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UCSD Students Tracking Their Friends' Locations
An Anonymous Coward writes: "The location-tracking software, developed by a 15-year-old student at the university, draws upon triangulation technology. The PDAs figure out their locations by comparing the strength levels of signals traveling from the devices to various Wi-Fi antennas. No GPS Required. Article from Salon here..."
Nothing is better than sneaking up behind your friends and shooting them w/ non lethal devices!
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from the marco!-...-polo! department?
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
I'm expecting Katz to respond to this anytime now... The digital generation of cyber-enabled college students in the post-Orwellian, nay, pre-Ashcroftian period find themselves the vicitms of marginalization by haXoring non-GPS compliant systems in the Stephensonian future of Southern California. or something like that.
so much for beating off in the library bathroom with my pda porn collection, you know they will be watching for that!
No need to mess around with all that. With the new legislation you can just ask one of your mates that works at one of hundreds of pseude-randomly chosen places to hand over the phone location records that he suddenly has access to.
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Such starry-eyed naivete and optimism baffles me. Surely no one actually expects college-aged persons to think for themselves?
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
"What 18- or 20-year-olds will do with these PDAs today is what 35-year-olds will be doing with them tomorrow."
Don't you mean, "what 35-year-olds will be doing with them in 15 to 17 years?"
Idea for a campus business (imagine this being an ad printed on a blue/yellow paper with bold white/black letters): .50cents an hour we will move your PDA from place to place within the campus premises until midnight."
"Tired of being constantly tracked by your girlfriend? Need a getaway? You can buy our unique services for as low as 19.99 a month. For this amount of money one of our operatives will carry your PDA with him/her from 9AM till 6PM. For an additional
I should write a full business plan, name it something like "Nano/Security" present it to some investors and spend the rest of my days in Bahamas!
You can't handle the truth.
Griswold says. "What 18- or 20-year-olds will do with these PDAs today is what 35-year-olds will be doing with them tomorrow."
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Drop them, lose them, spill beer on them,
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"Nick Van Borst, a 25-year-old senior majoring in world literature who criticized the tracker system in a university magazine"
Fuck you, you Shakespeare quoting fag! Props to the 15 year old!
Live web cams
Using 2.4Ghz cordless phones and microwaves near the antennas!
Or are there enough antennas to provide redundent signal info?
My Hello World is 512 bytes. But it's also a valid Fat12 boot sector, Fat12 file reader, and Pmode routine.
Help! I lost my car/pet/wife/computer!
Dude! Where's my car?!
Just leave your tracking device on and hit every strip club in the world...or make sure you get caught at one of her friend's houses.
This is the sack-less man's dream! My friends that avoid their girls for weeks before the she gives up would get to kill the covert ops and get right down to some good old fashioned bachelor fun!
Of course, I am mostly hooked...so I could only live vicariously through them.