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    Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
    A Top Gear feature rip off, and yet, less entertaining. Could Matt Farah have any less of a personality?
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    Image of 78_elky 78_elky
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
    Not a fan of this, I'm still under the impression that the "GPS off" feature is just there to make you think it is off when it is still on all the time.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    03/26/09

    @78_elky: Indeed it is - that's how the 911 operator knows where you're calling from.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/26/09

    @Alfisted:


    911 operators know where you are as a result of triangulating the signal of your cell phone based off the positions of local cell phone towers.

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    03/26/09

    @78_elky: Even if it isn't, the GPS can be reactivated remotely by your service provider and they don't have to ask for authorization (IE permission from the account holder or a search warrant) before they do it. Also, thanks to 911 requirements all phones made after a certain date have GPS built in, whether or not the user can access/disable it.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/26/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: That's the old way. GPS is instant.
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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
    They already have a built in slogan, "The Google, so easy even W has used it!"
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    Image of aSoundofSleep-less nights aSoundofSleep-less nights
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
    Jalopnik: What an excellent day for an exorcism.
    Me: You would like that?
    Jalop: Intensely.
    Me: But wouldn't that drive you out of Gizmodo?
    Jalop: It would bring us together.
    Me: You and Gizmodo?
    Jalop: You and us.


    ...........


    Jalop: I'm not Gizmodo.
    Me: Well, then let's introduce ourselves. I'm asoundofsleep.
    Jalop: And I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps.
    Me: If you're the Devil, why not make the straps disappear?
    Jalop: That's much too vulgar a display of power, asoundofsleep.


    *asoundofsleep splashes holy water on Jalopnik in hopes of dispelling Gizmodo*


    Jalop: Your mother sucks ......


    You get the idea.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    03/26/09

    @aSoundofSleep:
    Truly awesome.
    COTD worthy.
    Although because this post does have cars in it, some will claim it is relevant.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/26/09

    @aSoundofSleep: i not sure what is happening there... but i like it
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    Image of .357 .357
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
    It's actually pretty cool. I use it with my BlackBerrry. I can see if one of my friends is in the area, and see if they want to go get a coffee. But I can also turn it off when I do my drug deals. A really convenient feature.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
    Yep, still hate it.
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    Image of Maxx Cracker Maxx Cracker
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
    Finally, I can take my stalking into the 21st century. Let's see a restraining order stop me now!
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/26/09

    @Maxx Cracker: That is exactly what I thought of. Well, actually, it was the reverse. I was glad this technology did not exist after breaking up with a psycho girl.


    Good luck millenials! It's going to be a fine show.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google Latitude + Plane, Train, Automobile = DIY Amazing Race
    And this is why I will not be purchasing a GPS-equipped phone.


    It's just not anyone's business where I go.

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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    03/26/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Well, that's why you can enable or disable the feature whenever or wherever you want. Like, say, when you're about to walk into a Thai massage parlor.
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    Image of BraappBraapp is losing faith in the commentariat BraappBraapp is losing faith in the commentariat
    03/26/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: But it may be your wife's business if you're picking up hookers.


    On another note, that trunk can only hold so many before she notices, pal.

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    Image of BraappBraapp is losing faith in the commentariat BraappBraapp is losing faith in the commentariat
    03/26/09

    @Ray Wert: But then you have to turn it off in front of a church so she thinks you were there... THEN go to the massage parlor and get your happy ending.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/26/09

    @Ray Wert: Not that any of us ever walk into Thai massage parlors, no sirree...


    /Runs for the yellow pages.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    03/26/09

    @BraappBraapp: Some Assembly Required!: Good Idea. She'd probably get suspicious if you turned it off right in front of the massage parlor.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/26/09

    @BraappBraapp: Some Assembly Required!:


    But then I can just start stuffing them into the minivan's stow-&-go compartment.

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    Image of Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
    03/26/09

    @Ray Wert:
    You married? If you disable, you might as well be going to a thai massage parlor.
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    Image of GoodOldSasta GoodOldSasta
    03/26/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.:I feel the same.


    I take it you don't twitter?

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/26/09

    @GoodOldSasta: Nope. I'm too old school.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    03/26/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Ever since you have a cell phone, there are people that who know where you are. We are not alone anymore, Big Brother has for several years an eye on us.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/26/09

    @Tiberiuswise - now with 20% more sarcasm.: a friend of my co-worker has to have his gps enabled at all times so that his wife[girlfriend?] can track him. at one point the dude learned he could just leave his phone at a friends house and go about his sinful ways.


    then his wife[girlfriend?] cought on and occasionally calls him and asks him where he is. she then compairs it to his gps location.


    i believe that woman is every mans dream...

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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/26/09

    @BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ - wants a Busa V8: perhaps i should invest in reynolds wrap
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    Image of BraappBraapp is losing faith in the commentariat BraappBraapp is losing faith in the commentariat
    03/26/09

    @damnelantra™: that woman is every mans nightmare...


    There I fixed that for you.

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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/26/09

    @BraappBraapp: Some Assembly Required!: you should take yourself in for a tune up. i think your mass-sarcasm sensor is going
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    Image of Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
    03/26/09

    @damnelantra™:
    The sex better be worth it.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/26/09

    @Tiberiuswise - now with 20% more sarcasm.: i dont get that indepht towards co-workers friends sexual encounters
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