Word: chipsets
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...telling you this to give you some examples of the sins of omission I have committed that, in a year or so, I will no longer be able to commit (or omit) because my mobile phone, by law, will give me away. A teensy chip in a tiny chipset somewhere in the inner workings of my cell-phone handset will alert some 27 satellites, known as the global positioning system (originally launched by and for the U.S. military to keep track of missiles and stuff), of my whereabouts. Enough of those satellites will beam back my location to my carrier...