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There has been a hooh-ha about the Microsoft GPS app being casually called "Avoid Ghetto"
Microsoft Corp. is garnering criticism for a patent it filed for an"Avoid Ghetto" GPS app. The app, which links up with your GPS or Smartphone, immediately notifies you when you are nearing a neighborhood with high crime statistic
It has "ghetto" and "Safe" (Wonders how many safes SA will have?
"Ghetto app" helps tourists avoid trouble spots
App uses latest crime stats and weather data
Could be used in smartphones and sat-navs
"What is unclear, at least from my reading of the patent - which isn’t written by anything resembling a human hand or mind - is what kind of crime statistics the GPS might choose to use," Chris Matyszczykof CNET said.
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
And since the SAPS aren't actually forthcoming with making those stats available, the app won't work here anyway?
MOOD - Thirsty
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
And since the SAPS aren't actually forthcoming with making those stats available, the app won't work here anyway?
and when those stats are eventually release they are fudged/thumbsucked and out of date...
on a sidenote- anybody been to thembisa after dark lately?
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
jamin_za wrote:
My face when all of South Africa is reported as a ghetto
ROFL I reckon South Africa will just be blacked out on the map. Or maybe they will put a soft glowing red around us with a skull and crossbones...
JUSTICE, n A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
My face when all of South Africa is reported as a ghetto
