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Dakota

Dakota

Veteran Expediter
Did you know, on the GM vehicles with Onstar, if a person misses a car payment they can shut the car down via satellite. Had a friend who was going to work and his car was shut down.
 
skyraider

skyraider

Veteran Expediter
US Navy
Dakota said:
Did you know, on the GM vehicles with Onstar, if a person misses a car payment they can shut the car down via satellite. Had a friend who was going to work and his car was shut down.
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love those payments
 
Falligator

Falligator

Expert Expediter
CNN did a special yesterday where a couple of hackers for a few thousand dollars were able to build a minature plane and it could shut down 3g signals hack your home computer and reek a lot of havok.

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Dakota

Dakota

Veteran Expediter
They have the technology
When you leave your house with an garge door opener, it doesn't take much to steal your code and then break(drive)into your home.
 
Turtle

Turtle

Administrator
Staff member
Retired Expediter
IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, have been a constant danger in Afghanistan.

Question: "Doesn't the army have ways of checking for these things?"

The answer: "If it does, I don't know about them."

Remote Controlled Truck Sent to Soldier in Afghanistan Saves 6 Soldiers' Lives

Staff Sgt. Christopher Fessendenis on duty in Afghanistan now after tours with the Army in Iraq. He has traveled with standard-issue equipment -- weapons, helmet, uniform, boots and so forth -- plus a radio-controlled model truck his brother Ernie sent.

The truck is not a toy to him. He says it just saved six soldiers' lives.

"We cannot thank you enough," said Sgt. Fessenden in an email from the front that Ernie, a software engineer in Rochester, Minn., shared with ABC News.

The little truck was used by the troops to run ahead of them on patrols and look for roadside bombs. Fessenden has had it since 2007, when Ernie and Kevin Guy, the owner of the Everything Hobby shop in Rochester, rigged it with a wireless video camera and shipped it to him.

Last week, it paid off. Chris Fessenden said he had loaned the truck to a group of fellow soldiers, who used it to check the road ahead of them on a patrol. It got tangled in a trip wire connected to what Fessenden guesses could have been 500 lbs. of explosives. The bomb went off. The six soldiers controlling the truck from their Humvee were unhurt.
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The model truck is a Traxxis Stampede. After they added the video camera, with a small monitor Sgt. Fessendenis could mount on his rifle, the total cost came to about $500.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon is spending millions on RC helicopters to detect electromagnetic emissions from IEDs <snort> and many more millions on really kewl looking Mars Rovers. <snort>
 
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