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."

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First TRIPLICATE!!!

[RKBA]

*Ahem*

TRIPLICATE!!!

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/07 45248&tid=126&tid=215&tid=158

Note: Yes, I reported this a few minutes ago.

Re:First TRIPLICATE!!!

[xouumalperxe]

Well, since "duplicate" boils into "dupe", I'd have to say that short for triplicate would be "tripe".

Re:First TRIPLICATE!!!

[someone300]

Actually, this seems to have been posted four times now!

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/14 3247&tid=158&tid=215&tid=193
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/07 45248&tid=126&tid=215&tid=158
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/ 01/159241&tid=193
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/16/076217 &tid=215&tid=126

Re:First TRIPLICATE!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me be the first to put this in an elegant six-article list:

• Baltimore to Test Cell Phone Traffic Monitoring
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/143247
         
• Cell Phones to Monitor Traffic Flow
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/074524 8
         
• Using Cell Phones to Track Traffic
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/159241
         
• Tracking Cell Phones for Real-Time Traffic Data
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/16/076217
         
• Finns To Use Cell Phones To Monitor Traffic Jams
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/124324 7
         
• Using Cellular Traffic to Monitor Traffic Jams
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/042822 9

What?

[lewiz]

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.

Cause

[Kohath]

You know what's causing all these dupes?

Hyperthreading.

hmmm....

[Malor]

Well, this IS pretty important. Maybe they'll post it once per affected phone.

I submitted this with a funnier headline...

[sparkes]

...but it doesn't matter it'll be posted sometime today ;-)

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