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Track People Using Their Mobile Phones
Richard W.M. Jones writes "A couple of new services have been rolled out in the UK recently which allow you to track people when they have their mobile phones turned on. Mapminder states 'It's important to know where your loved ones are for your own peace of mind'. 192.com asks 'Do you want to know where your children are?'. Of course the police have been able to do this for a long time, and evidence from mobile phone positions has been used in high-profile court cases in the UK. Silicon.com has an article."
This way my mother can find out I'm at a strib club, and won't ask me any inconvenient and embarrising questions when I get home because she will be too embarrised.
Beep beep.
A couple of new services have been rolled out in the UK recently which allow you to track people when they have their mobile phones turned on.
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Such a service has existed for a long time. It's
Mom: [dialing little James] Jimmy, where are you?
Little James: [Stepping out of the arcade] I'm at the school library
Of course, the accuracy of the information wasn't always guaranteed
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
No, I'm not a deviant, I'm just making a point.
This is great news for all those people out there being stalked by their ex's who happen to be in law enforcement! Now the bastard can always know where you are! Too bad about them tracing that cell phone to your safe house...
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Insert joke about DMCA making it illegal to "reverse engineer" your phone and remove the battery here.
doctors who provide abortions by telephone
So is that like when tech support has to walk someone through a nuke & pave?
"Now, at the command prompt, type 'format fetus' and then press 'Y' when prompted."
Announcer: It's eleven o'clock. Do you know where your children are?
Homer: I told you last night, no!
Osama's agent: So you say this phone is untracable
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Undercover CIA agent[sales man]: yeah, don't worry abut'it
Osama: [0-9]+[0-9]*
phone rings,there are no Yanks in Iraq
Osama:It's me, we will get them for this
Unknown person: OSBL, shut-up, I just want them off my ass, don't call me again
CIA HQ: OSBL has been recongnized by our MUCHO voice recognition system[running Office XP]
CIA BOSS: I want him picked up immediately, and page the President
Next days Headline
OSBL arrested
OSBL was arrested in Kentville, CA. Apparently he was working illegally in a WalMart store, with a CA state-id, with the name "Osama Bin Laden".
INS declined to comment
or just find out what their phone number is, thereby you can find them wherever they go and whack them.
9:55 - Virgin Mobile customer applies for a Virgin credit card
10:34 - Virgin Mobile customer orders a Virgin Cola near the Virgin V2 music store in Kensington
11:03 - Virgin Mobile customer goes for Virgin Vodka instead. Cola sucks.
12:45 - Virgin Mobile customer boards Virgin train, westbound
Which would then more likely go:
13:45 - Virgin Mobile customer still on Virgin train, stationary
14:45 - Virgin Mobile customer getting slightly fed up with Virgin train, stationary
15:45 - Virgin Mobile customer homicidal on Virgin train, eastbound (slowly)
16:45 - Virgin Mobile customer still on Virgin train, texting death threat to Richard Branson
Best wishes,
Mike.
What about police officer cell phones? If im trying to rob a bank, can I use this to tell when the cops are coming?
or maybe Bush did not actually go to Iraq. Like the 1960s moon mission, the Air Force just flew Bush and these gullible reporters around in circles before landing at a fake base in an allied country somewhere. The reporters were only on the ground for three hours. How would they know where they actually landed without cell phones or GPS?
cpeterso
I always swore that the child-leashes in malls were a bad idea, too, until a friend's kid got snatched. They closed the mall and found the guy- in less than five minutes he'd changed the kid's clothes and dyed his hair (which was still wet with the dye.) Now i'm not so sure i don't like the leashes, you know?
Now that's just being silly. If you really want to keep your kids safe, you shouldn't take them to the mall in the first place. Instead, you should lock them in their rooms until they're 18 -- and since kids are known to sneak out, at least one parent should be at home at any given time.
Except, parents are responsible for most kidnappings, so you should lock your spouse out of the house and baridcade yourself in a room with your kids.
It's the only way to be sure.
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
Do you think she would still let me live in her basement if I didn't?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney