dave54
Northeast CA.
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Is there no privacy left, or is this my shot at immortality?
I upgraded the free mapping app on my tablet computer from the free version to the paid Pro version. One of the features available is access to the high resolution USGS photos. So I was playing around, zooming in to some of our favorite boondocking spots. One is north of Lassen Volcanic NP. We are the only people that use it. The first time we found it there were no tire tracks, no old fire rings, no sign anyone had ever camped there before. Subsequent trips found no evidence any one used it since we were there last.
I zoomed in to the spot, and clearly visible is a white roof of a TT and a silver pickup parked in front, just like mine.
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Mello Mike
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Not with satellites in the air.
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rexlion
Broken Arrow OK
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My daughter bought a house a couple years ago, and when she googled the address pre-purchase the photo of the house showed an old man standing in the front yard... the deceased gentleman whose family was selling it. Talk about spooky, to be preserved in that manner even though dead.
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summerhouse
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No such thing as 'getting away from it all' anywhere these days.
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profdant139
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A while back, I used Google Earth to view our own "secret spot," only to find that the picture had been snapped the day before we spent a week at our campsite. If we had been in the photo, I would have saved and printed that image, for sure!
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mockturtle
WA
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Big Brother is, indeed, watching us. 
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MNtundraRet
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Quote: "Big Brother is, indeed, watching us.  "
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And in another week after Facebook does the automatic changeover, Big Brother will have been well upgraded from "1984".
If the computer industry does not get the upper hand on the hackers, Prince, the singer, may be right about the internet being over.
The near future will be interesting indeed.
Mark & Jan "Old age & treachery win over youth & enthusiasm"
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mockturtle
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MNtundraRet wrote:Quote: "Big Brother is, indeed, watching us. "
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And in another week after Facebook does the automatic changeover, Big Brother will have been well upgraded from "1984".
If the computer industry does not get the upper hand on the hackers, Prince, the singer, may be right about the internet being over.
The near future will be interesting indeed. When I read 1984 in my teens, I was terrified by it. Today, we've gone well past Orwell's wildest prognostications and we don't blink an eye. The 'frog in the water', I guess.... 
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dave54
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mockturtle wrote:MNtundraRet wrote:Quote: "Big Brother is, indeed, watching us. "
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And in another week after Facebook does the automatic changeover, Big Brother will have been well upgraded from "1984".
If the computer industry does not get the upper hand on the hackers, Prince, the singer, may be right about the internet being over.
The near future will be interesting indeed. When I read 1984 in my teens, I was terrified by it. Today, we've gone well past Orwell's wildest prognostications and we don't blink an eye. The 'frog in the water', I guess....
And the google announcement last week.
At least with the google plan I have options. I will stop using the google search engine, and stop using my gmail account.
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pnichols
Santa Cruz Mountains
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That's why we camp in a motorhome with a roof on it.
When we're inside it, the Big Eye in the Sky can't be sure where we are within any closer than an 8 foot by 18 foot rectangle.
You gotta keep that Big Eye guessing if you want true privacy. 
Phil, 2005 E450 Itasca 324V Spirit
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