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Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings
dritan writes "A new van unveiled at CeBIT America is equipped with 50 digital cameras and takes pictures every 15 feet -- with the goal of photographing 50 million buildings in the country. These photos could be cross-referenced with aerial photographs so that law enforcement or insurance agencies can get overhead and street level views of the same location -- just by entering an address." Time to hang out the "Hi, Mom!" signs.
Great, now I'll have to wrap my whole house!
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Oh, great. I just hope when they photograph my house the lawn is mowed and the hedges are trimmed.
Still, this would be a great way to find out who has lawn gnomes, plastic flamingos, and those fat-lady-bending-over things in their gardens.
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I'll be hanging my "All your base.." sign :)
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Think about it...It's Open Source and community based and it would look Great on Film!
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -- Hunter S. Thompson
remove the swastika flags from the vans before they come prowling through my neighborhood?
"When viewed from this angle, all the bare ass cheeks pressed against the windows spell out SCO SUCKS".
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I don't mind this at all. They may look at the address I gave them, 1060 W addison, Chicago, any time that they want...
My house is sheltered from the street by a thick strand of trees and planters. Hopefully the federales will use this information to keep out of my impatiens when they storm my house.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
OK, say you are in Portland, Oregon, and want to see what the building next to the library looks like in Portland, Maine. Hope you have really good shoes!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Verizon will send its spokesman to accompany them. Every time a picture is taken, that guy will say "Can you hear me now?"
Then, one picture will include his corpse on the front lawn, and James Earl Jones will get his job back.
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
Here's a no reg required copy of the AP article.
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Ok, here's my plan... I'll hang a painting I made on the house with a disclaimer that it's not to be reproduced...
then, after they take the picture, I'll demand access to the content database since I know they have my IP in there...
if they refuse, I'll lobby Congess to pass a law that has the DOJ go after them for me !
Oh yeah, I almost forgot (this is
Step 4: Profit !
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
Oh, boy, now I can put out "The Sims -- Shreveport Louisiana" expansion pack. Or "Grand Theft Auto 13: The Streets of Missoula Montana"
>;k
These photos could be cross-referenced with aerial photographs so that law enforcement or insurance agencies can get overhead and street level views of the same location -- just by entering an address."
I always wondered how the operators did that in the Matrix.
Yah, I've done drive-by's on the wrong house before too...boy was I embarassed when I read the obituaries and saw my target's next door neighbor in there! Man, was my face red!
Oh, sure. Give them a handwriting sample while you're at it.
You know what?
"Quake VI Arena: Columbine High School"
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Tell that to Barbra Streisand.
If this helps the 911 guys find my house better in case of an emergency, good for them. If it never happens, they've got a picture of a blue house with tan trim.
:)
Well, they'll have a convincing case for governmental intervention in the next home decorating decision you make
from Bugs Bunny:
Just get a big canvas outside your house, paint a tunnel, and watch what happens!
<insert witty linux comment here>
That's Road Runner.
;)
And you don't want a coyote to drive a truck through your front door.
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I was thinking I'd just hang a lifesized painting of someone else's house in front of my house . . .
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
Back in the mumblety-70s there was a short story in one of the science fiction pulps called "Stolzfus's Revenge", about an Amish farmer who got annoyed at Russians and English-speakers doing satellite photographs of his farm, so he started plowing messages to them into his field. He started off with simple lines, but eventually worked his way up to fancier looking fonts. Air traffic was getting diverted to not fly over the fields, and eventually a Yankee spy satellite photographed a farm in the Soviet Union which had "Same To You, Buddy" plowed on it.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
on how many pictures will have a dinosaur?
Perhaps... Or maybe it would be a good time to start.
coat your house in mirrors