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Preach fellow repair man, preach. That is why I always try to keep at least a couple of decent 400 watt PSUs around, as all kinds of hardware 'problems" could be traced back to those suckers. At the last shop I worked we had one of those PSU multimeters to test, but frankly I found that to be crap. You'd be surprised how many would test fine when first fired up only to get crappy once it had time to heat up. So with PSUs I'm of the "when in doubt, toss it out" mindset. 400 watt PSUs are cheap, and it is better to give the customer a new one that waste the time dealing with one that may be iffy.

The other one that is a royal PITA? Bad drive channel, usually caused by problems with the southbridge. I've found that particular problem in PCs where the ID10T...err customer, left their machine plugged in during an electrical storm (usually straight into the outlet, like it was a toaster) and the PC getting surged. The closest I've found to software tools to check for this is using a combo of Diskcheck along with Spinrite. After I've changed out the PSU (naturally) I make a couple of copies of the customers folders that have plenty of files and use Diskcheck to see if the CRC matches. If it don't I have Spinrite look for bad sectors and if it finds the drive is okay you can pretty much figure that you have a bad channel and the board needs to go. This is of course after already doing Memtest on the RAM and stress testing the CPU.

Another good tool (if you can find a copy) is the Computer Repair Utility Toolkit. This little baby will turn 150Mb of your flash stick into a pretty damned helpful "all in one" kit for removing bugs, finding hardware info, etc. Unfortunately a couple of the FOSS guys didn't like having their tools included in this toolkit (why, since it is free and provided links to their sites I have no clue) so they had it yanked. The only link I was able to find for it is here. This is the V2 or last version, which had even more useful tools than the V1 reviewed above.

While I can understand the desire that the guy that wrote TFA has in finding an "all in one" that will test all the hardware to hunt down those PITA problems, sadly in my 15 years in PC repair I haven't ever found one. If somebody does know of one please post for all us PC repairman out here in the sticks.

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The article does sound rather garish, but considering systems within systems, parallel to systems, and funky classifications invented by paranoid department heads and Dick Cheney coming up with his own stamps with his own classifications of, "Shhh. Don't Tell Anyone" I find it hard to believe that things are nearly so well-ordered as you portray.

Well ordered? Not even! There are so many different overlapping "compartments" with so many incongruous clearance requirements that getting clearance to do any sort of higher level work is often impossible. Classic example: My father worked for a defense contractor as head of a program. A couple years after he retired, they asked him to come back as a contractor to help them out for a couple months. His application for reinstatement of security clearance was rejected because he had spent 6 months in Europe that year and had visited some former eastern bloc countries. The fact that all of the information he was requesting clearance for was stuff he had already seen--- much of it he personally generated--- was irrelevant. The byzantine clearance rules forbade it.

No, the system is definitely screwed up. It just isn't screwed up at the basic level of classifications. That's very simple. All I'm trying to point out is that if people are looking for covert crap, they're looking in the wrong place if they're looking "above top secret".

Do you have any odd memory gaps or personality quirks which you didn't have before you entered the service?

Yeah, I have blackouts associated with many of the times I went out drinking, and I now find I duck when I hear anything that sounds like a gunshot.

Even if there has been zero improvement over the mind control systems used in the Seventies, then chances are you wouldn't even suspect a violation.

After all. . ,

See, they don't need to bother with covert mind control. All the mind control in the military is very overt and ham-fisted.

is posting in widely read public forums to boast about credentials an encouraged activity for a HUMINT Collector?

No, but I don't ever expect to work in the field again, so I say "fuck it". I had access to very little of strategic value. Most of what I did involved highly perishable tactical information (they're over yon hill!). Notice I do not share anything beyond what I did in general, and which country I did it in. And I would hardly call it "boasting", as every 18 year old with a 96-97-98 MOS gets a TOP SECRET security clearance. It's nothing special.

You're fishy as hell regardless of what your real story happens to be, and if you are what you say you are, then you're probably a lot further gone than you realize. You have my sincere condolences if that's the case.

