Good job, kiddo! When you getting outfitted for your gestapo uniform?
(Of course, the agenda-pushing paper promotes such tyranny as a positive)
FLASHBACK:
".... One new use is tracking teenage drivers. Brian Aladesuyi, 17, received a new Jeep in exchange for a promise: he would never drive it outside his hometown, Kennesaw, Ga. His father, Kayode Aladesuyi, chief executive of the security firm EarthSearch Communications, used EarthSearch’s Web site to map Kennesaw’s boundaries into the Jeep’s onboard computer, surrounding the entire city with an electronic fence.
Oh, that is going to great things for TRUST with he boy!
But when his father took a business trip to Brazil, Brian decided to try his luck, Mr. Aladesuyi said. Brian drove to Marietta, a neighboring town. Seconds after Brian breached the invisible wall, his father received a text message on his mobile phone. Mr. Aladesuyi sent a message commanding the computer to disable the Jeep’s engine as soon as Brian switched it off. When the Jeep would not restart, Brian had to call his father and confess he had broken their agreement.
How humiliating!!!!
Mr. Aladesuyi: “I don’t think Brian really understood I could do that from Brazil.”
No, and I'm sure he wasn't too happy about it, either!
Probably pissed him off (click-click), know what I mean?
Can't you let the young man BE a young man?
That tracking system became available this spring. The onboard computer costs $229, installation included, and the service costs $19.99 a month. --source--"
Cha-ching!!!!
Not about the "safety" of the boy, is it?
About CONTROL and CASH$$$$$!!!!!
And TODAY'S PROP PUSH?
"Can a Speed Demon tame teen drivers?; A young inventor's gadget lets parents track kids behind the wheel" by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | April 2, 2009
LUNENBURG - My cellphone buzzed all the way to Lunenburg. Serves me right for speeding.
The phone was awash in text messages fired off by a black box that was riding in the car with me. The box, called Speed Demon, knew exactly where I was, and how fast I was driving. It transmitted an annoying alert every time I nudged the Ford Escort a few miles over the speed limit.
I did a lot of nudging, too. Lunenburg's a long haul from Boston, and I wanted to meet the inventor of Speed Demon before he was old enough to buy beer. Jonathan Fischer is just 20, but he's been working on this gadget since he was 16. Inspired by the tragic death of a Lunenburg teenager in a high-speed auto wreck, he wanted to create a machine that would alert parents whenever a child became too careless behind the wheel.
Look, I am NOT for kids DRIVING DRUNK!! (Read: French Kids Becoming Like AmeriKans for my views)
However, I am ALSO OPPOSED to FASCISM being introduced with LIES and PROPAGANDA -- especially when they use the CHILD CARD!!!!!!!!!
Related: Teen Ticket Totalitarianism
Bad Day in Western Mass. For Car Crashes
May Day Memories: Lights in the Mirror
Computer Chips in Car Keys for Kids
Smile, Kiddo, You Are on Candid Camera
Being a Kid Sucks
Especially with BIG BROTHER on your SHOULDER 24/7!!!
And WHAT IF the KID has to SPEED for HELP?!!!
Anyone EVER THINK of THAT?!!!!!
Speed Demon combines a GPS navigation unit with a cellular data modem and some very smart software. The prototype earned Fischer an honorable mention at the Massachusetts State Science Fair in 2005. His proposal for turning Speed Demon into a moneymaker took first prize in a couple of business plan competitions, earning him $20,000.
I TOLD YOU it was ALL ABOUT the $$$$!!
I'll bet YOU DID NOT KNOW that their was $$$$ in TOTALITARIANISM, didja?
That helped Fischer polish up the software and form an alliance with a manufacturer in Finland that builds the box.
What, he couldn't even get a LOCAL COMPANY to do it? Pfffftt!
Now, Fischer is a sophomore business student at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt. He's also a budding entrepreneur, with dozens of Speed Demon units stacked up in the basement of his parents' Lunenburg home, waiting for orders to roll in.
The Speed Demon, available at $250, plus a monthly $15 service fee, it isn't exactly cheap. But the device does deliver exactly what it promises - a simple, powerful, yet nonintrusive way to discourage young drivers from speeding.
Intruding with an annoying beep is now "nonintrusive" to the agenda-pushing paper. Hey, Orwell, GET UP OUT the GRAVE!!!!!!
After you buy a Speed Demon, you register it at the company's website, and start programming speed limits for the car. Perhaps Speed Demon's coolest feature is its ability to distinguish between high-speed highways and slower surface roads. It can be set to send a warning when the car exceeds 70 miles per hour on Interstate 93 or 40 miles per hour on Massachusetts Avenue. That's made possible by some fancy programming that compares the device's GPS coordinates with detailed maps of every street in the country. Fischer came up with the software, and he's filed a patent on it.
Yeah, this IS about MAPPING a GRID and CONTROLLING the MOVEMENT of a POPULATION!! Thanks, snot-nose!!!!!!!
Speed Demon transmits location data as well as speed, so you know where your kids are misbehaving.
So this is NOT JUST ABOUT the SPEED of the CAR!!! This is ANOTHER TRACKING DEVICE, kids!!!!!
You can receive the information through e-mail or cellphone text messages. If the driver is a repeat offender, you'll get sick of hearing the ringtone - a good excuse to crack down on Junior's bad driving habits.
Meanwhile, is ANYONE CHECKING THEIRS?
See: The Wicked Witch of Wellesley
The TRUTH is I HAVE FOUND OUR KIDS being WAY MORE RESPONSIBLE than MY GENERATION EVER WAS!!! My friend's adult boys are PROOF that the PROPAGANDA WORKED, folks, because they are CLEAN-LIVING to the CORE!!!!!
You could also set the system to ping your child's phone, something Fischer discourages because the distraction could cause an accident.
At what point is TEENAGER not a CHILD anymore?!
They can KILL and DIE in a WAR at 18, but they are still a CHILD at 16?
Don't want your children driving at certain hours of the day? There's a curfew setting. If the car moves between, say, midnight and 6 a.m., you'll hear about it. Of course, clever kids may simply switch off the Speed Demon. But you'll get another warning message if they do.
Click! Hey, Dad! Monitor THIS!
One more slick feature is a panic button, just the thing for emergencies. Press it and Speed Demon calls home for help. Impressive as Speed Demon is, also admire it for what it isn't. Some GPS teen-trackers watch a car's every move. They continually monitor where a driver is going, and can be set to warn parents when they drive to the "wrong part of town" or to the home of an unsavory friend.
At this point, if I were a kid, I'd just stay in my room all day doing drugs.
Why bother going anywhere?
There may be a place for this kind of highly intrusive tracking, but Fischer wanted no part of it. "As a teenager, I feel that teens deserve their privacy," he said. "My device only alerts when you're driving dangerously. Drive safe, and you get to keep your privacy."
The cultural commisars and brain-washing inculcators really did a number on this kid, huh? Yup, CONFORM and you can KEEP your RIGHTS, sig heil!!!
So Speed Demon offers teens a shrewd little payoff. Don't want Mom and Dad to know where you're going? Then drive there slowly. Otherwise, your parents' cellphones - and maybe yours - will shriek as insistently as mine did.
And GET USED to the CONTROL GRID and TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY, kids!!!!
Heck, this guy in the newspaper thinks it is a GOOD THING!!!
He is NOT CONCERNED about CIVIL LIBERTIES at all!!!!!!
Time to huck that cellphone, kids.
