http://www.pddnet.com/video-self-pow...hieves-032510/

bob

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:48:32 -0500, bob urz
wrote:

http://www.pddnet.com/video-self-pow...hieves-032510/

I like the way the video camera was positioned so that it was
difficult to see what he was doing. However, there seems to be a few
problems.

1. The Icom PCR1000 receiver display shown was set to 433.125Mhz,
which is the same frequencies used by a zillion weather stations, key
fobs, remote controls, and other unlicensed wireless devices. Ignoring
the interference, just hearing the beacon more than about 20ft away
will be a challenge. Driving all over the town looking for the beacon
xmitter is futile.

2. The Google Earth display zoomed in to the Street View and showed
the specific automobile where the mouse was hidden. Google Earth is
not real time and will only show a car that was parked there when the
Google camera van drove past, perhaps months previously.

3. The SIFT-III GPS receiver mentioned is probably a SiRF Atlas-III
receiver.
http://www.sirf.com/products/multifunction2.html
These are quite sensitive, but doesn't work inside the vehicle trunk
unless the body is fiberglass.

4. Assuming luck is with you, and you perform an amazing feat of
tracking the perpetrator to a parked car, what are you going to do
next? Break into the car to retreive your stolen laptop?


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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
4. Assuming luck is with you, and you perform an amazing
feat of tracking the perpetrator to a parked car, what
are you going to do next? Break into the car to retrieve
your stolen laptop?

Aw man, you're no fun at all. Besides, you've already got
the check from the insurance company, you just torch the
car.

Jeff



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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:43:36 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:48:32 -0500, bob urz wrote:

http://www.pddnet.com/video-self-pow...hieves-032510/

I like the way the video camera was positioned so that it was
difficult to see what he was doing. However, there seems to be a few
problems.

1. The Icom PCR1000 receiver display shown was set to 433.125Mhz,
which is the same frequencies used by a zillion weather stations, key
fobs, remote controls, and other unlicensed wireless devices. Ignoring
the interference, just hearing the beacon more than about 20ft away
will be a challenge. Driving all over the town looking for the beacon
xmitter is futile.

2. The Google Earth display zoomed in to the Street View and showed
the specific automobile where the mouse was hidden. Google Earth is
not real time and will only show a car that was parked there when the
Google camera van drove past, perhaps months previously.

3. The SIFT-III GPS receiver mentioned is probably a SiRF Atlas-III
receiver.
http://www.sirf.com/products/multifunction2.html
These are quite sensitive, but doesn't work inside the vehicle trunk
unless the body is fiberglass.

4. Assuming luck is with you, and you perform an amazing feat of
tracking the perpetrator to a parked car, what are you going to do
next? Break into the car to retreive your stolen laptop?

Wasn't the OP supposed to've been posted _tomorrow_ ??
'Tis my evaluation, any way....

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:13:22 -0500, Jeffrey D Angus
wrote:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
4. Assuming luck is with you, and you perform an amazing
feat of tracking the perpetrator to a parked car, what
are you going to do next? Break into the car to retrieve
your stolen laptop?

Aw man, you're no fun at all.

Yeah, I know. One of my favorite sports is to watch disaster movies
and find all the violations of basic fizzix for which such movies are
famous. I started this long ago, after watching the original Poseidon
Adventure movie with a large mob of students from the Naval
Postgraduate Skool. The class assignment in marine engineering was to
to watch the movie and find all the screwups and impossibilies. They
were rolling in the aisles, while I slowly began to catch on. Since
then, I've expanded my bad habits. I consider it great sport to
deflate movies, great new ideas, patents, product announcements,
government programs, and usenet postings. During the late 1990's, I
was making good money doing the same to science fiction business
plans. I've also played both sides of the fence and perpetrated a few
hoaxes of my own fabrication.

Besides, you've already got
the check from the insurance company, you just torch the
car.

Presumably, it's the correct car. Wanna try direction finding on a
433Mhz transmitter that belches short bursts of NEMA 183 every few
minutes? It can be done with proper DF hardware but it's not easy.

I probably wouldn't torch the car. However taking the air out of the
tires might suffice. Eventually, I want my laptop back because like
laptops everywhere, it's not backed up.

Ummm... what insurance company pays in less time than the battery
inside the GPS Mouse will last?

Jeff

Jeff, the first.

--
Jeff Liebermann
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

On 3/31/2010 1:17 AM Jeff Liebermann spake thus:

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:13:22 -0500, Jeffrey D Angus
wrote:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:

4. Assuming luck is with you, and you perform an amazing
feat of tracking the perpetrator to a parked car, what
are you going to do next? Break into the car to retrieve
your stolen laptop?

Aw man, you're no fun at all.

Yeah, I know. One of my favorite sports is to watch disaster movies
and find all the violations of basic fizzix for which such movies are
famous. I started this long ago, after watching the original Poseidon
Adventure movie with a large mob of students from the Naval
Postgraduate Skool. The class assignment in marine engineering was to
to watch the movie and find all the screwups and impossibilies. They
were rolling in the aisles, while I slowly began to catch on. Since
then, I've expanded my bad habits. I consider it great sport to
deflate movies, great new ideas, patents, product announcements,
government programs, and usenet postings. During the late 1990's, I
was making good money doing the same to science fiction business
plans. I've also played both sides of the fence and perpetrated a few
hoaxes of my own fabrication.

So like me, you probably have a hard time watching such teevee shows as
"Lost" and "Prison Break" (just to mention a couple of what I call "too
much magic" programs).

Regarding the latter, I found one episode especially remarkable, when
they managed to break through a concrete block wall into the bad guys'
"impregnable fortress" using a magnetic device powered by--get this--a
couple of automobile batteries.


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