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Aluminum Foil Hats Will Not Stop "Them"
Otter writes "A study at MIT has found that aluminum foil headwear ("Among a fringe community of paranoids..the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals") actually amplifies certain frequency bands allocated to the US government, as well as a mobile phone range, and is largely ineffective through the rest of the radio spectrum. But we can we trust the study, or are They controlling the researchers?"
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
That was highly appropriate.
What the hell?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
still wear mine every day.
out of focus can be just the same as blocked for purposes of radio wave transmission.
two much gain means a lot of signal noise.
besides, I wear a lead skull cap myself, keep my hair shaved so that I can be in constant contact with the metal of the cap..
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
I knew it all along. They WANTED us to wear foil hats to amplify their spy rays.
Certain psychotic people seem to focus on the aluminum hat / radio waves are controlling me thing. It is quite universal. What is it that makes it a common theme ?
All the thinfoil did is making it worse. It was their plan all along.
This is totally insecure, but very convenient.
It has to be TIN foil.
Now, this is the type of information we all come to slashdot for.....
Lies! All lies! THEY are trying to trick you into taking it off! And it's not paranoia if everyone really is out to get you!
Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
They have to get me out of this bunker first!
The aluminum hat is part of our comprehensive new anti-terror methods. You never know where they will strike next! Anyone could be a terrorist--your neighbor, your grandmother, even your dog! That's why we're encouraging every Patriotic American to give these little hats as presents to anyone they think might be suspicious this Christmas. Pay special attention to anyone mumbling incomprehensibly, as this could be the dreaded Muslim prayer before attempting to destroy small town America!
Yesss!!! But .. uuh .. did they paint their hats an off shade of GREEN??!?!
.. and.. and .. bounce off of me..
Then the signals think that I'm a tree
Kinda like my WiFi connection..
= Grow a brain...
Brains....
That's why we need to protect our precious bodily fluids.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
woot
-John
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Everyone knows that you need to put the shiny side on the outside to reflect the signals. Obviously, this guy put the dull side out and it absorbed the signal...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
It's aluminium actually. Now drive on the right side of the road dammit!
Drill baby drill - on Mars
[AOL VOICE]
You've got a tumor!
[/AOL VOICE]
I've tried to stay low, but They kept finding me. I've got one last trick up my sleeve though-my cling wrap skivvies. Let's see them beam through those...
Great, vi vs. emaacs wasn't enough. Bring on the *foil-hat zealotry!
I was only helping them?
*Crumples tin foil hat into tin foil ball*
Maybe it's not that people wear tin foil hats because they are paranoid, but that they turn paranoid after wearing these tin foil hats. After all, anyone who believes much of what the US government has been saying for the last few years is bound to be so paranoid they're living in a bunker by now.
http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html But what about the GWEN towers?
I thought that the whole point of the exercise was to submit to control.
You really should try it. It's quite liberating to submit to anothers control.
Don't you feel better whenever you hit the 'Submit' button on Slashdot?
SUBMIT DAMN YOU! I TOLD YOU TO SUBMIT!!
I posted this the last time aluminum foil hats was brought up.
Everyone knows that aluminum did not exist before 1992. It was at that time that the Reynolds corporation made a bid to take over the US Government. Reynolds, an alliance between the city of Marina Del Rey and Tom Arnold (look it up, I don't use Google because they track my searches) began producing "anti Illuminati medium" or a-lumin-um by extracting the "conductivity" from steel, a naturally occuring mineral.
Reynolds knew that the CIA and FBI were using mind control through the "cable networks" to persuade the population to upgrade to HBO, the mouthpiece for the Masonic Order of the Illuminati.
You all just think you remember aluminum existing before 1992 because you do not wear your beanies, and have been influenced by HBO. Still need proof? Consider these facts:
1. If you travel outside the US, you will find that no other countries use or have heard of aluminum. (England has something similar called aluminium, which was developed in tandem by Margaret Thatcher's shadow government.)
2. If you travel to another country and they say that they have aluminum, you have not actually travelled to another country, but are on a HBO-enduced mind control trip.
3. Aluminum does not get hot in the oven. I've made thousands of fish sticks in the years after 1992, and no matter how badly I burn them, I can always lift them by the corners of the aluminum foil I placed them on.
I'm not taking mine off until more research is done!
(Not that I'll trust that research, either)
...... knew that the tin hats controlled you all along.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Just make some sort of hat out of old cell phones that are modified to transmit at full power. Seems pretty safe to me.
They Live!!!
