OT Electronics Help

[tom]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Tim wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:09 +0000, g wrote:
>> wireless can be 802 wireless network or dedicated frequency band.
>
> I can see it now, the neighbour hood script kiddy spending hours hacking
> into the neighbours wireless LAN, only to be able to turn the garden
> sprinklers on and off...  ;-)
>
> Of course, if you had multiple sprinklers, all individually controlled,
> there could be fun in sequencing them in a bizarre pattern.
>
>
Now I seem to recall somewhere in the western US something like that 
happens with big irrigation systems. The case I _think_ I remember 
involved the theft of the system, which then "called home".