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Subject: [OM] Re: OT car crashes & terrorism WAS Re: [OT] Flying with digital cameras
From: Garth <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:57:04 -0600
Walt Wayman wrote:
> You've gotta be kidding! I keep my cell phone turned off, unless I'm 
> expecting a call, which I usually am not now that I'm retired. And if I see 
> my deliberately "off" phone come "on," I'm throwing the damn thing out the 
> window. Where I go ain't nobody's business but my own, and I intend to keep 
> it that way, whatever it takes. I'm getting really fed up with the cowards 
> who so willingly surrender their freedom to an incompetent goverment for some 
> imagined security.


D00d, don't get yer pulled pork in a knot.

Not all phones even contain the GPS chips.  The Motorola V3 RAZR that I 
own was purchased by me partially because it did *not* contain a GPS 
device and could not be turned on remotely.  (Later models might contain 
such a device, but I *know* that mine does not.)

That being said, two points:

1. GPS *can* be useful.  We've had too many incidents in Canada of 
people getting into accidents on lonely stretches of highway (and we've 
got a *lot* of "lonely" up here in the Great White North), and GPS has 
saved some lives (and conversely, its lack has contributed to the 
inability of emergency rescue teams to find other people who then died);

2. You can always just yank the battery out of your phone when you 
*really* want to be left alone.  Ain't no technology on this Earth that 
can turn a phone on and make its GPS chip wake up if there's no juice to 
be had.


Garth

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