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Open Source Geographic Tracking?
Walkingshark writes "I work for a company that needs to track people and equipment across the US as they move to, work on, and leave jobs. The boss has been looking at the typical mix of closed, proprietary software and has also considered building off our existing 10-year-old SQL database (with the kind of clunky interface you'd expect from a program built in the late '90s). I'd like to be able to bring him a good open source alternative, but so far I haven't been able to find anything that can do what we need. Ultimately, we need to be able to keep track of a few thousand separate people and pieces of equipment, and to move them in dynamically created groups to and from our locations and jobsites in a way that is sharable between workstations, with updates to location entered at one station being broadcast to all clients in real time. Ideally, this program needs to also give us access to road routing similar to the capability found on Google Maps. We'd doubtless need to be able to modify the source for customization, but I was hoping there was something we could find out there that had the core functionality we're looking for."
It's simple, you just sweep around a sound beam in a 365 degree circle and when it hits your targets it comes back like "bleep," "bloop" "bloop." Then you know where they are and if they are enemies or employees (or maybe both? Italian employees?) You're welcome.
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I like Free Open Source Software. Please give me this highly specific software so that we can use it for free in our business. I don't want to actually develop it myself or give back to the community an way. FOSS FTW!!
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So your niggers keep running away and stealing things on the way to the cotton fields, am I right?
You're proposing a technological solution to a subhuman problem.
Chain the monkeys together in groups of about ten. To reduce escape velocity make sure there's at least one fat nigger per coon platoon and - this is important - put him near the middle. This means they'll have to cut at least two chains to get rid of Porky Nig the living convict ball. Since no shitskin can count that high they'll still be shuffling along looking perplexed the next morning when you've invited your Klanmates over for a leisurely breakfast and caught up to them. Oooh, the surprise on their faces!
In the unlikely event (see the so called famine victims with their big bellies?) that you can't find an obese jungle bunny, you can use a crippled one; if you don't have a crippled one handy, and who in his right mind would - they do even less work than a fit one, you can easily improvise one using a regular nigger and a tire iron, baseball bat, expendable dog etc.