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Using R44 And A PowerBook To Bust Illegal Seawalls

Posted by timothy on from the what's-wrong-with-seawalls dept.

Sylvestre writes "Ken Adelman, founder of TGV and Network Alchemy, is using a digital camera, helicopter, and a Power Book to take a high resolution photograph every 500 feet down the California coast. The goal? Busting people putting up illegal sea walls. The catch so far? One golf course covered the beach with boulders. Also of note: the website has 44 gigs of photos so far, runs on solar power, and is Microsoft Free. Best use of technology I've seen all month!"

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  1. Re:Microsoft free = MacOS 9.2 in this case by adb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Apple is the weaker of the two. Two roughly equal bad guys who fight among themselves => a much better situation than one bad guy who has time to focus on crushing the little guys.

  2. Microsoft-free? by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I find it rather amusing (in a sad way) that some people are "proud of not using any Microsoft products" (which are made by well-fed and well-paid programmers) but don't have any problems with using, wearing or even advertising "Nike products", for example (which are made by exploited workers - often children - in 3rd world countries).

    It seems to me that some people confuse morality with fashion.

    Being "Microsoft-free" should not be an end in itself, or something to brag about. There are plenty of good (positive) reasons to use other operating systems and open-source software; you shouldn't use them simply to be "Microsoft-free", that's an insult to the developers.

    RMN
    ~~~