In: Boards > Soc > Crows

CuriusCorvid (Original Poster)
Posted on April 09th, 2024:

In: Asagiri Mz-23 Electronic Attack Systems will operate at police radar frequencies

As the thread title said.

It's long been known that they're able to detect most police radar and laser systems if you jump pins ***REDACTED*** and activate the system without the PEPPER card. But I've been able to prove that they don't just detect police radars- when that little magic light comes on on the dash it's not just warning you to slow down, it's letting you know that it's keeping your wallet safe.

I know because I passed a KCPD patroller at a speed well north of the official limit on the ring road and the only reason he stopped me was because he clocked me at a steady ten under the limit while I was obviously going faster than traffic he'd just tagged doing ten over. I pulled the link cable and he ran the gun over it again and it gave out a clean result so I didn't get the big ticket.

He put it down to an equipment malfunction and let me get on my way.

It's enough to satisfy him. It's not enough to satisfy and old Crow like myself.

Now, sure enough I get home and I have my hangar I hook it up and I shoot it all sorts of police frequencies and nothing happens. It detects the radar but it's not answering. Even when I trick it into thinking it's moving at speed by fooiling the Nav and Speedometer, it just and just flashes the magic light. It doesn't radiate anything back

I don't get my answer until I'm down in mundania and pass one of thse 'Votre Vitesse' signs.

It reads ten under the limit. Far slower than I was going.

Pass a second one.

Ten under again.

Pass a third one going five under. I get the magic light, but it shows my true speed.

Speed past the same one at five over, and I'm suddenly doing ten under again.

Now.  I don't think this is a bug. But how's it making the call?

And then I realise, the bike's also got a sign-spotter. Back in the hanger, I figure a way to fake a speed sign detection and sure enough, if it spots a sign, recognises it's going faster than the speed limit, and detects a radar or laser signal, it responds not just with a warning, but by actively jamming it.  And not just in the old barrage jamming that most primitive automotive systems like to use and which usually get spotted - it's using DRFM techniques to generate a false return and cause the radar to report a spuriously low speed. 

Now, I got to say, whoever put that in there is either really dedicated to their speeding to use military-grade techniques and hardware a s a police jammer, or they're just showing off a little taster of what it can do to military sensors if you buy the full PEPPER package. I don't have the security certs to do it and see what the unlock achieves.

But, if you've got one, give it a try.

-CC
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I don't even know if this is interesting or not. But why the hell not. If someones interested in having a volkswagen allegory or what....

Part IX can be found here.

Opening the new thread with a note that I have read all the material and cast my votes, at least on the username policy.

I have recently been rereading Royal Ward by Catstaff, a Harry Potter fanfiction where a 9-year-old Harry comes to the attention of the Crown by defending the young Princes Harry and William from Dudley on a playground without knowing who they were.  The last few chapters of the story as of this date have been set during the period where Charles and Diana's marriage falls apart, and as a side effect of Harry being the titular Royal Ward, Princess Diana and Sirius Black know and are very clearly starting to gravitate toward each other. 

Now Diana/Sirius has to be one of the most unusual pairings I've ever come across in fanfiction, and probably unique to this particular story.  Thinking about it, I got to wondering -- what other really different/unique pairings are there out there in the various fandoms?  I don't mean crack pairings (even though I've put Sirius/Diana on that page at ATT).  I'm wondering about singularly unexpected pairs which still make sense in context.  Tell me what you've come across!

(Technically this belongs in the "Forums" forum, but I'm betting more of you will see it here.)

If you've ever posted a story (or anything else of reasonable size) to the forums while they were still on ezBoard/Yuku, you may want to find your post(s) and replace them with a clean archive copy of the work.  One of the most annoying things that Crapatalk did when it converted the boards to its own system was it mangled big stories.  And not consistently, either -- as I think I've mentioned before, it seemed to have about four or five different mangle modes.  For instance -- Rev Dark?  All the Thibor  stuff I've come across in the last week or so has had all its quote marks removed.  Why?  Who knows?  Maybe they were bad for Crapatalk's business model.

Line wrap issues seem to be the most common symptom of Crapatalk conversion, but lots of other things can and have happened to big posts.  I've been cleaning things up as much as I can through SQL, but at some point I have to throw my hands up and turn the problem back over to you guys.  This is that point.

Sorry to foist this on you.

A simple Google search to get a bit more background on Tapatalk led me to their Facebook page. And boy, are people not happy with them about Yuku.  We're far from the only community who felt like they got savaged by Crapatalk's handling of the changeover.  This is a fairly typical post:

Quote:Max Beeson  Hey tapatwat, you useless bunch of moronic flogs, when are you going to fix that monumental fuck up you made of the yuku forums??? What you lot of brain dead fuckwits have done to those forums is bordering on criminal.
July 24 at 6:44am

A week from today, for a week -- September 22 through 29, 2017.  And we're going to Florida.  (Orlando area, which is in back in working order already.)  I'll be bringing my tablet, so I'll be able to check in at least once in a while.

The announcement made just in case you haven't checked out the Calendar feature (which is up there in the upper right corner under the search box).

I just imported the last six posts (including one new thread) that had slipped into the old forums at the last minute.  

We're really and truly done.

Much as I'd like to stay with Netcarrier, who's been my host for years, I'm going to need to change hosts if I'm to get SSL support.  (I have to see what I can do to keep my and Peggy's email addresses, which are through Netcarrier.  Too many people know us at the Eclipse.net addresses to change them.)

Anyway, my research has recently led me to phpwebhosting.com, which seems to be just about ideal in many ways for my needs and yours.  I wanted to know if anyone here knew anything about them and/or had opinions about them.

MySQL said:

I thought I'd seen this issue mentioned before (lost in the transfer when you reset the thread index Bob?) but I can't find it at the moment.

Anyway, I was playing with the Theme selection while NOT logged in and selected the Simple theme.  Then I found that the theme selector wasn't there any more.

I got to the previous theme by hitting back.  However I then backed to the Main page then came back in, but the theme was still Simple.  I'm assuming it is because it was the last theme I had selected.

Logging in to report this, my logged in theme is the default (SanFelix?).

So, I guess the problem is the Simple theme doesn't have the theme selector available.

Also, selecting the SanFelix theme to make sure reset the theme when I logged out.