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Mr Brooke

Map of the Dead - Zombie Survival Map - 0 views

www.mapofthedead.com/map

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shared by Mr Brooke on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 04 Dec 12
     
    At last a map to help me survive the Zombie Apocalypse. 
Mr Brooke

Submarine Cable Map 2010: Maps: TeleGeography Research - 0 views

www.telegeography.com/...index.php

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shared by Mr Brooke on 09 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 09 Sep 10
     
    TeleGeography's popular Submarine Cable Map has been fully updated for 2010. The latest edition of our map depicts 111 of the world's major submarine cable systems and 19 planned systems that are due to enter service by 2011."
Mr Brooke

Cars, Trikes & More - Street View in Google Maps - 1 views

maps.google.com/...cars-trikes.html

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shared by Mr Brooke on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 15 Mar 11
     
    "irst started Street View as an experimental project, we packed several computers into the back of an SUV, stuck cameras, lasers, and a GPS device on top, and drove around collecting our first imagery. Since Street View laun"
Ines Simon

Who's to blame when an autonomous vehicle crashes? - 3 views

www.smartplanet.com/...18146

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shared by Ines Simon on 12 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Ines Simon on 12 Jan 12
     
    Also, here's a link to another article explaining about how google's self-driving car works.
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  • Mr Brooke on 17 Jan 12
     
    anyone want to try and describe step by step how this system works?
  • Jorge F1 on 18 Jan 12
     
    Basically the car works with a Velodyne 64-beam laser mounted on the roof on the car, the laser produces a detailed 3D map of the environment and takes measurements of the area. The car uses the data from the 3D map and the measurements to avoid obstacles and respect traffic laws. Furthermore, the car uses various sensors, two of which are placed on the front and rear bumpers to track obstacles. There is also a camera, that detects traffic lights, GPS, inertial measurement unit, and wheel encoder, that determine the vehicle's location and keep track of its movements. In my opinion, the idea of a self driving car is incredible if it is built correctly, however I believe that the wheel encoder may invade the privacy of some.
  • Morten Nielsen on 18 Jan 12
     
    I'm a bit curious Jorge, how would this invade the privacy of some? This is an amazing technological improvement, it will be interesting to see what happens in the future with this. This is a quite good article on how it works http://news.discovery.com/autos/how-google-self-driving-car-works-111018.html
  • Jorge F1 on 18 Jan 12
     
    Because the car records it's position using the GPS, if a black hacker is able to get hold of this information the owner of the car could be put at risk.
Mr Brooke

fbmapbig.jpg (JPEG Image, 1400x1628 pixels) - Scaled (44%) - 3 views

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shared by Mr Brooke on 01 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 01 Nov 10
     
    Map of online comunities
Mr Brooke

Mapping facebook friends: how they did it | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...facebook-friends-mapping

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shared by Mr Brooke on 14 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 14 Dec 10
     
    Nice visualisation
Mr Brooke

Zebra Imaging Creates 3-D Holographic Maps, Glasses Not Required [Video] | Co.Design - 1 views

www.fastcodesign.com/...aps-glasses-not-required-video

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shared by Mr Brooke on 12 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 12 Dec 10
     
    Amazing 3D imaging!
Tranny Franny

BBC News - FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-16738209

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  • Fiche Galinha on 02 Feb 12
     
    The FBI's idea sounds like a good one, as it could lead to early warnings for law enforecement all around the world on any local or global threats, One good example of how a piece of software like this could have been used is the Norweigan massacre, as it was reported by the media that terrorist Anders Breivik had mentioned put forward extremist ideology and terrorist tendency while using the internet, going so far as to write a manifesto. On the other hand it would be vital for this application to fall under the Data Protection Act meaning data on individuals would have to be kept safe and up-to-date, it would only be kept for the necessary amount of time, and that all information would be deleted once a suspect was deemed innocent.
Ines Simon

France Says Google Privacy Plan Likely Violates European Law - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...ely-violates-european-law.html