Those two researcher chicks from the Reynolds Wrap commercials (in actuality the R&D architects for Area 51, deploying the "Hide in Plain Sight" tactic).
"Made up/misattributed quote that makes me look smart. I am on
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Oh, you mean Dupes!
I swear I already read this, but I can't find it.
They must have removed the article.
*cower*
To debunk this research, they didn't do a proper study, just sat an emittor inside a beanie and tried to pick up the signal.
Brain waves are at a much lower level, so the thin shiny foil will reflect them back inwards.
I'm sure if they had done the same test using thicker foil it wouldve worked and blocked the signal properly.
Mind you, don't listen to my advice, do your own tests to be certain.
liqbase
Yes, it's true tinfoil hat crowd, you were duped by the same Government in which you despise. Do not fear, I have a solution: the plastic bag helmet. This new plastic bag helmet provides an almost instant solution to your worries, a death induced by suffocation. This new technique is THE MOST EFFECTIVE means of ending anyone's paranoid delusions. Noone will want to spy on you if you are not alive. Just remember to 'follow the light' when you are slipping into the afterlife, in God we trust.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
You need one of these.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
.... to pass the time between Google posts.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
... they do Nothing!
Who is John Cabal?
The amplification allows the researchers to focus their brainwaves and uplink to 'their' satellites and subsequently back to what 'they' believe are 'their' own so-called command and control centers in order to control 'them.'
Unfortunately, the process itself renders 'them' incapable of recognizing the delicious irony of their newly inverted state.
The masons are part of the Illuminati and we all know they control the CIA. Good grief man get your facts right.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
We ARE driving on the right side. You're the ones driving on the left side.
Mmmm.. Donuts
While tin isn't used much anymore food wrapping, tin is the prefered metal. They only tested aluminum in the experiment!
www.fark.com
Besides tin foil hats not looking cool - unless you are an ubergeek - now it turns out that they do not even work.
As expected. I you beleive in earth radiation - the bad one, cats like - you suspected that putting an upside down parabolic antenna is not a good idea.
Of course in that case you already have upside down plates under your bed, crystals on edges of furniture, and you unplug everything whenever possible.
Time to design a wearable faraday cage.
Imageine a faraday hat! Probably it would look like a darkage torture device such as the one in 13th Ghost on the big guy's head, but never mind.
Hell, i'll make my cell phone wear one then!
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
What did you expect? A dating site?
Only a total newbie would trust aluminum foil. Which is why us true paranoids always wear full copper-mesh body-suits. Faraday-cage appearal - the chain-mail for a new generation.
Researchers found that a better way to prevent mind control came from a different alloy that can be permanently attached to the head. They have devised "tripods" that can "cap" children when they reach a certain age. Researchers believe this will sufficiently prevent any mind control.
Any self-respecting paranoid knows you don't use aluminum precisely *because* it amplifies certain frequencies. That's why you use tin foil for your hats.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
A: Yes. Especially if you shape them like a dunce's cap.
This has got to be the lowest rated thread in /. history.
Goes to show how many brilliant comics exist in the Tin Foil Hat community. Not many guys on the stand-up circuit with a phaser on their belt.
The truly paranoid will disbelieve this research as conspiracy backed FUD/disinformation. Hearing voices coming from radios and TVs telling you to do stuff is classic paranoid schizophrenic behaviour..
People refusing to take responsibility for their own actions is one of the world's biggest problems IMO.. e.g. "It's not my fault I'm an angry/unhappy/crazy person. It was the government, it was my parents, it was my 4th grade piano teacher, Ms Thompson... it was my neighbour's dog Sam."
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Susan Sontag
To have rabbit ears on a television knows this already.
im glad to see that this is what the researchers at MIT are doing...
it's the ALUMINUM ones that don't work!
the study is very misleading, implying that aluminum-foil hats (which everyone knows are useless) are equivalent to tin-foil hats.
you see? it's TIN-foil hats that protect you from the government's spy rays and the RFID chip they planted in your skull when they kidnapped your pregnant mom.
The difference between Theory and Practice is greater in Practice than in Theory.
[Mitch Taylor speaking through the microphone so that Kent hears voices in his head]
Mitch: And from now on, stop playing with yourself.
Kent: It is God.
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Our first hat was a stainless steel mixing bowl. GPS reception continued. We were even able to get WAAS and Omnistar HP lockup with the mixing bowl on top of the antenna.
An actual tinfoil hat cut off more of GPS, but we could still get "single" GPS signals, although not the corrections for Omnistar.
So the radiolocation bands really do get through.
