[V8] V8 musings.

[Greg Furstenwerth]

Thats why you stick the fone in ye olde good copper mesh bag.. or is it 
bronze? I cant remember anyway it totally blocks RF :)

As for the A8 nav system from what I was told its all information stored 
on a DVD that you can actually turn off the sat communications and just 
use it as a map. As per Barrier Motors this is what you could do.

Buchholz, Steven wrote:
> ... but that's not the way the nav system works ... the computer in your car uses the satellites to figure out where it is ... no satellite is aware of your location ...
>
> ... if you want to get creeped out ... got a cell phone?  Newer cell phones are required to have GPS receivers in them ... here in the USA anyway ... and they *are* able to transmit their actual location ... perhaps even when the phone is turned off ... 
>
> Steve B
> San José, CA (USA)
>
> In point of fact I am skeptical that the phone will report a location when it is turned off ... I just read an article about stupid mistakes made by CIA operatives when they were "afield" and it indicated that certain agents left the batteries in their cell phones and that it wasn't enough to turn them off to prevent tracking them ... 
>
>   
>> thanks...and besides, though I'm not overly paranoid, I don't like the idea
>> that somewhere up in space, a satellite can figure out exactly where I am at
>> any given point. That creeps me out.
>>     
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