Welcome to Greg’s life: long hours slaving away on a comic while I sleep peacefully. Not to mention rambling like a maniac. A maniac insomniac!
Of course, convoluted trains of thought such as this are what makes the comic possible, and that makes it all worthwhile. Presumably, anyway. I don’t mean worthwhile to us; this comic has brought us nothing but anguish. But if you’re reading this, maybe you enjoy it? Maybe… maybe you want to like it on facebook?
Actually, cell phones do have a way of tracking you whenever they're on, and they do work with police to use that.
Actually, cell phones do have a way of tracking you whenever they're on, and the companies do work with police to use that.
Two methods are used. One is triangulation, this is pretty simple as the signal just need to be bounced off three cell towers to get an accurate location. The other is using the phone's GPS. That as you may know is just triangulation on steroids with satellites. Anyway, this is very useful when attempting to locate people who are trying to harm themselves, harder to do when searching for criminals. Many cell companies have different policies on how they work with police departments. Some require warrants, some just require signed forms. As to the city setting up question, no clue.
And to your very first question, sometimes the cell phone picks the wrong 911 agency and has to be transferred to the right agency.
I don't think that is entirely accurate
greg, if it makes you feel better, i've wondered the thing about city-starting more times than i can count… as for the answer, i am sad to say i haven't a clue…