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  • popsgarland

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    Until I retired, a couple of years ago, I traveled to, almost, every state in the union building restaurants or retail stores. I had to have a cell phone to keep in contact with my office, clients and wife. Now that I'm retired, I don't go to far from home. Just to the store, range, visit close friends or to a movie or out to eat with my wife. As much as I'm against anyone tracking my where about by my phone or any other means, I would have no problem leaving it at home when I went out and checking messages, text or missed calls when I returned home.

    I'm sure some of us remember the good old days when all we had were pagers and pay phones.
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    jrbfishn

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    Yeah. That would be the last day I left the house with a cell phone or with it turned on. If I even kept it. The cell phone bill could buy a lot of ammo.

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    toddnjoyce

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    I didn't watch the video (22 minutes long).
    What does turning location, and wifi off do?
    Does it help at all?

    As with most things, it depends. In this instance it is dependent on hardware and software configurations.

    Tracking my phone is one thing; you come to my house and try to enforce some sort of horseshit policy, you’re going to be trespassed. You come back, understand that my home is my Alamo.

    There are limits, even in an emergency, to governmental power. Delegating that power to some jack hole crusading do-gooder who never learned about the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments is well outside the bounds of governmental power.
     

    oldag

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    Until I retired, a couple of years ago, I traveled to, almost, every state in the union building restaurants or retail stores. I had to have a cell phone to keep in contact with my office, clients and wife. Now that I'm retired, I don't go to far from home. Just to the store, range, visit close friends or to a movie or out to eat with my wife. As much as I'm against anyone tracking my where about by my phone or any other means, I would have no problem leaving it at home when I went out and checking messages, text or missed calls when I returned home.

    I'm sure some of us remember the good old days when all we had were pagers and pay phones.

    I remember when pagers were new and consider very intrusive.
     

    Texasgordo

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    oldag

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    Very disgusted with Roberts' voting with the liberals on the California church lawsuit. But sadly, I can't say I am shocked.

    Kavanaugh has his head on straight and knows the Constitution:

    “California undoubtedly has a compelling interest in combating the spread of Covid-19 and protecting the health of its citizens,” he wrote, but it failed to justify the attendance limits for in-person religious services when a “litany of other secular businesses...are not subject to an occupancy cap.”

    “Assuming all of the same precautions are taken, why can someone safely walk down a grocery store aisle but not a pew? And why can someone safely interact with a brave deliverywoman but not with a stoic minister?” he wrote. Unless the state imposed the same occupancy limits across the board, Justice Kavanaugh argued, the public-health order violated the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.

    Otherwise, he said, “the Church would suffer irreparable harm from not being able to hold services on Pentecost Sunday in a way that comparable secular businesses and persons can conduct their activities.”
     

    Brains

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    I am sure that you could find one. I think that they were pretty much all "1G" (analog), so I am not sure you'd ever find service...
    Ahh privacy. Those were the days, when anyone with a basic 800MHz capable scanner could listen to cell phone calls ;)

    I had to Google (err. DuckDuckGo it) but I was surprised just how recently those analog networks were still active: Wikipedia: AMPS
     

    Big Green

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    Holy crap.

    So far I've been able to work with or around, as I saw fit, all the changes we've been asked to make to the way we live our lives. But that video scares me. I'm hoping that we treat this idea of tracing the way we treat lots of reactions to political problems - some folks push it for a while then we get distracted by something else and it never comes to pass. In this case, though, weaponizing our own cell phones against us is so conceptually easy that this sort of intrusiveness just might have legs.

    I guess I can learn to live without a phone again. I don't want to but if this crap comes fully to fruition I'm not sure what other choice I'll have.
    I believe, for now, if you turned off location, WiFi and Bluetooth you would be okay. That’s going to be how most phones communicate with each other and how an exact location could be ascertained. I do wonder if cell towers can triangulate a position though.

    Who knows what future software updates would have if people started actively trying to hide their exact location.
     
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