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Old 04-21-2011, 05:57 PM
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iM being tracked by my iPhone..

When I was a kid, I used to enjoy watching TV detective shows like "Mannix" or the "Rockford Files". One of my favorite recurring themes in such shows was the Car Chase. Usually the hero would be driving down the road in his 1970's Boss Mustang 'Cuda Firebird heading to some secret safe house where his beleaguered client was hiding. Invariably, he would look in the rear view mirror a few times and spot a pair of sideburn-sporting miscreants filling the front seat of a Caprice Cutlass deVille just a few cars back. With a smart rearward flick of the spindly chrome-plated floor lever, the hero would shift down two notches from "D" to "1" and mash the throttle, allowing the TV viewer to enjoy the spectacle of bias-ply-shod American iron, each equipped with the optional Conestoga Wagon Handling Group, slew and heave through intersections, scattering bell-bottomed pedestrians in crosswalks. In just a minute, the bad guys would lose all of their hubcaps as well as the hero.

Today? Well, alloy wheels make hubcap-shedding a thing of the past, and instead of overextending their Toyota Prius trying to keep up with Jim Rockford's VW Jetta TDI, the bad guys merely have to wait until Rockford syncs his iPhone again, then steal his laptop. Gotta love progress: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/04/21/iphone.tracker.explainer/index.html?hpt=C1

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Old 04-21-2011, 05:59 PM
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Good! Somebody needs to keep an eye on those hipster kids. I don't trust them for a minute.
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Old 04-21-2011, 06:11 PM
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Uh that may not be all

http://www.copwatch.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=42184
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Old 04-21-2011, 08:44 PM
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I wish someone would write an app to allow me to extract the location data and map my movements for the last several years. It would be very coolto have a map showing everyplace I've been.
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Old 04-21-2011, 09:02 PM
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I wish someone would write an app to allow me to extract the location data and map my movements for the last several years. It would be very coolto have a map showing everyplace I've been.
I had the Tracks app on my phone for while and learned that I am very boring.
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Old 04-21-2011, 11:25 PM
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doesn't that app only work on macs?
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Old 04-22-2011, 02:25 AM
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If you have a GARMIN Nuvi...it tracks your car's movements 'til you clear it. Shove a 4-8GB SDHC card in it's side and drive away.

Zoom out when you're stuck in traffic and look at where you had been and where you wish you were there now.

Isn't technology amazing!
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Old 04-22-2011, 09:20 AM
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Paul,

No need to use a tracking device. We all know you were at the

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last weekend.
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Old 04-22-2011, 10:47 AM
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I checked my phone. Apparently, I was at the secret, invitation-only, private picnic of the unbelieveably wealthy, top-one-per-cent-earning, oligarchy . . . . COOL!
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Old 04-22-2011, 10:52 AM
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I checked my phone. Apparently, I was at the secret, invitation-only, private picnic of the unbelieveably wealthy, top-one-per-cent-earning, oligarchy . . . . COOL!
Geezer-palooza?
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Old 04-22-2011, 11:01 AM
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If you have a GARMIN Nuvi...it tracks your car's movements 'til you clear it. Shove a 4-8GB SDHC card in it's side and drive away.

Zoom out when you're stuck in traffic and look at where you had been and where you wish you were there now.

Isn't technology amazing!
Garmin do have a file on memory that keeps a track on EVERY destination you ever entered, date, start time, distance traveled, time traveled, time of arrival etc. If you connect to your Mac/PC and open as hard drive you can see the file under reports. It's opening as excel.

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Old 04-22-2011, 12:04 PM
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Paul,

No need to use a tracking device. We all know you were at the

BERKSHIRE-HATHAWAY'S ANNUAL WOODSTOCK OF CAPITALISM IN OMAHA!



last weekend.
Omaha. Holy crap, the thought of it is depressing.
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BiPartisan Agreement That This Should be Looked Into

The US House and Senate is widening investigations into mobile location tracking, despite a federal mandate on the books since 2001 that requires wireless carriers to track the location of users.
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Old 04-26-2011, 07:44 PM
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Much ado about nothing.
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Old 04-26-2011, 11:27 PM
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As I understand it, the software logs the locations but doe not transmit them. Apparently android also logs locations. I don't know the reason for this function.

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