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Keyless Entries Fail In Las Vegas On Friday
Hoompini-Ting writes "Some accuse area 51, but in any case many folks were stranded when keyless locks failed or their car computers malfunctioned. No technical explanation but I'm sure slashdotters have theories. Similar to the failure in Seattle 3 years ago. See the Las Vegas Review-Journal for more details."
Vegas was built upon a geographical oddity known as a bad luck epicentre. This is merely a cute manifestation of this bad luck phenomenon.
And that's also why I lost all my money there too.
A weather baloon caused it, there is no need to worry!
Someone's probably just using an electromagnetic pulse device to rob a casino. Round up the usual suspects (Clooney, Pitt, etc.)
Estrada resorted to using his key to unlock his car door...
What is this world coming to?
My car is one of them," Ferguson said. "It's some kind of electrical disturbance. Either that or a nuclear bomb went off a few miles from here."
I'm betting it's an electrical disturbance because I don't think there would be much of him around otherwise.
"The military is certainly capable of fibbing about these things," Pike said. "But, for the military to have done it, they would have to have seriously miscalculated the effects of some test."
oh no.
I am blaming the military. Come to think of it, wouldn't it be possible to create a "Denial of Entry" by jamming those frequencies in a given area.
On the other side, that would make people actually open their doors by hand (what a concept!), they might loose some weight and build some muscle in the process too.
Here's two dumb questions in a row:
Are governors asking their homeland security advisors whether everything could be terrorism now? "My toilet clogged up this morning...could that be terrorism?" Isn't that really time the governor could spend better, I don't know, say, whimpering underneath a desk in the fetal position, or playing golf, or even chewing gum?
How do they know it's not the result of terrorist action? Perhaps there are some acutely stupid terrorists, and this is the first strike against keyless entry...in a very small area of the world...which nobody really noticed. Maybe they're just stupid terrorists. Maybe their next plan is to have a terror blog. Maybe their next plan is to get shirts printed up with the word "Terrorist" emblazoned on the front.
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You are what you think.
the y2k+4 bug rears its ugly head
"... because no can leave!"
"... two men enter, one man leave... the Passion of THUNDERDOME!" ... sorry, Mel.
There is always a small panel near by with a red lever or wheel. Good thing car thieves aren't geeks.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
The article said that the people up at Nellis were gearing up for a "Red Flag" operation next week. If memory serves, Red Flag is a mock warfare exercise, and i'm thinking they had an electronic warfare aircraft of one kind was on the way in, and flikked on the the switch marked "jam" instead of the button to turn on the surround sound in the cockpit :)
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Estrada resorted to using his key to unlock his car door, but that set off his alarm.
What the hell was he doing in Vegas? Doesn't the "C" in "CHiPs" stand for "California"? And what's this about a car? Has he lost his bike?
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Haven't any of you watched Oceans Eleven? I think that the Bellagio better check their vault.
It sounds like the Infinite Improbability Drive is malfunctioning again.
Now one of the pages you linked to is "Temporarily Unavailable". Sounds like a cover-up to me. That proves that something must be going on.
Sigs are bad for your health.
The intro quotes this as happening in Seattle 3 years ago...can anyone provide evidence?
I think this is the event they were referring to.
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It is not a bad luck epicentre, but a good luck epicentre. If you build a casino on it, you will always end up winning.
Fight Spammers!
I would have thought that everyone would have figured this one out. I saw it on a movie called "The Core." Basically, the center of the earth has stopped moving. Our only hope is to send down some kind of manned underground machine and detonate nuclear weapons.
Can anyone think of anything I've missed? Especially in the "man-made" section.
Hundreds of people suddenly degaussing there monitors after reading a Slashdot poll?
My car alarm goes off when someone uses a crowbar to open the door, but smashing the alarm with the crowbar will stop it.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Clearly someone watched Oceans 11 and decided to try using a pinch to rob a casino. Apparently the plan didn't work...or did it?
What lesson? Slashdoters have conclusively proven that Manual Overrides neither grow hair on your palms nor do they make you go blind.
MODerators: if you don't get the joke then you never read Cryptognomicon - what kind of geek *are* you?
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Car alarms are completely worthless these days. I don't know anybody who upon hearing a car alarm thinks 'someone is trying to steal a car'. Instead it's more like 'some asshole's alarm is too sensitive', or 'OH MY GOD, a leaf landed on someone's car!".
In at least one case, I saw a car alarm REDUCE a car's security. As a rather large and apparently intoxicated person walked past an expensive looking car, he triggered one of those stupid proximity alarms (as in 'this is the Viper, don't look so hard at the paint' or some such junk). He yelled 'OH YEAH!!! Well FUCK YOU!', and proceeded to kick in the headlights and smash the windshield. I guess it should have just kept quiet.
The best alarms don't make a sound. They give the thief a minute or so to drive off and then cut off the fuel. The idea being that they will be in traffic by then where they are much too high profile to attempt to bypass the alarm.
perspicacity
Holy crap dude, you win the prize for Obscure Word of the Week. Have you been reading books again??
(ps: I actually had to bust out the dictionary for that one.)
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Forget the terrorist theories, someone please tell the whales to answer!
-- Soruk
Authorities have ruled out terrorism in yesterday's solar eclipse.
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