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Old April 9th, 2007, 11:41 PM
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But think of all the possibilities for paranoia and conspiracy theories if it is true... OMG the govt is tracking everywhere you go!
Actually I think they were talking more along the lines of theft recovery. IE some spun out crack head college student breaks into their car and steals their laptop kind of thing. They report the theft to the Police who then call the manufacture and get the GPS information for that specific laptop and use that information to locate it when it next powered up and logs onto any network. IE it gives its location each time it logs onto a net work much like a phone publishes its own number when calling someone else.

And Fyron in all fairness, your dislike for those paranoid "the govs out to get me" types is most evident in your sarcasm. Some people do take the new world order crap way to seriously, but that does not dismiss their allegation of invasion of privacy.

Most of us know that it doesn't matter, if someone wants you found, your going to be found. America's Most Wanted has proven that. For me I would just like to be able to recover my laptop if it is ever stolen and I would love to see the face of the idiot who has it when the cop comes knocking on the door.
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Old April 10th, 2007, 12:39 AM
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Personally, if my laptop ever was stolen, I'd like the battery explode on them while it's in their lap.
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Old April 10th, 2007, 02:23 AM
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You have 10 seconds to enter the disarm code or be blown to bits by the defensive anti tampering nuclear explosive devices attached to this laptop. 9 - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
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If font is a concern, a quick remedy is holding ctrl while scrolling your mousewheel - it makes all fonts on the page 1 bigger or 1 smaller per wheel click. I know this works on firefox but I'm not sure about other browsers.
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