Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good reason to invest in satellite-killing weapons, then.
Which in turn will lead to a booming market in ammunition, MREs, and shovels for digging bunkers.
I mean for the U.S. Gov.
US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
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Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is allowed with technology does not dictate what is right or even legal.
It comes down to a simple concept. You change with progress or you get left behind. Even when progress is, in your view, undesirable... our world isn't a private place anymore... our expectations of privacy will seem silly to future generations... its jus how things work. Right or wrong are abstract concepts, and the marching of time pays no attention to them.
Only the truly privileged feel comfortable without privacy. Only once there is no such thing as an outcast, an undesirable, a freak, or a nerd, can a world without privacy be livable.
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#43I don't like this. You can already see a lot of detail on these satellite photos. This is a huge breach of privacy. (Not that a 50cm lower limit isn't a breach of privacy.)
For all the browbeating about erosion of privacy, I have yet to come across practical, consumer-proof solutions to anything that protects against said loss of privacy. Digital, software, hardware anything? The only solutions out there are range from impractical to ludicrous. Go hoodies, go Tor, go klutzy-PGP, go burkas!! /sigh
> For all the browbeating about erosion of privacy, I have yet to come across practical, consumer-proof solutions
Agreed. And with few technical options, the solutions must be legal.
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is allowed with technology does not dictate what is right or even legal.
It comes down to a simple concept. You change with progress or you get left behind. Even when progress is, in your view, undesirable... our world isn't a private place anymore... our expectations of privacy will seem silly to future generations... its jus how things work. Right or wrong are abstract concepts, and the marching of time pays no attention to them.
That assumes your vision is accurate, and that we have no control over our futures. Do only large computer industry companies get to decide the future?
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is allowed with technology does not dictate what is right or even legal.
When has the law ever been able to prevent the use of technology?
If we just assumed that whatever could be done (with technology or otherwise) should be accepted, what would the point of laws be in the first place?
People have expectations that the FDA will ensure the safety and efficacy of their medicines. Consequently, there are medications that I can't have in the US because of the law.
People have expectations of a level of safety on the highways. The technology under the hood of my car allows me to reach speeds of at least 100, and the law effectively prevents me from using it.
There are many ways in which people have expectations that technology could subvert. Automatically changing our expectations to allow for any technologically possible breach of those expectations isn't currently the way we do things.
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a US-based company, DigitalGlobe launch and operate their satellites at the whim of Federal regulators. With the advances in privatized spaceflight, I see this field as ripe for disruption from Chinese or Russian based competition.
Good reason to invest in satellite-killing weapons, then.
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Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#47I don't like this. What is the business of a government in regulating the resolution of whatever form of imagery??? If it can be seen from the sky, or from the street, it's public. Planes, satellites, drones, whatever - you should be free to take pics and sell them if you want. Fortunately, digital camera didn't exist where such kind of laws had been passed, or there would have been similar stupid restrictions (imagi…
That's actually what StreetView is required to do in Germany:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/germanys-complicate...
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-many-germ...