Well, perhaps your car. Mine does require an operational battery in the fob to start the car.

Mine is an old 2007 runabout, they weren't too clever in those days :-)

You can lock keypads on mobile phones to ward against that, you can't do so for car key fobs. If that is a problem to the newer car owner, should they be driving in the first place?

2007 eh? Mines worse, it's a 1999, the fob unlocks doors, opens the trunk and deals with the built in alarm, but that's it.. The computer just manages the motor, heck I have hand cranked windows on the 2 car doors, but then I have a coupe, a 2yr model.

I know this is old business, but I just read the whole thread.

My car fob opens the driver's door with one press and all of them with two. It locks all the doors with one press of the other button and honks the horn as confirmation with each subsequent press. Recently, I managed to run the battery completely down (the car, not the fob). I let myself in with the key but could not open any other doors; only the driver's door has a keyhole. Then, silly me, I put the key in the ignition and turned it. Nothing happened, which was not a surprise. What was a surprise was that it would not come out again. Something in the ignition lock holds the key in if there's no power.

I got out my battery charger and hooked it up, pleased that it still worked. A few seconds later, the car came to life... mainly in the form of its alarm honking the horn repeatedly. I guess the last it knew the alarm was set and now it found the door open, so it went off. Remember that the key was stuck in the ignition, not in my pocket where I could easily pull it out and hit buttons until the alarm stopped. Fortunately, the door was still open, so I was able to reach in and press buttons on the fob until the alarm stopped. Then I found that with power, the ignition lock had released the key. Yay.

The fob for my house alarm is not working. I don't know if it's the battery or the buttons going bad. I had thought plugging it into the computer would charge its battery, but it didn't help. I'll spare you the details of the fiasco that caused.

At this point, I am completely changing topics. Normally, I would start a new post for that, but double posting is verboten in this thread. So be it.

Nearly 10 months ago, Chris started a thread called "The Berks R Us report." I assumed from context what "berk" seemed to mean. I have just become better educated.

[Background: the previous two days' strips taught us what "trump" and "trumper" mean in British slang.]

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Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Nearly 10 months ago, Chris started a thread called "The Berks R Us report." I assumed from context what "berk" seemed to mean. I have just become better educated.

[Background: the previous two days' strips taught us what "trump" and "trumper" mean in British slang.]

Hummm, the berk monologues? Somehow it could fit given that thread.

Oh, if you ever had something to say, it is supposed to go down the drain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrqRAmPsWYg

32:41 (or so)

FAA Releases Pilot UAS Reports
August 21- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a new list of pilot, air traffic and citizen reports of possible encounters with unmanned aircraft (UAS). The reports cover November 13, 2014 through August 20, 2015.

Because pilot reports of unmanned aircraft have increased dramatically over the past year, the FAA wants to send a clear message that operating drones around airplanes and helicopters is dangerous and illegal. Unauthorized operators may be subject to stiff fines and criminal charges, including possible jail time.

If you fly a drone stay away from airports or fires.

Terrible crash in an airshow in England.
https://youtu.be/pvHplYmh2f8
Reminds me of this in Stocholm in front of 500,000 spectators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iToQ2FykoI
In that case no one was hurt...
Not far away from the church I was baptised in.
I wasn't there but I heard the crash.
The plane crashed in the only place with no people!

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The world's 400 richest people lost on Monday about one trillion crowns. It's almost as much as the global official development assistance.

The world's 400 richest people had already last week lost around 182 billion dollars when under the black Monday, August 24 lost a further 124 billion dollars, writes Bloomberg.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-24/the-world-s-richest-people-lost-another-124-billion-on-monday

And who forecasted this?
Yes. Martin Armstrong...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong
The Forecaster Trailer. I saw the whole documentary only last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MP2QaT2A_A

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LOL..........

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

In the last few years I have become interested in the work of Bletchley Park and the Enigma machines.

I understood mostly how the Enigma machines, however I recently discovered this

Enigma Simulator

It gives you a small virtual Enigma machine that works exactly the same as the real ones did. You get the three most common versions.

It comes with extremely detailed instructions and for me whilst using it allowed the last few pieces of the puzzle to drop into place.

And here is that last paragraph in the machines "default setting"

HZEMH NVPJA XTMAG NNZMM FPEOX YXWMY YOEIU KAFEW XTWPC BLCDM YSYWS GMZZO JUIRF NYZEP ZMGTA ABZYL KYHRN XDMVQ YLOUP SLRFN RRVFV FFWQW

You can copy and paste messages into it for encoding and decoding.

I thought some of you might be interested.

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I thought this a very good movie on the subject.....
The Imitation Game.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

In the last few years I have become interested in the work of Bletchley Park and the Enigma machines.

I understood mostly how the Enigma machines, however I recently discovered this

Enigma Simulator

It gives you a small virtual Enigma machine that works exactly the same as the real ones did. You get the three most common versions.

It comes with extremely detailed instructions and for me whilst using it allowed the last few pieces of the puzzle to drop into place.

And here is that last paragraph in the machines "default setting"

HZEMH NVPJA XTMAG NNZMM FPEOX YXWMY YOEIU KAFEW XTWPC BLCDM YSYWS GMZZO JUIRF NYZEP ZMGTA ABZYL KYHRN XDMVQ YLOUP SLRFN RRVFV FFWQW

You can copy and paste messages into it for encoding and decoding.

I thought some of you might be interested.

Another Enigma project.
http://www.enigmaathome.net/
'The M4 Project is an effort to break 3 original Enigma messages with the help of distributed computing. The signals were intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken.' You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.

I thought this a very good movie on the subject.....
The Imitation Game.

Yes I have seen it, but having read up on the subject and visited Bletchley Park, lets just says, I think it was a bit more complicated than that :-)

But you do have to try an tell the story in a couple of hours and keep people entertained

It was a good film with some excellent acting.

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i'm too lazy to look it up so i keep thinking that has something to do with cosmetics

You wouldn't believe what I borrowed from my corner shop today! Apart from being in bad taste it is also incorrect because genuine Biltong is dried Elephant meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltong

Biltong is a variety of dried, cured meat that originated in South Africa. Various types of meat are used to produce it, ranging from beef and game meats to fillets of ostrich from commercial farms.

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Thousands of tonnes of fake and sub-standard food and drink have been seized in 47 countries around the world as part of an INTERPOL-Europol coordinated operation.
Operation Opson IV, conducted during December 2014 and January 2015, resulted in the seizure of more than 2,500 tonnes of counterfeit and illicit food, including mozzarella, strawberries, eggs, cooking oil and dried fruit.
http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2015/N2015-013
Interpol see clear links to the Italian Mafia and other networks such as the terrorist group al-Qaeda. The risks of being caught are minimal, the gains great and if they get caught, it's about financial penalties.

In Sweden, among others found 5 tons of counterfeit honey, which contained only sugar and honey aroma. It was previously thought that it is quite harmless food cheating, but it's actually about a well-oiled billion industry .

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Deer crossing

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Deer crossing

Lol doesn't even cover it :)

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