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Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows

By MARK MAZZETTIJAN. 7, 2014

PHILADELPHIA â" The perfect crime is far easier to pull off when nobody is watching.

So on a night nearly 43 years ago, while Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier bludgeoned each other over 15 rounds in a televised title bout viewed by millions around the world, burglars took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with nearly every document inside.

They were never caught, and the stolen documents that they mailed anonymously to newspaper reporters were the first trickle of what would become a flood of revelations about extensive spying and dirty-tricks operations by the F.B.I. against dissident groups.

The burglary in Media, Pa., on March 8, 1971, is a historical echo today, as disclosures by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden have cast another unflattering light on government spying and opened a national debate about the proper limits of government surveillance. The burglars had, until now, maintained a vow of silence about their roles in the operation. They were content in knowing that their actions had dealt the first significant blow to an institution that had amassed enormous power and prestige during J. Edgar Hooverâ(TM)s lengthy tenure as director.

âoeWhen you talked to people outside the movement about what the F.B.I. was doing, nobody wanted to believe it,â said one of the burglars, Keith Forsyth, who is finally going public about his involvement. âoeThere was only one way to convince people that it was true, and that was to get it in their handwriting.â

Mr. Forsyth, now 63, and other members of the group can no longer be prosecuted for what happened that night, and they agreed to be interviewed before the release this week of a book written by one of the first journalists to receive the stolen documents. The author, Betty Medsger, a former reporter for The Washington Post, spent years sifting through the F.B.I.â(TM)s voluminous case file on the episode and persuaded five of the eight men and women who participated in the break-in to end their silence.

Unlike Mr. Snowden, who downloaded hundreds of thousands of digital N.S.A. files onto computer hard drives, the Media burglars did their work the 20th-century way: they cased the F.B.I. office for months, wore gloves as they packed the papers into suitcases, and loaded the suitcases into getaway cars. When the operation was over, they dispersed. Some remained committed to antiwar causes, while others, like John and Bonnie Raines, decided that the risky burglary would be their final act of protest against the Vietnam War and other government actions before they moved on with their lives.

âoeWe didnâ(TM)t need attention, because we had done what needed to be done,â said Mr. Raines, 80, who had, with his wife, arranged for family members to raise the coupleâ(TM)s three children if they were sent to prison. âoeThe â(TM)60s were over. We didnâ(TM)t have to hold on to what we did back then.â

A Meticulous Plan

The burglary was the idea of William C. Davidon, a professor of physics at Haverford College and a fixture of antiwar protests in Philadelphia, a city that by the early 1970s had become a white-hot center of the peace movement. Mr. Davidon was frustrated that years of organized demonstrations seemed to have had little impact.

In the summer of 1970, months after President Richard M. Nixon announced the United Statesâ(TM) invasion of Cambodia, Mr. Davidon began assembling a team from a group of activists whose commitment and discretion he had come to trust.

The group

So how did the political establishment manage to make reforms in the 70s after this event? That would seem to let the air out of your theory.

And what reforms would those be? I'm only aware of two: 1) Hoover saying "ok we'll stop", and 2) Attorney General Levi establishing a special review committee within the DOJ to notify COINTELPRO victims. Hardly reformative, eh? And it's not without a little irony that the AG's announcement of this "reform" occured on April 1st.

In fact, many argue there were no meaningful reforms in the 70s (or since); the violations of civil rights simply continued undocumented. Among those critics were FBI agents.

But If you are aware of any real reforms. what were they?

I consider this to be a far more serious problem than anything the article mentions and I find it rather shady that they completely avoid this rather serious issue. It isn't like it is an unknown problem. If you run big engines like trains or ships, then you will periodically test the oil for soot (and other stuff related to other defects) to detect faulty piston rings before the engine is wrecked. Anybody working in the engine industry should know this.

What does this remind me of? Oh, yes. New York Times, January 13, 1920.

[...] It is when one considers the multiple- charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt and looks again, to see if the dispatch announcing the professor's purposes and hopes says that he is working under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. It does say so, and therefore the impulse to do more than doubt the practicability of such a device for such a purpose must be--well, controlled. Still, to be filled with uneasy wonder and express it will be safe enough, for after the rocket quits our air and and really starts on its longer journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left. To claim that it would be is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen, so few and fit, are licensed to do that.

That Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react--to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.

I just looked at that list, and cannot see a relevant category.

Try again...

