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Writing Messages In Empty Space With GPS
meiocyte writes: "This New Scientist story about leaving messages in empty space seems very cool. You upload a message (or perhaps a picture, audio clip, etc.), it gets tagged with your GPS coordinates, and then anyone else who goes there gets to see/hear it. Every GPS-resolvable parcel of empty space will have its own web site!" Combine this with user-forums, and restaurant ratings could take on a whole new dimension. Update: 01/20 23:28 GMT by T : Oops -- looks like I duped Michael. Sorry.
Yar ho ho, maybe i can use it to hide my Mp3/divx booty! X marks the spot. Kinda wierd how history repeats itself (in a way)
Carpe meam simiam!
Ugh, there are some places where i would really rather not have a video clip of previous activities, imagine getting a new room at uni halls or a hotel or something... eyugggh.
I can see it now... Random baseball diamonds around the world:
All your base are belong to us..
Slashdot is like Playboy: I read it for the articles
I saw this a month or so ago, and remember thinking at the time that I was worried about the S/N ratio of this 'empty space' around me ...
.. *grin*
I'd hate to walk around every corner and get an X10 Popup
Groove Salad -- a nicely chilled plate of ambient grooves and beats.
int lat = 0;
int long = 0;
while(1) {
for(lat = 0; lat < 360; lat++) {
for(long = 0; long < 360; long++) {
GPS_printf(lat, long, "ALL YOUR COORDINATES ARE BELONG TO US!!!\n");
}
}
}
Kilroy was here?
Whenever I see an ad pop up in front of me, I'll just whip out my faithful mirror, and send the beam back to its source, thereby destroying the nasty sattelite that created the spam.
The problem with this tagging idea is that in areas where many people visit there will be too many messages to sort through. Many of them will be spam, not particularly relevant, or just plain inflamatory. The solution to this problem would be to develope a moderation system where logged in users would rate each others comments. Comments with high ratings would be given higher visibility and comments with low ratings would be filtered according to the user's preference. Further, we could sort users by the ratings their comments receive and we could call this, erm, I know, karma! My idea is so perfect, what could possibly go wrong with it?
The cafeine laden air was then pierced by a cry, "lets invent the dorkiest, nerdiest hobby ever and use slashdot to persuade people to do it!".
Their first idea was to have people stand at airports and train stations taking the numbers of the trains as they pass. Then someone did a search on Google (which runs Linux) and found that 'trainspoting' has been thought of already, they even found a Web site giving advice on the best model of parker to wear while doing it.
The GPS drawing idea was the result. $3 Billion dollars of orbiting infrastructure and they use it to make an etch-a-sketch.
The more time people who do that kind of thing can be persuaded to do that kind of thinginstead of finding members of the opposite sex and procreating the happier I feel about the future of the world.
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What about the viruses?
Hi! How are you?
I meet you at these coordinates in order to have your advice.
See you later! Thanks
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