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New Phone Allows Bosses To Snoop On Staff
tad001 writes "The Japanese phone giant KDDI has developed a way to track users' movements in fine detail. It works by analyzing the movement of accelerometers, found in many handsets. Activities such as walking, climbing stairs, or even cleaning can be identified, the researchers say. The company plans to sell the service to clients such as managers, foremen, and employment agencies."
My boss just came into my office and told me to get the hell off of Slashdot and get back to work!
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Think of 2 stepper motors hooked up with USB and a small gyroscope cradle for the phone. Lego mindstorms should have something that will fit the bill.
"Sir, employee 3392 is doing barrel rolls again!"
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The Pennsylvania school district announces that they plan to end their controversial laptop policy and give harmless cell phones to their students to make up for spying on them.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
They carefully locked the office door, just in case, and let the hot and steamy action begin... completely ignoring the security camera from the parking lot that happened to point directly at their office window!
Next time folks, not only lock the office door, but also close the blinds!
Attach to a drill and give it a spin. Tell them you had a bit of trouble on your way in to work. Let them rack their brains figuring out what happened.
Attach it to a long string and throw it out of the window of a very tall building sometimes. After you got them curious, leave a spiderman costume on the floor of your cubicle and when your boss walks by quickly kick it under the desk.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
...to patent my new design for the "Feline Cellphone Backpack"!
Imagine this is your boss's office as he tracks you on his computer screen:
"Okay, so he's just gone out through his kitchen door... he's climbing the fence into his neighbour's garden... now he's squatting down in their rose bed???"
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
True story. My now retired dad had his own company, with about 120 employees. One night he was working late and when closing off, he found the head of the tech design department screwing the cleaning lady. My dad told him the conversation went like this:
Cleaning lady: *moan*
Manager: "Oh yeah!"
Dad: *opens door*
Dad: "Oh hi there!"
Manager: "Get lost, Paul!!"
Dad: *laughs* "Don't forget the lights when you're done!"
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