Re: Americans want a GPS navigator on their Cell Phone

Richard Owlett wrote:
> Both MO and AR use *55 for "State Police"/"Highway Patrol"

And there's another sore point with me. Move fifty feet, and the number
for emergencies changes to some randomly selected sequence. It's
completely and totally useless to have emergency numbers that no one
other than a few locals will know.

Chicago and/or Cook County IL uses *999. Get a little farther out and it's
911... or is it *911? I read about someplace that uses *SP (*77) for
state police. How many different codes are there? Just the ones listed
here are too many for many people to memorize; hell, I'm not entirely
sure I'd remember what to dial from where if someone was shooting at me.

But back to Faffo70's post about polls and GPS, I have a phone that
supposedly has GPS built in (Moto v710) but won't give me any of the
information it gets, only sends it to others. (Presumably this is how
advertisers will know when I'm close so they can spam my phone.) Seems
unfair somehow that I have no access to it; I paid for it.

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