I read an article a while back about a company developing a system that can pull together CCTV feeds from a number of sources to produce a time-stamped street view. They indicated that a potential source of data collection would be to put GPS correlated cameras on service vehicles, such as buses and garbage trucks. (I imagine USPS trucks would work here.)
The output of such a system was a map-like user interface. Think Google Earth/Street View, but where you can ask it "OK, but show me the same place this time yesterday," and the system works out the best way to show you what you want.
All travellers arriving in the country have to fill this card in, regardless of nationality, and regardless of whether they are staying. Most countries have a similar card. e.g. The American one that asks you if you are a terrorist. (Answer carefully!)
It sure sounds plausible, but do you want to know the real truth?? The 8 bit integer overflow is still years away. And technologies like Integer-NAT will push it out even further.
This law has big implications for open mapping projects like Open Street Map. Have a look at the warning on the China page for OSM:
This [law] to outlaw the entire OSM project, and any participation or contribution.... People visiting China would be well advised to avoid overtly wandering around looking at GPS units, and avoid carrying OSM related documents in your luggage. Or you might prefer to abide by these strange Chinese laws, and just not do any mapping there at all.
My ISP sends an e-mail to customers in this case. The e-mail says to contact the ISP.
Yes there is a phishing risk, but given that most people don't expect these kinds of e-mails, there is not much more phishing risk than if they didn't send them. I'd be suspicious of an e-mail from my bank asking me for my password, regardless of whether my bank normally sends me such e-mails or not.
If you have never had a hardware issue when installing Linux on a machine you must be very lucky.
"Most things work fine" people tell me, which is true. The trouble is that the chances of you owning something that doesn't work is relatively high. (There's probably something from my statistics course that explains why that is, but I have so far managed to suppress that memory.)
After having rebuilt a Mac with OS X, and rebuilt a laptop with Ubuntu 9.04, I was surprised at how smooth and the Ubuntu install was. Of course that was until I wanted to use my webcam with Ubuntu. These kinds of problems get very difficult very fast in Linux. When 9.04 first came out there was a dependency problem that meant that you couldn't easily get some webcams working.
To be fair, that problem is most likely sorted out now, and a non-Apple webcam would have needed a (very easy to install) driver on OS X as well.
The point is, Windows and hardware generally work very well.
Strange. I read here that Google had already done this.
"With Google Home, you can access floor plans and panoramic images of the inside of any house or apartment anywhere in the United States and most of England. Imagine you're at a party at a stranger's house and need to find the bathroom, now you can just pop the address into your cell phone's internet browser and get a map telling you where it is"
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I read an article a while back about a company developing a system that can pull together CCTV feeds from a number of sources to produce a time-stamped street view. They indicated that a potential source of data collection would be to put GPS correlated cameras on service vehicles, such as buses and garbage trucks. (I imagine USPS trucks would work here.)
The output of such a system was a map-like user interface. Think Google Earth/Street View, but where you can ask it "OK, but show me the same place this time yesterday," and the system works out the best way to show you what you want.
All travellers arriving in the country have to fill this card in, regardless of nationality, and regardless of whether they are staying. Most countries have a similar card. e.g. The American one that asks you if you are a terrorist. (Answer carefully!)
With a suitable Garmin GPS (there are a number of models that do auto-routing that have bicycle mounts), you can load up an OSM based cycle map and get cycle routing that way. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Cycle_map
If you already own one of these, you'll probably find it is somewhat more water resistant than an iPhone.
That wouldn't work. It must be blood, and it must be .... fresh.
Wait! Computers can help with that. All you need is a copy of Google Maps: Home.
I hear you brother. They should be totally enforcing the anti-Walkman law! Those things are killers.
Don't forget the cool red and green lights.
I usually put in multiple backdoors.
IANAL but I hope you have a good lawyer and this is in the contract with your customers.
And if any of those people also have an iphone, there's an app ....
Oh never mind
The first million years were the worst. So were the second million.
No shotgun? Here's what you need my friend.
It sure sounds plausible, but do you want to know the real truth?? The 8 bit integer overflow is still years away. And technologies like Integer-NAT will push it out even further.
Pffft! Such interception is easily defeated with complex analog encryption strategies such as Arp Language.
Amen brother.
OSM -> Satnav -> Find nav error -> Fix in OSM -> OSM -> Satnav
The same argument goes for climate change presumably.
Why should I inconvenience myself by paying higher prices for green electricity just to save your planet?
This law has big implications for open mapping projects like Open Street Map. Have a look at the warning on the China page for OSM:
This [law] to outlaw the entire OSM project, and any participation or contribution. ... People visiting China would be well advised to avoid overtly wandering around looking at GPS units, and avoid carrying OSM related documents in your luggage. Or you might prefer to abide by these strange Chinese laws, and just not do any mapping there at all.
Oh sorry. LGP, not LGPL.
The spacecraft is expected to land in an unpopulated area of Australia
Sorry, but Australia has heard that story before. At least NASA finally paid the littering fine.
My ISP sends an e-mail to customers in this case. The e-mail says to contact the ISP.
Yes there is a phishing risk, but given that most people don't expect these kinds of e-mails, there is not much more phishing risk than if they didn't send them. I'd be suspicious of an e-mail from my bank asking me for my password, regardless of whether my bank normally sends me such e-mails or not.
If you have never had a hardware issue when installing Linux on a machine you must be very lucky.
"Most things work fine" people tell me, which is true. The trouble is that the chances of you owning something that doesn't work is relatively high. (There's probably something from my statistics course that explains why that is, but I have so far managed to suppress that memory.)
After having rebuilt a Mac with OS X, and rebuilt a laptop with Ubuntu 9.04, I was surprised at how smooth and the Ubuntu install was. Of course that was until I wanted to use my webcam with Ubuntu. These kinds of problems get very difficult very fast in Linux. When 9.04 first came out there was a dependency problem that meant that you couldn't easily get some webcams working.
To be fair, that problem is most likely sorted out now, and a non-Apple webcam would have needed a (very easy to install) driver on OS X as well. The point is, Windows and hardware generally work very well.
I take it you don't have kids that do homework? It's not quite as simple as taking the computer away.
I for one welcome our new tubular overlords.
Thanks for finding a way to get in a car analogy for this story. My faith in slashdot is renewed.
Strange. I read here that Google had already done this.
"With Google Home, you can access floor plans and panoramic images of the inside of any house or apartment anywhere in the United States and most of England. Imagine you're at a party at a stranger's house and need to find the bathroom, now you can just pop the address into your cell phone's internet browser and get a map telling you where it is"
Have you thought about bringing your RV to Australia instead?
While Telstra advertise that their network "works better in more places" I'm not sure if that includes Canada. YMMV.
http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/nextg/