It is possible to get the location of a user just with a call from a cellphone? Are there any APIs or technologies to make this possible?
The way I am understanding your question, you aren't asking for GPS location, but more like the large area like state or country? If so, it's possible. Each number has a country and (at least in the US) an area code. You can get it from that. ICS does this by default with numbers from a different area code.
Yes, but only for emergency calls.
For privacy reasons, no-one else can do that.
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Firstly, I know about the duplicates. We're not talking about iOs/Android/KindOfDevice-only, as the others & cookies are not the way I want to go.
So I want to bypass the need of a password or something by "binding" my service (which is only an idea by now) to the device used.
An E-Mail and stuff would be needed of course, to keep your devices bundled.
What would your approaches be?
My thoughts so far
My first idea was using the mac-adress, because I heard that they're unique. But a quick google told me that's not really true.
On Phones I could use the phone number or the IMEI, but I don't want it to be restricted to phones, it should be usable by web, too.
I guess when we talk about a web-solution, stuff would get even more tricky because browsers won't let the service go really deep into the system and stuff?
Of course I guess there needs to be a combination of two or more things. So two not-so-unique things combine to an 99%-unique-thing?
I just need some help about how to go on with this problem, a direction, because if you google terms like "unique device identification" you only get this medicine-thing..
In my project I use
var secureUDID = (UIDevice.current.identifierForVendor?.uuidString)!
which - Returns a string created from the UUID, such as “E621E1F8-C36C-495A-93FC-0C247A3E6E5F”.
UUID - An alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies a device to the app’s vendor.
I want to calculate distance between two zip code by bing map API. Is there any possible way to do this I tried this link but this is not for two zip code. Is there any way to do this.
I Pass ZIP1- 34481 and ZIP2- 34705 and want result 70.9 in miles
i calculate this direct from bing map. Thanks for your response
From reading the article, the example as stands will give you a GEOGRAPHY point object (although not sure if your inputs are valid, it seems it require a street address). Anyway, call it twice then to determine the distance between the points returned use something like
Point1.STDistance(Point2)
Here's the BOL reference https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb933808.aspx
Alternatively, see this question for a Bing Routes API answer. How to calculate the driving distance between two points?
If you still need to geocode the approx centre of a zipcode, you might be better off importing the data yourself. I did this recently for the Australian GNAF data (https://www.rednotebluenote.com/2016/04/importing-psma-geocoded-national-address-file-g-naf-to-sql-server/ ) which you might find useful background reading. For US I believe http://census.gov/ makes something similar available.
Hope this is of use.
I'm trying to find the best solution (performance & accurate) to have a static list of objects in a web service.
Some web methods will be making amendments to these objects and returning the state of the object after the amendments and others will be requesting the current state.
This needs to be accurate at every operation as it's money related. This web service will be bombarded with requests from different areas of our large scale project.
I've been looking at ConcurrentDictionary, and while reading some other SO questions I came across the following answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1966462/151625
The following paragraph is something that I do not want:
Now consider this. In the store with one clerk, what if you get all the way to the front of the line, and ask the clerk "Do you have any toilet paper", and he says "Yes", and then you go "Ok, I'll get back to you when I know how much I need", then by the time you're back at the front of the line, the store can of course be sold out. This scenario is not prevented by a threadsafe collection.
So essentially I'm asking, should I lock values within a ConcurrentDictionary, or does it defeat the whole purpose of it? If I should/could, what is the best way to do it, if not, what alternative do I have?
I'm currently developing a website, into which I've included a filter that attempts to obfuscate any e-mail addresses present in the webpages it serves.
As it is now, it converts the addresses into images.
I've also seen a few other methods in use; some split the address into characters and use generated javascript to include it in the final document, but that requires javascript, so it's not that useful in my opinion. The upside is it can be used to create a working mailto-link.
Another method, quite similar to the above, uses hex-notation to markup the e-mail address. I'm not really convinced it will thwart any serious harvesters though.
Others utilize the human brains' ability to understand language, and will either replace characters like the #-symbol with words, or separate the host and the username etc.
My question now is, how reliable is my method, of using generated images (whose filename do not give the address away) against scrapers, when I'm not using any distortion on the text in the images? Should I prefer a different method?
And as a continuation: if I wan't a fallback method, just in case the image creation should fail for some reason, which would be the smartest way to go?
Here you'll find many ways of obfuscating emails, and their effectiveness.
Hope it helps!
My question now is, how reliable is my method, of using generated images (whose filename do not give the address away) against scrapers, when I'm not using any distortion on the text in the images?
