Actually, Fords come worse than just the ignition. The starter motor is coded too. So if you take a starter from car A and stick it in car B (assuming they use the same starter) Car B will refuse to start because the starter is "stolen"
Or so I've heard. Mazda, being 1/3 blue oval makes me very scared to have to swap out parts (I drive a recent mazda)
Many cars manufacutred in the past few years feature keys with chips in them. When the key is inserted in the ignition, a computer reads the key for the right code. If the code is wrong, the engine will start for one time, give you a warning light that something is wrong with the key code. This warning light is an indication that you should drive to the nearest dealership and have them fix the key code issue.
If you stop the engine, then the computer won't let the car start up again.
This feature is supposed to make cars less prone to theft. However, It also means that a replacement key has to come from the stealership with a price tag of 80 bucks.
Kodak not doing so hot in the digital camera business? GREAT! I hope they will discontinue their digital cameras soon so I can find a digital for cheap!
However, your buddy can sign up for a cell phone, and you just take it and pay him back for the fees at the end of the month. In all praticality, it has become YOUR number.
Yes, very entertaining to read slashdot at its most liberal level -1. I'm moving from liberal to conservative though, so pardon me if I sound like a troll and I'm reading at +3.
Does this have any relation to satellite phone? Sure you can get service when your in the middle of nowhere...but inside a building, you can't get service because of a roof over you.
It used to be advertised as "unlimited" They have only recenetly bgan playing with the wordings and making it more convoluted with "always on".
To the average consumer tho, something being "always on" means I can use it anytime. And because I use it any time, I'll leave my aim, game demo downloads, kazaa, etc on all the time.
Its really a system that tells the user one thing, then they blame the user for what they understood to be "Acceptable use" in the first place. -grump
I mean, there are various factors to why my shopping habbits consist mostly of chips, soda, cheese, bread, etc.
I with my parents at home. Mom and dad buy mostly what I need. Heak, everything. I just get chips and sandwich goodies when I want something they don't normally pick up, or when I cook comething obscure that requires something they don't normally get.
My dad keeps saying, in a few years they are going to send you targeted advertisements based on your buying habbits.
And soon! they will sell this information to the insurance company and reveal my shopping list. This person mostly buys: Chips, butter, bread cheese and deli meats. Risk of heart disease: HIGH. Please note this and consider raising premum... oh great.
Nature has many more gifts than just coffee. We have marijuana, opium, cocaine, morphine... for a more complete list: http://www.criminaldefencelondon.co.uk/Drug _List.h tml
i back you up. I bought a norcent dvd player for 30 off amazon (they charged me 10 shipping tho) I use it to play non-region 1 dvds (there is a region menu, i just set it to 0 and it plays everything)
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Actually, Fords come worse than just the ignition. The starter motor is coded too. So if you take a starter from car A and stick it in car B (assuming they use the same starter) Car B will refuse to start because the starter is "stolen"
Or so I've heard. Mazda, being 1/3 blue oval makes me very scared to have to swap out parts (I drive a recent mazda)
-Grump
Sounds like a programmed key.
Many cars manufacutred in the past few years feature keys with chips in them. When the key is inserted in the ignition, a computer reads the key for the right code. If the code is wrong, the engine will start for one time, give you a warning light that something is wrong with the key code. This warning light is an indication that you should drive to the nearest dealership and have them fix the key code issue.
If you stop the engine, then the computer won't let the car start up again.
This feature is supposed to make cars less prone to theft. However, It also means that a replacement key has to come from the stealership with a price tag of 80 bucks.
-Grump
Kodak not doing so hot in the digital camera business?
GREAT!
I hope they will discontinue their digital cameras soon so I can find a digital for cheap!
-Grump
RTFF?
Read The F***ing Film?
I don't know about you, but web pages manuals are read.
films are watched.
WTFF!!!
-Grump
Yea, yet another reason to get a job working for the school cafetria...
so you can sit in the back tipping bottles while getting paid for it.
-grump
However, your buddy can sign up for a cell phone, and you just take it and pay him back for the fees at the end of the month. In all praticality, it has become YOUR number.
-Grump
Yes, very entertaining to read slashdot at its most liberal level -1. I'm moving from liberal to conservative though, so pardon me if I sound like a troll and I'm reading at +3.
-Grump
My very simple solution is have your roomate "kill himself". As a bonus, you can stop studying and get straight As for the quarter/semester.
oh wait...it was a movie?
-Grump
subject says all.
-Grump
Their new hail protection system has saved them millions of dollars in damage to cars.
However, they system's "sonic boom" has broken millions of dollars in windows.
-Grump
Does this have any relation to satellite phone?
Sure you can get service when your in the middle of nowhere...but inside a building, you can't get service because of a roof over you.
-Grump
Sco?
Provo, UT?
Nah, it can't be that mormons watch the superbowl too!?!?
-Grump
I think his wallet is suffereing from the "Fat wallet" effect.
Here, make a donation to me.
-Grump
nah, those are the jap girls...
Ever since WW2 and the Rape of Nanking, those japs can do pratically anything!
Bombarding them with radioactive isotopes doesn't help them much either...
It used to be advertised as "unlimited"
They have only recenetly bgan playing with the wordings and making it more convoluted with "always on".
To the average consumer tho, something being "always on" means I can use it anytime. And because I use it any time, I'll leave my aim, game demo downloads, kazaa, etc on all the time.
Its really a system that tells the user one thing, then they blame the user for what they understood to be "Acceptable use" in the first place.
-grump
In other news, Intervideo announces that they will start selling 30,000 rpm hdd to be bundled with their InstantOn software.
-Grump
I mean, there are various factors to why my shopping habbits consist mostly of chips, soda, cheese, bread, etc.
I with my parents at home. Mom and dad buy mostly what I need. Heak, everything. I just get chips and sandwich goodies when I want something they don't normally pick up, or when I cook comething obscure that requires something they don't normally get.
I feel its a tracking tool.
My dad keeps saying, in a few years they are going to send you targeted advertisements based on your buying habbits.
And soon! they will sell this information to the insurance company and reveal my shopping list.
This person mostly buys:
Chips, butter, bread cheese and deli meats. Risk of heart disease: HIGH. Please note this and consider raising premum... oh great.
-grump
stuff that doesn't conduct heat?
those are called insulators.
and 2. they don't exist. everything conducts heat.
-grump
I may be 20, but Disneyland sounds a whole lot more appealing....
Its just a matter of dollars and cents.
-Grump
They're scsi you fool!
Nature has many more gifts than just coffee.g _List.h tml
We have marijuana, opium, cocaine, morphine...
for a more complete list:
http://www.criminaldefencelondon.co.uk/Dru
-grump
we also have the drunk (canadian) french to laugh at too.
i back you up.
I bought a norcent dvd player for 30 off amazon (they charged me 10 shipping tho)
I use it to play non-region 1 dvds (there is a region menu, i just set it to 0 and it plays everything)
-grump
Doesn't windows throw random crap around?
This unpredictable event seems to screw with programs when the ram is low.
Also, those microsoft security holes we have seen in the past year of 2003 are no confidence to M$ security.
Lastly, Belkin routers are no good for security. AFter all, they hijack your http requests and direct you to somewhere you didnt want to go!
Grump.