Re: Oh great
Originally posted by Bradcoe
Oh great, just what we need. One more thing in the cell phone to emit more waves into our skulls. I don't have any phone but a cell phone (my roomates and I seldomyly use our apartment phone) so I talk on it my cell all the time, some times hours on end. Brain tumors here I come!!!
GPS receivers are just that -- receivers. Any location data the phone transmits would be sent over the same connection your phone has already.
And there is no credible evidence that cell phones cause brain tumors anyway.
Originally posted by medea
Why don't we just embed a chip into our heads already and then we can make sure we know where everyone is everywhere they go.
why not, they do it on dogs don't they?
Actually, no they don't. The things you can have implanted in pets are put just under the skin, not in the head, and they cannot broadcast the pet's location. A veteranarian or someone at an animal shelter will use a special reader which must be within a couple of centimeters of the implant in order to read the data it contains. In effect it's nothing but a dog tag which cannot be lost.
And even if it were technically feasible, the difference between the ability to track a cell phone and a chip in my head is that I can turn my cell phone off or leave it at home. If I discover that the feature is being abused (for instance, by giving the information to someone I have not explicitly authorized), I can easily prevent further abuse (by discontinuing use of the phone and possibly suing the violator).