Privacy or Life — GPS matters
OK,GPS Tracking haters, this guy didn’t die, and didn’t lose his feet. Ho hum. I do however think that my many privacy reactiobnaries who come here every day to find the ’solution’ to the ‘problem’ of GPS ’spying’ on their theirevy (stealing time from the boss), ‘recklessness’ (driving 80 mph in a schools zone) and adultery (sneaking off to the girlfreind/boyfreiend’s hosue while the spouse takes care of parenting) would enjoy asking David Roberts how badly GPS has ‘invaded’ his privacy.
You know from time to time I have thought about settng up a gambling or a porn site. That’s where the real money is online. But I hate the thought of promotoing eaither of those segments of commerce.
Considering the continual barrage, though, of ‘how to defeat GPS’ searches I get here every day [erhaps I should think about a ’sin site’.
Certainly it seems the averge person online is much more interested in ‘getting away;’ with something than in learning about and using one of the greatest utilites for humanity every implemented by man … the free for all to use GPS.
GPS distress call connects Aussie over 3,000 miles
TEXAS RELAY: Hiker in Brooks Range OK, flown to Fairbanks.
Published: November 30th, 2008 12:18 AM
Last Modified: November 30th, 2008 03:23 PMA distress call from a backcountry hiker in northern Alaska led to a long distance rescue over the weekend, spanning more than 3,000 miles, the Alaska State Troopers reported Saturday.
It began when a personal locator beacon control center in Texas received a call for help Friday from a transmitter registered to an Australian named David Roberts. According to the GPS signal, Roberts was in an isolated area of the Brooks Range…..