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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (21783)	6/1/2007 1:59:32 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Frank - "Imagine, one day you may be able to pay to not have your image reproduced." Yes, if you know who to pay. What issue should we discuss here? Privacy? Security? Lawful monitoring of suspected or potential criminal behaviour? Illegal monitoring of lawful behaviour? For those with a love for conspiracy theories, is the following statement true, not true, or possibly true? "Google is the commercial 'cover' for government-sponsored surveillance that augments traditional ELINT. The program now globally tracks peoples' activities on a pervasive and unprecedented scale. Online surveillance is facilitated by such activities as monitoring responses to advertising, keeping databases on searches (especially locational), and by giving away 'free' applications that are in fact Trojan Horse trackers." Let your paranoia be unconfined. Jim

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (21783)	6/1/2007 2:47:28 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

My Firefox (but not IE) browser suddenly stopped displaying NY Times photos. No problems elsewhere, however, since photos from USA TODAY, for example, are coming across fine. Anyone else experiencing this? E.g., I'm unable to see the lady in the window in this article (which also happens to be the uplinked post): nytimes.com FAC ------

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (21783)	6/1/2007 3:58:35 PM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Immersive Media's Street View Car and 100 MegaPixel Camera By Charlie Sorrel June 01, 2007 \| Automotive, GPS blog.wired.com Google Maps new Street View feature is giving out as big a WOW! as Google Earth back in the day. If you didn't catch it yet, see the rundown on our sister blog Compiler here. The voyeur-tastic service lets you wander the street of several US cities at street level, with full 360º view. So how is it done? A company named Immersive Media provides the service to Google. They drive the streets in a pimped out VW Beetle carrying an 11 lens camera called the Dodeca 360. The camera can also be hand-held, but that would probably get you arrested on some terrorism charge. The Dodeca combines the images into one image, capturing data at a huge 100 million pixels per second and records the GPS coordinates as it goes.