Imagine you are standing in one or another european capital next to some important monument and, as it frequently seems to happen to tourists, you really need to go.
There's not a public toilet in sight (especially Rome, Paris and Brussels are notorious for their lack of such facilities)and other factors, such as the lack of bushes and the probable proximity of police officers make it impossible to take the course of action suggested by other posters. So, what are you going to do?
You whip out your GSM phone with WAP (it seems that, despite it total uselessness, you can't get a decent phone without it these days..)and you connect to the Searcheable Public Toilet Database!
Or even better, the mobile phone operator can determine your approximate location from the cell you are in and can tell you about toilets in the neighbourhood when you dial a special number! (Just like Omnitel's 2727 does for information about italian monuments).
All in all i think this is the type of service that WAP needs in order to espeblish itself as a useful protocol!:)
I have seen a lot of people posting urls/adresses in the US and/or Canada. I was wondering, are there similar services in Europe? I am an old hardware fan, and i would love to get a m68k based computer that fits into my rather tight student budget...
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unless .... you mix then with nitroglicerine to make plastique explosives, I remember seeing the recipe once in a 1980's BBS textfile.
There's not a public toilet in sight (especially Rome, Paris and Brussels are notorious for their lack of such facilities)and other factors, such as the lack of bushes and the probable proximity of police officers make it impossible to take the course of action suggested by other posters. So, what are you going to do?
You whip out your GSM phone with WAP (it seems that, despite it total uselessness, you can't get a decent phone without it these days ..)and you connect to the Searcheable Public Toilet Database!
Or even better, the mobile phone operator can determine your approximate location from the cell you are in and can tell you about toilets in the neighbourhood when you dial a special number! (Just like Omnitel's 2727 does for information about italian monuments).
All in all i think this is the type of service that WAP needs in order to espeblish itself as a useful protocol! :)
I have seen a lot of people posting urls/adresses in the US and/or Canada. I was wondering, are there similar services in Europe? ...
I am an old hardware fan, and i would love to get a m68k based computer that fits into my rather tight student budget