One of my kids friends has an app that takes a picture of anyone who tries to get into his phone after 3 failed tries. I think that's cool. Not impossible to trace. Very possible to trace. In my school district they are rolling out ipads. They did a test and had someone take one and hide it. They found it within the hour. My kids and husband have iphones so i can find them or turn them off with find my iphone. I am certain the droids have the same thing. The technology is here we just have to use it. :) linda On 1/29/14 1:44 PM, Tom Poe wrote: > On 01/29/2014 01:17 PM, Mike Miller wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Tony Yarusso wrote: >> >>> Right now the carrier can kill your phone at any time. >>> >>> This bill would let YOU kill your phone at any time. >> >> >> Is that correct? I think Max is right about this being the sort of >> issue we should be keeping an eye on. I'm not clear at all on what >> this bill would require. The bill is requiring that their be some >> mechanism whereby the phone can be shut off somehow, not just as a >> cell phone, but also as a WiFi device. >> >> I don't even understand how that would work. I do understand the >> goal - to make stole phones worthless, which sounds like a good >> idea. It might save lives (as the article says - people have been >> killed for their cell phones). >> >> Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > Rules and regulations pertaining to manufacture of devices is one > thing. Codifying through legislative acts is another. Our government > has rules and regulations on the use of Open Source software in > government devices. Has our government codified those rules through > legislative acts? If not, why not? Some are using the logic that > people are killed over cell phones. I haven't heard any support that > a kill switch deters further thefts or deaths. Begs the question as > to why the kill switch needs to be legislated at this time. Begins to > sound like the legislation that followed years of surveillance conduct > that the legislature gave the phone companies. > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list