Please let me be among the first to congratulate these researchers for winning next year's IgNobel prize for Physics.
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
Which is why the real paranoid can easily be identified from the chain or copper wire attached to his foil hat that trails behind him.
Synthetic fabric carpets prevent the grounding effect of the wire, and you'll notice these carpets are standard issue in government building. Coincidence? I think not.
--
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In my extensive history of attempted blocking of radio waves i have found the best foil is
8 8*
U.S. Foil Co pre 1924 manufactured foil.
This is a foil of a tin lead mixture.
It is very hard to get as I have scoured the united states for almost my whole life in search of this foil.
I only release this information now as I have stockpiles of foil to last me 6 lifetimes.
The following code is to disrupt the HBDFH scanners that the goverment implimented in 1988. Use this code in all your online messages
UYG8756obP(867rvI&O*&Z(*%*INLI&%%%%%%%%%888*888*8
I'm still waiting for the Civil War of 2005. I've got my bike wheels and canned food ready.
Douglas Quaid knows that only a wet towel will stop them. This is what you get for doubting Quaid!
I recall a recent slashdot post explaining that the Tinfoil hats had to avoid DIRECT CONTACT with the head, otherwise they'd act as an antenna.
Do we see any kind of INSULATION between the tinfoil and the head in this picture (taken from TFA) ?
No!
So I propose the following experiment:
Get an AM/FM radio with telescopic antenna. Turn it on. Make sure the antenna is completely vertical.
Get some electrically-isolating material around it, like cardboard or plastic, or polyurethane foam.
Put a roll of tinfoil paper over the cardboard and cover the antenna.
TOP-DOWN VIEW: ( . )
The . is the radio, the ( ) is the tinfoil
Now, for experiment 2, grab a small cable and connect the tinfoil to the antenna. If you can solder it, the better.
Is the signal amplified?
For experiment 3, disconnect the cable and touch the tinfoil. What happens to the signal?
Now for the tinfoil hat experiment:
Cover ALL the tinfoil with plastic, and then glue it to make the hat. Then cover the insides of your plastic+tinfoil hat with polyurethane foam, and THEN do the experiments in TFA.
Sloppy experimentation; they forgot to factor in the presence/absence of metal fillings... my Uncle always said that's how they were trying to control his mind.
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
But is this going to lead to more crazy cell phone boosters?
..is who's behind motivating some of America's so-called "greatest minds" to waste their time investigating such pointless pursuits, when there are soft drink machines in dorm buildings, whose current inventory of Mountain Dew is not known.
The "tin-foil" hat cliche is designed to predjudice and ridicule any one who doesn't by the mainline story. Go google aboyt COINTELPRO and CIA+"Mighty Wurlitzer" or the real dirt on MK-Ultra or Franklin+Bonacci.
You'd wish tin-foil did work.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
Now take a time-out and go sit in the corner. You'd better behave or the terrorists will get you!
Maybe. What are you wearing? ;-)
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
With that arrangement you're going to get very strange and impossible readings. Just like they got: a 100x amplification. There's no way a symettrical ring of foil, Aluminum, Tin, or Gadolidium can focus Em waves by a factor of 100.
So we have a bogus experiment of a bogus concept. Do two B's make a right?
"Aluminum hats will not foil them"...
that's what THEY would have you believe!
The real reason you want a foil hat isn't to keep THEM from hearing you, it's to prevent mind control. The hat amplifies your brain waves locally, making it harder for THEM to use their interference rays.
If you need extra help, consider a Faraday Cage to remove all external interference. This can help you track down whether your brain implant is operational, too. Sure, it's like being in a prison, but at least it's one of your own devising.
leadfoil hats. just combine with mercury to make it rigid. spray on some plastic skin to prevent poisoning.
EVIL SPACE LICHENS!!!!
Don't bother clicking you read it already. I know this because the Space Lichen King told me so.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
All your TFH needs is "Speed Holes"
This
I'm still going to keep my vents duct-taped shut with plastic wrap until a study proves that this doesn't actually keep chemical and biological agents from seeping into my home. ...And I'm still going to avoid all contact with water.
NOOOO! Don't listen to him. He's trying to get you to put the dull side inside the cap so that your brain waves are amplified and easier to detect by the government mind reading machines! You need a two layer TFH with shiny on the inside AND out!!! It keeps the brain waves in and the mind control waves out! Everyone KNOWS that! Everyone knows...
Is this study government funded?
I will only believe in an anti-foil study if I see one sponsored by Reynolds.
