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mikealder
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 Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: Sat Jammer |
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An interesting gadget can be found Here - not only can it knock out the satellite GPS information but it can take down mobile phone signals as well - no wonder they shouldn't be sold in Europe.
That said its welcome news if it does sound the death knell to road charging per mile, even if its not possible to purchase such a device it is easy to jam the GPS signal wih a home made device (Not that I would know how to - honest  ) - Mike |
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mostdom
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| Mikealder wrote: | | it is easy to jam the GPS signal wih a home made device (Not that I would know how to - honest ) - Mike |
So where shouldn't I look to not be able to find, no infomation about how not to do that then? 
Seriously only kidding
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: |
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Great if you're trying to find your way in a crowded city and the guy next to you pulls up with his GPS jammer.
It's a great toy for getting people lost and I can see people buying it for that purpose as well.
Bring back the good old map and compass - as far as I know, that can't be jammed 
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GJF
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It's great that whatever technology the goverment throws at you, there is someone out there one step ahead to fight it.
Like all of you i'm not liable to do anything illegal, but i love the idea that big brother can't get his foot in the door and am happy to see a system that will wreck it.
It must be my age (grumpy old man) but i feel that this goverment is asking for trouble with the big brother ideas and deserves any retaliation the "experts" can give it.
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DennisN
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | Great if you're trying to find your way in a crowded city and the guy next to you pulls up with his GPS jammer. |
Oh Nooooo! Please, not that. I delivered to London yesterday, street called Bevis Marks and both my devices turned turtle in the canyons. I was absolutely panic-stricken. I'm just a "normal" bloke with a "normal" sense of direction, so I had no idea where to turn! Following that group carrying three 10 foot diameter Setanta footballs was no help at all.
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | I'm just a "normal" bloke |
Now, then, what is normal?
An online dictionary gave the following:
"nor·mal [nawr-muhl]
–adjective
1. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
2. serving to establish a standard.
3. Psychology.
a. approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment.
b. free from any mental disorder; sane.
4. Biology, Medicine/Medical.
a. free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.
b. of natural occurrence.
5. Mathematics.
a. being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular.
b. of the nature of or pertaining to a mathematical normal.
c. (of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1.
d. (of a topological space) having the property that corresponding to every pair of disjoint closed sets are two disjoint open sets, each containing one of the closed sets.
e. (of a subgroup) having the property that the same set of elements results when all the elements of the subgroup are operated on consistently on the left and consistently on the right by any element of the group; invariant.
6. Chemistry.
a. (of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution.
b. pertaining to an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight unbranched carbon chain, each carbon atom of which is joined to no more than two other carbon atoms.
c. of or pertaining to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na2SO4.contact with the curve and the x-axis."
Sourcehttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/normal
Which of these holds true? ....and you can't phone a friend or ask the audience
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Under 4a above, does playing with GPS count as "experimental therapy"?
I guess that if it goes wrong, it's not very therapeutic though 
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mostdom
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | Under 4a above, does playing with GPS count as "experimental therapy"?
I guess that if it goes wrong, it's not very therapeutic though |
Throwing a dead GPS can be very therapeutic.
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GPS_fan
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| mostdom wrote: | | Throwing a dead GPS can be very therapeutic. |
Oh, so that's the real reason for Dennis' broken windscreen
Surely he should be setting a better example now that he's a moderator
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | DennisN wrote: | | I'm just a "normal" bloke |
Now, then, what is normal?
An online dictionary gave the following:
"nor·mal [nawr-muhl]
–adjective
| Quote: | | 1. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural. |
What - whiteman van?
| Quote: | | 2. serving to establish a standard. |
Hitting live animals whilst driving.
| Quote: | 3. Psychology.
a. approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment.
b. free from any mental disorder; sane. |
Who knows, he needs a test?
Could take along time, not for the feint hearted.
| Quote: | 4. Biology, Medicine/Medical.
a. free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.
b. of natural occurrence. |
What -- We have seen his teeth, do you want to see more.
| Quote: | 5. Mathematics.
a. being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular.
b. of the nature of or pertaining to a mathematical normal.
c. (of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1.
d. (of a topological space) having the property that corresponding to every pair of disjoint closed sets are two disjoint open sets, each containing one of the closed sets.
e. (of a subgroup) having the property that the same set of elements results when all the elements of the subgroup are operated on consistently on the left and consistently on the right by any element of the group; invariant. |
Only by GPS
| Quote: | 6. Chemistry.
a. (of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution.
b. pertaining to an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight unbranched carbon chain, each carbon atom of which is joined to no more than two other carbon atoms.
c. of or pertaining to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na2SO4.contact with the curve and the x-axis." |
Only found in his drink at the pub.
Sourcehttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/normal
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DennisN
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Leave it off! I was exaggerating a bit. I'm really actually nearly normal.
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