Microsoft Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS Devices

Why the hell am I using a MS computer? *blinks* Fricking elitist bastards. There truly are no words.

Well I'm probably asking for it.... But I don't usually haunt my own submissions with comments....

Racial tensions haven't deescalated... And when things like the economy continues to fail, unemployment rate is high, etc... It's historically known as a time when crime "naturally" spikes. Violence within a community, domestic violence, all that is predictably on the increase as well as racial tensions...

You take away all the placation, and actually the ability for people to survive within this system, and we find out, we are indeed survivalist animals... Although it hasn't totally gotten that bad, there are indications violence and such are on the rise as a result of things...

I know if I head into the "wrong neighborhood" at the wrong time I'm asking for it.... There is no sense in doing some kind of politically correct dance around it, or demanding equality of me in one of those areas...

I still remember being a child around the time of the LA riots.... I had actual black friends I hung out with after school... Just a kid being looked at and said about/to by adults "WTF is that White Boy doing around here?".... Thankfully I wasn't that white and a few of my friends spoke up for me..... It wasn't a mature rational, sane adult making the statement... It was a barely into adulthood angry black dude....

Would I want to stumble into that neighborhood not knowing a few people.... Hell NO!!!!

Good grief! Now I won't be able to find any bank or legislature in the whole country!

too late..might have helped the Griswalds...

blah blah blah... open-source is still better (and with less bugs haha)

Dear c u r r e n t.....

I did NOT under any certain circumstances vote this thing up the several times my activity stream suggests...

I may have, and do upon occasion vote something up more than once simply because it registers sometimes that I haven't voted something up when I already have, and I can't keep up with everything. Still every since it was brought to my attention that SEVERAL people have (at least as indicated by their activity stream) voted things up several times, I've made it a point not to.

.... Idk why my stream is saying I did, I know for a fact I didn't. Haven't voted on something more than twice, maybe a few times (and that was accidentally) every since Scott_Pert made it all the way to the top of the community page with a submission complaining about it.

oh man, with their definition of ghetto my hometown of Detroit wouldn't be on the map =[

This is racist, since it will detour you away from neighborhoods with a majority of Blacks and/or Hispanics rich in cultural heritage. Embrace diversity and rebel against bigotry~

I'm sure the people in the ghetto want one to help them get out.

Will this also warn me of rural districts where large quantities of meth are produced?

AHA HA HA HA HA HA

but then where would i go to buy my crack?

Gotta keep the monied class from having to see anything "unsightly". Like the "lower classes" in their unseemly dwellings and "lifestyle".

I'll bet Clark Griswold wishes he had this feature on the way to Wallyworld.

Just another gizmo to market with fear. If our forefathers had been this gutless we'd still be camping on the Atlantic beaches.

Let's face facts, most of us don't live in the ghetto, so, why would one want to be directed there by accident?

And how many people in the "ghetto"s use windows????
I need to patent a "Dont vote GOP" device!

Seriously...who hasn't thought this would be handy at one point or another?

I don't know were you guys are from, but here in St.Louis there are certain neighborhoods the locals know not to go. We have been rated the countrys deadliest city for many years now.
Every now and then you hear about a story of people from out of state who went into the wrong hood and got killed. This app might not be a bad idea.

Rename it "Avoid Gangland" and it passes muster.

I don't have a problem with the feature except for the obvious social issues. Perhaps, though, that will be offset by the enhanced capability of hackers to direct the beemers and limos to a location of their choice. :)
It's the absurdity of our patent process that's aggravating. The combination of various forms of information to yield a logical solution is older than dirt. "Updating" that concept for use in an electronic device requires algorithms that are, to be gracious, trivial.

Very racist indeed and another way to keep the 1% away from the 99%. After all, Bill Gates is in the 1%.

I want a "nearest hooker" app myself.

Added to "Culture" . . . . .and "Urban Mobility" !

HUZZAH ! The ghetto is NO GO !

Can I get an 'Avoid Republican Neighborhoods" app?

This is pretty funny I wonder if I can get voice directions in a black guys voice saying "yo, stay from da ghetto ya cracka" my life would be complete

Now THIS is class warfare! Heaven forbid. The well-off don't need to see anything other than their perfect little world.

Ahhh yes....another aspect of the long arm of marketing reaching into your still unsuspecting brain as it directs you through life...and away from small business, Maxwell Street markets, independent family-owned ventures, and straight to the big, overbearing, larger than life corporate web, owned and operated by people like Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva.

Yitzhak Tshuva. may not be the richest Israeli, but he has made his name in America through his dealings in real estate with the ElAd Group.

Owner of some of America's most valuable real estate ventures like The Plaza, the self-made billionaire also controls property in Vegas along with partner Nochi Dankner.

Tshuva's Delek Group, which is publicly traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, operates more than 200 gas stations in Israel. The company also has interests in car dealerships, cable TV, car insurance and natural gas wells off the coast of Israel.

The Delek Group, listed under Green Venture Capital on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, also has interests in -- multimedia, electronics and some 130 high-tech companies.

connect the dots if you can see what is going on.....

Ironically, Tshuva's business plan follows the same biblical logic that Jacob utilized to become wealthy in the first place. On some level, it really is funny, given that Laban was such an ass...but it is not funny when you realize that this technology-controlled web of self-interest is not victimizing an ass like Laban, but rather, this is one more way the rich are becoming richer and the poor are becoming poorer. Yet another reason why we should put down the cell phones and support our local economies.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+30%3A25-43&version=KJV

sorry, but Current will probably bury your post now....