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Re: GPS

Postby Charlie » January 13th, 2011, 12:46 pm

lol - that's why i always have tinfoil on my head - stop BB reading my thoughts. :lol:
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Re: GPS

Postby Detection » January 13th, 2011, 1:23 pm

charlie wrote:lol - that's why i always have tinfoil on my head - stop BB reading my thoughts. :lol:



You do that as-well ? :D
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Re: GPS

Postby JimmyW » January 13th, 2011, 1:37 pm

Fonefixer wrote:If you dont want to be found, dont own a mobile phone either.... they are even more accurate and can tell where you are to within five metres. The later models can even be silently "woken up" to handshake a network and thereby give your position. The only way to stop this is to destroy the handset, newer models have a backup battery system that will kick in to transmit a handshake signal even with the main battery removed.

Big Brother is indeed watching......


LOL certainly don't carry an ID swipe card with RFID capabilities then as it's accurate to 20cm ;)
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Re: GPS

Postby Pete_S » January 13th, 2011, 1:39 pm

Detection wrote:
But take a look at what some of the Apps make you agree to, "Reading your SMS, GMAIL, LOCATION, What colour underwear you have on"


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Seriously though, Google worrys me more than Microsoft ever did. They seem obssessed with collecting as much info about you as possible, especially the location thing. They also have a lot of our documents online, our blogs. And, they don't charge anything. The give-it-for-free thing really spooks me. No company really does that.

I keep feeling we'll wake one day and find Google have taken over most of the governments of countries in the West, a sort of cyber coup. Then we'll really regret all the details of our personal lives they have collected :)
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Re: GPS

Postby JimmyW » January 13th, 2011, 1:40 pm

"Good morning Googleville, have a thoroughly Googletastic day"
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Re: GPS

Postby G1dd3n » January 13th, 2011, 3:46 pm

Has anyone tried installing an app that uses GPS to check?
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Re: GPS

Postby JimmyW » January 13th, 2011, 3:56 pm

I've got nDrive on mine, can only do virtual navigation as there's no gps device and without being on a constant wifi connection it can't track the car live.
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Re: GPS

Postby G1dd3n » January 13th, 2011, 4:00 pm

Hmmm... what about using a USB GPS device? Is there any support for them?
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Re: GPS

Postby JimmyW » January 13th, 2011, 4:07 pm

I've tried:
USB Bluetooth dongle -> BT GPS antenna
USB GPS antenna
neither were picked up as bluetooth is not enabled in the build and the only USB devices handled in the build appear to be keyboards/mice & drives
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Re: GPS

Postby G1dd3n » January 13th, 2011, 4:14 pm

So the bluetooth hardware is there but just "turned off" seems like and odd thing to do.
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