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09-28-2006, 11:15 AM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Edmonton AB, Canada
Distribution: Gentoo x86; Gentoo PPC; Gentoo Sparc64; FreeBSD; OS X; Solaris
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Showstopper bug in google maps...
This was posted to full-disclosure, and I thought it was interesting enough to post here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=...,0.006738&om=1 |
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09-28-2006, 11:51 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Outside Paris
Distribution: Solaris10, Solaris 11, Ubuntu, OL
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Ha ha ha, those good old bugs are back again !
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09-28-2006, 04:28 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Orlando, FL
Distribution: Debian
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That is a large bug!
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09-28-2006, 06:13 PM
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Arch/XFCE
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Originally Posted by Carlwill
That is a large bug!
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Or perhaps a small field..... 
My hunch is that this got put into a file late at night by a very bored image-processing operator--I wonder how many others are lurking out there.... |
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09-29-2006, 07:30 AM
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Registered: May 2006
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian, Linux From Scratch
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My hunch is that this got put into a file late at night by a very bored image-processing operator
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Actually most people think it is a thrips, a v small bug that was squished between the glass plate and film during processing ... or a giant alien ... |
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09-29-2006, 07:58 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: SE Tennessee, USA
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
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Rumor has it that during WW2 some of the arial photographs included various bits of doctoring - bits of self-expression in what is otherwise a numbingly boring job.
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09-29-2006, 09:24 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Arch/XFCE
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Originally Posted by Daws
Actually most people think it is a thrips, a v small bug that was squished between the glass plate and film during processing ... or a giant alien ...
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film????
glass plate??
Seriously, I don't know exactly how they do it now, but I would have thought that Google would just link up to the digital files.... |
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09-29-2006, 09:38 AM
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Location: UK
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Seriously, I don't know exactly how they do it now, but I would have thought that Google would just link up to the digital files....
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I'd agree but I don't know the first thing about how they process the images nowadays. But the squishing would explain why you can see the bugs entrails/excrement in a pool behind it. Lovely. |
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