Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. The Exploding Pagers

The Exploding Pagers

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
251 Posts 17 Posters 5.2k Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • George KG Offline
    George KG Offline
    George K
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

    1 Reply Last reply
    • George KG Offline
      George KG Offline
      George K
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      How do you get pagers to explode, unless you have an operative distributing them?

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

      HoraceH LuFins DadL 2 Replies Last reply
      • George KG George K

        How do you get pagers to explode, unless you have an operative distributing them?

        HoraceH Offline
        HoraceH Offline
        Horace
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        @George-K said in The Exploding Pagers:

        How do you get pagers to explode, unless you have an operative distributing them?

        You tell them that Democracy is at stake.

        Education is extremely important.

        1 Reply Last reply
        • George KG George K

          How do you get pagers to explode, unless you have an operative distributing them?

          LuFins DadL Offline
          LuFins DadL Offline
          LuFins Dad
          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          @George-K said in The Exploding Pagers:

          How do you get pagers to explode, unless you have an operative distributing them?

          Battery. I think they have to have
          Figured something out to overload the battery.

          This is some incredible shit. Maybe they really do have weather machines…

          The Brad

          1 Reply Last reply
          • Doctor PhibesD Offline
            Doctor PhibesD Offline
            Doctor Phibes
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.

            I was only joking

            LuFins DadL 1 Reply Last reply
            • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

              I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.

              LuFins DadL Offline
              LuFins DadL Offline
              LuFins Dad
              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              @Doctor-Phibes said in The Exploding Pagers:

              I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.

              Firmware update?

              The Brad

              Doctor PhibesD 1 Reply Last reply
              • jon-nycJ Offline
                jon-nycJ Offline
                jon-nyc
                wrote on last edited by
                #7

                No they had to add explosive to the devices. This was obviously a long planned event.

                And beautiful. Bringing it to them personally in such a targeted way.

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                MikM 1 Reply Last reply
                • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in The Exploding Pagers:

                  I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.

                  Firmware update?

                  Doctor PhibesD Offline
                  Doctor PhibesD Offline
                  Doctor Phibes
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #8

                  @LuFins-Dad said in The Exploding Pagers:

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in The Exploding Pagers:

                  I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.

                  Firmware update?

                  I guess it's theoretically possible, if you could somehow reverse polarity to the battery terminals, but I suspect they've been tampered with in hardware rather than software. You'd also need to make sure only the pagers carried by targets were compromised, how on earth would you do that?

                  I was only joking

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • LuFins DadL Offline
                    LuFins DadL Offline
                    LuFins Dad
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #9

                    Was it simultaneous?

                    The Brad

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    • jon-nycJ Offline
                      jon-nycJ Offline
                      jon-nyc
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #10

                      Seems to have been

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                      1 Reply Last reply
                      • jon-nycJ Offline
                        jon-nycJ Offline
                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #11

                        Apparently hesballah already banned cell phones for its operatives as they were all getting hacked. So they switched to pagers and couriers.

                        Only non-witches get due process.

                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                        George KG 1 Reply Last reply
                        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                          Apparently hesballah already banned cell phones for its operatives as they were all getting hacked. So they switched to pagers and couriers.

                          George KG Offline
                          George KG Offline
                          George K
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #12

                          @jon-nyc said in The Exploding Pagers:

                          . So they switched to pagers and couriers.

                          More medieval tactics, LOL

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                            No they had to add explosive to the devices. This was obviously a long planned event.

                            And beautiful. Bringing it to them personally in such a targeted way.

                            MikM Offline
                            MikM Offline
                            Mik
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #13

                            @jon-nyc said in The Exploding Pagers:

                            No they had to add explosive to the devices. This was obviously a long planned event.

                            And beautiful. Bringing it to them personally in such a targeted way.

                            You like terrorism? We'll show you how it's done.

                            This is such a masterful stroke psychologically. Now none of those bastards will want to be carrying that technology.

                            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            • George KG Offline
                              George KG Offline
                              George K
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #14

                              Some reports are saying that over 1000 were injured.

                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              • jon-nycJ Offline
                                jon-nycJ Offline
                                jon-nyc
                                wrote on last edited by jon-nyc
                                #15

                                I hope there was a 2 second delay between the detonation message and the detonation itself. Long enough for the terrorist to involve his hand in the explosion, not long enough for him to save his balls.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

                                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                                MikM 1 Reply Last reply
                                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                  I hope there was a 2 second delay between the detonation message and the detonation itself. Long enough for the terrorist to involve his hand in the explosion, not long enough for him to save his balls.

                                  MikM Offline
                                  MikM Offline
                                  Mik
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #16

                                  @jon-nyc I’d bet the IDF thought of that. Hope so anyway.

                                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

                                  1 Reply Last reply
                                  • bachophileB Offline
                                    bachophileB Offline
                                    bachophile
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #17

                                    word here is people where all paged with some message, giving a few seconds to look at it, then....surprise...
                                    unconfirmed report that the iranian ambassador to Lebanon also had a pager

                                    1 Reply Last reply
                                    • bachophileB Offline
                                      bachophileB Offline
                                      bachophile
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #18

                                      you gotta admit, its original. not strategically game changing, but letting them feel they are completely transparent to Israeli Luxembourg's intelligence (no official claim of responsibility here)

                                      1 Reply Last reply
                                      • jon-nycJ Offline
                                        jon-nycJ Offline
                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #19

                                        It would seem that the time to do this would be <24 hours before a major escalation.

                                        Any bets?

                                        Only non-witches get due process.

                                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                                        1 Reply Last reply
                                        • bachophileB Offline
                                          bachophileB Offline
                                          bachophile
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #20

                                          its possible....strike while the irons hot

                                          1 Reply Last reply
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Don't have an account? Register

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Recent
                                          • Tags
                                          • Popular
                                          • Users
                                          • Groups