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> He forgot to mention that GPS is ubiquitous

Hinted at with:

> we no longer have to worry about our car windows being smashed to steal our radios, or our GPSes

Which I took partly to mean that a Garmin gadget is not considered worth anything. Sure as hell can't fence it. Everyone's got GPS!

(But also yeah, lower crime rates.)



Or even better, GPS in our pockets with live maps

Ask me how I updated my old standalone GPS using a virtual machine + USB. Bonus points: when the update starts the USB device ID changes.


I had the same issue with a Navigon device. The trick was to set the virtualisation software to automatically attach all devices (maybe even on port X) to the VM. After that it worked flawlessly.




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