Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
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As my BIL used to say, the only safe cell phone is one not in the room. He used to be part of security for a General on Camp Pendleton. There are signs about no cell phones past this point. He was quite fond of confiscating and throwing said phones. Apparently, the General was amused by it as well.
That was more for listening in than GPS, dunno about GPS.
I can't remember where, but I've definitely seen "if you take the SIM card out the GPS stays on so let's track the suspect that way" used as a plot point. So it's at least true on TV?
I'm pretty sure that the laws of physics ensure that a cell phone with no battery can't be tracked. Leaving aside my unlikely backup battery idea.
Can anyone recommend a good external Blu-Ray drive I can plug into my laptop? Also, is WinXP up to running a Blu-Ray drive? I'm using my old XP desktop as my media machine.
Does everyone know you can watch the Apple event thing live? All you need is an OSX or iOS device--just go to Apple.com (Safari only).
It starts in 11 minutes.
...Aaaaand it looks like their servers are overwhelmed.
Ok, I want an Apple Watch.
Even if it were something I wanted, it would have to wait until I switched from part-time reading glasses to full-time progressives.
Entertainingly, we were walkn around and found a cafe full I people watching the Apple presentation on a big screen here in Wroclaw!
Awww. I've had three generations of those, the 3rd and the last two.
They are pretty out of date at this point, especially with a hard drive (although the iPod Touch and iPhone still can't match the 160GB storage of the Classic.