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hiker1
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 Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:33 pm |
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| Quote: | | Imagine sitting in a soundproof room, talking to somebody, a bag of potato chips lying on the floor.
Given the vibrations made to all objects by sound waves, that bag of crisps is giving off enough information for a normal video camera to pick up and decipher your conversation, using only visual information.
MIT, Adobe and Microsoft researchers have done just that: they've created an algorithm that can reconstruct sound, including intelligible speech, from the tiny vibrations it creates in objects.
One of many experiments: the researchers have filmed and deciphered the vibrations - quivers too subtle for the naked eye to discern - that reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb" caused in a potato chip bag across a room, 15 feet away, with the video camera stationed in back of a soundproof window. |
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falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
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wolffie
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Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:18 pm |
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CIA & NSA used to do this routinely -- lasers reflected off windows -- vibrations of the windows used to reconstruct sounds & conversations in the room -- obsolete now with the brain implant technology they reverse-engineered from the aliens.
They bribe our pets to inform on us, too. I read all about it on a prepper website.
This stuff used to worry me until I reflected that I already have two inhuman creatures in my own home who can control my mind just by looking at me, not to mention the two human ones who can make me give them money just by talking to me.
But, damn -- a potato chip is never going to look the same. Thanks.
Some people have better things to do with their lives than walking the dog. Some don't.
Some people have better things to do with their lives than walking the dog. Some don't.
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Malachai Constant
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"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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ejain
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Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:26 pm |
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So the tinfoil on my head is actually making it easier for them to spy on me--shocking...
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Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:27 pm |
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...wait a minute here, why not just watch their mouths then?
Who the hell leaves potato chip bags everywhere?
"Can't get a clear shot of the tater bag with the damn laser!"
...wait...are we just going to hang here or go hiking?
...wait...are we just going to hang here or go hiking?
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touron
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Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:46 pm |
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Pringles might have a built in stealth form factor. 
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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