Posted on 11/21/2009 12:06:18 AM PST by South40
There seems to be a mobile phone application for just about everything these days -- even illegal border crossing.
An application still in the testing stages is designed to point border-crossers to nearby water, show them safer routes and provide them with a series of poems to make them feel welcome along their way.
Individuals trekking north may soon be able to download the program into an inexpensive web-enabled cellular phone that is supposed to help them safely navigate the treacherous desert crossing between Mexico and the United States, known as the Devil's Highway.
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GPS.. if you can find us, we can find you! Has a certain amount of appeal doesn’t it?
But liberalism exists, so the invaders continue to come.
In a sane world, the feds would develop a competing app that looked even better, and steered the wetbacks right into their checkpoints.
The least the feds can do is run the same app, and see what the illegals are seeing. But that's probably too much for someone who can't even put up a fence.
The problem they will have is that vast areas along the border have no cell reception. However, if all they have is a GPS receiver, there is no way they can be tracked.
I think that’s a great idea. Gee, think...even the border patrol can get some of these and stake out the prize water holes and get them when they come in. Think of it as duck hunting for wetbacks. Set the decoys out (cardboard cutouts of Juan, Chewy and Carlos) and here they come.
“...provide them with a series of poems to make them feel welcome...” HUH?
Now, the border patrol ain’t gonna go for this poet stuff.
In a sane world, the feds would develop a competing app that looked even better, and steered the wetbacks right into their checkpoints.
If you wanted to pick up someone’s GPS signal, it could be done. If they can hot mike a cell, don’t u think they can pick up your GPS signal once you send a sat hit?
As I understand GPS as in the portable GPS unit I have in my car, it only serves as a receiver and thus receives time stamps from three or four GPS satellites. These units do not transmit a signal.
I could be wrong, but when you uplink to the sat.. you are sending a signal which can be traced. At least that’s the way I understand it. It is not a one way signal... It must transmit an uplink, then receive a signal. However, I am a lab tech, not an electronics specialist. However, I know GPS receiver on your vehicle can track it.
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