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Re: How stupid ARE people?

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Öö Tiib wrote:
> On May 3, 4:33 pm, Joe Snodgrass <joe.s...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 30, 8:27 pm, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
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>>> In comp.lang.phpJoeSnodgrass<joe.s...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> After all the scary news about smart phones broadcasting people's
>>>> locations, I can't believe that
>>>> 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!
>>>> 2) Manufacturers don't put a control (preferably a hardware switch) on
>>>> the annoying things to *reliably* leave the feature turned off.
>>>> 3) Customers don't raise a ruckus and demand that the feature be put
>>>> under their control, or else.
>>>> Americans are heroin addicts, who will suck up anything, as long as
>>>> they get their shot every half hour.
>>> The FCC has required that all cell phone companies be able to trace
>>> cell phone calls to a location since 2005.
>>> You can thank 9/11 for that rule.
>>> Only whether or not the user can access the tracking data is optional.
>>> 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.
> 
> Location can be tracked even without GPS chip. Only accuracy of
> tracking is bit lower so one using the information needs to shoot you
> with a bit bigger rocket. The mobile network knows very well where you
> are at any given moment. How else it routes the incoming calls to you?

Magic? :-)

the answer is of course not to carry a mobile that is switched on...if 
you don't want to be tracked.

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How stupid ARE people? Joe Snodgrass <joe.snod@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-30 12:14 -0700
  Re: How stupid ARE people? Deeyana <d.awlberg@hotmail.invalid> - 2011-04-30 19:48 +0000
    Re: How stupid ARE people? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-04-30 19:03 -0400
      Re: How stupid ARE people? "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-04-30 19:26 -0400
        Re: How stupid ARE people? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-30 20:08 -0400
          Re: How stupid ARE people? Unrest <unrest@nullvector.org> - 2011-05-01 05:27 +0000
            Re: How stupid ARE people? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-05-01 09:15 -0400
              Re: How stupid ARE people? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-01 09:28 -0400
          Re: How stupid ARE people? "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-05-02 12:11 -0400
            Re: How stupid ARE people? Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> - 2011-05-02 17:18 +0100
              Re: How stupid ARE people? "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-05-03 10:33 -0400
                Re: How stupid ARE people? Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> - 2011-05-03 16:58 +0100
                Re: How stupid ARE people? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-03 18:15 -0400
                Re: How stupid ARE people? "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-05-04 19:46 -0400
                Re: How stupid ARE people? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-04 23:14 -0400
                Re: How stupid ARE people? "Mr. B-o-B" <mr.chew.baka@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 10:23 -0500
                Re: How stupid ARE people? Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-05-05 22:44 +0200
            Re: How stupid ARE people? Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-05-02 18:45 +0200
  Re: How stupid ARE people? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2011-05-01 00:27 +0000
    Re: How stupid ARE people? Joe Snodgrass <joe.snod@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-03 06:33 -0700
      Re: How stupid ARE people? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2011-05-03 06:55 -0700
        Re: How stupid ARE people? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-03 16:21 +0100
      Re: How stupid ARE people? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2011-05-03 16:48 +0000

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