you've been swapping out, have you tried swapping in? aka take an OEM radio and put it in a car? aftermarket radios don't normally have anti theft codes.

You do realize that most OEM car radio's require an activation code to be entered before they will work if power is lost? so you change the battery or it gets run down you have to put in the access code. Now the difference is in the original owners manual/paperwork there is a card with the code on it, most people lose this and are happy the can call a dealer and get it for free by giving the VIN# of the car.

GMC & some others take it a bit further with their ECU's on some of the higher end cars in that the first time they power up they talk to all the sensors on the buss and burn them into WORM memory (real worm or presented as worm) and are useless if moved to another car (i'm not quite sure how they handle single sensor changes vs multiple).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

"In December 1981, additional laws were enacted clarifying permissible military assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies and the Coast Guard, especially in combating drug smuggling into the United States. Posse Comitatus clarifications emphasize supportive and technical assistance (e.g., use of facilities, vessels, and aircraft, as well as intelligence support, technological aid, and surveillance) while generally prohibiting direct participation of Department of Defense personnel in law enforcement (e.g., search, seizure, and arrests). For example, a U.S. Navy vessel may be used to track, follow, and stop a vessel suspected of drug smuggling, but Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachments (LEDETs) embarked aboard the Navy vessel would perform the actual boarding and, if needed, arrest the suspect vessel's crew."

Sounds to me like requesting assistance of an aircraft and intelligence support is perfectly fine as long as the Sheriff in question is who made the arrest and not someone from the Air-force.

i don't think it is quite an assumption for any intelligent alien life to utilize em radiation, it would only be "quite the assumption" to believe they use it exactly like we do.

your in oregon

You joke, but if i could reactivate my StarTac i would in a heart beat. the only reason i parted with it was due to the E911 clause required for newly activated phones after 9/11. When my company changed plans i wasn't able to reactivate my phone.

You should learn to grapple, if they can't move they can't continue to hit you.. hold them there long enough and they will calm down and see reason..

years ago (10+) when you signed up for Business Class Road Runner they had a policy that you couldn't share a node (meaning that they couldn't just bill you different but it required a dedicated run). So when i moved into a new house i signed up for Business Class with no long term contract (yes it was expensive that way) but after they installed it and ran it for a month i canceled and then switched to residential. They are lazy and din't move me off the dedicated node.. so for 8 years i had residential service with business level of service.

just what i was thinking, looked over at an old self and wondered if i could sell them an old backplane box as an example of how to make it work.. it was so nice to just drop in another CPU card as you needed.

You just gave me a great idea for a product, Camo LEGO. have them colored, painted to look like carpet, hardwood floors, tile's. then they could also be strategically placed in plain sight for the amusement of children.

But while i see the market as huge, i see the cost being a problem, as LEGO are so expensive that only the adults can afford to buy them and what right minded adult would by that for their kids to use against them?

But then again, given the path of society and the very scary nature of a lot of parents now days. it might be a viable product.

so while i don't have experiences in storing wind energy at sea or building islands. something that stands out to me as the same solution but i would think would be much cheaper and quicker. Do it the same way the oil platforms do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_(platform)

the nice large vertical cylinder is used to store the oil until a tanker comes and then it pumps into the tanker, then it moves to a new well and refills the tank.

Using the same basic design, you would not need nearly the same build requirements as an oil platform because a potential leak just reduces the effectiveness and isn't an environmental issue. Also using this design they could store them closer to the wind farms, move the potential energy as needed, and you could make them unmanned units which would further lower the cost to build.

for shallow waters the oil companies use the same design but rather build a concrete cylinder that is connected to bedrock, this is a permanent storage platform that normally gets it's oil from multiple small wells via pipelines and gives tankers a central point to load up. they could possibly use that design in place of a sand built island.

Also note, that you can just go out and buy a platform, new or used, (lot of old used Russian ones on the market). which could accelerate the time to market, and reduce their engineering overhead.

again, this seems a simpler solution then trying to build a sand island.

nope

that is far more difficult to do than if the exploit works on the WAN side.

SCOTUS rulings mean very little until you are in a court room.

i'll take that weeks pay, but then i might be cheating with a few pieces of old mil spec equipment laying round