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Baltimore to Test Cell Phone Traffic Monitoring

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-brother-is-listening dept.

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."

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  1. WAKE UP MORONS by Beatlebum · · Score: 1, Insightful

    DUPE DUPE DUPE

  2. duplicate on the front page. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Do the editors even check? Are they even working?


    Two same stories with the same links on the front page.

  3. wake up editor morons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    try reading your own site, it might suck less balls then.

    a triplicate is a fucking joke, go fire yourself

  4. What? by lewiz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is amazing. Normally I'd just ignore a duplicate (or triplicate by the looks of it) but I'm amazed it can happen with just one article sandwiched in between.
    Bizarre.

    1. Re:What? by slavemowgli · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This was posted by CowboyNeal, though, while the last article was posted by Zonk. Surely you don't expect the editors to actually read Slashdot instead of mechanically clicking on "Publish"?

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  5. Jeebus Freggin' Christ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Need I say more? This is pathetic... A pair of trained monkeys could do a better job as /. editors than the current crew.

  6. Re:First TRIPLICATE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And Digg only managed to post this once.

    The sound you hear is the sound of advertisers running from Slashdot to Digg.

  7. Your all -1 offtopic by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    3 dupes - so fucking what. You're not paying for it. You ought to be bitching about the article registration like usual.

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  8. An open letter to the Managment... by One+Childish+N00b · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey, Editors!

    I love this site, I love the discussions that the comments generate and I enjoy this community being one of the places (other than IRC) where technically-minded people can come together - hell, even some of the trolls are pretty damn funny, and I'm not usually one to join in the crowd of people screaming 'Dupe!' every time you repost an article from the previous week or day - I don't always get a chance to check /. everyday and so if something gets reposted I often haven't noticed the original and still enjoy reading it, and I don't see why dupes attract so much of the screaming masses to deride you.

    However, two on the front page, with only one article seperating them, no less, is utterly rediculous - that'd be like the TV news reporting on the same thing, with the same content, but with a different correspondant - it's not professional, and it'd be pretty poor even for an amateur setup - an analogy would be it's OK for the same announcement to be on two days in a row, but two in the same bulletin is sloppy and unprofessional. It's even below the standard of your average LiveJournal blogger, and it's certainly put a doubt in my mind over my decision to treat myself to a /. subscription for Christmas - while this isn't quite 'you lost yourself a customer', those few beers I'd buy instead of a subscription are now looking that much more tempting...

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  9. Funny, that. by 6Yankee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ever wonder why I don't pay for it?

    When I see something worth paying for, I'll pay. Until then, they can whistle for my subscription money (and my ad revenue - blocked those too).