Ebay test.

Bored and a little tipsy, and had an odd idea.
Background:
I had found this 7" single vinyl by the side of the road a little while ago.
I have no idea what it is, have never heard of the artist, and so on. Google has hardly heard of them (The Nonce) either.

So, I've decided to put it on ebay! Let's see if some random stranger will pay money for it. (Even if not, the listing fee is only 15 pence)

Roadie for the Kinks

If this works, maybe I'm going to start Ebaying more tatt and kipple that I see lying around...

Or maybe I should just go to bed..

radio hackers my arse.

Radio "hackers" hurl abuse at drive-by customers: That sounds like something we used to do years ago when we were silly teenagers, albeit not with Burger King, but same principle / different companies.

I don't know why it's made the news in this instance.. I'm sure we weren't the only people to do that sort of thing. Radio spectrum licensing is basically publicly available information - you can go to a government website and ask it to tell you who has licenses in a given area, and what frequencies they're licensed on. After that it is trivial to go to that location, and use a transceiver to transmit on their frequency. No companies use encryption.
The best they might use is CTCSS or DCS (sub-audible tones that must be present for the equipment to recognise a signal), but all decent equipment has a scan-mode to detect which tone is present in legitimate broadcasts, and then you can just set that for the transmit mode.

What I'm getting at is that these "radio hackers" are the equivelent of script kiddies. They know where to look for public information and how to use readily available automated tools, but that's it.

It must have been a slow news day if the register felt the need to publish that article.