I don't have any data to back that up, but I would say: Quite reliable. Harvesters can get millions of addresses using "conventional" means; I don't think it's economically feasible for them to do image processing just to get a handful more.
And as a continuation: if I wan't a fallback method, just in case the image creation should fail for some reason, which would be the smartest way to go?
Use a good spam filter. :-) No, seriously, it's really hard keeping a mail address hidden from harvesters.
one possibility is to continue using the image, but replace it with text and a mailto link if javascript is enabled.
As long as you don't name the image something obvious, like emailadress.png, you should be pretty safe - I think.
I think it's all about providing some kind of 'are you human test' before you display the email or display the email in a way that is itself a test.
Thinking along the same lines maybe providing a link as the email address and running the tests before displaying the email might be a solution too.
As a user, an image-obfuscated email address is almost as useless as no email address. Whatever method you choose, I should ideally be given a mailto link, second best is some sort of your.name.69 AT longwebsitewhosnameicanteasilytranscribe.net style address.
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This isn't really a programming question, more of an ideas question. Bear with me.
My sister gave me a well-used Nokia N95. I don't really need it, but I wanted it to do some programming for it. It supports a few languages, of which I can do Python.
My question is this: what to do with it? If I think about it, it has a lot to offer: i can program the GPS, motion sensor, wireless internet, sound and visual capture; it has a lot of hard disk space, it plays sound and video and so on.
The combinations seem limitless. The way I see it, it is a device that is easily always on me, has access to a huge data repository (the internet, and my personal data in it) and can be aware if I'm sitting at home, at work, or moving about somewhere. It could basically read my google calendar to check if I should be somewhere I'm not -- perhaps give me the bus schedule to get to where I should be. It could check if it's close to my home and therefore my home PC bluetooth/wifi. Maybe grab my recent work documents from my desktop computer, along with the latest Daily Show, for the bus journey to work. It could check my library account to see if any of my books are due, and remind me to take them with me in the morning. Set up an alarm clock based on what shift I have marked in my google calendar.
Basically I have a device that can analyze my movements in time (calendars with my data etc) and space (gps, carrier cell ids). By proxy, it could identify context situations -- I can store my local grocery store gps coordinates or cell mast ids and it could remind me to bring coffee.
Like I said, the possibilities seem limitless, and therefore baffling. Does anyone else have these pseudofantastical yearnings to program something like this? Or any similar ideas? How could this kind of device integrate into -- and help -- your life?
I'm hoping we could do some brainstorming.
"Gotta Leave" - A reminder that figures out the bus time, how far you are from a stop on your bus and shows a countdown till you "Could" leave (green), "Should" Leave (yellow), "Must" leave (orange), and "Gotta Run to get there" (red).
As inputs it needs what bus number you want to ride. You turn it on, it finds you, finds your closest few bus stops, estimates your walking speed at 2/mph and calculates when you need to leave where you are to get to the bus with 5 minutes waiting or less.
You should just pick any one and implement it.
It doesn't matter where you start, more that you actually do start. Don't concentrate on the destination, take a step and see what the journey holds.
Do it for a laugh to start and your expectation will be set right for both when you do find your killer app and when you don't.
"Phone home" - an interface to report home if you send a message to your phone that it is lost / stolen. Must be a silent operation from the phone holder's perspective
Options:
Self destruct mode to save your data from prying eyes
Keep calling with it's location every 10 minutes until an unlock is sent indicating the phone is found.
This is the same problem I face with the android (albeit java instead of python). The potential is paralyzing :)
I'd recommend checking out what libraries have already been written for doing cool stuff on that phone, and then building off of them- It's a system that provides inspiration, direction, and a good head start. For instance, on the android side, I'm fooling around with "zxing", a library that lets you read barcodes via the cellphone's camera. That's it's own sub-universe of possibilities, but at least it gives me a direction to go. "do cool things with information about products physically nearby"
"Late for Work" - Determines if you are not at work, buzzes you with a reminder and preps the phone to call into the sick line. Could be used if you are going to be late as well.
Inputs: Your sick line number. Time you should be at work. Where your home is, where your work is
Optional:
Send a text message
Post to an online in/out board
If you are still at home, sound an alarm
If you are still at home, call in sick, if you are not at home sent a "I'm going to be late" message
Comedy Option:
- If you don't respond to ten alarms, dial 911
To add on to what others have said, come up with some kind of office-GPS (via WiFi maybe? Does it have WiFi?) and tell you when you need to go to a meeting.