Does this mean that the foil covers on passports (and likely at some point licenses) wont work ?
Anyone study that lovely thought ?
It's TIN foil hats, thank you very much. They work just FINE! Makes you wonder why there's only aluminum foil these days, huh? Not like the good OLD DAYS?
KINDA MAKES YOU WONDER!! YEAH!!!!
And here I thought it was just about getting free burritos...h tml
http://www.chipotle.com/email/05-booUS/boobahbee.
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A tinfoil hat and a smile, baby ;-)
A study at MIT has found that aluminum foil headwear...actually amplifies certain frequency bands
Seriously, they call it a tinfoil hat for a reason, and the reason is not 'cause it's made out of aluminum.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
the united earth communist illuminati goverment or USA has been WANTING its PEOPLE to wear aluminum foil devices like this for JUST THAT PURPOSE of infiltrating your mind with their ELECTO-FLOURIDE rays that PRODUCE SAME EFFECT as water flouride supply like in toothpaste to control YOUR mind with the ALUMINUM FOIL acting like antenna! WAKE UP PEOPLE the communazi party of JUDAS has MK ULTRA SATELITES trained on us and our CHILDREN right now!!! They tried to stop me once in 1998 when they LIED TO MY EX WIFE and she had me put in HOSPITAL but i wont let them get me down! i've invested my SMALL FORTUNE in exposing these truths i sent the letter to MIT 5 years ago but they were BLIND AND STUPID by the government but now they finally had NO CHOICE but to listen!!! Government tries to stop me EVERY DAY by sending cars to drive by and honk their horn but i'm an AMERICAN CITIZEN and they can't stop my rights!!! They got the DMV to shut down my license because AMERICAN CITIZEN shouldn't have to pay fees or SLAVERY TAX to drive my car!!! WAKE UP you are oppressed by evil communist illuminati government RIGHT NOW! dont wear aluminum foil hats and INVEST IN GOLD before coming MIND APOCOLYPS!!!!
From Monster of course!
...everyone's fascination with aluminum siding in the 50's! Boy those government guys sure were smart back then!
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
They are liars! They are just saying that so you'll take the tin foil hats off and they can mess with the inside of your heads!!! *duct tapes tin foil hat on*
Why are you looking here...hmm? The eye is watching you, citizen!
Buy some aluminum foil. Take the whole role, and scrunch it into a ball. Said ball will absorb the mind control rays for you. Wear it as a necklace on a plastic string. voila! Fashionable and mind control free accessorization.
Is is possible to make a Faraday Cage out of tinfoil? We'd be able to keep out hats then!!!
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/gwen-haarp-satell ite-gps-emf-control-grid.htm
Damn, tinfoil is no good? Guess I need to switch to my lead lined hat now. And a neck brace.
This was an attempt by the government to kill off those of us aware of the true nature of things! Think about it!
Tinfoil - Free, cheap, non-toxic (Unless you eat it to absorb its properties.. but those people are just crazy).
What's the alternative? Why LEAD of course! It blocks everything! But simply wearing it on our heads..That can be lethal! The lead will permeate the skin on our skulls and give us lead poisoning directly in our brains! And it ain't cheap either! How can I continue to afford to stock up on freeze-dried astronaut food??! And don't even get me going about how heavy it is.. My head could snap clear off my spine because of the weight!
Damn you, government sponsored scientists! You've FOILED our plans again!
There should be a Catch-22 for the IgNoble Prize. If you're obvioulsy trying to win it, it shouldn't count.
Whats next are you gonna tell it really wasn't His Noodly appendage that touched me?
~~"Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." ~~Dennis Miller
*mock shock*
/., that *never* happens here... *rolls eyes*
A leftie comment is modded up to its highest level because it attacks Bush.
NOOOoo not on
Not only is MindGaurd a FOSS compatible with GNU/Linux but its technologically light years ahead of your quaint little tinfoil hats.
uh, these guys promised me it would: http://zapatopi.net/afdb . They said the AFDB would protect me from mind control. Can I sue?
You can only seem Them with these special glasses.
Hello? Is this thing on?
If you are wearing an ungrounded foil cap, then, well, you get what you deserve.
I've said too much.
This is hardly news. Anyone living far away from a broadcast tv/radio station knows that wrapping crumpled up tinfoil around the antenna will noticably improve reception.
We did it to the "bunny ears" all the time to help get rid of that little bit extra fuzz (sticking a coat hanger into the end of the antenna also helped)
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Sidious: Lord Vader can you hear me? ...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!...
