{"id":7625,"date":"2016-03-06T11:35:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7625"},"modified":"2016-03-06T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T16:35:56","slug":"no-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7625","title":{"rendered":"No photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I saw this media photo of a SpaceX rocket that was readied for launch:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7626\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/spacex-no-photography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/spacex-no-photography.jpg 680w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/spacex-no-photography-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photographer&#8217;s choice to include the No Photography sign in this picture reminded me of a No Photography sign I saw a few years ago in Budapest, at a construction site in the vicinity of the US embassy:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7627\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_0080-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_0080-cropped.jpg 680w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_0080-cropped-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These signs are ridiculous. You don&#8217;t see them often in democracies; they were very frequently encountered in the former Soviet Bloc. Which once made me wonder&#8230; all a Western spy had to do was to drive around the country and mark the location of No Photography signs in order to get a fairly accurate map of all the communist regime&#8217;s sensitive installations.<\/p>\n<p>In the era of the ubiquitous smartphone with HD camera, not to mention more advanced gadgets like Google&#8217;s Glass or even toy drones with HD video, these signs are pitifully pointless.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7625' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I saw this media photo of a SpaceX rocket that was readied for launch: The photographer&#8217;s choice to include the No Photography sign in this picture reminded me of a No Photography sign I saw a few years ago in Budapest, at a construction site in the vicinity of the US embassy: <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7625' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-personal","category-59-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7628,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}