Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 18:46:37 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Alex Stamos <stamos@cs.berkeley.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) Message-ID: <39176DFD.67BE983C@3-cities.com> References: <200005061850.MAA18384@nomad.yogotech.com> <200005061907.MAA07403@mass.cdrom.com> <200005061939.NAA18540@nomad.yogotech.com> <391479C4.2784A121@cs.berkeley.edu> <39175939.5F6208C9@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > Alex Stamos wrote: > > > > > > > > > What's the actual background behind this? > > > > > > Being able to track 911 calls in the case of emergency. > > > > While some people may find this a convenient excuse for more Big Brother tactics, > > I once spoke to a paramedic friend about 911 cell phone tracking after it was first > > announced. She said that she couldn't overestimate the problems caused by people > > giving bad directions or locations over cell phones. Apparently, its not uncommon > > for a person, still dazed from an accident, to report their location as "Somewhere > > on Interstate 80". -For those non-Americans, I-80 is a 3,000 mile freeway that > > starts in San Francisco and ends in Boston.- > > Well, New York. It also includes some of the emptiest parts of the continental > USA, mostly in Nevada and Utah. > > The problem is a lot worse in the empty places, where you have thousands of miles > of unpaved roads that still manage to get some mobile phone coverage. The analog > cell tower in Callao, Utah, for instance, covers a fixed population of about 100 > people, and an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. > > > On another topic, I recently read an article on Ace's Hardware comparing the > > performance of standard benchmarks, on a Alpha 21264 under Linux, compiled with the > > GCC and Compaq's proprietary compiler. Compaq's C compiler kicked GCC's ass in > > almost every metric. My questions: Is such a compiler available for *BSD? Why is > > GCC so bad at Alpha optimization when it does so well on x86? Is somebody asleep > > at the wheel here? > > Who said it's any good at X86 optimization? I find setiathome, which was compiled with an Intel compiler on the Windows side, out calculates setiathome on the same computer 20-25% on the average when I boot FreeBSD 4.0 and run it there. Kent > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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