Vader: Yes, Master? Where is my tinfoil hat? Is it allright? Is it safe?
Sidious: It seems in your paranoia you've overrated it, it's completely useless you frickin' idiot!
Vader: What!?... I shouldn't have!...
I've been trying forever to get people to notice: ALCOA (Alien Corporate Alliance) has been trying to wipe out our supply of Tin for the past several decades. This is a vast conspiracy to deny us of the only material that will protect us from the mind control rays. Right now, the only true safety headgear available is a genuine, vintage macrame beer can hat. Get them from Ebay and hide them until the Revolution comes, brothers.
No shit
Here's an explanation of who They are.
http://www.stopabductions.com/
These guys have know since 1998 that tinfoil does not stop telepathy.
I thought those Harvard folk were supposed to be bleeding edge...I'm goin to Stanford!
Jeesh, everyone knows your sopposed to use Lead hats.
The electromagnetic waves, while reflected by the aluminum, can pass through the face and neck to reach the brain. Once inside, the aluminum hat can act like an amplifying cavity, which probably explains the experimental results obtained.
The answer is of course to cover yourself entirely with foil. Head to toe, no gaps. Kind of an anti-EM body condom.
Excuse me, I'm off to the grocery store for supplies...
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
Well, it's a good thing my hat is made out of tin foil and not aluminum foil.
What?
Now what do we make our hats out of??? Is there no way to stop them!?
It's not just the left anymore, junior. The nincompoop has continually lessening support from his own party because of his radical, illegal, dishonest and irresponsible execution of office.
Hats shmats, this does NOTHING about the microphones the aliens hide in your fillings and the wires up the back of your nose.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
The government now opiates the prolitariate with a much more effective substance known as beer.
-- Each tock of the Planck clock is a new world and here we are still life. --
Your foil hat will only work if you properly ground it.
So, you need to run a wire from your hat down to your shoes and use antistatic shoe straps to ground yourself. It will also work better when the ground is wet.
I guess foil hat wearers will have no problem wetting themselves, they just need to funnel it down, since having wet pants won't help, they need wet shoes...
Oh well, what the hell...
HOLY CRAP!
i thought that my parody comment was paranoid!
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
Finally, all the jokes about how funny I look in my solid lead helmet will stop!
of Tin compels you, the power of tin compels you
The tinfoil hat may not stop radio waves but its ease of construction qualifies it as a great design, at a tiny (tinny?) fraction of the cost of effective RF shielding.
... so save those old tapes and floppys -- but best of all, core planes from a '60's vintage mainframe (you DID keep them, didn't you!)
Come on now...If this advanced civilization can travel through space - bend space and time - do you really think a tinfoil hat will do ANYTHING???
Tin-foil sales surging up...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
there is no text here
By amplifying the signal to those receptive to it, you burn out the spectrum via noise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritalin
It is NOT aluminum foil that protects you, it is iron chain mail. If you look back in history you can clearly see that as the number of knights diminishes, the number of "so-called" schizophrenic people increases! Why you may ask?
Chain mail was invented back during the first alien invasion by the race known as the Krew. At that time the aliens only used their mind control devices upon the leading members of society, i.e. the nobles, causing them to talk to themselves. This is why the nobility adopted chain mail.
With the protection afforded by said chain mail, the nobility decided to strike back. This is where the world Cru-sades comes from as the etymology clearly shows. First we have the Cru From the latin CRU or cross. Is it a coinicidence that the cross( a symbol of protection against evil) and the Krew have the same in latin? I think not!
It becomes more apparent when one looks at the second half of the word: SADE
As you can clearly see, SADE in swedish is the past tense of saga, "say, tell; utter words"
So the true definition becomes clear, CRUSADE - to protect against alien influence causing one to utter words!!!
Service guarantees Citizenship! Questions Guarantee GITMO.... Amerika Uber Alles!
Psychic Attack and Saran Wrap:
How to Defend Yourself Against Psychic Attack and Stressful Situations That Leave You Drained by Psychic Vampires.
It's important to remember that there is more than just the government out there to get you. Plus you can be certain that when the government discovers someone is a psychic vampire, that they immediately detain them and force them to work for the government's own purposes.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Only the wankers waste their money on gold foil. Real audiophiles know that only rhodium foil hats will do the trick. Don't buy that junk from Monster; look for a respectable company like Lindsay to sell you the hats, and don't pay less than $600 for them.
Dang - you figured it out. Now we have to kill you.
- There Is No Cabal
I foresee an increase in the use of full faraday cage hats coming up...
