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Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town 63

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 29, 2013 @03:02AM from the new-fallout-map dept.

mdsolar writes in with news that Goolge has released Street View pictures from inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima disaster. "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. Google, operator of the world's biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town's mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement. All of Namie's 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world's worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."

DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants 146

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:11PM from the bending-the-rules dept.

Via the EFF comes news that, during a case involving the use of a Stingray device, the DOJ revealed that it was standard practice to use the devices without explicitly requesting permission in warrants. "When Rigmaiden filed a motion to suppress the Stingray evidence as a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment, the government responded that this order was a search warrant that authorized the government to use the Stingray. Together with the ACLU of Northern California and the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in support of Rigmaiden, noting that this 'order' wasn't a search warrant because it was directed towards Verizon, made no mention of an IMSI catcher or Stingray and didn't authorize the government — rather than Verizon — to do anything. Plus to the extent it captured loads of information from other people not suspected of criminal activity it was a 'general warrant,' the precise evil the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent. ... The emails make clear that U.S. Attorneys in the Northern California were using Stingrays but not informing magistrates of what exactly they were doing. And once the judges got wind of what was actually going on, they were none too pleased:"

Comment Re:Replacement Consoles (Score 1) 543

by TheAmazingRyRy on Thursday January 26, 2012 @04:25PM (#38832921) Attached to: Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games

Exactly what I was thinking. Look at how many 360s had RROD. If the 720 has some bad design issue like that, will they make people pay for their games twice?

Comment Re:Next, ban old games (Score 1) 543

by TheAmazingRyRy on Thursday January 26, 2012 @04:11PM (#38832727) Attached to: Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games

This isn't picking the pocket of developers. Why should I buy the new version if I'm perfectly happy with the old one?

Comment Re:I feel like... (Score 1) 226

by TheAmazingRyRy on Thursday September 22, 2011 @11:01AM (#37480090) Attached to: SUA Deprecated In Windows 8?

Yeah, no one uses it because it never worked well anyway. I've tried a few different versions in the past. Every time after installing it, I'd get frequent BSODs. They went away when I removed it.

Comment Re:What does SVN have to do with it? (Score 1) 482

by TheAmazingRyRy on Thursday June 16, 2011 @01:03PM (#36465016) Attached to: Open Source Alternative To Dropbox?

Why is SVN being compared to DropBox? There's no mobile app for SVN access because, typically, people don't do development on their phones...

SVN is not just used for development. It is a versioning system. If you want to store some files and keep track of all changes to those files, SVN would be what you want. Because it keeps track of the changes to files, it's not quite what you'd want in this situation, but it would be one method to store things in "the cloud".

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