"Obscene and Tasteless - This category will block sites that offer advice on how to commit illegal or criminal activities, or to avoid detection."

Torrentfreak often has articles on using Tor and proxies to hide your online activity (Random pick: this one)

Oh, you were expecting them to be covered under "File sharing"...? Silly rabbit.

Well, for "christmas" we (southern) europeans originally don't have a "Santa". It was assumed Jesus Christ himself brought the gifts ... or someone in his name. But meanwhile the american Santa is conquering here, too :D

Locals do mount considerable resistance in some countries, though.

Interesting how similar he is to the american version, as many people here believe the american version was invented by pepsi cola.

Coca-Cola, rather (hence the red/white suit). But yes, this is an urban legend - red/white costume actually predates the use of those colors in Coke logo, and other companies have also cashed in on the similarity to their logos. The colors are much older, and also likely pagan in nature, especially red (which has the obvious association with blood, linking it back to nature/wood/hunt gods and the associated myths like the Wild Hunt).

And various journals by Roald Amundsen:

http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Amundsen%2C+Roald%2C+1872-1928%22

I don't know about writings, but you might enjoy this video.

Anybody know how to look up more precisely, when it was allocated?

Turns out the URL has changed over time. Knowing what the URL used to be allows looking up earlier versions.

• http://standards.ieee.org/db/oui/oui.txt
• http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
• http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt

The allocation was made between 2010 Aug 08 and 2010 Nov 24.

Anybody know how to look up more precisely, when it was allocated?

Turns out the URL has changed over time. Knowing what the URL used to be allows looking up earlier versions.

• http://standards.ieee.org/db/oui/oui.txt
• http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
• http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt

The allocation was made between 2010 Aug 08 and 2010 Nov 24.

The oldest version of oui.txt I could find is dated 2010. And the allocation was made before that. Which means it has been more than three years since this was news. Anybody know how to look up more precisely, when it was allocated?

regarded by c.s. lewis as his 'master' — contemporaries with lewis carrol — one of the most brilliant fantasy writers ever — george macdonald, 'phantastes' and 'lillith':

http://web.archive.org/web/20131017224627/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=MacPhan.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1

The reported demise of the stick is long overdue, http://www.archive.org/download/whats_wrong_chesterton_librivox/whatswrong_17_chesterton.mp3

Luckily, archive.org has facilities for this; https://ia601001.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/26/items/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

You can view the individual files in the zip file, and download them using the php on archive.org (just add a '/' to the end of the url and it will rewrite to zipview.php...), you don't have to download the entire archive. Also I recommend using https to download either the whole archive or parts of the archive, both because the non-ssl archive.org server stupidly doesn't support resume operations (while the SSL does), and to protect your privacy from copyright trolls who might be spying on you waiting for you to download this archive, which IA has an exemption to distribute, but said exemption might not protect you as the third-party.

I found this technique incredibly frustrating to use in Firefox for huge archives, so I wrote a simple perl script to pull the urls from zipview and grep out the files I wanted in bulk, useful for updating tosec and mame sets from an old version to a new version, a rom-manager will spit out the list of files you need to retrieve and then the script will take that file as input and look for those files in the uri list provided.

I'm not going to post the script here, because it's a pretty trivial thing to figure out, and it probably needs to be adjusted depending on what you are fetching and where you get your list of desired files from.

TLDR: you can get the individual files from the archive here.

captcha: wizard

From Other Files -- torrent, or the generated Magnet

It's still One Big File, but at least you might reduce the load on archive.org. Neighborly, y'know?

Or you could always donate (3 to 1 match until EOY) to help with the upcoming lawsuit. (Oh there'll be one, well, just because. These bits USED to be owned, and I'm sure there are some people who still think they are -- whether they truly are or not.)

From Other Files -- torrent, or the generated Magnet

It's still One Big File, but at least you might reduce the load on archive.org. Neighborly, y'know?

Or you could always donate (3 to 1 match until EOY) to help with the upcoming lawsuit. (Oh there'll be one, well, just because. These bits USED to be owned, and I'm sure there are some people who still think they are -- whether they truly are or not.)

From Other Files -- torrent, or the generated Magnet

It's still One Big File, but at least you might reduce the load on archive.org. Neighborly, y'know?

Or you could always donate (3 to 1 match until EOY) to help with the upcoming lawsuit. (Oh there'll be one, well, just because. These bits USED to be owned, and I'm sure there are some people who still think they are -- whether they truly are or not.)

