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Google Earth and "Collateral Damage"
netbuzz writes "British news reports say insurgents are using Google Earth to pinpoint vulnerable targets within bases in Iraq. Could Google be doing more to prevent this? Should they be doing more? They certainly could explain more."
Just wait until they discover they can control their Roomba with a Wiimote. Goodbye suicide bombings, hello Roomba bombings! Down with Nintendo, down with iRobot!
...the insurgents refer to their attacks as Google Bombings.
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
Yes.
They could add arrows: "This way to the Secret Bunker."
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Then jump in the car and drive to those locations and see how much they have changed in the last few years of being stale. I bet not much. BTW, how often does the courthouse change?
I wonder if for the war effort, Google could be convinced to photoshop in a few bases and relocate a few by a couple blocks. A 4 mile away rocket attack may miss the compound entirely.
The truth shall set you free!
what the hell have you been smoking. Everyone knows the US owns the internet.
> We aren't at war, we've invaded some random country for no good reason.
You know, invading some random country is one of the two main causes of getting "at war". The other is being invaded by some random country.
In the last dunno how many years (circa 100+), the USA has never won a war it started. To be assured of victory, they'd have to have a civil war.
I vote for fog of war - anything beyond a few hundred feet of your current location is lost to the fog. As long as one side doesn't find the disable fog cheat it should all work out quite well.
That doesn't go far enough, I believe that the July 7th bombers may well have used maps such as these - http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/maps/ which I might add are openly available to the public in pamphlets, the back of diaries, they are even posted on the walls of the city!
How many people have to die before we realise that the Ordinance Survey and London street mapping should be stopped. Fortunately those saintly graffiti artists are already working on censoring maps in public places.
If this were really happening, what would you think?
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Hey! What about local.live.com that's even more detailed than google earth in birds eye mode! On second thoughts, they've probably never heard of it either...
Damn straight. Talk that boils down to "how great it would be to be nice to each other" can get you nailed to a tree.
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