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Microsoft Patents "Avoid Ghetto" Feature for GPS

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BrewskiJr
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Thought this was interesting..

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/06/microsoft-patents-avoid-ghetto-feature-for-gps-devices/

Microsoft has been granted a patent for its “avoid ghetto” feature for GPS devices.

A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an “unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures.”

Created for mobile phones, the technology uses the latest crime statistics and weather data and includes them when calculating a route.
Jan 7 2012 1:00AM
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Panda_with_Guns
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i may be the only kid an here actually from the ghetto and this shit is funny
Jan 7 2012 1:13AM
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.AR6rider.
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Unless you posted this from a public library, odds are you don't actually live in the "ghetto".
Jan 7 2012 1:15AM
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Panda_with_Guns
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im pretty sure internet excists in the ghetto too... well its not like straight ghetto but close. i go to westminster high school and any one in colorado can con firm the ghetto-ness of it
Jan 7 2012 1:19AM
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BrewskiJr
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Internet is everywhere in the ghetto. Along with xbox360's and playstations, and flat screen tv's... "But damnit I aint have no money to feed my baby boy!!"

Jan 7 2012 1:21AM
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Poon_Handler
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Jan 7 2012 1:23AM
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Dan.
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haha, if that's your idea of ghetto, you need to re-evaluate your middle class life. ghetto school in Denver is East, Bruce Randolph, or Manual HS. frankly, if its not a DPS school, it's probably not 'ghetto'
Jan 7 2012 1:23AM
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.AR6rider.
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Hahaha wait, you're from Colorado? You probably don't even know what the ghetto is.
Jan 7 2012 1:23AM
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Panda_with_Guns
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ghetto to most the kids in million dollar homes on here..... but ya i feel ya.
Jan 7 2012 1:27AM
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Piste.Off
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i can confirm that westminister high school is in fact not ghetto at all
Jan 7 2012 1:28AM
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northeast
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let's just go ahead and tone it down a bit. going to a "ghetto" school, a ghetto white boy does not make. i have family in fairfax county virginia and my cousin used to go to a high school that was something along time lines of 70% hispanic with a huge MS13 presence, while she herself lives in a small mansion at the base of mount vernon.
Jan 7 2012 1:29AM
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JIBpsy^^
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hey guys i live in dillon valley. anybody who lives in summit can confirm it is like compton
Jan 7 2012 1:36AM
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Gnarwall
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Hey guys, I live in Compton. Its like living in Compton, but actually Compton.
Jan 7 2012 2:03AM
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