I guess I am okay with this, as long as we can install stuff on their machines as well. I am pretty sure that they have a lot more to hide than I do...
Hmmm... I think I just wire the output of an inverter back to its input and I get an oscillator... Add more in a chain if I want a bigger delay, or a counter/divider... No analog circuitry required, just the fact that there is a propagation delay.:-)
Any company which does not take advantage of these tax loopholes is doing something dumb and will not be in business very long. If you don't feel good about the loopholes, then work to get them changed.
What about the Poqet PC? XT Clone about the size of a VHS tape. (See the wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poqet_PC).
I wanted one badly. Still think it would be handy.
These are not your regular key with an immobilizer chip. These are "proximity" keys. You just leave them in your pocket, purse or whatever. When you turn the ignition key, the car searches around "wirelessly" for the key. Same thing for opening the doors; you push a little black button on the door handle, and if you are in possession of the key, it unlocks.
The car is surprisingly careful about where you have to be in order to accomplish these things. For example, it won't let you lock your keys in the car. I think it also detects the difference between a key in the driver's pocket vs. a key in the passenger's pocket and sets the driver's seat etc. appropriately.
I thought it was based on "sharp edges" and planar surfaces, not curves. The reasoning is that curved s urfaces reflect in all directions, while flat planes only relfect when precisely aligned, a very rare occurence at distance.???
Am I wrong?
Isn't it peculiar that we can create reasonable visual facsimiles but are unable to do so for voices? Why is this? I would have thought that our visual senses were superior to our auditory ones, and therefore harder to fool.
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I guess I am okay with this, as long as we can install stuff on their machines as well. I am pretty sure that they have a lot more to hide than I do...
Hmmm... I think I just wire the output of an inverter back to its input and I get an oscillator... Add more in a chain if I want a bigger delay, or a counter/divider... No analog circuitry required, just the fact that there is a propagation delay. :-)
+1. This put a big smile on my face. :-)
Any company which does not take advantage of these tax loopholes is doing something dumb and will not be in business very long. If you don't feel good about the loopholes, then work to get them changed.
What about the Poqet PC? XT Clone about the size of a VHS tape. (See the wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poqet_PC). I wanted one badly. Still think it would be handy.
These are not your regular key with an immobilizer chip. These are "proximity" keys. You just leave them in your pocket, purse or whatever. When you turn the ignition key, the car searches around "wirelessly" for the key. Same thing for opening the doors; you push a little black button on the door handle, and if you are in possession of the key, it unlocks. The car is surprisingly careful about where you have to be in order to accomplish these things. For example, it won't let you lock your keys in the car. I think it also detects the difference between a key in the driver's pocket vs. a key in the passenger's pocket and sets the driver's seat etc. appropriately.
I thought it was based on "sharp edges" and planar surfaces, not curves. The reasoning is that curved s urfaces reflect in all directions, while flat planes only relfect when precisely aligned, a very rare occurence at distance.??? Am I wrong?
Isn't it peculiar that we can create reasonable visual facsimiles but are unable to do so for voices? Why is this? I would have thought that our visual senses were superior to our auditory ones, and therefore harder to fool.