Wisconsin senators living day-to-day south of border..(Whine alert)

Chicago Tribune ^ | February 21, 2011 | Dawn Rhodes

[GSP.FAN]

Some senators left Wisconsin with little more than the clothes on their backs. Others came to Illinois equipped with an Urban Essentials pack: clothes, toiletries, cell phones, smart phones

[Kakaze]

Ping the cell phones, get a gps location, call in Dawg the Bounty Hunter and bring them back.

[bert]

For the record, how does one ping a cell phone?

Probie McGee does it every Tuesday but I don’t know how

[Kakaze]

Every cell phone has a unique electronic serial number,the cell tower reads the number, now that smart phones have GPS, they can find the location without triangulation.

[bert]

———Every cell phone has a unique electronic serial number-——

Granted, but how does one ping or access the GPS data

[Kakaze]

If you have access to the network, you can look up that specific number and find the tower it is logged into, the computers track you every day, it is how they shut off your service.

They used to use consecutive towers to track or triangulate the position, now you are also logged into the GPS system, trust me if they wanted these guys,they could have them within an hour.