7th April 2005, 3:18 PM
What DJ means is that you can't have a satellite for every person who happens to be using the program at the time. So yes there are satellites that the gov can control to do real time surveillance, there are not millions of satellites sitting around waiting for Joe Foobar to go searching the neighborhood for his missing cat.
And forget Keyhole. I saw that a year ago, and the free demo is nifty. But now there is something even better: maps.google.com. I don't know if google bought Keyhole (I didn't know they were related, I don't think they were a year ago), or how the whole thing works, but amazingly enough I think this is a much better app that Keyhole. That was slow and clunky, and this is very fast. You can even search for a place or thing, and it pulls up the top few matches, displays them on the map, and pull up a website related to it. Pretty sweet, and something I've been wasting a lot of time over the past couple days with.
And forget Keyhole. I saw that a year ago, and the free demo is nifty. But now there is something even better: maps.google.com. I don't know if google bought Keyhole (I didn't know they were related, I don't think they were a year ago), or how the whole thing works, but amazingly enough I think this is a much better app that Keyhole. That was slow and clunky, and this is very fast. You can even search for a place or thing, and it pulls up the top few matches, displays them on the map, and pull up a website related to it. Pretty sweet, and something I've been wasting a lot of time over the past couple days with.