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To: w molloy who wrote (5830)	1/27/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: jeremy_atticus	Respond to of 13582

Isn't that the way they knew O.J. was in the Bronco going down the highway.....he was on his cell phone? JA

To: w molloy who wrote (5830)	1/27/2000 10:02:00 PM
From: pheilman_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

>> Call me paranoid, but I don't particularly like the idea of my operator being allowed to monitor my exact location. The network side can certainly monitor cars moving from cell to cell and draw conclusions about speed and likely location. I have built differential time of arrival systems for locating Spread Spectrum transmitters. The chipping rate of IS-95 would result in great accuracy, but the base stations are located for coverage and not for great baselines for location. The CSM rx ASICs are aware of the time delay from your cell phone but, I don't know if this is tracked and merged. Hey, molloy, quit scaring the users! Paul

To: w molloy who wrote (5830)	1/27/2000 10:23:00 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Yes, in the last Russo-Chechen war, the Russians triangulated on a Chechen leader using a phone, then bombed him. I think they were speaking to him, negotiating, at the time, but I am not sure. My concerns are rather more prosaic than that. It is the ease with which tabs can be kept on vast numbers of people that I find frightening, then it's likely that I'll be one of them. The thing is we won't only want the system to know our position for 911 calls. Taxi? Restaurants? We'll be seduced into giving up our privacy - as we are by the web now.

To: w molloy who wrote (5830)	1/27/2000 10:25:00 PM
From: r.edwards	Respond to of 13582

Maybe we can get "Bien Laden"sp., on his cell phone long enough to pop him .

To: w molloy who wrote (5830)	1/28/2000 12:26:00 AM
From: quidditch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

w- you are pretty tuned in to the wireless back rooms, so I'll try this out on you: With TXN claiming to own the DSP market in all things wireless and other devices needing analog to digital conversion and v.v.; with INTC/DSP (the company, not the generic dsp) announcing a hard push to supply product into the wireless segment; and with MOT being MOT, nahh..., and since all of the foregoing are licensees of SnapTracks and Q (I think TXN licenses some IPR from Q?) it wouldn't surprise me if the $billion price tag came as a result of out-bidding one of these thugs for SnapTrack. Or are they not that smart to know what the complementarity could do for them? Steve