Wanted to post this to remind FReepers that, like our friends on the self-styled "right", the left's statist sheepdogs are out in force defending the NSA's surveillance programs.
I just received the following via email. Amazing what the cameras can do:
Hiding in a crowd? No more. Wait till this loads and zoom in... So you thought you might hide in the crowd?
This picture was taken with a camera 70,000 x 30,000 pixels (2100 MegaPixels).
It can identify a face in a multitude.
The cameras are not sold to the public and are being installed in strategic locations. (This one is in Canada)
Place the cursor in the multitude of people and left double click a couple times. It will continue to show the people much closer, when you double left click again or click more if needed. Amazing!!
There were thousands of persons and yet one can spot and recognize any face.
Imagine what this means...
http://www.gigapixel.com/image/gigapan-canucks-g7.html
The misdirection seems to favor Google.
From comments at end of Nation story:
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The most important issue to be addressed, Perlstein is this:
**** WHY did FOGEL not disclose his CONFLICT OF INTEREST, working for New America Foundation, funded by former Google and Microsoft executives?
The Nation will discover the horrors of PRISM as soon as a Republican president is elected.
Snowden is a Chinese agent. It’s so bleeding obvious.
From CNN today:
KURTZ: And now you think they have flipped?
GREENWALD: They have completely switched gears.
KURTZ: Yes.
GREENWALD: Yes, you can even look at polling data. Overwhelmingly, Democrats opposed NSA surveillance programs back in 2006 and overwhelmingly they now favor them because it’s a Democrat in power who’s doing it rather than a Republican.