Re: [CTRL] When GPS meets cell phones
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 09/03/1999 11:08:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: useless: The police had no idea where Wilson was calling from, and neither did she. They spent the better part of the next 24 hours searching in vain, combing the town block by block while precious time ticked away. A new technology which would have told police precisely where Wilson was hadnt arrived in time to help. Several years ago, Dean Koontz wrote a novel where the hero is tracked by GPS by through the deserts of the SW by the evil gummint that wants to stop him. "Dark Rivers of the Heart"? Yes, and I'll bet the police will spend a lot more time on the kind of thing Koontz was describing than on searching for kidnap victims. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] When GPS meets cell phones
-Caveat Lector- They will also track with high altitude planes and satellite by sensors a mark has EATEN...meaning they can and do feed people stuff by which they can be tracked, and they will take sometimes as much as $10,000.00 of your tax dollars AN HOUR to do it...most times they are simply trying to cover something up that can get them in trouble personally, due their despotic outlook, and so all this surveillance is just a case of people purchasing their own chains...tax revolt is all that will get it I think...big time. "Prudence L. Kuhn" wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 09/03/1999 11:08:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: useless: The police had no idea where Wilson was calling from, and neither did she. They spent the better part of the next 24 hours searching in vain, combing the town block by block while precious time ticked away. A new technology which would have told police precisely where Wilson was hadnt arrived in time to help. Several years ago, Dean Koontz wrote a novel where the hero is tracked by GPS by through the deserts of the SW by the evil gummint that wants to stop him. "Dark Rivers of the Heart"? Yes, and I'll bet the police will spend a lot more time on the kind of thing Koontz was describing than on searching for kidnap victims. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] When GPS meets cell phones
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.msnbc.com/news/306775.asp A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/306775.asp"When GPS meets cell phones/A - When GPS meets cell phonesPolice will know exactly where those 911 calls are made, and a host of other fun services will followBy Bob Sullivan MSNBC Sept. 1 Shalene Wilson was in big trouble. Two men had overpowered her, stabbed her, thrown her in a car trunk and driven away. But in a stroke of what might seem like amazing luck, they did not realize she had a mobile phone. She called local police in Albany, Ore., begging for help but they were helpless. In this case, 911 proved just about useless: The police had no idea where Wilson was calling from, and neither did she. They spent the better part of the next 24 hours searching in vain, combing the town block by block while precious time ticked away. A new technology which would have told police precisely where Wilson was hadnt arrived in time to help. = Like car navigation systems, it could offer directions, even to walkers. It could point out nearby restaurants, even offer up coupons for pizza places down the block. But thats just the beginning. PLACE A 911 CALL from a land line, and authorities know exactly where the call came from. But place an emergency call from a cell phone, and wireless carriers can give police only the roughest idea where to look. In Wilsons case, Sprint was able to identify the cell tower that relayed her first call at 9:20 p.m Aug. 4. That gave police a circle to search that had a radius of one mile, according to Albany public information officer Marilyn Smith. But Wilson said she was in a moving car so police within a 75-mile radius were alerted. The police chief came in during the middle of the night. Officers worked overtime looking for Wilson. Sprint technicians worked through the night. Local TV stations broadcast the unfolding drama. We kept running into dead ends, assistant chief of police Don OMalley said. When 911 is just three more digits As the night wore on, and Wilson kept calling, authorities became suspicious. Seven calls and 15 hours later, Wilsons drama was declared a hoax. No cell phone and certainly not her older model, as determined by Sprint could last that long without a recharge. And despite her claims she was on the move, all the cell calls were routed from that original tower. Bell Labs' Giovanni Vannucci describes how GPS works. The woman identifying herself as Wilson was never found though she did break an Oregon law prohibiting illegal use of 911, and she did send authorities on a wild goose chase. Experts say similar, if less dramatic, searches are carried out daily. Perhaps 100,000 people a day dial 911 from a wireless phone, with that number on the rise, and 30 percent are unable to tell authorities where theyre calling from. But such confusion will end when a new technology called wireless geolocation is in place. By marrying a Global Positioning System (GPS) device with a wireless phone, authorities will be able to pinpoint within about five meters where a wireless phone is when its turned on. Its a bit of a shotgun wedding. The Federal Communications Commission has mandated that cell companies have such pinpoint accuracy by October 2001. So a fleet of software and chip makers, including Lucent Technologies Inc., are lining up to perform the ceremony. In the meantime, wireless firms are discovering that a cell phone with GPS attached can do a lot more than just dial 911. Like car navigation systems, it could offer directions, even to walkers. It could point out nearby restaurants, even offer up coupons for pizza places down the block. But thats just the beginning. Researchers at Lucents Bell Labs foresee location units being handed to children so parents always know where they are or criminals, under house arrest, for similar reasons. It could even be used to recover stolen cars or laptop computers. Steve Poizner, CEO of Snap-Track, which also makes the GPS-wireless technology, said one of the more whimsical applications of such a service might involve a family-and-friends circle. Imagine you walk into a shopping center this could tell you which of your friends are nearby and where they are, he said. Poizners company has been at it since 1995, and he says hell be selling the product commercially in Japan through NTTs Dokomo before the year is out. U.S. sales are expected to start next year. Thats just the first salvo in the coming battle to offer these wild personal location services. Battle lines are already being drawn: Snap-Track also has agreements with Motorola and Texas Instruments Inc. Lucent has a deal with Qualcomm Inc. And another player in the space, SiRF Technology Inc., has a deal with Ericsson. HOW IT WORKS Merely slapping a GPS receiver on the back of a cell phone wouldnt do the trick, for several reasons. Chief among them it would double the
Re: [CTRL] When GPS meets cell phones
-Caveat Lector- On 3 Sep 99, , Kris wrote: -Caveat Lector- from: http://www.msnbc.com/news/306775.asp A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/306775.asp"When GPS meets cell phones/A - When GPS meets cell phonesPolice will know exactly where those 911 calls are made, and a host of other fun services will followBy Bob Sullivan MSNBC Sept. 1 Shalene Wilson was in big trouble. Two men had overpowered her, stabbed her, thrown her in a car trunk and driven away. But in a stroke of what might seem like amazing luck, they did not realize she had a mobile phone. She called local police in Albany, Ore., begging for help but they were helpless. In this case, 911 proved just about useless: The police had no idea where Wilson was calling from, and neither did she. They spent the better part of the next 24 hours searching in vain, combing the town block by block while precious time ticked away. A new technology which would have told police precisely where Wilson was hadnt arrived in time to help. Several years ago, Dean Koontz wrote a novel where the hero is tracked by GPS by through the deserts of the SW by the evil gummint that wants to stop him. "Dark Rivers of the Heart"? sno0wl DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
