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Microsoft Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS Devices

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spidey07 said:
Microsoft Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS Devices
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Very needed for Chicago

Pulled up to a bus stop when wound up in bad part of town when were new here and guy was pointing a gun at us from the bench seat.

I stepped on the gas through the red light.
 
dmcowen674 said:
Very needed for Chicago

Pulled up to a bus stop when wound up in bad part of town when were new here and guy was pointing a gun at us from the bench seat.

I stepped on the gas through the red light.
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Celebration! I have confirmed now that you are all but incapable of posting anything on AT without lying, David. I also now know why you do it so much--you probably don't realize it.

It's called pathological lying and it is common to not know you are lying when you do it. It is regularly associated with borderline personality disorder.

Read the first two paragraphs and tell me that doesn't fit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder
 
lol my GPS in the bimmer took me through fricken East New York once, the murder capital this side of Baltimore. 30 minutes of local roads, stoplight after stoplight. I don't know how a GPS figures that's the "fastest route". It would've been faster to go around on the highway first.
 
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Originally Posted by dmcowen674
Very needed for Chicago

Pulled up to a bus stop when wound up in bad part of town when were new here and guy was pointing a gun at us from the bench seat.

I stepped on the gas through the red light.


Doppel said:
Celebration! I have confirmed now that you are all but incapable of posting anything on AT without lying, David. I also now know why you do it so much--you probably don't realize it.

It's called pathological lying and it is common to not know you are lying when you do it. It is regularly associated with borderline personality disorder.

Read the first two paragraphs and tell me that doesn't fit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder
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Celebrating that gun was pointed at my wife's head?

Mods on this site really need to examine the open stalking of me of this this guy on this site.
 
dmcowen674 said:
Celebrating that gun was pointed at my wife's head?

Mods on this site really need to examine the open stalking of me of this this guy on this site.
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There was no gun pointed at your or your wife. Heck, even your sig is a lie as I'm not on your ignore list after all. If "stalking" is not letting you go any time I see you lie, then perhaps you need to broader your horizon of vocabulary.
 
hmm good app. if it uses crime statistics to get you out of the area then that's great. People should know the area they are traveling and avoid them anyway.
 
Car GPS systems should also be equipped with such a feature....and automatically blocks you from entering such areas...
 
Bignate603 said:
I can just hear the GPS voice...

"Recalculating. Now entering ghetto. Make u-turn at next available opportunity"
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Or automatically shutting off the engine when you cross the "demarcation line."

"Sorry, that's as close as I'm going. You have to walk from here."
 
My GPS would probably go crazy since I always turn it on at work, which is in the middle of a ghetto.

Jesus was watching out for me when he made me a baldy, and I "had" to shave my head: I fit right in.🙂
 
How is this even patentable? Patents and copyright are being taken way too far these days. It's actually getting pretty retarded. They serve no other purpose than to create a monopoly.
 
Red Squirrel said:
How is this even patentable? Patents and copyright are being taken way too far these days. It's actually getting pretty retarded. They serve no other purpose than to create a monopoly.
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Yes, that's kind of the point of a patent. If you do the work to come up with an idea wouldn't you want to make sure that you were the one to profit from it?

There are plenty of things that sound obvious after somebody tells you but actually take quite a flash of inspiration to put it all together.
 
Bignate603 said:
Yes, that's kind of the point of a patent. If you do the work to come up with an idea wouldn't you want to make sure that you were the one to profit from it?

There are plenty of things that sound obvious after somebody tells you but actually take quite a flash of inspiration to put it all together.
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You're telling me no one has thought "I wish this GPS device wouldn't take me through dangerous places?" The complaint people have with patents is that people scramble to get them without doing work. They just have some vague idea with no actual, usable details. I want to see less patents on vague designs and more on actual, functional details. Hopefully they have concrete plans in this patent showing how they're going to obtain the crime statistics and then push it out in a usable form, otherwise it's just same idea everyone has had when they have an undesirable route on their gps device.
 
This is a good example of something that should not be patent-able. Too generic, and essentially prior art with Avoid Highways, Avoid Toll Roads, Shortest Route, etc.
 
Bateluer said:
This is a good example of something that should not be patent-able. Too generic, and essentially prior art with Avoid Highways, Avoid Toll Roads, Shortest Route, etc.
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pretty much.

Just wait until Apple tries to patent copy paste on a mobile device. ....never mind that they were last to the party with that one. :whiste:
 
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