Archive.org: MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013) 42.8GB zip/torrent

#

that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell rock!

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs
https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013)

MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".

This item is part of the collection: MESS and MAME
https://archive.org/details/messmame

Identifier: MAME_0.151_ROMs
Date: 2013-11
Mediatype: software
Year: 2013
Publicdate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Addeddate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Language: English

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Internet Archive releases hundreds of classic game console ROMs

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/internet-archive-releases-hundreds-of-classic-game-console-roms/

Archive.org: MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013) 42.8GB zip/torrent

#

that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell rock!

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs
https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013)

MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".

This item is part of the collection: MESS and MAME
https://archive.org/details/messmame

Identifier: MAME_0.151_ROMs
Date: 2013-11
Mediatype: software
Year: 2013
Publicdate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Addeddate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Language: English

#

Internet Archive releases hundreds of classic game console ROMs

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/internet-archive-releases-hundreds-of-classic-game-console-roms/

Archive.org: MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013) 42.8GB zip/torrent

#

that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell rock!

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs
https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013)

MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".

This item is part of the collection: MESS and MAME
https://archive.org/details/messmame

Identifier: MAME_0.151_ROMs
Date: 2013-11
Mediatype: software
Year: 2013
Publicdate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Addeddate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Language: English

#

Internet Archive releases hundreds of classic game console ROMs

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/internet-archive-releases-hundreds-of-classic-game-console-roms/

Archive.org: MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013) 42.8GB zip/torrent

#

that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell rock!

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs
https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013)

MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".

This item is part of the collection: MESS and MAME
https://archive.org/details/messmame

Identifier: MAME_0.151_ROMs
Date: 2013-11
Mediatype: software
Year: 2013
Publicdate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Addeddate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Language: English

#

Internet Archive releases hundreds of classic game console ROMs

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/internet-archive-releases-hundreds-of-classic-game-console-roms/

Archive.org: MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013) 42.8GB zip/torrent

#

that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell rock!

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs
https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013)

MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".

This item is part of the collection: MESS and MAME
https://archive.org/details/messmame

Identifier: MAME_0.151_ROMs
Date: 2013-11
Mediatype: software
Year: 2013
Publicdate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Addeddate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Language: English

#

Internet Archive releases hundreds of classic game console ROMs

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/internet-archive-releases-hundreds-of-classic-game-console-roms/

Archive.org: MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013) 42.8GB zip/torrent

#

that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell
that's the jingle bell rock!

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs
https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013)

MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".

This item is part of the collection: MESS and MAME
https://archive.org/details/messmame

Identifier: MAME_0.151_ROMs
Date: 2013-11
Mediatype: software
Year: 2013
Publicdate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Addeddate: 2013-11-23 12:59:45
Language: English

#

Internet Archive releases hundreds of classic game console ROMs

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/internet-archive-releases-hundreds-of-classic-game-console-roms/

https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

MAME 0.151 ROMs (November 2013)

The choice has been made.

https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs

is this even legal!?

https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs.zip

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs

is this even legal!?

California means nothing, it's a word that a novelist made up and appeared as a fictional land in "Las sergas de EsplandiÃfn" - a book which the conquistadores were familiar with, and from which they drew the name.

You appear to be right, the origin I had appears to be a minor and largely discredited theory.

In any case, the premise that it is a 'nothing' word simply because it names a made up land in work of fiction is not convincing. Even if that is its origin, the name likely still means something.

Many authors select names with care, and they are not usually just random collections of sounds. (The exception being modern bad fantasy writers - who seem to delight in just throwing gibberish peppered with random puncuation at the wall.) Anyhow...

I located an interesting article:
http://archive.org/stream/originmeaningofn00davi/originmeaningofn00davi_djvu.txt

Long but interesting, particularly section 33+ where it specifically looks at

"THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF THE NAMES CALIFORNIA AND CALAFIA, AND ASSOCIATED NAMES, IN LAS SERGAS DE ESPLANDIAN AND AMADIS DE GAULA."

Check it out.

a friend pointed this out to me the other day:

  https://archive.org/details/SsMarineElectricWoohSos

Thanks @SnowZero. I have looked at HMMs and in fact I wrote a simplistic decoder version using RubyHMM just to learn more how HMM really works. You would be surprised on the mathematical rigor of the original thesis. Many of the ideas are very relevant today, just much easier to implement with current generation of computers.

