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Google Urged to Drop Images
Nqdiddles writes "News.com.au is reporting that the head of Australia's nuclear energy agency has called on Google to censor images of the country's only nuclear reactor. While Dr. Smith admits the image is about two years out of date, he also says he doesn't 'want to provide any easy assistance to anyone who wants to interfere with the site.'
Citing the precedent of the blocks of colour over the White House and Treasury buildings, he's critical of their own security, adding 'there's a small area near the middle of the site which is quite secure, but the bulk of our site isn't all that secure' and is easily visible from the road and commercial airline flights. Google has defended the technology, noting the images were six to 18 months old and not detailed enough to zoom in on people."
Wow, this is right up there with Sadam using CNN to get info on our movements in the Gulf wars.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
Alright, all there was was a old blocky picture, and now everyone knows that "the bulk of [the] site isn't all that secure" ... great move Mr head of ANSTO :)
Becasue I am sure attacking google and having the story posted to Slashdot will give them the low profile they are looking for.
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Bruno: Ooh! Ah, that's it. I'm going to report this to me member of parliament. [yells out window] Hey, Gus! I got something to report to you.
[Gus tends his swine]
Gus: That's a bloody outrage, it is! I want to take this all the way to the Prime Minister.
[they go down to a lake]
Hey! Mr. Prime Minister! Andy!
Andy: [floating naked on an inner tube with a beer] Eh, mates! What's the good word?
Thank you for the list! And I thank the Australians for making this point! I hope Google doesn't censor the images. I'm way too stupid to figure a way around the censors and security!
-Osama
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
Build 10 or 20 more nuclear power plants so you won't have to worry about having a "most sensitive" site.
Asking Google to censor it just means that the "terrorists" will just go to Microsoft's new beta map. And when people use Microsoft as an alternative, theterrorists win.
I believe that the Aussies use Vegemite to cool their reactor.
We Australians feel left out. Every time there is a "terror" scare in, say, the US or UK, our forces switch to Super-Ultra-Crazy-High-Look-At-Us-We're-Targets-To o-No-Really-We-Are alert.
The boys get to play in our Blackhawk helicopters over Sydney and Melbourne, sliding down ropes with slung MP5s, wearing their best Matrix gear, and impressing the hell out of the news chicks.
It's all part of the great Australian national inferiority complex: we're ashamed of our "Convict Heritage" while desperately trying to convince the rest of the world that we're a 'significant first-world player', and not some minor nation hidden away downunder.
Really, the lack of terrorist attacks on Australia is so embarrassing to us that we now actually have to point out the insecure targets to the terrorists.
Someone on IRC noticed a blur on google maps, a single house in Florida.
By tracing the map to figure out the city and street, and googling on that, I was able to figure that it was probably a Senatorial candidates house.
I can't imagine why they would blur it out, it just induces curiosity, and I can't imagine what use anything they blurred out could have been, unless Bush's daughter was nude sunbathing at the time or something.
What did you expect the terrorists to say? (You thought they were guards? :)
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It's redundant in a global scale. It may be the first post in this article, but it's certainly not the first time it's ever been posted.