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|  Google street-view driver ignores man in danger
»news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10016···1_3-0-20
Bill's friend, the one with whom he was going on a motorbike holiday in Tasmania, suddenly died. Bill, being upset, went out and got drunk.
A cab dropped him off back at his house. But he collapsed before he could get to his front door.
So along came a friendly Google StreetView camera car. The Australian version of the service was to be launched August 4. So the Googler had a lot of filming to do.
He shot the prostrate Bill who was lying on his back, his feet sticking out into the road.
The driver didn't stop to see whether Bill was all right. He didn't even get out of his camera car to move Bill's feet away from the curb. Like a TMZ.com paparazzo, his deadline seemed to be more important than something that could have been a dead body.
Did his shot of the beFostered Bill make the first edition of Google StreetView Australia? Too right, mate.
Who was the anti-Samaritan driving that Google camera car? Are his parents made of metal? What sort of instructions did he have? Why didn't he get out to help? And why didn't anyone at Google Australia notice that there was, well, a body lying in the street? (Google only removed the image after Bill's story came to light)
I know that people make jokes about Google being the quintessential engineering company. And that is something this blog will never stoop to (being an engineering company, that is).
But I hope you, too, would like to know how the company reacted to one of its drivers leaving a man lying in the street while he filmed him. Original story and picture - BEFORE Google deleted it.
»www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne···ome.html
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| Re: Google street-view driver ignores man in danger said by Jeffrey  :I was under the impression that there was no expectation of privacy in public, but perhaps I don't quite understand where this guy was sleeping it off. This wasn't a "privacy issue" story, but about a driver ignoring either a dead body on the street or someone in serious difficulty with a possible injury. More a "what kind of contractors does Google hire" story.
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1 edit | Re: Google street-view driver ignores man in danger said by LiamJunket :said by Jeffrey :I was under the impression that there was no expectation of privacy in public, but perhaps I don't quite understand where this guy was sleeping it off. This wasn't a "privacy issue" story, but about a driver ignoring either a dead body on the street or someone in serious difficulty with a possible injury. More a "what kind of contractors does Google hire" story. No I understand that part of it, but I have no idea how much a Google Earth driver has to do while he's driving. I won't go as far as saying I've swung by dead bodies as I drove, but I don't really pay attention to things off the roadway from my line of driving. I can only assume that the Google Earth guy is similar, but distracted.
Not making excuses for the driver or the pedestrian here, but obviously something needs to change. Those Aussies love a good beer.
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Laguna Hills, CA | Meanwhile if he did stop to help and something happened, both he and Google would be sued for millions. | |
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| Assuming the guy wasn't faking it for the Google car( possible ). I'm sure the Google car wasn't the only car that passed this guy up. If he was drunk form the night before I'm sure dozens if not HUNDREDS of cars passed this guy up. What police never come down that road either? I smell BS. | |
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| Did it occur to you that the driver of the Google vehicle probably doesn't see what the camera sees, since he's, you know, driving and paying attention to the road ahead of him? Not to mention the numerous other cars/trucks that passed by this man lying on the grass that didn't stop, why single out the Google driver? | |
| Ricky Smith
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Winter Park, FL | Internet Speeds I'll agree that our internet is slower than most other countries but you want to tell me it's slower than canada? I don't know anyone in Canada who has faster internet service.
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | US Internet speeds won't catch up with Japan in 100 years A rehash of the same old story about the CWA and their bogus data. This is why bad data is worse than no data, because idiots take the bad conclusions based on the bad data and run with it. | |
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clubs: | Re: US Internet speeds won't catch up with Japan in 100 years I agree with you. But how many places in the US can people go out and get a 100Mbps line? Not many I can tell you.
They need to make a report on the speed of whats available, and not what people buy. | |
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3 edits | Chrysler's In-Car Wi-Fi Ready To Roll Aug. 25 It's nothing that anyone cannot accomplish by installing one of these in their ride, and its hundreds of dollars cheaper. The dlink will likely work with your existing cell phone plan, or at the very least, an upgrade to your cellular plan might be required.
The cards that insert into the router are free or nearly free with a cell plan.
It's just plain stupid and an uneeded extra expense to have a separate cell subscription just for your car, when nearly everyone already has a cell phone plan. | |
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| Re: Chrysler's In-Car Wi-Fi Ready To Roll Aug. 25 It's hard to imagine that this will be anything more than gimmick.
I can accomplish the same thing with a Sprint U727 USB aircard (which is EV-DO rev. A), a Cradlepoint CTR-350 (about the size of a cigarette pack), and a power converter. Total inital outlay of about $300 ($150 for the aircard with 2 year contract; $125 for the Cradlepoint; about $25 for the power converter).
Chrysler is merely all of that in one integrated "package" . . . yet that package ends up being "locked" in the car. Internet service that's locked in your car (or 100ft. of it) or locked in your house - what's the difference? People who want their internet to be *truly* mobile - it goes with me everywhere types - won't find this a very satisfying solution.
True, the Sprint plan has a higher recurring cost of $60 per month versus $25 to $35 per month of the Chrysler plan, but, again, I can use my Sprint U727 (and Cradlepoint) places a Chrysler car cannot go (e.g., inside a hotel room or conference center). Having to run out of my hotel room to my car to "look up" the nearest restaurant isn't much of a "service."
One wonders too . . . how happy will Chrysler wi-fi customers be when they wander into those areas with poor cell reception or - where reception is not an issue - the area is not yet covered by EV-DO rev. A? | |
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| AOL Phisher Gets Seven Year Sentence - good, rot in jail
A West Haven, Connecticut, man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for masterminding a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users over a four-year period.
Michael Dolan, 24, was sentenced Wednesday in Connecticut federal court. The seven-year sentence was the maximum he could have received...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Chang painted a far different picture of the man, saying in a sentencing memorandum that Dolan has attempted to bribe a codefendant, threatened to kill someone he thought was a government informant, and suborned perjury from his girlfriend. "Michael Dolan is a born leader -- a leader of criminals," he wrote.
Dolan had previously admitted that the scam had netted more than $400,000 from 250 or more victims, Chang argued in the memorandum.
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