use Perl

• Didn't you hear? (Score:1)

  by chaoticset (2105)

  National security trumps all other concerns, like that pesky 'freedom' our representatives have been trying to get a leash on for all these years.

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• Area 51 (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  It's odd that they didn't censor the view of area 51 [xrl.us]. What does that say about us?

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  • Re:Area 51 (Score:1)

    by n1vux (1492)

    It's odd that they didn't censor the view of area 51.

    Are you sure? You've been there so you would recognize the missing xenoautopsy buildings as missing (if missing) even if the photoshop work was higher quality than the fuzzification of the capitol?

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    >=) (Alien Smiley)

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• There is stuff up there (Score:1)

  by nmueller (1273)

  I can't speak for the Capital offices, but the old executive offices (either side of the White House) are covered in fancy communications hardware. Commercial spy satellites are licensed by the NOAA. I wouldn't be surprised if the pixelating was done before 9/11 by whichever company took the pics.
  • Re:There is stuff up there (Score:2)

    by ziggy (25)

    No doubt that this data is scrubbed before it is cleared for civilian use. Best as I can tell, it's ~1m/pixel at the highest resolution, which is plenty good to identify one building from another, but not so good that you can read the newspapers littering the street to see when the photos were taken. (Military satellites supposedly has this capability, oh, 20 years ago.)

    I'm not pointing the finger at Google for anything (aside from the watermarking, which has their fingerprints all over it; besides, tha
    • Re:There is stuff up there (Score:1)

      by Whammo (2555)

      No doubt that this data is scrubbed before it is cleared for civilian use.

      That implies the source is the U.S. government. While American sources might artificially limit the resolution, the French have been selling commercial satellite imagery for years, and have no such scruples.

      I'm not pointing the finger at Google for anything (aside from the watermarking, which has their fingerprints all over it; besides, that's cool and tastefully done).

      Interesting thing about the watermarking. The copyrigh
• hmm... (Score:1)

  by da (1525)

  Two changes: 1) the world's geometry is now round instead of flat 2) the sat photos include the entire world, though not nearly as detailed photos as north america.

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