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Baltimore to Test Cell Phone Traffic Monitoring
Momoru writes "The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a Canadian company, Delcan NET, will begin testing a technology that determines the flow of automobile traffic by monitoring cell phone traffic. The company promises a revolutionary way to determine backups, but privacy advocates fear the implications of a third party tracking users by their cell phones."
...they were all trying for First Post.
--Robert
You know what's causing all these dupes?
Hyperthreading.
Well, this IS pretty important. Maybe they'll post it once per affected phone.
Make sure you go and copy all the +5 comments into this thread, get your Karma up to 'Excellent'
*Ahem*
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TRIPLICATE!!!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/0
Note: Yes, I reported this a few minutes ago
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There is this awesome site called Slashdot, http://slashdot.org/ - I think you'll like it. Check it out sometime before posting news to your site.
You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline.
Well, since "duplicate" boils into "dupe", I'd have to say that short for triplicate would be "tripe".
RIGHT HAND: Hi there, left hand how are you?
LEFT HAND: Oh, hello there, what's your name?
RIGHT HAND: My name is Right Hand. What are you doing?
LEFT HAND: I'm making Cell Phone Traffic Tracking Articles. Are doing something, too?
RIGHT HAND: Well, yes I am. I'm making Cell Phone Traffic Tracking Articles, too. I sure wish I knew what you were up to.
THIRD HAND: Hi guys, I'm bushed...I've been making Cell Phone Traffic Tracking Articles since dawn.
LEFT HAND: Well, it's another day of working for Slashdot. Let's get back to work.
...but it doesn't matter it'll be posted sometime today ;-)
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..are you a script? Maybe he is and they're just conducting some sort of a Turing Test... Oh, and "mumble" was the word I had to type in to pass _my_ Turing Test as AC. How appropriate.:)
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You can't handle the truth.
Yea dude, I heard about it on digg.com first.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Anyone want to guess what the top two Google news hits for Cell Traffic are at the moment?
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,810 for cell traffic. (0.16 seconds)
Cell Phones to Monitor Traffic Flow
Slashdot - 3 hours ago
determine traffic conditions such as jams and slowdowns. As long as a user's phone is turned on, the cellphone network notes the time of handoffs from cell to
Cell phone data tracing traffic in Md. Baltimore Sun
all 3 related
Baltimore to Test Cell Phone Traffic Monitoring
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
reporting that a Canadian company, Delcan NET, will begin testing a technology that determines the flow of automobile traffic by monitoring cell phone traffic.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
You know maybe CowboyNeal just sat down with bagel and coffee, and wanted to feel productive before doing some amazon.com christmas shopping. So he sees a nifty article on cell phone traffic monitoring, and says hey this is a good article let's post it. But oh wait?! I should check for dupes.
DING-DONG!
Must be UPS or FedEx. COMING! Wow my shipment of shirts from ThinkGeek are here. Tears open box. Decides to try on the shirt.
Then suddenly the cat strolls in and decides to step on the mouse. Accidentally submitting the duplicate post. So really we should blame the cat.
Oh wait...
I'm going to go create my own technology news site, with blackjack and hookers. You know what? Forget the news site.