The current decoder actually uses Markov Model - the software calculates conditional probabilities based on 2nd order Markov symbol transition matrix. The framework itself allows to add additional components. The de-noising is done by a set of Kalman filters that are used in the first pass before all possible paths are labeled and control is passed to trellis calculation and eventual letter translation.

I am not yet at the stage for overall speed scaling. The algorithm itself needs to work well before I want to pursue scaling this up.

that's what https://archive.org/ is for, I love this site and I've donated money to them, you all should do the same. They may not have everything but I'm able to find sites that used to exist, including some of my own that I inadvertently lost, and recover information.

Back in the day (archive.org is your friend), there were drop downs to select the threshold, flat/nested/no comments (wtf?)/threaded and sort order. Feeling nostalgic? kuro5hin is like a trip back in time...

Comments were paged (50? 100? 250? per page) and the threading really fucked up their multipage logic. (imagine a 10 page article where pages 1-9 are all page 1 and page 10 is page 10) At least they fixed that when they javascriptified.

And of course, the http://archive.org/ deserves a mention.

I guess these kind of services have the best chances of retaining at least something.

This was a major lesson that was learned during the early tube computer era. The best approach was NOT simply swapping out tubes after so many hours "to prevent in-service failures", but periodically running diagnostics checking pulse levels, etc.to identify tubes that were actually starting to slump off.

The failure rate vs life curve for most components (tubes included) has a high initial failure rate (so-called "infant mortality"), followed by a long period of low failure rates, which eventually trends upward at an increasing rate at end-of life. This produces a curve with a flat bottom and 2 peaks at the ends, like a cross-section of a bathtub.

By swapping out tubes before they hit the end of life, you push the entire tube complement in the equipment over toward the "infant mortality" end of the curve, actually INCREASING the failure rate over careful monitoring and replacing only those tubes that are actually starting to fail. All that tube swapping also results in increased failures through the increased handling of the glass tubes (breakage and seal leaks), wear on the sockets from pulling and inserting tubes, etc. The highest equipment uptime was achieved by not actually replacing tubes on a fixed schedule, but by overall system checks to identify and replace individual failing tubes BEFORE they progressed to the point of total failure.

Experience with electronic installations containing tens of thousands of tubes produced a huge amount of statistical data on component reliability, laying the foundations for modern reliability models and MTBF calculations.

A good read from 1960, when all this was being figured out is "Getting the Most out of Vacuum Tubes" by Bud Tomer, available on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/GettingTheMostOutOfVacuumTubes_105

The SAGE computer (AN/USQ-7) was truly mind blowing in scope. IBM produced a very cool movie of the system in operation in 1956 (along with some great cold war propaganda) that is a wonderful time capsule to boot. It shows a scale model of the building that housed the system to allow pointing out where all the pieces were located. My father spent some time as an operator of the huge display scopes at the McChord AFB installation.

Movie here: https://archive.org/details/0772_On_Guard_The_Story_of_SAGE_18_48_05_00

It didn't look that bad in the 1960's:

https://blog.archive.org/2013/12/02/lost-landscapes-benefit/

Maybe something happened between the 1970's and the 1990's?

http://archive.org/web/

I am fully ready to secede from all of the services you have mentioned as soon as that right is recognized for everybody so that we can work together on a voluntary basis to create our own solutions.

I am not a member of the U.S. Libertarian political Party, but their past platform put it well:

Secession The Issue: People are forced to be subject to governments and to participate in their programs, usually as providers of financial support, regardless of their wishes to the contrary. The Principle: As all political association must be voluntary, we recognize the right to political secession. This includes the right to secession by political entities, private groups or individuals. Exercise of this right, like the exercise of all other rights, does not remove legal and moral obligations not to violate the rights of others. Solutions: We support the right of political entities, private groups and individuals to renounce their affiliation with any government, and to be exempt from the obligations imposed by those governments, while in turn accepting no support from the government from which they seceded. Transitional Action: As a transition step, we support the right of political entities, private groups and individuals to renounce their participation in any government program, and to be exempt from the obligations imposed by that program, while in turn accepting no benefit from the program from which they seceded.

You jest, but I'd like to point to this. Somehow I suspect they're no longer available (I really hoped to get the "professional" version).

Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router

By David Hambling Posted 08.01.2012 at 3:28 pm

(THIS ARTICLE IS BEING ARCHIVED VIA 'FAIR USE' ACROSS THE WEB BECAUSE IT'S NO LONGER AVAILABLE THROUGH THE ORIGINAL WEBSITE)

Image: http://web.archive.org/web/20121101091450/http://www.popsci.com/files/wi%20spy%20lightbox.jpg

In the 1930s, U.S. Navy researchers stumbled upon the concept of radar when they noticed that a plane flying past a radio tower reflected radio waves. Scientists have now applied that same principle to make the first device that tracks existing Wi-Fi signals to spy on people through walls.

Wi-Fi radio signals are found in 61 percent of homes in the U.S. and 25 percent worldwide, so Karl Woodbridge and Kevin Chetty, researchers at University College London, designed their detector to use these ubiquitous signals. When a radio wave reflects off a moving object, its frequency changes--a phenomenon called the Doppler effect. Their radar prototype identifies frequency changes to detect moving objects. It's about the size of a suitcase and contains a radio receiver composed of two antennas Âand a signal-processing unit. In tests, they have used it to determine a person's location, speed and direction--even through a one-foot-thick brick wall. Because the device itself doesn't emit any radio waves, it can't be detected.

Wi-Fi radar could have domestic applications ranging from spotting intruders to unobtrusively monitoring children or the elderly. It could also have military uses: The U.K. Ministry of Defence has funded a study to determine whether it could be used to scan buildings during urban warfare. With improvements, Woodbridge says, the device could become sensitive enough to pick up on subtle motions the ribcage makes during breathing, which would allow the radar to detect people who are standing or sitting still.

See image above for how it'll work.

1. MOVING SUBJECT
When Wi-Fi radio waves bounce off a moving object, their frequency changes. If, for example, a person is moving toward the Wi-Fi source, the reflected waves' frequency increases. If a person is moving away from the source, the frequency decreases.

2. REGULAR OL' ROUTER
A Wi-Fi Internet router already in the room fills the area with radio waves of a specific frequency, usually 2.4 or 5 gigahertz.

3. BASELINE SIGNAL
One antenna of the radar system tracks the baseline radio signal in the room.

4. SHIFTED SIGNAL
A second antenna detects radio waves that have reflected off of moving objects, which changes their frequency.

5. PERP, SPOTTED
By comparing the two antennas' signals, the computer calculates the object's location to within a few feet as well as its speed and direction.

BREATHE EASY

Image: http://web.archive.org/web/20131212233946/http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/article_image_large/public/images/2012/07/breathe%20easy.jpg

Breathe Easy

It's possible to detect a person's breathing rate[1] by surrounding him with radio waves. Neal Patwari's wireless engineering group at the University of Utah designed a network of 20 inexpensive

Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router

By David Hambling Posted 08.01.2012 at 3:28 pm

(THIS ARTICLE IS BEING ARCHIVED VIA 'FAIR USE' ACROSS THE WEB BECAUSE IT'S NO LONGER AVAILABLE THROUGH THE ORIGINAL WEBSITE)

Image: http://web.archive.org/web/20121101091450/http://www.popsci.com/files/wi%20spy%20lightbox.jpg

In the 1930s, U.S. Navy researchers stumbled upon the concept of radar when they noticed that a plane flying past a radio tower reflected radio waves. Scientists have now applied that same principle to make the first device that tracks existing Wi-Fi signals to spy on people through walls.

Wi-Fi radio signals are found in 61 percent of homes in the U.S. and 25 percent worldwide, so Karl Woodbridge and Kevin Chetty, researchers at University College London, designed their detector to use these ubiquitous signals. When a radio wave reflects off a moving object, its frequency changes--a phenomenon called the Doppler effect. Their radar prototype identifies frequency changes to detect moving objects. It's about the size of a suitcase and contains a radio receiver composed of two antennas Âand a signal-processing unit. In tests, they have used it to determine a person's location, speed and direction--even through a one-foot-thick brick wall. Because the device itself doesn't emit any radio waves, it can't be detected.

Wi-Fi radar could have domestic applications ranging from spotting intruders to unobtrusively monitoring children or the elderly. It could also have military uses: The U.K. Ministry of Defence has funded a study to determine whether it could be used to scan buildings during urban warfare. With improvements, Woodbridge says, the device could become sensitive enough to pick up on subtle motions the ribcage makes during breathing, which would allow the radar to detect people who are standing or sitting still.

