Google Maps Japan

[wuchan]

Hell, I've hit a bambie going 70mph on a back road near home once. I was more worried that it fucked up my car than the damned fuckin deer. The car was alright but it left a nice fat skid mark on the road from slamming on the brakes though.

My personal experiments have led me to this:
VW vs Bambi = padiddle
VW vs bullwinkle = bus ride home

[FG Lurker]

Trust me, moose fuck up cars and walk away.

If you re-read my post that is what I said... Most people don't walk away from a moose strike if there is any speed involved. I'm from BC, we have lots of moose (800,000 in Canada apparently -- who knew?)

I know that hitting deer in NE is common, but to show it is a different story.

Realistically they can't check everything, there is too much raw data. Much like an ISP or a hosting provider this probably means they don't check anything at all for fear of opening themselves to lawsuits if they claim to check but then miss something (like the dumb bitch peeing in a post above.)

[IkemenTommy]

The driver was understandably upset, and promptly stopped to alert the local police and the Street View team at Google. The deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived.

Sure it did..

[IkemenTommy]

Some redneck with a rifle shot by google cam.

[Mulboyne]

[GuyJean]

Google Takes Down Pictures Of Vomiting British Dude



http://www.businessinsider.com/google-takes-down-pictures-of-vomiting-british-dude-2009-3

Angry Brits are so ashamed that Google Street View captured a pic of a vomiting British youth, they've demanded the picture be taken down. And the search giant has, of course, complied...

GJ

[Behan]

A quick Google search came up with:

[IkemenTommy]

Was that one of Greji's?

[Greji]

Was that one of Greji's?

Watch your mouth Ikemen, I have never touched a moose.

At least for a couple of years now....

[IkemenTommy]

Use this to find out how the upcoming DPK missiles will have effects on Tokyo.. well sorta

A Google Maps mash-up by Sydney-based design firm CarlosLabs has us looking at what nuclear explosions would do to cities all over the world.

[Bucky]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Internet search engine Google said it would reshoot all Japanese pictures for its online photo map service, Street View, using lower camera angles after complaints about invasion of privacy.
Google's Street View, which offers 360-degree views of streets around the world using photos taken by cruising Google vehicles, has already run into privacy complaints in other countries and activists have tried to halt the service in Japan.
Google said in a statement on Wednesday it would lower the cameras on its cars by 40 cm (16 inches) after complaints they were capturing images over fences in private homes.
But it said it would continue filming in Japan, where it has so far covered 12 cities.
"It is certainly a fact that there have been concerns," said Yoshito Funabashi, a spokesman at Google's Tokyo office. "We thought of what we can do as a company and tried to be responsible."
Google said it has also blurred car number plates in the pictures, as it has done in Europe, but the new steps did not convince Japanese campaigners.
"They are just trying to get through at the technological level ... The question is, can we allow for them to shoot (images) unselectively?" said Yasuhiko Tajima, a professor of constitutional law at Sophia University in Tokyo.
Britain's privacy watchdog has rejected calls to shut Street View down there, where concerns have ranged from images such as someone throwing up outside a pub to media reports that a woman filed for divorce after her husband's car was pictured outside another woman's house. [ID:nLN970530]
Both Google Maps and a related mapping service, Google Earth, have also been criticized by some countries for providing images of sensitive locations, such as military bases.

we're sorry

[Samurai_Jerk]

Street View under fire in Japan (BBC)

Google's Street View service suffered a second blow this week after numerous complaints in Japan forced the firm to start reshooting all the photos. ...

On 12 May, Greece's data protection agency ordered Google to stop filming because of privacy concerns. ...

Greece's data protection agency banned Google from expanding its Street View service in the country, pending "additional information" from the firm.

Authorities want to know how long the images will be kept on Google's database and what measures it will take to make people aware of privacy rights.

In the UK, residents near Milton Keynes blocked the driver of a Google Street View car in April when he started taking photographs of their homes saying the service was "facilitating crime".

The Pentagon has also banned Google from filming near or inside its military bases, saying it posed a "potential threat" to security.

[Mulboyne]

Google video about Street View Privacy. If in doubt, go for kawaii:

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Spotted by Avi Telyas

[osopolar]

Google video about Street View Privacy. If in doubt, go for kawaii:

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Spotted by Avi Telyas

great video. hehe.

[osopolar]

spotted in Akiba..

[Doctor Stop]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Internet search engine Google said it would reshoot all Japanese pictures for its online photo map service, Street View, using lower camera angles after complaints about invasion of privacy.

What, below skirt level this time?

[Christoff]

A quick Google search came up with:

I smell Canada

[FG Lurker]

I smell Canada

Moose strikes are damn deadly things. Mythbusters did an Alaska special episode awhile back that tested various moose strike theories.

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[Samurai_Jerk]

STOCKHOLM – Swedish police say they've cleared a man who was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife after deciding the culprit was most likely a moose.

Police spokesman Ulf Karlsson says "the improbable has become probable" in the puzzling death last year of 63-year old Agneta Westlund. She was found dead after an evening stroll in the forest.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091128/ap_on_re_eu/eu_sweden_killer_moose

[IkemenTommy]

The next Brazilian world cup is going to be something to die for

From gizmodo

[IparryU]

The next Brazilian world cup is going to be something to die for

From gizmodo

thats cool! Lets all go to brazil!

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