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"Army: Water found to be wet" "The US Army discovers a bear shitting in the woods" This is incredibly, painfully obvious. Why is it on HN?
by sbierwagen 14y ago
"Army: Water found to be wet"
"The US Army discovers a bear shitting in the woods"
This is incredibly, painfully obvious. Why is it on HN?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoI can think of a couple of reasons why this audience might find the article useful. First, a number of folks here are brainstorming startups and the fact that GEO information is available in EXIF data and on the phone in general is an attractive thing. Two, this article includes a documented case of the GPS data being used against the army (mortar attack) which, if you read HN regularly, someone says "Don't use GPS data, you could get someone killed." and then someone will comment 'citation needed' and there will be the whole silly "Gee don't do that if you don't want" kind of argument. When the real discussion should be "Your customers might not realize the consequences of this, you need to be aware of them." So for those reasons I think its a useful thing for entrepreneurs to keep in their thought processes.
- 001sky 14y ago"This time its different!" </irony>