Re: GPS, phones, toothing
At 01:47 AM 7/4/04 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: >On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:28, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> The cool thing about 'toothing' is that the party you're arranging to >> mutually stimulate is within a finite physical range. An amusing >> unintended consequence. > >Not so unintended if you ask me. I'd love to have a transcript of the IEEE spec meeting where this potential feature was discussed. :-)
Re: GPS, phones, toothing
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:28, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > The cool thing about 'toothing' is that the party you're arranging to > mutually stimulate is within a finite physical range. An amusing > unintended consequence. Not so unintended if you ask me. The chief drawback of semi-anon methods of negotiating assignations is the lack of geographical data. Certain "adult" telephone chat services suffer from aggregating widely strewn patrons. A patron in Cincinnati may discover suddenly that the object of his/her pursuit is actually in Nashville, hardly a quick drive. I think toothing has grown popular *because* of the proximity limitations. One has a reasonable assurance that the object of pursuit is close enough to "close escrow", as Lenny Nero would say. -- Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not "Progress, like reality, is not optional." - R. A. Hettinga SpamAssassin->procmail->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com
GPS, phones, toothing
At 07:23 PM 7/3/04 -0500, bgt wrote: > >"With a few keystrokes on a wireless phone, a m-mode subscriber is >given the approximate geographic location of his friend, such as a >street intersection. The two friends can then exchange messages, call >the other, or choose a place to meet from a directory of nearby >restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and bookstores." > >I'm pretty sure they don't use GPS for this... I think they do some >form of triangulation from the cell towers. The cool thing about 'toothing' is that the party you're arranging to mutually stimulate is within a finite physical range. An amusing unintended consequence.
