http://216.26.163.62/2003/ss_military_07_30.html

The United States is developing a system that could detect and track insurgents' vehicles in any urban area of a foreign country.

The Defense Department project calls for a command and control system using thousands of sensors to track vehicles in any foreign city. Officials said the sensors being developed — termed Combat Zones That See — would be able to identify vehicles, drivers and passengers at any time and in any weather.
This is very interesting. I wonder how expensive it would be though.

Uhh...it's called privacy, and this is taking it wayyy too far. We're already under enough pressure by the F.B.Eye aren't we?

Here in the UK they have set up a traffic system thats cameras at major roads, junctions, streets, every few miles, taht are to watch for traffic density etc. It takes a small step of the imagination to see these with number plate recognition softwarer and better cameras, like they have in London to police the central london zone of traffic charging. So we have the technology, and the will, and the money wont be that huge, especially if you can sell the information gathered.

oh dear god no!! not state sponsored spam!!

Your car is filmed with a dirty great dent or scratch in it so your information is sold to mechanic shops who spam you with offers to repair.
Your in a crash so you get a load of lawyers, acciedent claim lines and repair shops calling you..arghh the horror!!!!

can no longer pickup hitchhiking blondes without being watched, the horror!

I'm sorry Vortex but prostitution has been illegal for a while...

There was a carjacking in D.C. last week with a truly frightening ending -- and not because anybody was killed or even because the perp got away with it, because he didn't.

A lady was buckling her baby into the back of her Mercedes SUV when an asshole with a gun walked up and grabbed her keys. She started unbuckling the baby but the shithead just knocked her down and drove off. She was screaming in horror, watching her baby disappear down the street, when the guy in the Mercedes SUV behind hers (this was D.C., after all) called out to her, hey, why aren't you just calling your Mercedes hot line? She said What's that, and he said, you know, that little button next to the steering wheel. Huh? You know, the one that calls Daimler-Chrysler directly and they send out the signal that turns on the tracer in your car so they can find you anywhere in the world. Or you can call them from your cell phone if the car's missing. Oh never mind, I wrote down your license number, I'll notify them.

Four minutes later three police cars -- and for good measure a helicopter from Daimler-Chrysler -- converged on the SUV. The perp was nailed, the baby was still asleep, the lady got her car and her baby back and she's still shaking her head in disbelief.

So am I. They are selling us cars with TRACERS in them that THEY can activate! And apparently some of the people who buy the cars don't even know about it!

I'm not making this up. It was in the Washington Post.

My wife used to joke about wanting a new Mercedes. Now she's happy to hang onto our 1978 240D. It doesn't even have an on-board computer.

I have such a boring life that I don't really care. They gonna learn I go through a McDonalds drive through every Sunday morning?

I'm sorry Vortex but prostitution has been illegal for a while...


Clockwood , in your country yes . However this issue was about foreign cities if I was not mistaken . God , how more centric can you get :rolleyes: ??

Anyways .... why would they wanna track foreign cars , arent they busy Pyong-Yanging they're own cities ?

But then it hit me :

the United States issued an alert of an Al Qaida attack on passenger airliners. The Homeland Security Department warned of the prospect that Al Qaida was preparing five-man squads to commandeer civilian planes

How could I ever miss that one , Al Qaida is everywhere ofcourse .

Its like Alice in wonderland

EDIT : Wow Clock , you almost managed to draw me into the premis that legality creates possibility :p

I'm not making this up. It was in the Washington Post.
yes, if it was in the washington post it must be true:p

Originally posted by Rambo
yes, if it was in the Washington Post it must be trueHey, I didn't say it was in the New York TImes.:) They had photos, quotes from eyewitnesses, everything. I suppose I could phone the police in that area for corroboration. Actually I think it happened on the other side of the Virginia state line.