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Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids
David Pogue at the New York Times wrote this week about a new, novel use for cellphones: tracking your children. Several new ventures, including ones from names like Disney, Verizon, and Sprint, will offer web-accessible locating services by pinpointing the G.P.S. signal in their commercial devices. There's also some discussion of child-specific services, like the 'Whereifone', which is more 'Star Trek communicator' than actual cell. From the article: "To pinpoint the phone's location, you call up the Web site, enter your password, click 'locate,' and presto: an icon appears on a map -- either a street map or actual satellite photo. In the photo view, you can zoom in enough to see individual buildings. These are existing satellite photos --you won't actually see your child standing there -- but this feature is still creepy and awesome. You can even watch 'bread crumbs' appear on the map as the phone moves around (cost: one talk-time minute apiece). That could be helpful if you're trying to assist someone lost on the road, or in the kinds of emergencies encountered primarily in your nightmares."
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Fascinating.
... is watching?
So, and I'm not trying to offend here as I am genuinely confused -- do you actually talk like this, or is this satire?
Perhaps life really is full of possibilities.
I don't know; do I pass the Turing Test?
I can't remember if it's the terrorists or the sex offenders winning at this point.
Reality.
KFG
That's an urban myth! Modern TV's don't make any such noise. I'm in my 40's and I haven't heard it for years!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.