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    Ping is Like a Free SMS Client For iPhone and iPod Touch Users

    You Can Now Text Message 911...In Parts of Iowa...With Some Risk

    Senate Pushes Bill to Ban Texting While Driving

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    Image of RemembertheAmiga RemembertheAmiga
    09/28/09

    In reply to Ping is Like a Free SMS Client For iPhone and iPod Touch Users
    This works for me! Since my girlfriend left Big Red for an iPhone we've had to increase our txt packages. Now we can reduce those and use this during the day, when I have wifi on my Touch.
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    Image of brodie7838 brodie7838
    09/28/09

    In reply to Ping is Like a Free SMS Client For iPhone and iPod Touch Users
    Perhaps I'm missing the point of this app, but texts are sent/received typically pretty much instantly, within a few seconds give or take (yes they can be delayed, but for the most part are not), and they also pop up with a notification if I'm not actively using my phone...
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    Edited by brodie7838 at 09/28/09 8:22 PM brodie7838 was starred brodie7838 was unstarred
    Image of ColonelGentleman ColonelGentleman
    09/28/09

    @brodie7838: texts cost money
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    Jason Chen promoted this comment ColonelGentleman was starred ColonelGentleman was unstarred
    Image of brodie7838 brodie7838
    09/29/09

    @ColonelGentleman: Yeah, but so does a data plan. And if you can only use this app with people who also have the app, chances are you'll still end up paying for a text plan for everyone who doesn't have an iPhone.
    Not discounting your point, it still seems that for the hassle of remembering which of your contacts has an iPhone with this app and those who don't and require regular texting would not only defeat the simplicity of both IM'ing and SMS, but also the money you are trying to save...
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    Image of chefgon chefgon
    09/28/09

    In reply to Ping is Like a Free SMS Client For iPhone and iPod Touch Users
    Reminds me of Google Talk on Android, except that all Android users have it automatically set up by default without downloading an app and it can also communicate with people who use Google Talk on other devices.

    I guess most people are probably more likely to know iPhone owners than Android owners, but I'm in the unique position where 8 out of my 10 most frequently communicated with friends all have Android so it works out pretty conveniently.
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    Image of beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid
    09/28/09

    In reply to Ping is Like a Free SMS Client For iPhone and iPod Touch Users
    Been using twitter, with a custom prowl twitter push script running on my HTPC, for the last couple of weeks. I know not new, but man does it work well. I use it to try and not eat into texts when sending messages to my wife, and her to me as well.

    Pretty cool/simple stuff.
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    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    08/07/09

    In reply to You Can Now Text Message 911...In Parts of Iowa...With Some Risk
    I loathe i wireless. Most people from my area do. But it benefits the people who are in the more rural areas. Although I do find it odd that my area doesn't have T-Mobile, but has i wireless... hmmm.
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    Image of Iowa11 Iowa11
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Can Now Text Message 911...In Parts of Iowa...With Some Risk
    Oh man look at this, Iowa making tech news. Never thought I would see the day. Suck it Trebek.
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    My Secret Identity promoted this comment Iowa11 was starred Iowa11 was unstarred
    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    08/07/09

    @Iowa11: [en.wikipedia.org]
    More tech news from Iowa, albeit a few decades ago.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Can Now Text Message 911...In Parts of Iowa...With Some Risk
    I'm sorry, but that is a really poor example Mark...

    ...everyone knows a Gizmodo writer would never write a negative iPhone review.

    ;)

    P.S. When this service doesn't work, do i get to yell out "Black Hawk Down!"?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Can Now Text Message 911...In Parts of Iowa...With Some Risk
    So, you're saying a county in Iowa is technologically ahead of the rest of the country?
    Having grown up there, (Iowa) I'm kind of afraid. I'm very afraid...
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    08/06/09

    @Lite: Well they do also give the world Captain James T Kirk.
    I've always considered them an innovator.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/06/09

    @Lite: Weren't they also one of the first states to legalize gay marriage?
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    Image of mrbnatural mrbnatural
    08/06/09

