Re: Hollywood and Alarm Systems

["Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I still like the "laser beams" effect best. That shows two areas where
knowledge is missing from Hollywood's depictions. First with alarm
technology and secondly with basic physics. I can remember in college
physics using a Kundts tube to study nodes and anti nodes. Later when doing
lasers it was easy to see why an otherwise solid beam of light would visibly
appear and then disappear. So even in the attempt to make it look real, a
true laser beam would not display as a solid beam of light uniform from end
to end. There would be spots where it would be visible and areas where it
would disappear.

"I brive a dus" <alarminstall@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Eddie Murphy used the foil from chewing gum as a magnet in Beverly
> Hills Cop.
> Another movie showed a guy spray paint the lens on the motion. Ocean's
> Twelve they launched an apparatus via harpoon from the roof of a
> building, across the street, through a window, and directly onto the
> victim's keypad. Then they disarmed the system using the gizmo mounted
> to the keypad. Absolute Power with Clint Eastwood was another doozy.
> It's Hollywood. Nothing is supposed to make sense. Hollywood is where
> 6 shooters never need reloading.
>
>
> On Jan 13, 3:58 pm, "ABLE_1" <royboynos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hey everybody, I just came back from seeing the movie "National
Treasure".
> > (Yea I know I am a little late)  Anyhow there is the part when they have
30
> > seconds to disarm the security system in the house of the love interest.
> >
> > Anyhow, (if you saw it) did you notice that it was a NX-148E Keypad.
> >
> > And did you notice that by removing the cover the circuit board, keys
and
> > display still hang on the wall.
> >
> > And did you notice that a couple of alligator clips and something the
size
> > of 9 volt battery attached to the top left corner of the keypad cracked
the
> > code in less than 30 seconds.
> >
> > Now I want me one of them things.    Or maybe that is one of those
thingies
> > that was being discussed a while
> > back..............................................
> >
> > If you did not see the movie I hope this did not spoil it for you.
> >
> > Have a good week.
> >
> > Les
>