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    Mexico Fingerprinting Cellphone Users to Crack Down on Kidnapping

    Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping Crime

    Verizon Waited Almost Four Days to Help Authorities Find Body of Missing Woman

    Mexico's Rich Embedding GPS-Assisted RFID Tags Under Their Skin In Case of Kidnapping

    Kid Arranges Own Kidnapping to Buy Wii With Ransom
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    Image of Kung-Fu Kurtis supports Demon Child Research Kung-Fu Kurtis supports Demon Child Research
    02/11/09

    In reply to Mexico Fingerprinting Cellphone Users to Crack Down on Kidnapping
    The fact that Demetri Martin has a new show has now been beaten into my skull for good......Oh yeah, I'm here for gadgets.
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    02/11/09

    @Jimbuck Bada' Bing!: Who's Demetri Martin?
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    02/11/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: The Trendspotting guy from The Daily Show.
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    02/11/09

    @HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak: What's The Daily Show??


    j/k

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    02/11/09

    In reply to Mexico Fingerprinting Cellphone Users to Crack Down on Kidnapping
    Good, but what's stopping the drug lords from buying up American cell phones?
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    02/11/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Or stealing them.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/11/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: They have to work in Mexico, so you would have to buy a prepaid phone number.
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    02/11/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Or bribing somebody to skip the whole "fingerprinting" thing. Mexico's pretty lawless, if you know which palms to grease.
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    02/11/09

    @HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak: "if you know which palms to grease."


    And if that palm is greasy it just makes it harder to get the prints...

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    02/11/09

    In reply to Mexico Fingerprinting Cellphone Users to Crack Down on Kidnapping
    "In an effort to prevent criminals from using prepaid cellphones to extort money and negotiate kidnapping ransoms" - I guess they dont care about the drug cartels running their business using prepaid cell phones?
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    02/11/09

    @pdditty: You're assuming the two are different entities.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/11/09

    @pdditty: It's also harder to track messages that are sent within the syndicate. If someone calls you to demand a ransom, you automatically get their number.
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    01/08/09

    In reply to Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping Crime
    this definitely would have taken Jack Bauer a good hour and a half at least. Suck it Fox, you're gonna have to get more creative now!
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping Crime
    Soooo what did Street View do? They could of just went ahead and called the VA police and give them the coordinates and if they were from a GPS (cell phone) it would put them with in three meters from the phone...I bet that would of took them to the motel too.
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    01/08/09

    @dontTouch: I think the point Paradise was trying to make was that cell phone triangulation doesn't have pinpoint accuracy and the the police were able to use the maps to wisely verified that there was in fact a potential hide-out location in the vicinity and direct their counterparts in VA to that likeliest of spots. Also it helped verify that it wasn't a bad lead, or a case of the phone being dumped by the side of the road.
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping Crime
    OK, don't get me wrong -- in this case, I'm glad she had it, but 9-year-olds do not need cell phones.


    But yeah, that's pretty cool. This'll lead to a new Law & Order show where everything is done via Google, I predict.

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    01/08/09

    @Platypus Man: With NBC cancelling their 10pm line up to keep Leno, there may cease to be and new L&O's.
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    01/08/09

    @CES.GitEmSteveDave: I would be more inclined to believe that you'll just find it on a different time/day. It still gets the ratings, so something else will get canned first.
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    01/08/09

    @SQLGuru: They're doing it to save money as hour long dramas are more expensive.
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    Image of godwhacker, your incandescent leader! godwhacker, your incandescent leader!
    01/08/09

    @CES.GitEmSteveDave:

    dude, you watch network tv?
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    01/08/09

    @godwhacker: Yeah, I do. I also listened and read news quoting people from NBC saying that eliminating 5 hours of primetime scripted programs will save them a lot of money, especially after their recent batch of shows didn't do too well.


    The stars of the shows getting canceled weren't too happy, like Richard Belzer:[www.comcast.net]

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    Image of mltdwn mltdwn
    01/08/09

    @Platypus Man:


    My six year old has a cell phone. Admitedly it can only call the numbers we pre-loaded (one for me, one for my wife, one for the home phone, one for the grandparents, and one for emergancy), is locked out from accepting any calls NOT from those pre-programmed numbers, AND has a built in GPS that we can check online at anytime... It actually is great as we can check when school lets out and see when they got on the bus and when they got to their babysitter's house, and they can call if something happens or they get lost. There is alot of use, with the right phone, that a kid can have for it.

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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    01/09/09

    @mltdwn: OK, the GPS thing I can see, and something like what you're describing isn't terrible, but a lot of people give their children full-on cell phones when they don't need them.
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