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Cops Warn Pokemon Go Players: Please Don't Trespass To Catch 'em All (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader shares an Ars Technica report:Law enforcement agencies around the globe are reminding citizens to obey trespassing laws and follow common sense when playing Pokemon Go. The new crazy-popular mobile game has led to some frightening results in recent days, such as the location of a dead body and robberies of players in Missouri. Now, San Francisco Police Department Captain Raj Vaswani warned in one online posting for players to "obey traffic laws, please. Do not run into trees, meters, and things that are attached to the sidewalk; they hurt," he said. "Do not drive or ride your bike / skateboard / hipster techie device while interacting with the app. Know where your kids are going when playing with the app, set limits on where they can go, so they don't keep going trying to get that Pokemon."
Yeah I'm not getting these warnings. Until the pokemon comes out of hiding you can't tell where they are so trespassing to find them makes no sense. Then once they're out of hiding you tap to bring up the capture screen. There's no need to get closer to capture em. So why would trespassing even come up?
Let natural selection take it's course. If people want to wander out in traffic to capture a virtual Pokemon, let them.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
I'm already imagining the terrible, direct-to-streaming horror movie based on Pokemon Go.
Quickly, ScriptBot! Let's have those first few scenes...
Breakfast served all day!
How do adult Pokemon players interact with children Pokemon players?
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/this-doesn39t-happen-to-ash
Found two landmark points (used to get free pokeballs and other items) inside 2 Microsoft buildings (showing off their Halo exhibits). I wonder if anyone is going to try to hang out on the side of the building to pick it up.
I heard you can Set Lures to get Pokemon to appear in locations that you want. So you could cause the P.Go servers to spawn Pokemon in the middle of a highway, in the middle of a swamp, or in a KKK meeting hall.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
People who dance backwards into the street... and get ran over by ice cream trucks can and have successfully sued the driver for "damages".
Need to update my sign, No trespassing, No swimming, No fishing, and No hunting (includes Pokemon).
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
let us know if you come away alive after being shot
> the security at our campus has had to tell people to leave our campus after 10pm
What a pussy college. The one I drive to doesn't have a stick up its ass.
> Is there not a way to fence off private property?
It's called a "fence".
But to answer your question, the pokemon don't really spawn on private property to any great degree. It's not a strict thing, because that would take more effort, but they clearly have tried to put pokemon spawns in areas such that they can be reached on public property.
Can Nintendo use this to lure young people to polls on election day?
Not all that different than when I was in college and some of us started playing D&D in the real world. A buddy decided to jump off the top of the dining facility to evade a troll and broke his leg because the snowbank was an ice bank. Sure the scale is smaller but the principle is the same: Some people get carried away when playing games.
It's not a strict thing, because that would take more effort, but they clearly have tried to put pokemon spawns in areas such that they can be reached on public property.
But not always succeeded, as the guy's whose house was marketed as a gym:
http://wgntv.com/2016/07/11/mans-home-mistakenly-set-as-pokemon-go-gym/
It was once an church and the developers apparently used an old reference to designate it a gym. Unfortunately, there is no way to get taken out of the game.
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This is just d....d...Darw.....Darwi.... ah, that was close!
There soon will be.
https://support.pokemongo.nian...
Right now, they only take reports for gyms that represent a physical danger, but once the initial push is over, they'll be able to take out gyms that don't meet their requirements, such as churches that are now houses.
Hololens would probably be a very good platform for it as well.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
I'm guessing this campus is a corporate campus, such as the Cisco campus that I was asked to leave back in Ingress days. The guard knew about Ingress and asked which team I was on. He let me hit the portal and said other guards aren't so cool.
Many many portals are technically on private property - artwork or fountains in a business park for example, and players need to get within 30 meters to interact with them. People aren't necessarily going for pokemon on private property, they are trying to hit a pokestop or a gym. Some of these large campuses are a legal gray area - they are quite large and have pedestrian paths that have a history of use for short cuts which makes them quasi public.
Man, you really need that seminar!
So says the author of this post. And what he says makes sense to me.
To write an app that spoofs the GPS coordinates for that game? I mean, let's be honest here, running around like an idiot for an effing GAME?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Let's hope.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
No. No they don't.
Sorry, but any creature too stupid to avoid its own death due to pure stupidity MUST be eliminated from the gene pool, preferably before it breeds.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Get a few dozen Ingress players to report it as an invalid portal. Since it is no longer a church a brief explanation of this fact and that it is now a private residential property (a very key phrase in portal location criteria) and it should be removed within a few months. (The portal que is heavily backlogged due to very poor decisions by Niantic.)
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Niantic has long held that restricted access does not mean invalid. As long as some people can legally access the site and play without violating any security rules and it's not private residential property. This rule came about so that they could keep their portals on the Google Campus which are off limits to the general public. Thus many stops and gyms may appear in places that are going to be off limits to most people. They just have to recognize that they are off limits and that they will most likely not be able to get to those locations. Hopefully the game will soon have a way to request that such ingress portals not be used as stops or gyms. Keeping such locations viable makes sense with the game play of Ingress where hard to get to portals is just part of the strategy in some aspects of the game. But they do not really make as much sense with Pokémon Go. Though some such locations do make sense to keep valid (i.e. the Google Campus, non secure sections of military bases etc...)
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+5 Insightful.. Wish I had modpoints for you.