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Phone or Tracking Device?
Red Wolf writes "The first major commercial service that traces people's locations using their mobile phones -- mapAmobile -- is designed more to ease the minds of worried parents and suspicious bosses than to enable unauthorised spying."
I keep my cell phone encased in lead.
Make me a friend and I'll mod you up
I'm sure it will work better and more casually than the tracking device I have bolted around my teenage son's ankle!
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(O.o) This is Bunny. (> <)
Hopefully, they will have some sort of limitation where only the account holder of the phone can activate this service. I don't need any psycho ex-girlfriends knowing where I am at all times!!
More than enough BS
The question then is, How do you know it's really off. Just because there are no lights on, and nothing is being displayed, this does not mean it is off. It could still be transmitting your location. Removing the battery might help, but this could also be an unknown internal battery used for tracking.... none of us are safe, Please put on tinfoil hat now
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
phone traces you!
to use this when waking up after a huge drinking binge to find out where the hell I am.
Can you see me now? Can you see me now?
--"The perfect example of the man of action is the suicide." - William Carlos Williams
Just look at the policy coming from the Pentagon. Only a schoolboy could come up with those justifications and excuses.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Score: +1 (Paranoid)
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Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"OK clean up and scram, mom's 10 minutes away"
"Dammit don't drop the weed everywhere!"
"Next time look where you throw your bra"
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What I'm worried about, is that when I turn it on, is it really on? Are all the calls I get really calls, or are secret organizations sending me messages. For instance, just last Tuesday I got a call, and here is how it went:
Phone: *ring*
Me: "Hello?"
Phone: Is Ryan there?
Me: "No, sorry, I think you have a wrong number."
Phone: Ok, sorry. Go blow up a building.
Now, what am I to think about what is going on here?
No, that's your computer screen checking in with the Master's system. As long as you don't have anything illegal on your screen you don't have to worry about it.
Unauthorised spying is not its primary purpose.
But authorised spying is available for an additional fee.
Unauthorised spying has an even larger fee, in cash.
This is a common misconception: that all Slashdot readers are l33ty Mc. l33ts. Some of us are real-world people who just like to get our nerd news.
As for the psycho ex-girlfriends...they show up in the access_log of my Apache server all the time.
More than enough BS
My telecom is always able to track me if i'm using my phone. Of course, I have a landline...
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Where am I now?
Good!
Easier way... in the US just get Sprint service.
Hold on, I'm not ready to read through this topic yet. *Puts gigantic tin foil hat on head, checks mirror, and adds some more to be sure*. Okay, now I'm ready!
Hmm. Sounds like the work of the RIAA
designed more to ease the minds of worried parents and suspicious bosses
I think I'll ease my parents' minds and set my phone adrift in the Hudson.