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Comment An obvious question (Score 1) 761

Given that the police are known to do this and might well even if it is declared illegal, and that most of us don't crawl under our cars all that often, I see 2 options.

1) Block the GPS, ala http://www.thesignaljammer.com/products/GPS-Jammer.html (cheaper available).

2) You could use a cell jammer, but that may be inconvenient. Anybody know an affordable RF detector to easily pick up the cell transmitter?

3) Profit? Sorry, couldn't resist.

Comment Re:Police Ssurveillance (Score 1) 761

Yes, the police can just follow you 24/7. That would require assigning 5 or so officers to do so full time, a very expensive proposition and one they wouldn't undertake without very strong suspicion of imminent dangerous behavior. OTOH, GPS trackers allows them to track anyone for a couple hundred bucks for a device and they can review your and hundreds of others movements whenever it is convenient for them with a single officer. It also allows them to map areas where tracked paths cross or converge, allowing them to assert that those that are intersecting are conspiring.

Comment Re:Tough guys (Score 1) 397

Ankh-Morpork does, however, have an extraordinarily high suicide rate, due mainly to the city's view on what constitutes as suicide. For example, walking alone through the night-time alleyways of the Shades is suicide, as is asking for a short in a dwarf bar. It is very easy to commit suicide in Ankh-Morpork if you are not careful. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork

Comment Re:XP, 7, various server versions (Score 1) 417

FWIW, try installing 95 or 98 on a modern machine. I was ASTOUNDED by how fast it ran. If you can live with software of the time, it makes a much better OS than I remember. Guess you don't notice the incremental cost of feature bloat until you step way back. I imagine most of the virus and spyware is gone by now too, so even better performance.

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