At 07:23 PM 7/3/04 -0500, bgt wrote:
"With a few keystrokes on a wireless phone, a m-mode subscriber is given the approximate geographic location of his friend, such as a street intersection. The two friends can then exchange messages, call the other, or choose a place to meet from a directory of nearby restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and bookstores."
I'm pretty sure they don't use GPS for this... I think they do some form of triangulation from the cell towers.
The cool thing about 'toothing' is that the party you're arranging to mutually stimulate is within a finite physical range. An amusing unintended consequence.
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:28, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
The cool thing about 'toothing' is that the party you're arranging to mutually stimulate is within a finite physical range. An amusing unintended consequence.
Not so unintended if you ask me. The chief drawback of semi-anon methods of negotiating assignations is the lack of geographical data. Certain "adult" telephone chat services suffer from aggregating widely strewn patrons. A patron in Cincinnati may discover suddenly that the object of his/her pursuit is actually in Nashville, hardly a quick drive. I think toothing has grown popular *because* of the proximity limitations. One has a reasonable assurance that the object of pursuit is close enough to "close escrow", as Lenny Nero would say. -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy@rant-central.com, and you're not "Progress, like reality, is not optional." - R. A. Hettinga SpamAssassin->procmail->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com
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