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I've been throwing up a lot lately though, I think They're getting in.
...since the v-chip's outbound signal travels out the power cable to the electricity grid, how the heck is lining the inside of the TV with tinfoil going to do a damn thing?
ed
The price of tin foil has shot up $100 per square foot.
Yes
All your $sys$ are belong to us.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
What about a Lead helmet with a Faraday cage as a liner inside?????
bullet proof and will stop radio waves....
now to find way not to break your neck when you tie your shoe.....hmmmmm
SS
Think about it. The plot thickens. Perhaps Illuminati wanted us to believe we should wear tinfoil hats in order to protect ourselves, so that in reality; we'd get easier to control. And now, with everyone (at least, that I know) not wearing any, perhaps we'll find out who's REALLY in charge, eh?
Read this. Some people DO take this seriously!
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/starshld.htm
Put on a second tinfoil hat to protect the one you're already wearing from... Them!
Creative misinterpretation is your friend.
A few years ago, one of the new-agey junk catalogs actually had aluminized hats,
as well as the usual collection of crystals, shiny things, bogus magnetic devices, and, ummm, tachyon bracelets. It's been long enough ago that I don't remember the details, but I think the hats were some kind of cloth with an aluminized mylar or aluminum paint layer or something similar. I think they even had a removable grounding strap.
Now, unlike why people want to obtain and wear such things, I don't know - I suspect the joke is much much more common than the actual practice. But the reason why people want to *sell* them is much more obvious - it's because they think there are suckers who want to buy them. The interesting question is whether they found enough suckers who actually *did* buy them to keep making the things.
Personally, if I were to get an aluminum hat (except as a costume for a science fiction conventions), it'd be a bicycle helmet. Doesn't matter that it keeps the CIA space alien hunters from beaming things into my head, as long as it keeps out the car hoods and asphalt, though blinky-lights and reflector tape are probably much more useful than aluminum color would be.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Tin? How quaint. Regular aluminum? Obsolete too.
If you want to keep out *modern* space alien mind control rays, you need to go with transparent aluminum!
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Always reminds me of the old Droopy comics, with the bad guy's secret lair designed perfectly inconspicuously, except for the huge neon sign which read "BAD GUY'S SECRET LAIR. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME. THAT MEANS YOU, DROOPY."
We really should be reading all the Anonymous Coward posts in this thread - I mean, really, how much can you trust the tin-hat knowledge of someone who posts using an actual name?
We should also expect that anything true will get modded down to -1. Change your filters, guys, change your filters!!
--LWM
And they used borrowed equipment, though it was good stuff and quite expensive, and if some bureaucrat wanted to amortize the depreciation on it, a few hours use might have made this an expensive project.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
... you have to use Aluminium foil, you insensitive clods.
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
We don't need no stinking gold foil hats.. we are dangerious men, we will brave the mind control rays... we are
Men without Hats
A little paranoid schizophrenia from time to time isn't always such a bad thing; so say the voices inside my head!
Author's note: Kindly audience of Slashdot, please note with due consideration that I do not have paranoid schizophrenia. I sometimes like to write teh witticismz.
On vit, on code et puis on meurt.
Because you guys don't understand that aluminum/tin foil doesn't *actually* contain tin! *dons his *real* tinfoil hat.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
I've got a tinfoil hat with a propeller...
I know the meme about Slashdotters and their crazy tin foil hats is almost as old as Slashdot itself (it really is getting old, guys), but how common is genuine paranoia among people who read and make posts to Slashdot? I myself am not of the suspicious variety, but I have no doubt that some people here tend towards a more suspicious and vigilant personality style.
To use the official psychiatric nomenclature, I am referring to paranoid personality disorder, paranoid schizophrenia, various delusional disorders, and some instances of schizotypal personality disorder (mild schizophrenia, basically). Antisocial (i.e., psychopathic or sociopathic) and narcissistic personality disorders tend to have elements of paranoia in them as well. How common are these conditions here? Am I in the naïvist minority here? Should I be afraid, very afraid?
On vit, on code et puis on meurt.
Those metal stickers that increase mobile phone reception really do work!!!
<whisperousTone>After reading the informative article, I noticed they failed to provide us with a few design guidelines for constructing these alleged "more effective helmets". They better hurry up with those guidelines... I think the RIAA can hear the "questionable media files" my mind recalls listening to earlier today.</whisperousTone>
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NO! Bad Mods! This is a joke. Please, nobody actually try this. I tried to hint at it when it was at 3, informative. Now it's at 5, Informative/Interesting. I realize that this'll get a -1 troll, or a -1 offtopic, but it's gotta be said.
