From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on
Mxsmanic a exprim avec prcision :
> 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 ?

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From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on
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 ?

>> Goportail 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 Goportail 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!

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From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on
Aprs mre rflexion, 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'ide 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'Evque (in the Calvados dept)
>> ...
>>
>> You know, not every French lives in Paris. Goportail 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
Goportail on other users :)

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From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on
Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> If they can't do it right, why don't they
> just give up?

"Hold that thought."

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From: Mxsmanic on
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.

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