See image above for how it'll work.

1. MOVING SUBJECT
When Wi-Fi radio waves bounce off a moving object, their frequency changes. If, for example, a person is moving toward the Wi-Fi source, the reflected waves' frequency increases. If a person is moving away from the source, the frequency decreases.

2. REGULAR OL' ROUTER
A Wi-Fi Internet router already in the room fills the area with radio waves of a specific frequency, usually 2.4 or 5 gigahertz.

3. BASELINE SIGNAL
One antenna of the radar system tracks the baseline radio signal in the room.

4. SHIFTED SIGNAL
A second antenna detects radio waves that have reflected off of moving objects, which changes their frequency.

5. PERP, SPOTTED
By comparing the two antennas' signals, the computer calculates the object's location to within a few feet as well as its speed and direction.

BREATHE EASY

Image: http://web.archive.org/web/20131212233946/http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/article_image_large/public/images/2012/07/breathe%20easy.jpg

Breathe Easy

It's possible to detect a person's breathing rate[1] by surrounding him with radio waves. Neal Patwari's wireless engineering group at the University of Utah designed a network of 20 inexpensive

I don't mean to suggest that any of the conspiracy theories are accurate, but the BBC did, in fact, report WTC 7's collapse before it happened. They've basically admitted as much:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/03/part_of_the_conspiracy_2.html

See also: https://archive.org/details/bbc200109111654-1736

The BBC erroneously reported the collapse at 4:53 p.m., as acknowledged in the above-linked article. The actual collapse occurred at 5:20 p.m., as confirmed by FEMA: http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_ch5.pdf

At the time of the BBC's report, however, WTC 7 had been on fire for some time, and was already in danger of imminent collapse, so I don't find it too hard to believe that they simply made an honest mistake in the midst of all the confusion.

It actually points to something rather important that's not being mentioned in all this talk about SpaceX vs Blue Origin in the context of competition for government support.

I'm left standing here, at a loss for words.

You've returned the favor.

I'm gonna go read your link now, as I suspect it can't be a bad read.

Of that work, Voltaire said:

No one will ever write anything more wise, more true, or more useful. From now on, those whose ambition it is to give men instruction, to provide them with precepts, will be charlatans if they want to rise above [it], or will all be [its] imitators.

The Perseus version of de Officiis (On Duties) was merely convenient. Loeb has a more recent translation, and Loebs strive for readability. The older 1913 Loeb edition may be found here for free. Book III discusses the relationship between advantage and the good, but the whole is worth reading, which is to say it is worth reading more than once. I hope you enjoy it.

you'd be surprised then to learn the Linux kernel has a truckload of it. It's a valid construct with specific application. You can even read Mr. Torvalds' opinion about GOTO statements

I've slept on a junky bed in the cold in my life too (during winter in Pittsburgh with a 40 minute slog through the snow each way to CMU where I was hanging out at the robotics institute, not able to afford to pay for much heat). I think you missed my point, or I obviously was not clear enough about it. Remember, this is in the context of a Nobel prize-winning scientist saying no one would hire him if he were starting today. The original poster says he or she needs a degree (at great personal cost) to make a difference in the world (including to make a meaningful life from that by contributing to science). I point out how I got a fancy degree and it really does not help that much in doing meaningful work. It certainly could have helped me make a lot of money most likely hurting other people in some monopolistic/cronyistic way (like via the FIRE sector of the economy where lots of Princeton grads go), but I was not into that way of life.

As for science, ignoring most colleges flunk out half their freshman class ultimately, consider this:
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
"Why does anyone think science is a good job?
The average trajectory for a successful scientist is the following:
age 18-22: paying high tuition fees at an undergraduate college
age 22-30: graduate school, possibly with a bit of work, living on a stipend of $1800 per month
age 30-35: working as a post-doc for $30,000 to $35,000 per year
age 36-43: professor at a good, but not great, university for $65,000 per year
age 44: with (if lucky) young children at home, fired by the university ("denied tenure" is the more polite term for the folks that universities discard), begins searching for a job in a market where employers primarily wish to hire folks in their early 30s
This is how things are likely to go for the smartest kid you sat next to in college. He got into Stanford for graduate school. He got a postdoc at MIT. His experiment worked out and he was therefore fortunate to land a job at University of California, Irvine. But at the end of the day, his research wasn't quite interesting or topical enough that the university wanted to commit to paying him a salary for the rest of his life. He is now 44 years old, with a family to feed, and looking for job with a "second rate has-been" label on his forehead.
Why then, does anyone think that science is a sufficiently good career that people should debate who is privileged enough to work at it? Sample bias."

