Oh, there's plenty of banks that don't need a minimum balance. The problem is that if you bounce checks, like the poor people often do, eventually no bank will want to open an account for you. Alas, let's not think that only poor people bounce checks. I've seen a big ten university salary check bounce, and that was regular tenured faculty salary check, not grad student "handout".

Ah, but you see many employees can't have a bank account. If your history with bounced checks is bad enough, no bank will ever open an account for you. Sad but true. Maybe credit unions are a tad better, but then they require a deposit of usually $25-$35. For people who are in such dire straits that they can't get a checking account open with a mainstream bank, coming up with $25 to be frozen "forever" may be a problem.

It all depends on how you set it up with your employer. Usually the lower paying jobs pay more often, since the workers are so cash strapped that they simply have no bootstrap to live for 30 days without being paid.

International intelligence work is almost always illegal almost by definition. That's why it called intelligence work, as opposed to, say, Aunt Mary's Cookie Vending.

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Infrared cameras can't see movement through walls, and they definitely can't come even into the same performance ballpark, when it comes to detection of humans, as sensing that uses longer waves. Heck, if you're a lone human in a large enough room, a thermal camera can't even tell that you're there. The surface temperature won't rise enough due to large wall area.

Uh-uh, yeah, sure. That's not how real life works, unfortunately.

What bogeyman? If I was working for Google, I'd be very worried about not doing my job if I didn't go as far as possible at monetizing the data. Google is not in the business of wasting money offering free email accounts. I'm pretty damn sure they get full return on their investment, even if it's not something as obvious as showing targeted ads. Language corpuses of the size that Google has access to are not exactly something you can just buy on a street corner.

Protip: Human life's worth is not infinite. It's not worth saving at a possibly overwhelming cost to others. Stop being so selfish. People die, kids included, get over it. There's only so much you can reasonably do. Avoiding vaccines is not one of the reasonable things to do. I am a parent. Would I be heartbroken if my child died? Sure. This doesn't make me go apeshit crazy about minimizing risk to my children at all costs.

People change their appearances a lot as they grow up. Teenagers, especially girls, look so much alike that 10 years later it's virtually impossible to say "here, it's Jody Smith my coworker, taken 10 years ago when she was 16".

Can we trade user id's? I'd expect a bit more from a 597. What you claim is an unoriginal figment of your imagination.

What they are doing, in fact, is a well known measurement technique. They tweak the transmitted signals so that the receiver sees a null. Then, as soon as you get moving objects introduced into the volume, the receiver get a signal that's mostly related to this object's motion. I have used the same trick with ultrasound transceivers back in high school, I wish I had it written up.

Never mind that at least the transmitters must be running from same reference oscillator, if not all three devices (two transmitters and the receiver).

I agree that while the idea may be novel, its benefits are useless in actual emergencies. When there's an emergency, no one gives a flying fuck about whether your radar might cause interference. Blasting a wideband signal is fine, especially that wideband is resistant to narrowband interference (the usual kind from intentional emitters). Just imagine the backlash at FCC if the police was using an interfering radar during a hostage situation (even better if kids are involved) and someone at FCC had the gall to raise concern. Instant career ender.

Never mind that their project website is a piece of crap written for the illiterate. Give me a fucking break, it sounds like a something a particularly clueless high-schooler would write upon seeing the project.

There's an inconsistency between what we see in the demo and the description. Supposedly the system tracks the angle of the object. Yet what the graph in the video looks like is nothing like the angle. It looks like a simple Doppler output that goes to zero once the subject stops moving.