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  1. theage.com.au1196394689074.html

    Secretly ld love one of those battery operated ones to flick on when l see drivers on the phone!
    But not good as they block emergency vehicle transmissions.......

    Maybe the range could be smaller + be put inside cars to prevent phone use in moving car.
    l reckon all drivers caught texting should have their phone instantly confiscated and smashed by cops 😄

  2. On 2007-12-02, Meeba (aka Bruce)
    was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

    Quoted message said:


    http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pesky-public-chatterboxes-get-signals-blocked/2007/12/01/1196394689074.html

    Secretly ld love one of those battery operated ones to flick on when l
    see drivers on the phone!
    But not good as they block emergency vehicle transmissions.......

    Maybe the range could be smaller + be put inside cars to prevent phone
    use in moving car.
    l reckon all drivers caught texting should have their phone instantly
    confiscated and smashed by cops 😄

    Nah, I reckon their batteries should explode 🙂

    I thouroughly endorse the products and/or services advertised on the
    site mentioned in that article. However, I believe the 40W device
    should come with big warning labels "if you value your balls, stay
    away from this".

    The (U.S.?) police are currently experimenting with microwave devices
    to disable post-1979 car electronics. I want one of those too.

    --
    TimC
    We are no longer the knights who say "ni"
    We are the knights who say "icky icky (Comet) Ikeya-Zhang zoooboing!"
    --Lord Ender on /.

  3. TimC said:

    On 2007-12-02, Meeba (aka Bruce)
    was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

    Quoted message said:

    http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pesky-public-chatterboxes-get-signals-blocked/2007/12/01/1196394689074.html

    Secretly ld love one of those battery operated ones to flick on when l
    see drivers on the phone!
    But not good as they block emergency vehicle transmissions.......

    Maybe the range could be smaller + be put inside cars to prevent phone
    use in moving car.
    l reckon all drivers caught texting should have their phone instantly
    confiscated and smashed by cops 😄

    Nah, I reckon their batteries should explode 🙂

    I thouroughly endorse the products and/or services advertised on the
    site mentioned in that article. However, I believe the 40W device
    should come with big warning labels "if you value your balls, stay
    away from this".

    The (U.S.?) police are currently experimenting with microwave devices
    to disable post-1979 car electronics. I want one of those too.

    Hmm there are quite a few critical systems which are now electronic on
    eg new Audis - you could find your gearbox suddenly going into reverse
    or engine management system going nuts and opening the throttle wide.
    Come to think of it, I bet the police are looking forward to the fun 😉

    --
    //Adam F

  4. TimC said:

    The (U.S.?) police are currently experimenting with microwave devices
    to disable post-1979 car electronics. I want one of those too.

    Have you got a link for this? I'd take it with a grain of salt.

    Motor vehicle electronics lives within one of the most vicious electrical
    environments around. There's a lot of work that goes into not only shielding,
    but recovery (rebooting) of the microprocessor when things go wobbly.
    This is not a feature, you absolutely need it otherwise your car would work
    much like M$ Windows, it stops in the middle of the freeway, you turn off,
    crank again, and away you go.

    It's so good at it, it could crash and restart without the barest glitch as
    far as the driver is concerned.

    With this in mind, you would need some serious interference to clap out the
    thing.

    This is one of the things that I'd want to see before I believe it.
    --
    Linux Registered User # 302622
    <http://counter.li.org>

  5. Meeba said:

    But not good as they block emergency vehicle transmissions.......

    AFAIK emergency vehicles do not reply on mobile telephones.

  6. Terryc said:
    Meeba said:

    But not good as they block emergency vehicle transmissions.......

    AFAIK emergency vehicles do not reply on mobile telephones.

    Wrong again Terry. Our fire vehicles have an inbuilt hands-free mobile
    phone. Put there by FESA.

    Theo

  7. TimC said:

    http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/29/engine-car-stop.html

    "In tests on four vehicles, the researchers were able to disable cars from 10
    to 50 feet away."

    :-) Hardly practical, considering the projected size of the transmission
    antenna.. Not something you could swivel in a practical manner on the side of
    the road, and probably not viable on the roof of a vehicle either...

    It'll be a long while before I become concerned about it.
    --
    Linux Registered User # 302622
    <http://counter.li.org>

  8. Theo Bekkers said:

    Wrong again Terry. Our fire vehicles have an inbuilt hands-free mobile
    phone. Put there by FESA.

    Wow, this is your sole means of comminication? Explains a lot.

  9. Terryc said:

    Theo Bekkers wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Wrong again Terry. Our fire vehicles have an inbuilt hands-free
    mobile phone. Put there by FESA.

    Quoted message said:

    Wow, this is your sole means of comminication? Explains a lot.

    Come on Terry, you're not that stupid, are you? They're there in case of an
    emergency that they don't want to discuss on the radio.

    Theo

  10. On 2007-12-03, Theo Bekkers (aka Bruce)
    was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

    Quoted message said:
    Terryc said:
    Meeba said:

    But not good as they block emergency vehicle transmissions.......

    AFAIK emergency vehicles do not reply on mobile telephones.

    Wrong again Terry. Our fire vehicles have an inbuilt hands-free mobile
    phone. Put there by FESA.

    Wow. You get that much coverage? It'd be utterly useless with our
    RFS.

    That [censored] communication authority wouldn't allow us to renew our
    VHF license when the beancounters let it laps a few month. VHF was
    the only practical and reliable means of contacting all the techs for
    the entire duration of their trip home. But UHF is the way of the
    future, man. Like 3G. And those 3G aerials on cars are such fashion
    statements.

    --
    TimC
    It typically takes 25-30 gallons of petrol/diesel to fully-consume an
    average-sized body under ideal conditions. That I am conversant with
    this level of detail should serve as an indication of why the wise man
    does not ask me questions about MS-Windows. --Tanuki on ASR

  11. On Dec 2, 9:20 pm, Meeba <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    Secretly ld love one of those battery operated ones to flick on when l
    see drivers on the phone!

    A driver ON the phone is far less dangerous than a driver looking at
    the phone, pushing buttons, trying to work out why his call just
    dropped out.

    Maybe you could work out something (with frequency Doppler-shift? :-
    P ), so it doesn't do anything unless the offending phone is moving
    away from the jammer. That way you could be pretty sure the resulting
    distracted driver doesn't run you over.

    tim

  12. TimC said:

    On 2007-12-03, Theo Bekkers wrote

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Wrong again Terry. Our fire vehicles have an inbuilt hands-free
    mobile phone. Put there by FESA.

    Quoted message said:

    Wow. You get that much coverage? It'd be utterly useless with our
    RFS.

    Our local coverage is much better since we got 3G, especially with a vehicle
    arial. We have a few hills and valleys and radio reception is iffy, when it
    works at all. The phone is used for personal messages and stuff like
    'someone is injured'.

    Theo

  13. A driver ON the phone is far less dangerous than a driver looking at
    the phone, pushing buttons, trying to work out why his call just
    dropped out.

    tim[/QUOTE]
    l dont know how they work ,
    but l figured if it was in my pocket and lm moving ,ld have a buffer zone of phoneless area of whatever distance it reaches

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