Nutjobs! I am fairly fucked up, but it dint take no mind control rays to do it. I'm not sure what you find "fishy" about some dumbass grunt/bureaucrat whose job it was to interview people in the field, write down what they say, and classify the crap out of the reports so some jerkoff in Kabul could toss it in a file cabinet. I don't know much, but I do know the agony of dealing with classified data. There are a shitload of losers like me out there. It's not a very interesting job. Most classified work is classified for no particular reason other than Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.

The article does sound rather garish, but considering systems within systems, parallel to systems, and funky classifications invented by paranoid department heads and Dick Cheney coming up with his own stamps with his own classifications of, "Shhh. Don't Tell Anyone" I find it hard to believe that things are nearly so well-ordered as you portray.

Do you have any odd memory gaps or personality quirks which you didn't have before you entered the service? Even if there has been zero improvement over the mind control systems used in the Seventies, then chances are you wouldn't even suspect a violation.

After all. . , is posting in widely read public forums to boast about credentials an encouraged activity for a HUMINT Collector?

You're fishy as hell regardless of what your real story happens to be, and if you are what you say you are, then you're probably a lot further gone than you realize. You have my sincere condolences if that's the case.

-FL

Ultrasonics and microwave tech is THE technology which nobody must ever pay attention to, and so idiots like this wine guy are perfect for making a whole area of science look silly in the public eye.

But how could they get a guy to come up with an idea like that and market it all on his own? Gee, that would take some kind of whack technology nobody must ever know about. . .

-FL

It's a nice Saturday, so I thought I'd share some light reading with everybody; I've uploaded in its entirety a copy of Walter Bowart's Operation Mind Control for anybody who wants to read it. (It's a text-searchable PDF scan of the book. Thanks to whoever scanned it.)

This book was derived largely from papers acquired through the FOIA, and it is quite clear about how advanced the military was in the field of mind-control and mind-reading. (Skip ahead to chapter 18 after you take a moment to read the author's forward.) It was also first published back in 1978. . .

In 1975 a primitive "mind-reading machine" was tested at the Stanford Research Institute. The machine is a computer which can recognize a limited amount of words by monitoring a person's silent thoughts. This technique relies upon the discovery that brain wave tracings taken with an electroencephalograph (EEG) show distinctive patterns that correlate with individual words--whether the words are spoken aloud or merely subvocalized (thought of).

The computer initially used audio equipment to listen to the words the subject spoke. (At first the vocabulary was limited to "up," "down," "left," and "right.") At the same time the computer heard the words, it monitored the EEG impulses coming from electrodes pasted to the subject's head and responded by turning a camera in the direction indicated. After a few repetitions of the procedure, the computer's hearing was turned off and it responded solely to the EEG "thoughts." It moved a television camera in the directions ordered by the subject's thoughts alone!

I find that most of the technology is actually terribly simple and straight forward. If it works, it gets developed. It really isn't rocket science. The large portion of Bowart's book is on mind-control through drugs, hypnosis and radio/sonics. Again, very simple concepts but very advanced at the same time; the stuff he talks about makes Joss Whedon's new show, Doll House looks simplistic, and that's writing from the 70's.

"They use hypnosis and hypnotic drugs. They also use electronic manipulation of the brain. They use ultrasonics, which will boil your brain. When they use hypnosis, they'll at the same time be using a set of earphones which repeat 'You do not know this or that,' over and over. They turn on the sonics at the same time, and the electrical patterns which give you memory are scrambled. You can't hear the ultrasonics and you can't feel it, unless they leave it on-- then it boils your gray matter."

Unless the assassin had done the same research I had, he could only have known this through firsthand experience. The CIA documents released in 1976 revealed that ultrasonic research was undertaken for a period of more than twenty years. But the documents said that the research had stopped, so I asked him about that.

"Yeah. The research has stopped. They've gone operational. It ain't research any more. They know how to do it," he said.

-FL

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