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Comment Re:GPS has been around for a while (Score 1) 565

by andyrut on Thursday February 17, 2005 @05:49PM (#11705041) Attached to: GPS-Enabled Criminals In Massachusetts

I don't see any apparent technological difference in the way GPS is used to tell 911 operators your location than a GPS-enabled ankle bracelet tells law enforcement where a criminal is located. Both relay the lat/long of a location to another party without the user doing anything.

Could you explain how it's a "totally different thing"?

Journal Journal: Gmail Invites, Round 1 13

Journal by andyrut on Friday November 05, 2004 @05:13PM

I've got 6 Gmail invites to give out. If you want one, just add a comment to this journal entry with your email address (obfuscated, of course) and say "give me a damn gmail account."

Update: All gone. Wow, I leave that sig for 5 days and it's only when I reply to a first post that I get any takers.

Journal Journal: Visibility = Higher Rating

Journal by andyrut on Wednesday July 07, 2004 @10:54AM

It's disturbing how the first post, even if it's only half-decent, will almost always go up to a 5.

Take my mediocre first post and its moderation:

Comment Re:Decentralized (Score 1) 264

by oateater on Sunday May 16, 2004 @10:30PM (#9170333) Attached to: Wiring a Neighborhood?

hehe, when i was approx 13, my friend and i who was 14 networked our houses. quite an undertaking 5 years ago, for us young'n's, but man was it cool.

Journal Journal: Yeehaw! 2

Journal by andyrut on Sunday March 28, 2004 @02:57PM

I finally found the right kind of comment that it takes to acquire a number of freaks.

Journal Journal: Opposite of Foe

Journal by andyrut on Tuesday January 13, 2004 @04:53PM

Yeehaw, someone added me to their friends list out of the blue.

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