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Comment Re:Anyone else? (Score 1) 145

Not at first, but you are on to something, you can see how it fits ... as the US recedes from Space - a final spasm. Pelletized Ancestors by the ton are ejaculated into high orbit, from where they descend to ablate the spacecraft of the competition, for Eternity. It employs the dead as it gets them out of the way, and does this by sending them off to war! Makes a lot of sense.

Comment Re:Sound was usenet flame bait (Score 1) 674

I see a pattern turning here. Rogers ... lovely, my brother gave them to me as they'd become an inconvenience. Now they're in storage, replaced by the Celestions, which are truly indescribably etc. I got these on eBay for a song, sold by a man in his mid 30's caught in an interminable loop quest for 'detail'. His wife had pointed out an unusual number of boxes obstructing the lifestyle and had demanded he clean up his act. There is a lot of beautiful old sound gear out there. -- What goes around
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Submission + - Libya SIGINT jamming satellites, towers (reuters.com) 1

h00manist writes: Libya's Gaddafi apparently loves radio hacking. Confirmed to be using signal jamming to disable Thuraya satellite phones. Also satellite TV network provider Arabsat, affecting vast areas in the Middle East, Gulf, Africa and Europe. Perhaps cellphone and internet transmissions also too, which work intermittently. Soldiers confiscate electronics, too. This has gone on for days, allowing killing carried out largely hidden from the world view, quite different from what happened in Egypt. The locations of the jamming signals is known to company executives, around capital Tripoli, but nobody can do anything. Only POTS available, and monitored. Technically, could this happen everywhere? Alternatives?
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Submission + - Surveillance made easy

ekesis writes: "I'm not sure that having Siemens and Nokia behind a system like this makes me feel any safer, I think my own natural levels of paranoia will be enough to make it throw a false positive every time ...

Surveillance made easy

# 09:00 23 August 2008
# NewScientist.com news service
# Laura Margottini

"THIS data allows investigators to identify suspects, examine their contacts, establish relationships between conspirators and place them in a specific location at a certain time."

So said the UK Home Office last week as it announced plans to give law-enforcement agencies, local councils and other public bodies access to the details of people's text messages, emails and internet activity. The move followed its announcement in May that it was considering creating a massive central database to store all this data, as a tool to help the security services tackle crime and terrorism.

Meanwhile in the US the FISA Amendments Act, which became law in July, allows the security services to intercept anyone's international phone calls and emails without a warrant for up to seven days. Governments around the world are developing increasingly sophisticated electronic surveillance methods in a bid to identify terrorist cells or spot criminal activity.

However, technology companies, in particular telecommunications firms and internet service providers, have often been criticised for assisting governments in what many see as unwarranted intrusion, most notably in China.

Now German electronics company Siemens has gone a step further, developing a complete "surveillance in a box" system called the Intelligence Platform, designed for security services in Europe andAsia. It has already sold the system to 60 countries.

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14591-surveillance-made-easy.html"

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