If you think humans had the technology to visit the moon and fly back to earth 60 years ago, seems you're the bigger fool.
Well, yes. Except that we didn't go to the moon 60 years ago (1951), we went to the moon 42 years ago (July 20, 1969). The Saturn V didn't fly until late 1967, "only" 44 years ago.
60 years ago no one had even put anything into Earth Orbit. Sputnik 1, igniting the Space Race, was launched only 54 years ago (October 4, 1957).
If you think humans had the technology to visit the moon and fly back to earth 60 years ago, seems you're the bigger fool.
As someone else posted, it wasn't 60 years ago, but even if it was, I think in many ways we were better equipped to do it then than we are now. We were producing many more engineers back then and as a society, we had much more respect for science and engineering. While we had far fewer people in college, the colleges that did exist, including many public colleges, had much higher standards. City College of New York (as just one example), which was free to anyone who could get in, had one of the toughest engineering schools in the country. Of course, most of the design work to get us into space was done by the German rocket engineers we captured at the end of WWII.
You can take off your tin hat now. I suppose along with believing that we didn't go to the moon (which will soon be proven either way when the Chinese do a flyby), you also believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that Obama's birth certificate is still phony. Maybe you believe that we were able to enter the computer age only because we "stole" technology from space aliens after they crash landed in the 1950s.
Must be alot nicer living in a place that spends millions to honor a bullshit useless monarchy that has no real power.
It's their culture. It's their history. It's their money. Why are you so concerned? I'm an American and it's unfortunate to see Americans top the list globally in judge-mentality. I guess (by your handle) you are too young to know better, but age really has little to do with it.
It's a bit disingenuous to claim that a list of nearby hotspots and cell towers "are not telling you anything about your location." Just look at the result when you plot them on a map.
I think you missed the point. It's not your location. I do believe he said it's an aggregate of many iphone locations. How is anyone going to tell which one is yours?
I think you missed the point. It's not your location. I do believe he said it's an aggregate of many iphone locations. How is anyone going to tell which one is yours?
I believe it's not your phone or other people's phones, but a list (downloaded from Apple) of the precise locations of WiFi hotspots in your general vicinity. But you can deduce from what parts of this database the phone download/cached where the user was.
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If you think humans had the technology to visit the moon and fly back to earth 60 years ago, seems you're the bigger fool.
Well, yes. Except that we didn't go to the moon 60 years ago (1951), we went to the moon 42 years ago (July 20, 1969). The Saturn V didn't fly until late 1967, "only" 44 years ago.
60 years ago no one had even put anything into Earth Orbit. Sputnik 1, igniting the Space Race, was launched only 54 years ago (October 4, 1957).
If you think humans had the technology to visit the moon and fly back to earth 60 years ago, seems you're the bigger fool.
As someone else posted, it wasn't 60 years ago, but even if it was, I think in many ways we were better equipped to do it then than we are now. We were producing many more engineers back then and as a society, we had much more respect for science and engineering. While we had far fewer people in college, the colleges that did exist, including many public colleges, had much higher standards. City College of New York (as just one example), which was free to anyone who could get in, had one of the toughest engineering schools in the country. Of course, most of the design work to get us into space was done by the German rocket engineers we captured at the end of WWII.
You can take off your tin hat now. I suppose along with believing that we didn't go to the moon (which will soon be proven either way when the Chinese do a flyby), you also believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that Obama's birth certificate is still phony. Maybe you believe that we were able to enter the computer age only because we "stole" technology from space aliens after they crash landed in the 1950s.
If you think humans had the technology to visit the moon and fly back to earth 60 years ago, seems you're the bigger fool.
Time to get back on your medication. ;-)
Must be alot nicer living in a place that spends millions to honor a bullshit useless monarchy that has no real power.
BTW here is a brief summary of the royal finances:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/2011-0...g-wealth_n.htm
Must be alot nicer living in a place that spends millions to honor a bullshit useless monarchy that has no real power.
It's their culture. It's their history. It's their money. Why are you so concerned? I'm an American and it's unfortunate to see Americans top the list globally in judge-mentality. I guess (by your handle) you are too young to know better, but age really has little to do with it.
We all need to grow up and mind our own business!
It's a bit disingenuous to claim that a list of nearby hotspots and cell towers "are not telling you anything about your location." Just look at the result when you plot them on a map.
I think you missed the point. It's not your location. I do believe he said it's an aggregate of many iphone locations. How is anyone going to tell which one is yours?
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I think you missed the point. It's not your location. I do believe he said it's an aggregate of many iphone locations. How is anyone going to tell which one is yours?
I believe it's not your phone or other people's phones, but a list (downloaded from Apple) of the precise locations of WiFi hotspots in your general vicinity. But you can deduce from what parts of this database the phone download/cached where the user was.
Location Histories for Location Aware Devices
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...DN/20110051665
more background:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security...r-was-patented