| Re: How stupid ARE people? [message #173758 is a reply to message #173717] |
Tue, 03 May 2011 13:33   |
Joe Snodgrass
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Registered: April 2011
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On Apr 30, 8:27 pm, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> In comp.lang.phpJoeSnodgrass<joe.s...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> After all the scary news about smart phones broadcasting people's
>> locations, I can't believe that
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>> 1) Some genius doesn't build a smart phone with no location tracking
>> and corner the market on people who want no part of it. There's money
>> to be made, genius!
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>> 2) Manufacturers don't put a control (preferably a hardware switch) on
>> the annoying things to *reliably* leave the feature turned off.
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>> 3) Customers don't raise a ruckus and demand that the feature be put
>> under their control, or else.
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>> Americans are heroin addicts, who will suck up anything, as long as
>> they get their shot every half hour.
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> The FCC has required that all cell phone companies be able to trace
> cell phone calls to a location since 2005.
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> You can thank 9/11 for that rule.
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> Only whether or not the user can access the tracking data is optional.
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> The only money to be made with a phone with no location tracking is in
> the fines and penalties you will get for selling it.
Then the only alternative is to try disconnect the GPS chip. I
suppose that it's too much to ask for the chip to have little legs, so
you can just cut it off the circuit by snipping the power pin. I
wonder if the OS is robust enough to tolerate a loss of that signal or
if you'd get the cellphone equivalent of a BSOD.
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