Amazing mobile phone tracking technology!

Weiye Chen

Strange. My cell phone number has 8 digits but it only accept 7. :~

Weiye Chen A self proclaimed hermit living in a cave, with his PC connected to the world.

Don Miguel

I was about going home and kill my wife! :laugh::laugh:

Paul Watson

:laugh: Though triangulation of mobile-phones can be, and is, done. Project in-house here that uses mobile-phone location for information services (aka advertising.)

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

Christian Graus

So, you're a spam merchant ?

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

Lost User

My phone doesn't have GPS so no problem! It's nothing new by the way.

The tigress is here :-D

Rajesh R Subramanian

Weiye Chen wrote:

Strange. My cell phone number has 8 digits but it only accept 7.

That is what is the technology. Try entering only the first seven digits and still it would pin point your location. Do it now :-d

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Trollslayer wrote:

It's nothing new by the way.

I didn't tell it is new, but it is amazing. Isn't it? LOL

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Paul Watson

:rolleyes: The project has applications in advertising of course but they are trialling it mainly with emergency services ("Mobile phone! Tell me where the nearest hospital is, my arm fell off!".) I'm not working on that project though but will be using its output for our RSS system (so that you can discover content based on your location.) Spam is unsolicited advertising. I don't think it is a good way to go about things. Lots of people want advertising though, it is how they find deals and new toys to play with (you can argue they don't need them but nobody *needs* your employer's (The Code Project) output either.) Also lots of people want things to be free and the best way to support that is through advertising. As long as you give people an option between free with advertising or paid without advertising.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

Christian Graus

Paul Watson wrote:

The project has applications in advertising of course but they are trialling it mainly with emergency services ("Mobile phone! Tell me where the nearest hospital is, my arm fell off!".)

Or even, being able to call emergency services and they will know where you are. Now *that* is cool.

Paul Watson wrote:

Lots of people want advertising though, it is how they find deals and new toys to play with

*grin* that's true. My wife loves junk mail, I try to hide/intercept it.

Paul Watson wrote:

but nobody *needs* your employer's (The Code Project) output either

Well, I'm not defensive ( my other work is software for vets, so I have no trouble claiming that I do work that 'saves lives', even if they are animal lives ), but that's plainly not true. I know that I held my first coding job in part because of the support of this community and the articles I read.

Paul Watson wrote:

Also lots of people want things to be free and the best way to support that is through advertising.

*grin* I obviously know that....

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

Paul Watson

Christian Graus wrote:

Well, I'm not defensive ( my other work is software for vets, so I have no trouble claiming that I do work that 'saves lives', even if they are animal lives ), but that's plainly not true. I know that I held my first coding job in part because of the support of this community and the articles I read.

Sure but unless that first coding job was for a vet or something critical it probably wasn't *needed*. Go back in the chain of that job and see if there was something critical to survival in it. I've been thinking about this a lot of late. How a lot of us computer geeks are working on cool applications that really, humanity doesn't need. RSS and the web and all that excites me but at the end of the day if we didn't have it I'd be doing something else and getting along fine. We seem to be generating our own markets. We invent things that are interesting but non-essential and then we turn it into a market that requires a huge number of people all working away to put food on the table. We've generated a system that is *now* critical to survival (if the internet stopped working tomorrow a lot of us would have a hard time getting a job and paying for food.) But that system wasn't critical at the begining. I guess I'm trying to find something that at its very core is critical to the survival and betterment of humanity. CP is nice and all but critical it isn't. My current job is nice and all but critical it isn't. Life will go on whether I do this project or not.

Christian Graus wrote:

Or even, being able to call emergency services and they will know where you are. Now *that* is cool.

Absolutely and that is part of the project but there is so much resistance to it because of peoples privacy fears. The technology is all there it is just getting people to allow it that is a problem.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

Pete OHanlon

Paul Watson wrote:

We seem to be generating our own markets. We invent things that are interesting but non-essential and then we turn it into a market that requires a huge number of people all working away to put food on the table.

That's true of a lot of things. It's known as "Build it and they will come". Basic economics theory states that economics is the pursuit of 3 things, food, shelter and warmth. Beyond that, it's pretty much all frippery.

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Christian Graus

Paul Watson wrote:

I've been thinking about this a lot of late. How a lot of us computer geeks are working on cool applications that really, humanity doesn't need. RSS and the web and all that excites me but at the end of the day if we didn't have it I'd be doing something else and getting along fine.

Obviously, no-one NEEDS a PC, unless it's in a hospital and saving their life. The same is true of people who build TVs or VCRs, or any of the other 'luxury' items we surround ourselves with.

Paul Watson wrote:

I guess I'm trying to find something that at its very core is critical to the survival and betterment of humanity.

Not everyone gets to do something that changes the world, society just doesn't work that way. The world needs fry cooks and chimney sweeps just to keep the wheels rolling. Having said that, I do take pride in being involved in some medical stuff, it *is* nice to think that you're doing something worthwhile. But, I regard CP as worthwhile as well, even if just from the POV of being able to gather 4 million people under one umbrella. I think that's pretty cool. It won't save lives, but if it gives joy, I think that's not a bad effort, either.

Paul Watson wrote:

peoples privacy fears.

This seems so gay to me. I don't break any laws, I don't care who knows where I live, certainly not on that sort of level. People are dumb.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

_AK_

Quite funny... I too have received the same link couple of days back from one of my friend... Initially I thought (when it was processing) WHAT A TOOL thsi is.... but later after seeing the result laughed a lot..... :laugh:

Best Regards, Apurva Kaushal

NormDroid

Fooled me.

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Apurva Kaushal wrote:

nitially I thought (when it was processing) WHAT A TOOL thsi is.... but later after seeing the result laughed a lot.....

Didja do that? Me too! :)

Dan Neely

Christian Graus wrote:

Obviously, no-one NEEDS a PC, unless it's in a hospital and saving their life. The same is true of people who build TVs or VCRs, or any of the other 'luxury' items we surround ourselves with.

All medicine is a luxury. For all the zillions of dollars we've sunk into healthcare over the millenia, the mortality rate hasn't budged in the slightest: 1 death/person.

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