Ch-chuck posted the URL for a catalog that carries an EMF-protection hat and lots of other scientifically bogus stuff. Not sure if it's quite the same hat, but it's heart is in the right place.
Bill Stewart
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Wearning a tin foil hat increases my WiFi performance.
Tin foil hats? No, no, no. Bush is controlled by a transmitter.
You mean radioactive giant ants?
From TFA:
As per best practices, all three designs were constructed with the double layering technique described elsewhere [2].
First against the wall when the revolution comes
And after all the money I spent on these? Sigh...
...and I'm glad there's now data to back me up.
"Tin foil hats in no way affect the government's ability to read your mind."
Think about it.
Also, keep all your passwords on post-its on your monitor. That way you only have to think about them when the monitor's radiation is blocking the government's mind-reading-machine. You'll be a lot safer.
Second tip: name every folder on your pc $sys$<foldername> and install Sony's root kit, they wont be able to tell you have $sys$real_alien_autopsy_with_george_w.avi
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
Let's just say that for you, I'd don my robe and wizard hat...
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl
I divided the speed of light by the 2,6 GHz, resulting in a distance of 11.5 cm (one third of a foot, stupid). That is about the width of my head (I didn't realise that it was that narrow. Oh, hm. That explains why I didn't realise). Are they measuring some kind of amplification because of resonance at the opening of the tin foil hat? Oops, I used the speed of light in vacuum, 11.5 cm is only one wavelength if my head is empty, instead of water and fat based (I realise this remark doesn't help to off set the previous one). OK, for the sake of argument, let's assume the speed of light thru my head is 2E8 m/s. Then 2.6 GHz equals a wavelength of 7.7 cm, and the one at 1.2 GHz equals a wavelengths of 16.6 cm (front to back). I don't believe they have measurements with helmet but without head, so I don't know what antenna effect there could be. But surely one of the Slashdot readers can see something more intelligent on what is going on than the above ramblings.
Bert
I think they did this study just to get mentioned in next years prize ceremony.
Still, it makes you wonder if the tin-foil hat thing is itself a government conspiracy to amplify the effects of their mind control rays. After all THEY must have known.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
I go from my satellite TV DX'ing experience and say that amplifying a frequency makes stuff worse if the SNR is poor.
So, if I encase my entire house in aluminium foil a second time over I'll overamplifying the signal... however can it fail...
Unless They start selling attenuating aluminium foil, of course...
I mean look at them, obviously you are going to need more then Aluminum foil to stop 12 foot ants!
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once you establish it is a fact* that everyone is out to get you, then it is no longer paranoia.
*except in Kansas, where the term 'fact' has been redifined to mean 'wishing really, really hard'
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Pretty funny! Mr. Neon! I like that!
Without mu-metal they just use magnetic fields to control your thoughts, instead of electric fields.
If Aluminum blocked radio waves, would not the powerbook have problems with wireless communications ??? ... he he
Maybe these people need to buy an aluminum powerbook to protect them from the radio waves from their wireless connections
a Sony CD with the rootkit. the metallic liner inside will trap all the evil karma waves and you hear nice Van Zant music in your fillings. as long as you have four or less fillings.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I get modded funny!?
Man, last time I try to help *you* guys!
--LWM
I'm glad someone is finally ready to hear what I have been saying all along This study is a sham It was "conducted" under U.S. DOD contract by Rand, IBM, NEC, and a consortium of labs owned by the Chinese govt but the real purpose was to just generate reports that would attempt to fool people into thinking that aluminum hats don't work to stop the waves generated by brain transmitters and eavesdropping recorders/repeaters hoping that the smarter of those would switch to tinfoil or lead hats but I looked for 10 seconds and saw right away that the data was faulty and now you the Slashdot community can see with me through your own study and through my warning that it's all a big lie to make people go to tin or as I said lead neither of which work nearly as well as aluminum so please help me get the word out I contacted the FBI, CIA, DIA, NASA, NSA, FDA, FCC, and DOA and they all ignored me except for NASA which took me into the office of the director who drugged me and had his doctors plant another device behind my ear.
Evil is the money of root.
You might want to put a cap on both heads then, chief.
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I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I'm going to start wearing lead! - That ought to stop almost anything right ?
My god !
I'll bet this guy won't like it !
Tinfoil Hat Program
I for one welcome our Aluminum Overlords!
That's right, the shiny new aluminum case you just bought is actually an advanced lifeform.
