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Using GPS to Track Teens
jmoloug1 writes An article at CBSNews that describes a new service available to parents. It uses cell phone GPS to track how fast the teens are driving and then automatically sends an alert back to the parents when a certain limit has been exceeded. Bad idea for stupid parents who are going to be outwitted by their kids just turning off the phones? Best of all, it's endorsed by our former chief of military ops in Iraq!"
SMS - 1:11:05: Jacob is driving 110mph
SMS - 1:11:18: Jacob is driving 120mph
SMS - 1:11:25: Jacob is driving 140mph
SMS - 1:11:29: Jacob is driving 180mph
SMS - 1:11:32: Jacob is driving 220mph
SMS - 1:11:33: Jacob is driving 0mph
that will get the hair on the back of your folks neck up! :P
moo
Put your phone on a plane and send it fasttrack two states over, and get someone to send it back.
"I was speeding, dad? 1800mph you say, in the saturn?"
Don't know what it is like elsewhere, but here in the UK: - a teen turn off their mobile phone?? I think not :-)
Well what if they are listening to the Cure and it is all I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU and then a tear comes to their eye and stuff because Robert Smith is SO DREAMY and then it all records OVERDOSE OF EMOTION, PLEASE PROCEED TO REPROGRAMMING CLINIC and like a black ops gila copter sweeps down and airlifts them out of the car and then they are taken to some medical hospital whatever and they are given a prozac proscription.
What about that one smart guyz!!!!!
I don't know what's more embarrassing. To be caught going 100mph on the hightway or 0mph in the backseat in some empty supermarket parking lot.
And all the EM from a cell phone kept in pants pockets that results is a great way to prevent unwanted teen pregnancy
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
All of this information will be transmitted in real time to a giant government supercluster, which will essentially be a cluster of 8192 clusters, each of which will consist of 128,000 IBM zSeries 1000 computers. These computers will run complex psychological, psychiatric, medical, legal, and financial algorithms, which will use actuarial formulas and methods to compute the past trends of behavior and state, as well as the probability of possible future behaviors and states of the subject.
These technologies will be used for many purposes, such as law enforcement, the prediction of crimes and the assignment of mandatory psychiatric and criminal help before possible crimes occur, the automatic management and categorical assignment of financial transactions, automatic tax revenue deduction from each transaction, the monitoring of the location and activities of subjects, the prediction of future traffic patterns (which will be used by automatic automobile pilot systems to select faster routes, as the vehicles will be driven by computer, and by civil engineers to select locations for expansion or for new highways), and many other uses.
Furthermore, the chip will contain storage to be used for the maintainance of the subject's medical, legal, and financial information throughout its life.
This would allow parents to make sure their teens don't drive too fast, even though the vehicles will be driven by computer, as explained above.
I can just see all the nerds have competions to see who can get their cell phones to report the highest velocities. I can see every thing rocket motor powered roller skates in the parking lot to spud-guns across the football field.
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Turn off phone, pop out battery, then say the battery died.
Well, Johnny, I guess if you can't be responsible enough to keep your cell charged, then you aren't responsible enough to be driving my car. Your ten speed is still in the garage, I'll drive you down to the bike store to get a patch kit.
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sort of governer in your teen's car?
You goo too faaast. Slow down or I will kill youh.
--Ahnold
This is obvious a sinister plot by some evil super-villan!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If the kids go faster than a certain speed, say 50Mph or so, the stereo shuts down. That way they can either cruise along and listen to their music, or they can go fast and not have that 300 beats-per-minute tune mess with their concentration.
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...this product has been condemned by Former Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. His official comment:
"Parents are sick in their minds. They say teenagers drive too fast. I tell you this is not true. There are no speeding teenagers anywhere in the United States."