[OT] "It is 10:00. Do you know where your children are"

Loser · #1 January 2nd, 2004, 03:14 PM

Or even better the "obtain password to stalk ex-girlfriend and orchestrate awkward confrontations while she is out with, of all things, other men". That one sounds real promising. I see a thriller or two coming out with that for the plot.

She leaves him because he's creepy.

She goes to the beach, he's there.

She goes to a concert, he's there.

She goes to secluded location with her new boyfriend, he's there and kills the new beau.

She goes to the police, he heads her off and tries to kill her.

She kills him.

The End.

Nodachi · #2 January 2nd, 2004, 04:17 PM

Kids'll just pull the battery when they don't want to be tracked.

"Gee Mom, I don't know, it's been working fine all day..."

Gryphin · #3 January 2nd, 2004, 04:48 PM

Would wrapping it in foil act as an antenna or block the signal?

Excuses:
"It was in my purse, I didn't hear it"
"We were in a church. I turned it off"
"We were in a dead zone"
"I don't know" :: Angelic face :: "Please don't tell daddy"
"The mall filters it out"

Loser · #4 January 2nd, 2004, 05:27 PM

Excuses:
"I killed it! That's right, I broke the little leash. You won't bind me to the groupmind that has been running western society since 1956! Oh yeah, I know about that. And I know about the way the radio waves get in my mind and make me more like the rest of you drones. Well I'm not going to be like you! I'm freeing my mind! I'm freeing myself from the tyranny of the little clever eight-bit ring tones! I'm freeing myself from the Theme from Batman and Fur Elise and goddamn Sandstorm in eight-friggin'-bits! You want to know where I am!? You don't need the damn phone. Just ask the guys in that windowless white van that follows me every where! They know where I am!"

[ January 02, 2004, 15:28: Message edited by: Loser ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 January 2nd, 2004, 06:19 PM

the problem is, that's not communication. that's a leash. kids aren't dogs, and they know it.

Gryphin · #6 January 2nd, 2004, 06:39 PM

It is also a trust issue. (narf is that what you were alluding to?). If you can't trust your child to be where they should be then I think you have bigger problems that won't be solved by that system.

I do like how my sweetie uses her cell with her daughter who does not live with us, (16 going on 21). It was given to her to make mommy more available not vice versa. Last night it was used for: "Please come pick me up. I'm frezzing at the bus stop"

Kamog · #7 January 2nd, 2004, 06:45 PM

One day they might start implanting chips inside kids so they can always be tracked. At first they'll say it's for finding lost children, but soon the government might try to track and monitor everyone.

capnq · #8 January 2nd, 2004, 07:13 PM

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One day they might start implanting chips inside kids so they can always be tracked.

It's already being done: Tracker implant {link}

narf poit chez BOOM · #9 January 2nd, 2004, 08:02 PM

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It is also a trust issue. (narf is that what you were alluding to?).

got it in one.

dogscoff · #10 January 2nd, 2004, 09:19 PM

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It's already being done: Tracker implant {link}

It's all hype and (fortunately) unfeasible. If you think about it, you'd have to have an object implanted in the girl's arm with the same kind of tranmission capabilities as a mobile phone. Implanted under the skin. People are worried about the health risks of regular phones, what do you think this would be like? What if the battery leaks? How would you recharge it anyway?

Take a look at this:

http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02002-09-06&l=57#l

and this:

http://www.kevinwarwick.org.uk/

IMHO this child-tagging lark was the stunt that tipped Kevin Warwick from harmless publicity-muppet to Orwellian bull****ter bastard.