Police in search for missing 5 year old

[bigandclever]

petemurphy said:

dandarez said:

No. Expensive waste of money. Just makes a nation more paranoid (but that's how they sell 'em!).
First thing an abductor would do is to remove it. Not much good then.

it tells u immediately when its been removed.

yes it may be paranoid but its not just kidnappers it only takes 2 secs for tham to get lost in a shopping centre etc

It uses GPS. How does that work indoors?

[Raify]

Apache said:

Raify said:

This has had quite an extraordinary amount of publicity. Is it just white, blonde woman syndrome or something else?

5 year old child I'd have thought, let's hope it sets a trend

Perhaps, the missing children website claims that a child is reported missing every 3 minutes, but I bet most of those are older.

I'm always reminded of an example a few years ago, young girl and young boy go missing, same age + demographic but only the girl made the national news.

[petemurphy]

bigandclever said:

It uses GPS. How does that work indoors?

oooh didnt know it doesnt work indoors - what does find my ipad type applications use then as that works indoors?

[mrmr96]

Raify said:

I'm always reminded of an example a few years ago, young girl and young boy go missing, same age + demographic but only the girl made the national news.

Gender is unlikely to have been the only difference between those cases.

[TEKNOPUG]

Have they checked under the bed?

[CraigVmax]

croyde said:

dandarez said:

petemurphy said:

anyone else looking at these today...http://lok8u.com/num8/

No. Expensive waste of money. Just makes a nation more paranoid (but that's how they sell 'em!).
First thing an abductor would do is to remove it. Not much good then.

According to the site, if removed it sends a signal. Not much use unless you are yards away but it's a start. I agree about the paranoia but it's just using tech for a good reason.

i've been working on an app for some time for this circumastance exactly. its about 75% done and by no means failsafe, its working on the "every little helps" principle though

[petemurphy]

whats the biggest area a plane etc could take a hd pic of the area and stick it up on the interweb for people to search grey vans?

yes i know it wont work if its indoors!

[onesickpuppy]

petemurphy said:

bigandclever said:

It uses GPS. How does that work indoors?

oooh didnt know it doesnt work indoors - what does find my ipad type applications use then as that works indoors?

The iPad also uses wifi to help with location. Not sure if this does too.

[Superficial]

Regardless of whether it's a small tight knit community a five year old should not be playing outside unattended. Don't know how the parents will live with themselves, even if she is found, all of this could have been avoided with a bit of supervision.

Really sad but you can't help but expect the worst in these situations.

[retrobob]

[mrmr96]

onesickpuppy said:

petemurphy said:

bigandclever said:

It uses GPS. How does that work indoors?

oooh didnt know it doesnt work indoors - what does find my ipad type applications use then as that works indoors?

The iPad also uses wifi to help with location. Not sure if this does too.

GPS does work indoors, to an extent.

[petemurphy]

retrobob said:

whats a vans range before he needs petrol and is on cctv

[onesickpuppy]

mrmr96 said:

onesickpuppy said:

petemurphy said:

bigandclever said:

It uses GPS. How does that work indoors?

oooh didnt know it doesnt work indoors - what does find my ipad type applications use then as that works indoors?

The iPad also uses wifi to help with location. Not sure if this does too.

GPS does work indoors, to an extent.

Only if you have direct line of sight to a minimum of 3 satellites surely?

[badgers_back]

onesickpuppy said:

mrmr96 said:

onesickpuppy said:

petemurphy said:

bigandclever said:

It uses GPS. How does that work indoors?

oooh didnt know it doesnt work indoors - what does find my ipad type applications use then as that works indoors?

The iPad also uses wifi to help with location. Not sure if this does too.

GPS does work indoors, to an extent.

Only if you have direct line of sight to a minimum of 3 satellites surely?

Ipads triangulate on the mobile signal which gives you a rough idea and is stronger in building.

Then use GPS for detailed granularity

[z4chris99]

anyone watching skynews???

a load of underprepared welshies are gathering to go off into the mountains to look for her.

Shirley if she got in a car, you won't find her I the mountains??

[PeanutHead]

z4chris99 said:

anyone watching skynews???

a load of underprepared welshies are gathering to go off into the mountains to look for her.

Shirley if she got in a car, you won't find her I the mountains??

May have been dumped there though.

[Frik]

z4chris99 said:

anyone watching skynews???

No, I can't think of anything more unpleasant and mawkish than watching a 24hr news channel's reporting of such an event.

[z4chris99]

Frik said:

z4chris99 said:

anyone watching skynews???

No, I can't think of anything more unpleasant and mawkish than watching a 24hr news channel's reporting of such an event.

it's on in the office kitchen I have no choice

[petemurphy]

z4chris99 said:

anyone watching skynews???

a load of underprepared welshies are gathering to go off into the mountains to look for her.

Shirley if she got in a car, you won't find her I the mountains??

no theres a possibility of ed balls being on..

fair enough theyre trying to do all they can to help - cant help thinking tech could help better though

[retrobob]

Twitter is turning on the parents for letting the girl out late > like who would do that?