Cheap Cell-Phone Detector

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @07:58PM from the and-tim-gets-10%-for-fairness dept.

An anonymous reader contributes a link to a BBC News article on a cheap cell-phone detector created by six New Zealand high-school students for a business competition, excerpting "The detector, which they have called CellTrac-r, works by picking up the bursts of radio frequency activity that emit from a mobile each time it sends or receives a call or a text message. The device can detect these bursts of electro-magnetic energy up to a radius of 30 metres. It can also measure the amount of the energy to determine the distance of the mobile.", and noting "Seems like a perfect /.er hack project, and as initiator I get 5% of gross profits."

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first post by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 19:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

HAR HAR HAR!

Fuck you gaynigger bastards!
oooby dooby fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 20:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

fp, baby
1. Re:oooby dooby fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 20:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
  
  I got you good you fucker!
2. Re:oooby dooby fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 20:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  For some reason, all I can picture when you say "I got you good you fucker!" is Farva from Super Troopers.
3. Re:oooby dooby fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 20:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  That's exactly what I was referencing, actually.
  
  Long live Rod Farva and Car Ramrod.
If it's New Zealand by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 20:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Shouldn't it be pronounced "sull phone dituctor"

They've all got chronic vowel problems down there...
Re:Neat, Now if only by double_plus_ungod · 2004-07-20 21:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

they can't swerve their vehicle if their boxen are infected with virii thus allowing the detection unit to transmit spam, even through the reverse firewall.

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Re:It Figures by sammcj2000 · 2004-07-20 21:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

yay go christchurch!!!!!!! im a Opawa / St.Martins man myself!
t'rollkorE by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 21:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In the sun. In The and abroad for many of us are