.
The babble of the world is too voluminous and varied for any agency to make sense of it all - by automated means or otherwise.
(dipshitz)
Get real. We just freed afganistan from the likes of people like hitler.
Give your pathetic little whine to the widows and children of the people killed on 9/11.
Dude, you assume that the pictures were taken with
....
/. [slashdork] linux user by any chance? might explain a few things.
the satelite flying directly overhead - I can assure you that for most of the intersting targets, being directly overhead would be incredibly lucky indeed.
Think about things for a little while before posting
Are you a
Penguin Kicka.
>"Dropping the war on drugs is only slightly less absurd than dropping laws against murder."
Any more absurd then, and pay attention here, DECLARING WAR AGAINST YOUR OWN CITIZENS? And isn't that EXACTLY what President and Commander-in-Chief Richard Milhous Nixon did?
It may be called "War on Drugs", but if the "War on Terror" is fought against Terrorists, isn't the "War on Drugs" fought against DRUGGISTS!
And now that we've gotten ourselves into a "REAL WAR" ( well, I suppose it's real...) , doesn't all that wasted time and money seem even more pointless, since the "War on D rugs" has caused more harm to America than anything else since the Civil War? Maybe even more than the civil war. And that had 22,000 Americans dead at a single battle. (I'm thinking Shiloh...)
And those "Druggists" ARE CITIZENS, your FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, and TAXPAYERS.
(until the Exec. Order which redefines that... and if you think it's too unlikely, answer this:
Can you lose you "Drivers Licence" (And in case you weren't watching, now it's your National ID card...) or "Student Loan" (Those are Federal College Education Benefits) for "Convictions" against "anti-drug laws"?)
What is the legal status of someone who declares a War on Citizens of the United States? If they've sworn an Oath to The Constitution, aren't they committing Treason? (How about Seditious Conspiracy?)
That is the foundation upon which this "War On Drugs" is built, and that is why it was a LOST CAUSE ever since it was declared. NOTHING HAS EVER CHANGED FOR ALL THE WASTED MONEY AND HUMAN POTENTIAL!
Oh....
You also really need to learn some more about how Laws work on paper. (The *reality* is that The Officers can kill you, and the Judge, Defense, and Prosecution will conspire to conduct the criminal prosecution of the Officers in such a way that the "Jury" has, due to the evidence (not) presented, and the "Instructions To The Jury" no choice but to acquit.
BUT on paper....
there must be clear, articuable facts that YOU "probably caused" the INJURY to the COMPLAINTENT.
There must be a) a COMPLAINTENT b) an INJURY and c) EVIDENCE indicting you for a LAWFUL ARREST. (Do you get the idea that most arrests today aren't LAWFUL. Did you even notice that?)
Now, prohibitive laws don't follow this recipe. When someone is arrested, the relevent questions are: WHO IS THE COMPLAINTENT, and WHAT IS THE INJURY. Without those 2 it's not even relevent asking: "What's the evidence?"
> Drugs destroy families, friendships, and lives; why should our government encourage their use"
Metaphorically, you mean. In reality, it's Drugs that ease the mortal pain of the child with cancer, extend by decades the lives of people with high blood pressure, prevent unwanted pregnancies, ease the aches and pains of everyday life. You ever have a good Margarita after a BAD day?
*People* who have problems destroy their families, friendships, and lives. There are many vehicles that someone in trouble can use to distance themselves from the people who could help them, drugs *can* be *one* of them, infidelity another, just being remote and inaccessable can work, too. TOO MANY MARGARITAS ARE A BAD THING. ( I should not have had to say that, but some people are obtuse.) You should not displace your fear of these things onto the first handy target some elements in the Governement present you.
It's so much easier for someone to say "Daddy doesn't love me because he's $HOOKED. He's a good person, it's the $POISION_OF_CHOICE" than to admit the truth that your father's an asshole who hates you, and your whole family is fucked up. Welcome to reality. Get over it.
Or not, If you're NOT ABLE to face reality, and deal with it objectively, then I suppose you need the crutch of a Government which tells you what is right and what is wrong. If you need that kind of help, it's ok, BUT don't impose YOUR HANDICAP and need for a crutch on everyone else. Admit that you're incompetent, and accept that others know better than you, and be grateful that the government provides for you, but don't for a minute think that YOU'RE NORMAL.
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(O)sama (BI)n (L)aden (WAN)ted.
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
Bummer.
Beta only seems to work for Google. Such a shame.
I see that the parent has been modded offtopic. I'd have to disagree, since this discussion is about satellite imagry, and aerial survelliance is a big factor in the drug war.
Second off, don't waste time moderating subthreads, if people aren't interested in a subthread, they just won't be clicking on the parent, or following it down (depending on viewmode).
So go ahead, mod this one offtopic too, I've got 50 more karma to burn.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.