I've seen it in diggings. Dinosaurs fought aluminums until heavy aluminums landed over the earth, killing most of it.
I have pictures in my blog. Pre-historic bones alongside big square aluminums.
...How many grammar nazis readers will miss joke inside the joke and tell you the correct spelling is "brainwave" ?
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
As an actual tinfoil hat wearer (testing it out to see it it works) this illustrates the reason people need to do serious research into this area. I wish I had access to their setup, that way I could tell if the mes I've incorporated is having a positive effect.
"These voices. These voices. I hear them. And when I do I follow, I follow..."
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
as my last flatmate went bi-polar on me.
Can you imagine five people sitting around a table drinking coffee arguing about which one of them is really god?
Tinfoil hats are nothing, try decoding "The Pied Piper of Hamlet" only to find 9/11 was a conspiracy aimed at your brother by an alien civilization. Now thats the awful truth!
The highlight for me however was that I had to get a Section 8b for him. I felt so like I was in M.A.S.H.
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Material for a good hat requires 2 square yards of 3M Velostat, Part number 1706, 6 mils thick or 3 square yards 3M Velostat, Part number 1704, 4 mils thick. Lots of cloth or vinyl tape. A hat mad of vinyl rubber or leather (so the tape sticks) that will cover the whole head, and is large enough to accommodate the extra bulk of the material (8 sheets of Velostat). I like a old-style leather pilot's helmet which can be bought from motorcycle apparrel shops.
Be heard || Be herd
Try plutonium.
But it must be taken internally, in moderate doses, but not enough to actually kill you.
This heavy metal will collect in the hair, give it extra lustre and sheen, and protect without the use of exterior cumbersome lead foil.
It takes time to accumulate in the hair- perhaps one or two months, but the results are well worth it.
Napoleon Bonaparte was apparently fed this on the island of St. Helena, and until his eventual fatal overdose, slowly regained his lucidity, eventually admitting to his British captors that he was NOT Napoleon.
Well, perhaps he wasn't. We'll never know.
Baldies- you're SOL, unless you can find an arsenic toupee...
If you had been wearing your tinfoil hat while reading the study you would have found that the study shows that tinfoil hats are the only sure protection from invasive mind control waves. Of course, by now the government has manipulated your mind so you will be unable to see the truth and will see lies about why you should not wear tinfoil hats. Trust no one!
God forbid some actual paranoid schizophrenic stumbles upon this thread, because with all the advice from the crack-smoking Slashdot barmy army, the poor bastard will have enough 'professional advice' to last him three fear-filles lives.
Then again, who cares.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- G.B. Shaw
Ok I'm convinced. I'm going to take the tinfoil liners out of my tasteful hat collection. The aluminum foil underwear stays though. While it might not prevent the government from controlling my implulses it definitely gets chicks. m
Yeah, it's a joke, but he's sort of trying to take it seriously.
Unfortunately, I didn't see an anechoic chamber or calibration mentioned. Without these any data or conclusions drawn from the instruments is 100% useless and irrelevant. Network Analysers (NWAs) of the RF/uW variety are spectacularly good at generating noisy signals. In fact, without a careful calibration procedure, an NWA exclusively generates **only** signals that look like noise. Add to this an antenna characterization (which is actually what this test is) without either an anechoic chamber or well-characterized antenna range and you get complete noise on another count.
This could have been an interesting hack-study but it's utter useless. It is *funny* however, but to be a truly interesting hack it would have to be valid.
BTW I used to work at Agilent (back when it was HP) specializing on field support of NWAs.
Its time to go on war against the RFID pestilence. This is a main assult on personal freedom and we will all end up as slaves with total awarness without able to fighting it at all soon.
Maybe we shall add a part to the GPL forbitting to use FOSS if a company uses RFID.
From my answering machine message: "If you are suffering from paranoia, don't bother pressing a button. We already know who you are and what you want." I get a lot of calls that hang up before the message is done cause they think they dialed the wrong number.
And now I'm going to go back to painting my computer room with lead paint, and I still gotta fix the self contained power generator that powers my system. Oh, and just a tip: first layer of tin foil/lead foil should touch scalp, second layer should have 2 millimeter standoffs to allow for insulation space!
Halitosis - (n.) Halle Berry's Camel Toe.
That's why it's modded informative, it's funnier that way. I know I do it all the time as a mod. We're not all stupid, and we like to mess with peoples heads all that time. The meta-mod system keeps any mod from going too crazy.
what if the us government coerced aluminum foil makers into redesigning their product in order to be rf friendlyt?????