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CAN PARENTS USE GPS TO TRACK THEIR CHILDREN AND PROTECT THEM FROM KIDNAPPERS?

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:31:15 +0000

I hear pet owners put chips in their dogs/cats to be able to track them down in case they run away, and automobiles to recover from theft. Would it be viable to use this method to protect against children running away from home and to protect them from kidnappings or getting lost?

HOW MANY OF THESE THINGS WILL YOUR CHILDREN REMEMBER?

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:33:18 +0000

Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a motion picture or to record something.
Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to todays teenager.
The number of Television channels being a single digit. I remember it being a huge event when Britain got its fourth channel.
Standard-definition, CRT Televisions filling up half your living room.
Rotary dial TVs with no remote control. You know, the ones where the children were the remote control.
High-speed dubbing.
8-track cartridges.
Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.
Betamax tapes.
MiniDisc.
Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio bork this concept.)
Shortwave radio.
3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
Watching Television when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’
Photo credit: smin via flickr
Computers and Videogaming

Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
The scream of a modem connecting.
The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
Using jumpers to set IRQs.
DOS.
Terminals accessing the mainframe.
Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a personal game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
Counting in kilobytes.
Wondering if you can afford to purchase a RAM upgrade.
Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
Joysticks.
Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
Booting your personal off of a floppy disk.
Recording a song in a studio.
Photo credit: ghbrett via flickr
The Internet

NCSA Mosaic.
Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
Phone books and Yellow Pages.
Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at each moment.
Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
Archie searches.
Gopher searches.
Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
Privacy.
The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected Computers
The time before Computer networks.
When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.
Photo credit: Chris Devers via flickr
Gadgets

Typewriters.
Putting film in your camera: 35mm might have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
Sending that film away to be processed.
Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
CB radios.
Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
Rotary-dial telephones.
Answering machines.
Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
Pay phones.
Phones with actual bells in them.
Fax machines.
Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
Photo credit: ansik via flickr
Everything Else

Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
Remembering someone’s phone number.
Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a motion picture after its run at the theater.
Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
Neat handwriting.
The days before the nanny state.
Starbuck being a man.
Han shoots first.
“Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no huge surprise.
Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
Trig tables and log tables.
“Don’t know what a slide rule is for …”
Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
Swimming pools with diving boards.
Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil of break off the first finger
A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in
I know it’s long -
But, it’s kinda fun to reminisce! :”D
I remember all of them! That should tell you guys how old this ol’ lady is! lol!

(((Gonzo)))

DO YOU THINK IT’S OKAY FOR PARENTS TO TRACK THEIR CHILDREN? LIKE GPS CELL PHONES, CAR TRACKERS?

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:32:15 +0000

Do you think it’s okay for parents to track their children? Like GPS cell phones, automobile trackers, etc?

IS THERE A GPS CHIP THAT YOU COULD PUT IN A CELL PHONE OR EVEN A CAR SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:46:39 +0000

I am just looking for some type of device that could either be put in a cell phone or in a automobile or purse that would give gps tracking. I would like to be able to go on the personal and see a detailed map that shows where my child is so I know she is safe.

ANYONE HAVE INFO ON GPS TRACKING FOR CHILDREN?

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:45:28 +0000

I’m looking for PERSONAL EXPERIENCE ONLY

My son will be starting to walk to school without me soon and I am terrified to grant him to, but I am a struggling single mom and I need to have spinal surgery. I will need 6 months of recovery in bed and I have no one to help me with my kids getting them to-from school. Not to mention help around my home and cooking.

Anyway I am looking into GPS tracking for extra safety measures. Does anyone have any personal experience with any of these products? i’m curious about price, flaws, comments. Anything that might help me.

I am NOT looking for answers that only direct me to the products, I have already been researching these and at this point I only want to know your personal views about how these products work.

Thanks!
Oh and my son is 9 years old. He does NOT need space, he needs to be protected.
We live too close for him to ride the bus, but too far from the school for me to be comfortable without knowing if he got there safely. I have asked each parent I could find to see if I could get help but no one is available.