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shared by Ines Simon on 29 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • The privacy policies of individual Google services, especially its StreetView mapping feature, have also been investigated in a number of European Union countries.
Mr Brooke

China unveils its own version of Google Earth | World news | guardian.co.uk - 3 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...google-earth-china-map-world

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shared by Mr Brooke on 22 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 22 Oct 10
     
    Government control exemplified....
  • The Game on 24 Oct 10
     
    in commie china... oh wait
Mr Brooke

Mapping the Republic of Letters - 1 views

toolingup.stanford.edu/rplviz

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shared by Mr Brooke on 20 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 20 Nov 10
     
    Nice visualisation here.
The Zhan

Globalization and the Internet - Probe Ministries - 0 views

www.probe.org/...alization_and_the_Internet.htm

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  • The Internet has provided an opportunity to build a global information infrastructure that would link together the world's telecommunications and computer networks. But futurists and governmental leaders also believed that this interconnectedness would also bring friendship and cooperation, and that goal seems elusive.
  • Maybe peace and harmony are just over the horizon because of the Internet, but I have my doubts. The information superhighway certainly has connected the world together into one large global network, but highways don't bring peace. Highways connected the various countries in Europe for centuries, yet war was common and peace was not. An information superhighway connects us with countries all over the world, but global cooperation hasn't been the result, at least not yet
  • The information superhighway also has some dark back alleys. At the top of the list is pornography. The Internet has made the distribution of pornography much easier. It used to be that someone wanting to view this material had to leave their home and go to the other side of town. The Internet has become the ultimate brown wrapper. Hard core images that used to be difficult to obtain are now only a mouse click away. Children see pornography at a much younger age than just a decade ago. The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is eleven years old.{3} Sometimes this exposure is intentional, usually it is accidental. Schools, libraries, and homes using filters often are one step behind those trying to expose more and more people to pornography.
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  • All of these concerns lead to the obvious question: Who will regulate the Internet? In the early day of the Internet, proponents saw it as the cyber-frontier that would be self-regulating. The Internet was to liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. One writer said we should "look without illusion upon the present possibilities for building, in the on-line spaces of this world, societies more decent and free than those mapped onto dirt and concrete and capital."
  • Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, in their book, Who Controls the Internet?, describe the various ways foreign governments have exercised their authority.{6} • France requires Yahoo to block Internet surfers from France so they cannot purchase Nazi memorabilia.{7} • The People's Republic of China requires Yahoo to filter materials that might be harmful or threatening to Party rule. Yahoo is essentially an Internet censor for the Communist party.{8} • The Chinese version of Google is much slower than the American version because the company cooperates with the Chinese government by blocking search words the Party finds offensive (words like Tibet or democracy). Even more disturbing is the revelation that Yahoo provided information to the Chinese government that led to the imprisonment of Chinese journalists and pro-democracy leaders. Reporters Without Borders found that Yahoo has been implicated in the cases of most of the people they were defending.
  • All of this censorship and cooperation with foreign governments is disturbing, but it also underscores an important point. For years, proponents of the Internet have argued that we can't (or shouldn't) block Internet pornography or that we can't regulate what pedophiles do on the Internet. These recent revelations about Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft show that they can and do block information.
  • In previous articles we have addressed the issue of globalization and have recognized that technology (including the Internet) has made it much easier to move information around the world. There is no doubt that the Internet has accelerated the speed of transmission and thus made the world smaller. It is much easier for people around the world to access information and share it with others in this global information infrastructure
  • it diminishes the relevance of borders, territorial governments, and geography. Thomas Friedman believes that the Internet and other technologies are flattening the world "without regard to geography, distance, or, in the near future, even language."
  • There is still a legitimate function for government (Romans 13:1-7) even in this new world of cyberspace. Contrary to the perceived assumption that the Internet will shape governments and move us quickly toward globalization, there is good evidence to suggest that governments will in many ways shape the Internet.
  • The Zhan on 13 Dec 10
     
    An explanation on the implications of the information highways internet provides, censorship and governments.
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