    @tande04: And the world's first electronic digital computer (the ABC) was designed and built at the U of I. Iowa has long been a source of technological innovation, probably because all us kids who don't take up farming careers are bored out of our skulls. :P
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/06/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Yep
    Desegrated schools 100 years before Brown vs Board of Education
    First woman lawyer in the US.
    One of the first states to give women the right to own property...
    The state is actually pretty big on protecting people's rights. Which is why gay marriage is now legal. Certain rights were reserved for married people, and it was... While I find the state boring in many ways, there is a lot I appreciate about people from Iowa, and the Midwest in general.
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    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    08/07/09

    @Lite: Thank you, sir. I've been a Midwesterner all my life. There are certain things here that can't be beaten. But I am from Illinois, although, as a Quad Cities citizen, I almost feel like I live on both sides of the River.
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    Image of 3waygeek 3waygeek
    08/07/09

    @My Secret Identity: I grew up in Bettendorf back in the 60s & 70s and had relatives in Moline, so I spent a lot of time on both sides of the river.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Can Now Text Message 911...In Parts of Iowa...With Some Risk
    hi, i hot shot in my game and i am bleeding. please send of am ambulance.
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    Image of friend-o friend-o
    08/06/09

    @Nick: is a peelin': That'll buff right out.
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    92BuickLeSabre promoted this comment friend-o was starred friend-o was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    08/06/09

    Why is the last part of Nick's name not linked? For a few seconds there I thought "is a peelin'" was some new meme that everyone knew but me.
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    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    08/07/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Same here.
    Also, Nick, it took me forever to realize that those were intentional typos...
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    Image of Kristoffer Abildgaard Kristoffer Abildgaard
    07/30/09

    In reply to Senate Pushes Bill to Ban Texting While Driving
    Where is the simpson shot from?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    07/30/09

    @Kristoffer Abildgaard: The Grassy Knoll?
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/30/09

    In reply to Senate Pushes Bill to Ban Texting While Driving
    UK has this ban. it's £50 on the spot fine if your seen using a phone by a police officer. Still have people who try to sneak in a phone call though. but if they crash Insurance can run a check for phone calls aroudn the time of the crash.
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    Image of shiftyeyedgoat shiftyeyedgoat
    07/30/09

    @deanbmmv: Do you enjoy living in a nanny state?
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/30/09

    @shiftyeyedgoat: I enjoy not being ran over if that's what you meant?
    Better a nanny state that Patriot(act)ic state
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    Image of nukee nukee
    07/29/09

    In reply to Senate Pushes Bill to Ban Texting While Driving
    There shouldn't even be a need for this kind of law.
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    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    07/29/09

    @nukee: There IS already a law for that: survival of the fittest. If you're not fit to drive without texting, you die.

    BTW, wonderful cartoon by Don Wright, @ http://www.gocomics.com/donwright. "ROFB" — Priceless!
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    tande04 promoted this comment Edited by AEchinoderm at 07/30/09 12:00 AM AEchinoderm was starred AEchinoderm was unstarred
    Image of N1k0s N1k0s
    07/29/09

    In reply to Senate Pushes Bill to Ban Texting While Driving
    This is ridiculous. I can see the authority abusing cops pulling me over under the erroneous assumption that I was texting when I was innocently trying to enjoy a game of Sudoku.
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    Image of lostinthe4th lostinthe4th
    07/29/09

    In reply to Senate Pushes Bill to Ban Texting While Driving
    It doesn't matter if it can be enforced or not, such a ban just has to happen. It's the only way.
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    Image of ArtisticThought ArtisticThought
    07/29/09

    @lostinthe4th: That's true. Enforcement doesn't matter - just that people will cut down on texting while driving. That's the whole point of it.
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    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    07/29/09

    In reply to Senate Pushes Bill to Ban Texting While Driving
    Okay, until they make a law that says both hands have to be available for driving, these laws are just dumb. All the stuff people makes jokes about in these posts are actually things we've seen people do. So ya, spend the time and energy making sure there's a law I can't text, so I have to do it down low so a passing cop won't see, but it's still legal to eat a big mac while shaving and rolling down the highway at 75.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/29/09

    @NurseDave: That was my argument too until I started seeing the results of tests like this.

    I always thought texting was no more distracting then changing CDs or messing with the temperature since this study has come out and I've seen some of the practical implications of some of tests I don't think thats the case anymore
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