From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 18:33:33 MDT
--- Chuck Kuecker <ckuecker@ckent.org> wrote:
> Cell phones are continuously handshaking with cells
> now, I believe - and
> there's been legislation enacted to localize a cell
> phone within a cell,
> for 911 / safety concerns. It would not take much to
> add smart advertising.
Beyond people not taking measures to defeat
localization, such as not buying models with
localization, getting phones with option to turn such
features off and using said option, or simply leaving
their phones turned off and using them only for
outgoing calls. But people had to be convinced to do
this, so there are ways of convincing them otherwise.
> The transmissions were on the order of
> milliseconds, and could
> easily be pre-empted by incoming calls in a properly
> designed system.
Who defines "proper"? The user, or the business
manager who insists that the advertisers absolutely
*MUST* have priority over all other functions? Of
course, you can try to make sure the latter never gets
into setting priorities for the engineers.
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