Comments on: Self-portrait with GPS

An art student sets out to create the "biggest drawing in the world" with the help of a GPS device and a global package-delivery company.

[ptroxler]

hahaha, a total HOAX!

[eanwebster]

Hoax or not, it is against most airline regulations to operate a PED (personal electronic device) on an aircraft below 10,000 ft....even or especially in the cargo hold. Cargo holds contain wireless fire dectection units and a GPS could in theory interfere with this and set off a false alarm. Cargo X-ray would probably have picked this up.

[natasdm01]

Ah! As long as the device does not broadcast, then it is permitted. It's the same idea as the GPS Letter logger device that the USPS is using to fine tune their delivery system:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/gps-letter-logger-promises-to-keep-tabs-on-mail/

[ptkdude--2008]

I'm sorry, but would anyone believe this? Aside from the previously-stated issue of operating GPS receivers on aircraft, you don't get to tell a package delivery company exactly on which route to take a package, DHL appears to have the tendency to lose/have employees steal packages (www.consumerist.com for details), and the "instructions" indicate the package was to have gone to St. Louis, but it doesn't specify WHICH Saint Louis. How was DHL to know which one?

[riekl]

Shameful that Cnet would post this.

#1) The loops in the middle of the ocean are impossible
#2) There would be NO GPS Signal to even a military grade GPS 90% of the route.

Sorry .. COMPLETE HOAX , it was one thing when Engadget posted this but completely shocked that Cnet is this stupid.

[pcfish]

"NO GPS Signal to even a military grade GPS 90%"
Are you kidding me? we have a dozen of satellites on the sky around the globe, thus the name GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM.

[servermaker]

If one doesn't understand technology and/or have the slightest bit of common sense, then this "story" is plausible. I love the 400 mile diameter loops out in the middle of nowhere, repeatedly - that's an optimized flight plan with oil at $120 per barrel. Sent emails to DHL to confirm the story!? ROFL.

[The_Decider]

Quote: "If one doesn't understand technology and/or have the slightest bit of common sense, then this "story" is plausible."

What a concise description of CNET's writers.

[chade2001]

man, this story came out a week or so ago. Engadget said it's fake, even DHL said it's only a work of fiction.

"Is it a hoax? The little bit of evidence I've found so far in poking around the Web suggests that it is not."

hahahahahaah