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Real Time Vehicle Tracking Made Easy
Makarand writes "The Washington Post has an
article
about a vehicle tracking system built by a
start-up 10-20.com.
The system uses low orbit satellites for exchanging location information making it
available anywhere in the US. The tracking device,
the size of a paperback, can be installed in any vehicle and powered by a battery.
A small antenna installed on top sends signals to satellites marking its
position on a web-based map. The equipment costs around $1000 and monthly
fees range from $20 to $65. The service plan will determine how often your position will be updated by the system. The tracking system
FAQ on the company website is pretty detailed."
Fortunately, it costs far less than $1000 to cover your entire car in tinfoil, just in case. Though depending upon your climate and average driving speed, you may still have to spring for the monthly upkeep of $20-65...
The logical conclusion I have arrived at after reading Slashdot for 1 week straight without sleep is thus: your organs will be tagged and stolen by radioactive agents of the CIA who use their penises to transmit secret recipies for Swedish meatballs. Just look at the latest article on embeddable tagging and tracking devices. They are out to violate your privacy! Before long, all your Constitutionally-protected privacy information will be in linked up in a big government database so that deranged mechanicals can encase you in concrete and have their way with you before torturing you to death!
I can't stress enough the importance of stopping this technology now. You will not be able to sleep until this insidious global conspiracy is stopped.
--sdem
"Families can stay in silent contact with loved ones during long or uncertain trips - a beacon that works anywhere. Our unique "peek-proof" system allows parents to obtain emergency location information while giving young drivers the comfort of knowing they are not being constantly watched."
Sure, they're loved ones until they get this and the spouse figures out where they're really going on those "business trips."
har har.
Gotta love a business high tech enough to rely on two-way satellite communications for realtime position tracking, but asks you to pay via Paypal because they don't take credit cards.
Kevin Fox
"We just went to the movie theater and then the coffee shop. Honest."
It's as if millions of hormonal boys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
so if i wrap this in double-side tape and shape it like a bat, i can go and throw it around on cars and track their location in the name of fighting crime?
(speaking of which, since this stuff was in superhero books for the longest time - was there anything remotely similar before this?)
My life in the land of the rising sun.
I, for one, was getting quite sick of tracking all those "fake" time vehicles...=)
dude, where's my car?
"i had to back up like 5 feet and even then the resemblence was only barely there"
Please please please don't mention the goatse.cx guy and "backing up" in the same post!
I was tracking my car...on the PC...and it was like....
.....beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbleeeeep
...(long wait, stay with me...)
...a bummer.
:)
And then...like...half my car was...gone.
And I was like....(wait...).... ghnuhhhuh?
It devoured....my car...
And it was a really good car.
And then I had to track it again, and I had to do it fast, so it wasn't as good...
It's kind of
Credit to E.F.. student
License: ~$10 testing fee
Basic GPS: ~$100
APRS packet-capable radio: ~$300 (US)
A couple of cables: ~$20
Realizing you're never going to get laid again: Priceless.
They that would sacrifice their
Yes, those are serial ports.
All the better to install Linux on them and then making a mobile Beowulf cluster.
You say you want a revolution....
This'll make it much easier for people to catch their cheating spouses in the act. Gotta be pretty upsetting to catch yer old lady humping her brains out in the back of your Durango high atop Makeout Point.
Spread the RC luvin'
In other news, startups 10-100.com and 10-73.com offer much more needed services.
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What sort of criminal would use a stolen credit card to buy a tracking device?