If you want to make a difference in the world or even just in your own life, you have to just go out and do something of healthy value to the world (or at least yourself). But that is not what much of academia claims and the original poster seems to feel that he or she is being scammed by academia but can do nothing about it Thus the cake (diploma) is a lie (in many cases). I know -- I got a good piece of that "cake", but it still wasn't very filling or very healthy. Did it have some benefits? Sure. But it is also quite possible I would have done better in life without college (and especially pursuing grad school) at all, because they were great opportunity costs, great financial costs, and such experiences were also in many ways disempowering.

Or for a different perspective, words from someone who chose to become a carpet cleaner to have a good interesting life:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030206110440/http://www.unconventionalideas.com/bstcarer.html
"...
The point is that as a professional carpet cleaner, I don't need to look very far for challenge and stimulation. No, the work isn't easy, and can be physically demanding, but as you will gather from my descriptions, it isn't all repetitive drudgery either.
Many people get misled when seeking a career. They turn their backs on work which is supposedly beneath the ability o

The recount only covered 175,000 of the 6 million votes. It only counted 'marked or blemished ballots'. They arranged the ballots so confusingly that 113,000 people voted for two people at the ballots. 79,000 chose Gore and a minor candidate, and 29k chose Bush and a minor candidate. (don't know how many chose both Bush and Gore but I should think blue and red are easier to tell apart)

http://web.archive.org/web/20040820122543/http://www.norc.org/fl/results/media/mediagroup_readme.txt

Even at that stage, the recounts drove down Bush's end result by nearly 400 points from 537 to 154

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12623-2001Nov11.html

They also arranged the ballots so confusingly that 113,000 people voted for two people at the ballots. 79,000 chose Gore and a minor candidate, and 29k chose Bush and a minor candidate. (don't know how many chose both Bush and Gore but I should think blue and red are easier to tell apart).

http://www.issues2000.org/Florida_Recount_Official.htm

Realistically, the Supreme Court ended things for a number of reasons. Firstly, if we had found out that Florida was cheated, then the whole integrity of the voting system, and public confidence in it, would have been shattered. Secondly, Bush had just been granted executive power over the Courts anyway.

Also, whilst the NSA have existed during Obama's watch, he certainly wasn't he person who put PRISM in place. Bush put PRISM together. First he tried to use the Protect America Act in 2005, then when he found that the wiretapping hole still wasn't open for the internet he later amended the FISA act despite a lot of resistance. Without those changes in law PRISM would have never been legal. Granted, Obama re-signed it, but at that point in time PRISM would have kept on running whether or not it was legal.

Source: Protect America Act: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1216-01.htm
(That's actually a NYT report, but NYT pulled it from their site in 2007) See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qYGbieoMM for lawsuits

Source FISA Amendments: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/20/ST2008062001087.html Resistance: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/06/26/senate.fisa/

That's flat-out wrong.

Nope, it's the flat-out truth. You're just repeating what's become urban legend since the story first broke a decade ago.
 

They absolutely were intended to prevent a rogue launch, and were mandated by the president of the US at the time, JFK, because he specifically wanted to prevent anyone in the military from being able to launch without his order.

Have you ever actually read National Security Action Memorandum 160? (As referenced in the article.) It only applies to weapons released to NATO, not to weapons in US custody. There not one shred of evidence that JFK, or any other US President, ever mandated their use on US based missiles. (Oddly enough though, the Titan II had a use-control system that was active throughout it's service life.) The whole story that they were so mandated rests solely on an undocumented claim that Robert McNamara "saw to" the installation of the PAL systems. (It remains unclear to this day when, and by who, the systems actually were mandated.)

well, it should have been "big d*ck"; because well, that was what the nukes were all about.

Yes indeed! Big Duck (and Cover) (SFW)

Anyone remember that old pre-Match.com-bought OkCupid analysis using Match.com's own #s showing they had a lower marriage rate than the general population?

I think you mean this (courtesy of user "mib" a little farther down).

Read, be enlightened. Why you should never pay for online dating, a blog entry from the founder of OKCupid (via the wayback machine since it was pulled when they got bought out by for-pay dating site match.com):

http://web.archive.org/web/20101006104124/http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dating/