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Old 9 January 2012, 06:42 AM   #1
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Don't Go There!

Microsoft has just been granted a patent for a GPS feature that warns pedestrians to avoid areas where crime is high and apparently where the weather is bad, not that there's necessarily a correlation between the two.
A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an “unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures.”

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/...r-gps-devices/
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Old 9 January 2012, 06:54 AM   #2
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This just in, tourism in Detroit is now at an all time low...!
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Old 9 January 2012, 07:25 AM   #3
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Not a bad idea. I actually know of a guy from Detroit who got lost in an unsavory part of town while travelling to a GTG, thanks to a misguided GPS.
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Old 9 January 2012, 07:44 AM   #4
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Microshaft is so irrelevant now that they have to try anything to get back in the game.
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Old 9 January 2012, 07:49 AM   #5
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Wait for the charges of geographic and meteorological profiling that will inevitably follow.
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