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Border Crossing: There's an App for That

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Seriously WTF?

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/Border-Crossing-Theres-an-App-for-That-73938407.html

A San Diego research team is close to releasing a smart phone application to help illegal immigrants navigate safely across the border.

Critics of the Transborder Immigrant tool are outraged, though.

After it's downloaded into Motorola phones equipped with GPS, it's a humanitarian tool designed to save lives, according to the application's creators at UCSD.

"It's really just designed for you to turn it on, and the compass would show you where is the nearest safety site –– be that Border Patrol or highway or water –– in case you're in extreme emergency," co-creator Micha Cardenas said.

Border Busts
Critics, including the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, are outraged and think the app's creators should be arrested.

The technology is nothing new, according to the Border Patrol, whose agents are prepared to counter the application with their own technology, including ground sensors. However, the Border Patrol said, phones with this new application are a potential threat.

"If they fall into the wrong people's hands –– be it terrorists or gang members or people that are here to harm our country –– they can also use this technology," Border Patrol agent Julius Alatorre said. "So while the intent may be good, in the wrong hands, it could turn out to be a bad thing."

Cardenas insists the application poses no threat to national security but does call it "electronic civil disobedience" and an art project, even.

"When it tells you where there's water, it also gives you, like, a few lines of poetry to like welcome you to the U.S.," Cardenas said.

The researchers hope to finish testing the application in the desert areas along the border and put it to use as soon as possible. Cardenas said the UCSD team is working with immigrants rights advocates and religious groups to distribute the phones in Mexico sometime next year.

So far, they have received at least some of the funding for the $30 phones from the Transborder Humanities Institute at UCSD.
 
:rofl

I think Lou Dobbs just threw up in his mouth.
 
I watched an interview with the professor who invented this. He seriously needs a manicure. His red nail polish was horribly chipped.

Seems like this app would be a great tool to catch illegals crossing the border, since the border patrol could download it as easily as illegal crossers could.
 
gixxerjoeca said:
"It's really just designed for you to turn it on, and the compass would show you where is the nearest safety site –– be that Border Patrol or highway or water –– in case you're in extreme emergency," co-creator Micha Cardenas said. ....
Cardenas insists the application poses no threat to national security but does call it "electronic civil disobedience" and an art project, even.....

"When it tells you where there's water, it also gives you, like, a few lines of poetry to like welcome you to the U.S.," Cardenas said.
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This is the same disregard for common sense that has polluted university campuses since the nineteen-sixties. I see nothing different from when the SDS (Student Democratic Society) asked me to head a division. Idiots then and idiots now.

I saw an interview with this guy where he NEVER mentioned that it would lead you to the Border Patrol. He talked about AVOIDING the Border Patrol.

"There ARE no consequences. There is only ME." :oink
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I do hope there is some chance of his being prosecuted for abetting a crime. It would be sweet.
 
Come on there is an easy solution. Agents need to only intercede the phones just long enough to install the lojack device on each one so they can be tracked.

Makes monitoring the border easier when you can watch the little red dots move on the screen! :laughing
 
afm199 said:
I do hope there is some chance of his being prosecuted for abetting a crime. It would be sweet.
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Fuck, I must be getting old. I'm agreeing with ernie again.

GET OFF OUR BORDER... GET'.... :rofl
 
I have no problem with it, if someone wants to risk their life and jump the border on the chance that he can work and better his station in life, he'll probably be more productive than some of the folks I know from back home that have had every opportunity in this country but have wasted it by sitting at home smoking dope.
 
The wolves running the trucks full of them will. :/
 
wazzuFreddo said:
I have no problem with it, if someone wants to risk their life and jump the border on the chance that he can work and better his station in life, he'll probably be more productive than some of the folks I know from back home that have had every opportunity in this country but have wasted it by sitting at home smoking dope.
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:laughing Just wait until they hit you while driving with no license or insurance, then we'll see if you agree with it. Or maybe if you were one of the 100,000s who have to wait decades to get in legally. Or when they push up our deficit by using our emergency rooms and food stamps. Let them come over. But make them speak English first and do it legally.

Our imigration system is a total failure, so I have compassion, but don't want to foot the bill for another country because theirs is even more corrupt than ours.

But illegal immigration is big business for this country, so it'll keep on happening.
 
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Last person to plow into one of our cars uninsured was a white small business owner.

Keep up your stereo typing though :thumbup
 
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