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D.I.Y. Home Security
theodp writes "The NYTimes reports that pre-wired home security installations by alarm companies are on the way out. Thanks to wireless window and door sensors and motion detectors, installing and maintaining one's own security system is becoming a do-it-yourself project, with kits available from companies like InGrid and LaserShield. Time to start cranking out some new iPhone and Android apps, kids?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Alone
The shoelace and shotgun seems to be working okay so far.
1. Find a target house,
2. Use jamming enough times that the owner turns off the alarm.
3. Break in.
4. ???
5. Profit!
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
In that case, I hope they knock when they come to arrest me.
We did something similar as a prank in high school. A lab had an microphone sensor, so we hid a watch in the casing. The school turned on the alarm at night about 8:30. The watch beeped and the cops showed at 9:00... then 10:00 then 11:00 then did not bother at 12:00. That's when we popped the window open and entered to play our prank in the "high security" lab.
While he was at work, a neighbor's house was broken into this spring. The burglars entered through his attached garage, and used the victim's own power tools to then open his safe right in his bedroom.
I'd say those burglars are keeping a lid on their costs.
( If they entered my house, with any luck they'd fix my circular saw for me before discovering I have no safe. )
John
Tired of thieves stealing his tools, my grandpa electrified the padlock with one of those electric fence units used with cattle and horses. Difference, 3' from the unit instead of 300' of fencing wire.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
OMG!!! *Rushes to patent office to patent Wireless Pants*
Karnal
Notice the effective use of the "post anonymously" check box!
And he'll still get robbed blind in 90 seconds with nothing to show for it but a nameless face.