Somehow "debris" seems an inappropriate term for pieces of the Space Shuttle. It is a pseudo-technical term, and perhaps a legal one, but "debris" and "human remains" still seem cold and lacking in the reverence most hold for astronauts, especially fallen ones.

It isn't anonymous; only the login is. On the website with the instructions: "Along with any image or video file that you wish to upload, please include a text file containing your name and a detailed description of the time and location at which the image or video was taken." Hardly anonymity.

"Anonymous FTP" is just net.language for "Public FTP". It doesn't imply anonymity--connections are usually logged, and the banner usually says so. "Anonymous" in this context means ftp for people who don't have accounts on this machine (non-anonymous ftp is where you use a username and password which correspond to an account on the machine).

Blame it on historical usage.

Interesting - it isn't just "the net" that had to be in place for this to happen. Digital cameras have to be almost ubiquitious - which they are. Now, add to this a basic GPS with timestamped route recording (most of them...) and leave the time/date stamp feature on your camera. When you get back, download the route, correlate against the time stamps from the pictures, and you get time (accurate to seconds) and place (often to 10 metres) automatically. (Some digital cameras can be connected to the GPS to record the time/position info in the metadata for the picture.)

My HP camera lets me add 45 seconds of audio just after the picture is taken - ideal for note-taking.

NOW add the reporting capabilities of the net, and the entire population of the area is, on the whole, better equipped to locate, tag, and report accident-related information than a full survey team of ten years ago - mainly because there are so gosh darn many of them.

Haven't checked out the link but off the top of my head, using the browser upload tag might be a better more reliable idea...you can have a textbox to describe what the picture is and where and when it was taken. With ftp, you have to either have a supplementary info file, or try to magle the file name, or something.

FTP isn't a good choice from a UI perspective.

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