From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 26 Jul 2006 05:21 Mxsmanic a exprim avec prcision : > Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > >> What is the link between cryptography and the free press ? > > Both have been hindered by the military. Can you explain how the free press "have been" hindered by the military _specifically in France_ ? In your opinion, when was the press actually free and when did the military begin to interfere ? -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 26 Jul 2006 05:29 Mxsmanic a expos le 26/07/2006 : > Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > >> You know, not every French lives in Paris. > > Every French what? Every French person. There are some people outside Paris, you know ? So, did you try Argenton sur Creuse and many other little towns that Google renders as grey patches ? >> Goportail was designed to have an equal image quality throughout >> France, to the Louvre pyramid to the smallest villages in the >> Morvan. Of course, when you compare big cities, Google Earth wins by far. > > Ah, so Goportail has a secret database of ultra-high-resolution > images, and deliberately blurs them so that every square metre of > France looks like it was last photographed in 1952? >> And the images they use are not satellite ones, and they are true >> color. > > So they _were_ photographed in 1952! No, between 2001 and 2005. They are renewed every five years. > And I saw the very crude masking of some seaside facility in Le Havre. > I can't believe people are still doing that. Perhaps France is still > doing aerial photography from biplanes, but the bad guys have > satellites now, and the best satellites now can read your wristwatch > from altitude. Yes. But are those photographs with wristwatch precision readily available ? Last thing, Mxsmanic : please STOP to consider that I stand for everything French. I do not. I'm not vexed by your comments on the so-called mediocrity of anything French. Please get it! -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 26 Jul 2006 05:31 Aprs mre rflexion, Martin a crit : > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:03:37 +0200, Stanislas de Kertanguy > <stanislas.dekertanguy(a)lesptt.net> wrote: > >> Mxsmanic a mis l'ide suivante : >>> I just tried Geoportail; the image quality is almost unusably poor, >>> and looks like a sick joke compared to Google Maps. And this is for >>> the center of Paris! >> >> Try with Argenton-sur-Creuse, or Pont-l'Evque (in the Calvados dept) >> ... >> >> You know, not every French lives in Paris. Goportail was designed to >> have an equal image quality throughout France, to the Louvre pyramid to >> the smallest villages in the Morvan. Of course, when you compare big >> cities, Google Earth wins by far. >> >> And the images they use are not satellite ones, and they are true >> color. > > Not every user wants to change their settings of Norton Anti Virus or > McAfee to be able to see a photo. Maybe, maybe! but I couldn't care less about the influence of Goportail on other users :) -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 26 Jul 2006 12:38 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If they can't do it right, why don't they > just give up? "Hold that thought." -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org
From: Mxsmanic on 26 Jul 2006 12:55
Gregory Morrow writes: > Heh. Reminds me of those photography restrictions that used to exist > when flying in commercial passenger craft above East Bloc > countries...yeah, that hazy pic I took on that flight between Prague > and East Berlin SURE was going to mark me as a NATO spy! It is still illegal in France for foreign nationals to take pictures from aircraft. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |