Stolen GPS devices lead police to suspects' home

This is why I'll never have a Cell Phone, IPOD, or anthing else that is GPS equiped.

Not that I'm doing anything currently illegal. I just don't want to carry Big Brother around in my pocket.

BTW currently illegal is the catch here. There are so many feel good and protect me laws on the books now and coming in the future, that very, very few people are not criminal in the eyes of the law.

The consequences of being Politically Correct.

http://www.9news.com/news/watercoole...?storyid=63472

[Letum]

Today you don't need to worry unless you are a criminal and steal something.
Tomorrow you don't need to worry unless you really pissed off the head of government/police who control the system.
The day after you don't have to worry unless you are forming a political party against the government.

[tycho102]

Originally Posted by waste gate

This is why I'll never have a Cell Phone, IPOD, or anthing else that is GPS equiped.

You can always take out the battery.

Originally Posted by tycho102

You can always take out the battery.

Every capacitor is a battery. I guess you'll be removing all those integrated circuits.?

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Or just not buy one? :p

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Or just not buy one? :p

That is where I'm coming from!

[CptSimFreak]

Isn’t GPS a passive device? Meaning that it doesn’t need to send anything to satellites to get a position. So what signal does that device send in order for police to track you? It makes sense when a cell phone can be tracked, but a stand-alone GPS? Hmm…

Originally Posted by CptSimFreak

Isn’t GPS a passive device? Meaning that it doesn’t need to send anything to satellites to get a position. So what signal does that device send in order for police to track you? It makes sense when a cell phone can be tracked, but a stand-alone GPS? Hmm…

Obviously that is not the case. Again Big Brother is in your pocket.

[moose1am]

When you first turn the power on for the cell phone it sends out signals telling the nearest cell phone tower where it's at. It does this as long as the cell phone is turned on.

My cell phone allows me to turn the gps thing off until or unless I dial 911 in an emergency or I can set the cell phone up to send it's position all the time.

Originally Posted by CptSimFreak

Isn’t GPS a passive device? Meaning that it doesn’t need to send anything to satellites to get a position. So what signal does that device send in order for police to track you? It makes sense when a cell phone can be tracked, but a stand-alone GPS? Hmm…

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Obviously that is not the case. Again Big Brother is in your pocket.

GPS itself is a 100% passive system. The problem was that those guys didn´t steal standard passive GPS receivers, they stole GPS devices that also served as trackers. Most GPS trackers use RF to transmit signals, some send data to satellites (but not to the GPS satellites). Some companies and communities use those trackers for fleet control.

[The Avon Lady]

I think that cell phones have been more a life-saving device than an incriminating device.

Chose wisely. :hmm:

[tycho102]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Every capacitor is a battery. I guess you'll be removing all those integrated circuits.?

Dude, not unless they're a 1 Farad cap. CDMA can pull 200mw, TDMA 600mw, analog 1.2w -- and that's transmitted power based on received signal strength. You don't have caps large enough to do anything but a tiny little dying pulse, or serve as discharge filters on power-down. And there is certainly current leak in every phone, powering down even the largest capacitors contained within seconds, even if they don't have a dedicated depletion circuit.

[U-533]

I have a cell phone its a cheap one and I prepay it.

Its nice to have a line to my wife incase of an emergency.

I dont have GPS on it because I know were I stand.