Pete Hardie wrote: > > <snipped down a bit> > > Just keep one of those nasal extractors that Arnold used in Total > > Recall. ;-) > > ouch. > > My opinion - only allow the 'tracking' option to use a user-modifiable > code - and allow this to be duplicated. So if you want to be > untrackable, > change you code to the same code as, say, one of the Spice Girls, and > you > will be invisible. > > -- > Pete Hardie | Goalie, DVSG Dart Team > Scientific Atlanta | > Digital Video Services Group | Just have a standard "anonymous" code built into the design (like Radar, if they -really- wanted to track you, a continuous watch on your position would probably still be possible, so perhaps just turning the transponder OFF would be a better idea!) In my time in a Search & Rescue group, they'd always go look over the old radar videotapes to try to track the transponder of a downed aircraft; Aircraft have a transponder, with a few standard 4-digit codes for "I'm a Visual Flight Rules Pilot", "I'm being hijacked", "I'm declaring an emergency", etc. Some of these transponders - not all - report the aircraft's altitude. When under an air traffic controllers' care, you're told what code to set your transponder to, to make it unique. (And you can press an "Ident" button, I think that makes it transmit a slightly different signal or something? Been 10 years.) A few crashes were only located with this help of radar tracking (to localize the area to look in.) Crashes are hard to find here among all the evergreens (dense springy trees.) Once in a while, a "crash" turns out to be a situation where someone just decided to fly to Mexico & make a new life there, without telling anyone. (Weird, IMHO! Hurtful to their SO's...) One good thought, though; Imagine having implanted transponder codes for: "I am being assaulted", "I am suicidal", "I think someone is trying to attack me, please send a policeman" and so on? Who'd need a cell phone, then? (These'd have an ID with them, probably, so these wouldn't be anonymous.) That'd sure make people bent on doing harm, more paranoid, especially if it was difficult for them to tell the state of the transponder. (I prefer the unimplanted, wearcam approach, myself - and support free choice; We're all so similar & so different, it's not my choice to make!) (And of course there'd be have to be codes for "I'm Horny", etc. which could revolutionize the local bar scene... Or destroy bars as we know them.) Mark,-- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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