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Google Maps diminishing value of homes, causing "mental suffering"?
They didn't like that Google invaded their "privacy". Some of the court papers are available online, and if you check them out, you'll notice mainly boring gibberish but also the address of the home. Suing Google has already done more damage to their "privacy" than the pictures on their own.
Aaron and Christine Boring want at least $25,000 and the 360 degree pictures destroyed, but something tells us the case doesn't stand a chance against Google's well paid, state-of-the-art, corporate lawyers, which come from the best lawyer factories in the nation.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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chrisaroz said 12:06PM on 4-05-2008
If it was me, I woulda skipped the pool and gone with central heat and air.. but different strokes for different folks.
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Thayne said 6:28PM on 4-05-2008
LOL!!!! That's great. Personally, that house is a sh*t-stain. I can understand why they don't want people looking at it.
Aaron Slater said 1:44PM on 4-05-2008
Ooh, the plot unfolds... take a trip down their street, and suddenly it reads "This image is no longer available".
but did they pay the $25,000?
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Andrew said 2:58PM on 4-05-2008
Anne and Christine Boring?
How dull...
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Andrew said 2:58PM on 4-05-2008
wow... it's definitely Aaron...
I'm a fool..
yargnodrog said 1:05AM on 4-07-2008
First, I feel that comments about the condition or appearance of this man and womans property(good or bad) are off the ball.The real issue here is a citizens right to expect a certain level of privacy.Google is nothing more than another giant money making enterprise.Not some Dudley DoRight trying to make the world a better place thru technology.What is next, An overhead 360 of your property via sattilite with your family in the backyard?There needs to be at minimum something along the lines of the goverments Do-Not-Call program.It amazes me that people screamed and made all of the guff about spam email and laugh at something like this.Better wake up Bra.Maybe I would like to record your air transmitted voice conversations and make them available for download as an mp3 file.
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Pablo C said 10:11AM on 4-07-2008
Anything visible "in plain view" from a public area can be legally photographed. This includes buildings and facilities, people, signage, notices and images. There is no legal precedent to prevent a photographer so long as the image being photographed is in plain view from a public area.
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angel said 9:58PM on 4-15-2008
Its not about value its about safety. They are showing peoples back yards and homes. This shows who ever is looking that there may be kids there or something of value. It also give thief's a great view of a persons home and the access or hidden access ability. We must be careful at what we unleash and who it effects.
It is a great tool for the tax assessor though!!
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