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Sensors Gone Wild
tulanian writes "forbes.com has an interesting article on networked, intelligent sensors. It mentions an experiment done by DARPA where several dozen magnetic sensors were scattered along a road and passing vehicles could be identified by their magnetic signatures."
So does this mean, when your car begins to rust out...you'll cease to exist?
No, quite the opposite. You'll just be scattered along the roads and eventually you'll be everywhere!
I will not be sensored! My rights are on the line here! I can say whatever I want!
/.ers, we must not let sensorship continue. First the MPAA and RIAA are against us and now DARPA. Its time we started speaking out against such sensorship. Now there hypeing "intelligent" sensorship? Since when is sensorship smart?
Fellow
Talk to your congressman or woman and tell them that you don't like sensors. Surely, we can make a change if we all work together.
Now that you've read my post, here's a little note for the dimwitted: it's a joke!
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Big Magnet is watching you...
live(free) || die;
Anybody else try and read this article and
I'm going to stop you there and say probably not.
Clearly, what is needed is some squid on a GSXR-1100 to zip by at some insane speed (which those bikes are quite capable of doing in 1st gear!) and generate enough voltage to blow the sensor out of the ground.
:-)
Throw in a few rare-earth magnets in his pocket and send the whole system into a tizzy.
Oh, what fun we could have....
basically hook up two wireless network cameras that would point to the street outside my house.
They would run motion detection software that would basically write to a database when it detected movement. By measuring the time between the two motion captures and knowing the difference in length between the cameras, I could calculate how fast people drive by my house.
By going to my homepage, you would see something like:
Last car went by at: 07:05:30 am
It was going 38.9mph. 3.9 over the speed limit!
Anyways, until the price of wireless network cams come down, I guess it's just a thought.
Live web cams
When Sensors Attack!
Be amazed by real live footage of sensors watching other sensors!
Be captivated by the secret sensor mating ritual!
(mount, fsck, unmount!)
Laugh at sensors hopping around the battle field like little metal frogs.
Be horrified by real live footage of sensors mauling some guy who sprayed himself with sensor musk!
so when will I see it on FOX or on Video? :p
Is it part of the When Animals Go Wild and Girls Gone Wild Series?
Hahaha! I am a ghost in their system with my virtually invisible Plastic Pontiac...
It blocks these sensors. But the Forbes people didn't want to let that out. Tin foil and duct tape are our last best hopes.
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it! --Yogi Berra--
lets not confuse "sensors gone wild" with "girls gone wild", where ya have a bunch of girls running around topless.
nor should we confuse this with "censors gone wild", where you have a bunch of girls running around with black blocks and blurs over there chests.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Oh, wait. This is slashdot. Move along, please, move along.
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Here I've been collecting all those rare earth magnets out of harddrives for years while my friends and family laughed at me... HAHAHA, see now, who was the fool!!!! Every day I'll go out side, roll some dice and hide a couple of them in different spots, that should shank their bell graphs!
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Is the restraining order she got for you stll valid?
... and spam them back to the stoneage with targeted advertising! =)
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
When will someone get around to inventing the 'cone of silence' so we can have our privacy back?!
It's right here, it's usually shaped more like a hemisphere but I'm sure you can make yours into a cone if you like.
P.S.
I agree with you about the rental companies. I just thought giving the link for the cone of silence was amusing.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Make some large electromagnets and bolt/epoxy them to the bottom of your car. Use a crappy audio car amp plugged into a radio tuned to your fav radio station to power them (you didn't need to power your 15" subwoofers anyway.)
Just don't carry around any floppy disks or people with pacemakers and you should be fine.