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Sexual Orientation I sound like a bisexual, don't I - Empty Closets - A ...
Lately, I've had these unbelievable fantasies of being with a guy. Like really attracted, it would feel so good, etc. I could have sworn I was turning gay. Thing is, I never even acknowledged my attractions to men before because I was so attracted to women. But now, being in a highly sexual relationship with a woman for the last 3 years, my gay side has started to come out. I came out to myself about a week ago. There are butterflies in my stomach around guys, and definite sexuality.
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Thing is, today, I'm thinking if I have a sexual relationship with a guy, after a bit, when the newness wears off, I would desperately miss the sexuality of a woman. So is my thinking. The way she moves, her curves, her softness, her sweet voice/song. I have always adored that so much. I just realized that after fantasizing about guys a lot recently, but also thinking of bisexual encounters.
That maybe I'm not going in the gay direction, but really, that I'm with a woman all the time and that maybe I miss the bi side of me. Cuz thinking about it, I think if I didn't have a woman, I'd probably crave that sexually more than anything else in my life.
Does that make me bi? I would think even split down the middle, but since I have a woman right now, the male fantasy is really driving me. Without a woman, I LOVE the female fantasy very much, and I always have. So I think, but it's been a long time since I've even been single. And I've never even acknowledged my bisexuality before this. Never even occurred to me I could be bi/gay/whatever.
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Drones over America: How unmanned fliers are already helping cops
It was getting dark, and the sheriff of Nelson County, N.D., was in a standoff with a family of suspected cattle rustlers. They were armed, and the last thing anybody wanted was a shoot out.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which monitors police radio chatter, offered to help. Their Predator was flying back to its roost at the Grand Forks Air Force base and could provide aerial support. Did the sheriff want the assist?
Yep.
"We were able to detect that one of the sons was sitting at the end of the driveway with a gun. We also knew that there were small children involved," Sheriff Kelly Janke told NBC News, remembering that tricky encounter in the early summer of 2011. "Someone would have gotten seriously injured if we had gone in on the farm that night." He decided to wait.
The next day, the drone gave them an edge again by helping them choose the safest moment to make a move. "We were able to surprise them ? took them into custody," Janke said. They also collected six stolen cows.
Rodney Brossart, the arrested farmer, sued the state, in part because of the cop's use of a drone. But a district judge ruled that the Predator's service was not untoward.
When advocates express concern about government drones threatening people's privacy, the Brossart case is one they bring up. It's one of the first instances of a flying robot doing a cop's dirty work, and this kind of intervention is likely to be more and more commonplace, as the FAA fulfills a congressional mandate to increase its granting of drone permits ? certificates of authorization, or COAs.
Cops and flying robots
At the moment, there are only 327 active COAs, all held by these organizations, and all for unarmed crafts, of course. A tiny sliver of these permits are in the hands of law enforcement agencies, and from them, we're seeing the first glimpses of drone use in policing and emergency response.
"The FAA has approved us to cover a 16-county area," Sheriff Bob Rost of Grand Forks County, N.D., said of their COA. "To look for missing children, to look for escaped criminals and in the case of emergencies." In the spring, they will use two mini-copter drones ? a trusty DraganFlyer X6 and an AeroVironment Qube ? to check on flooded farms.
The police department in Arlington, Texas, also recently got FAA clearance to fly their drones after two years of testing. The two battery-powered Leptron Avenger helicopter drones won't be used for high-speed chases or routine patrol, the department explains. In fact, the crafts will be driven in a truck to where they're needed, and when they're launched to scope out incidents, local air traffic control will be informed.
In Mesa County, Colo., the police department has used drones to find missing people, do an aerial landfill survey and help out firefighters at a burning church. For them, it's seen as a cost-cutting technology.
"It's the Wal-Mart version of what we'd normally get at Saks Fifth Avenue," said Benjamin Miller, who leads the drones program in Mesa County, comparing drones to manned helicopters that would otherwise give police officers help from the sky.
In Seattle, the police department received an FAA permit ? but had to give back its drones when the mayor banned their use, following protests in October 2012.
Protests and red tape
"Hasn't anyone heard of George Orwell's '1984'?" the Seattle Times quoted a protester as saying. "This is the militarization of our streets and now the air above us."
Protesters, not just in Seattle, seek more legal definition of what a drone can or can't do, and debate whether or not current laws sufficiently protect citizens from unauthorized surveillance and other abuses.
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks of police drones as an inevitability ? "We're going to have them," he recently said in a radio interview ? while those on the police (and drone) side say the fears are unfounded.
"This hysteria of [a drone] hovering outside your backyard taking a video of you smoking a joint, it's just that ? hysteria," said Al Frazier, an ex-cop from Los Angeles who is now an assistant professor of aeronautics at the University of North Dakota, and a deputy at the Grand Forks sheriff's office.
The reason the sky isn't lousy with drones already mostly has to do with red tape. The FAA's highly restricted drone application for government agencies is supposed to take about 60 days, though unofficially, we're told it's much longer. COAs are also very strict about where, when and by whom a drone is flown.
"I think there are many agencies who would like to use [drones] for public good, but they're stymied by the process," Frazier said.
That's likely to change ? and soon. Last February, Obama signed a mandate that encourages the FAA to let civil and commercial drones join the airspace by 2015. This will take new regulations from the FAA for safe commercial drone flight, and it may take some convincing of local anti-drone activists (who sometimes don't differentiate between drones great and small). It may even require the passing of a few new privacy laws.
Folks like Frazier and Miller don't see the permit process getting easier any time soon but eventually ? inevitably ? and for better or worse, your local police department will get its drone.
Nidhi Subbaraman writes about technology and science. Follow her on Twitter and Google+.
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UCLA hires Alford away from New Mexico
UCLA hires Alford: Steve Alford succeeds UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland, who was fired last weekend after 10 years. Alford had just inked a 10-year deal with New Mexico, when UCLA snagged him.
Former New Mexico head coach Steve Alford reacts to a referee's call during a game against Harvard in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City earlier this month. Alford was hired Saturday to coach UCLA.
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EnlargeUCLA hired Steve Alford as basketball coach on Saturday, luring him from New Mexico days after he signed a new 10-year deal with the Lobos.
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Athletic director Dan Guerrero said Alford is "the perfect fit for UCLA" because he connects with a new generation of players and brings an up-tempo and team-oriented style of play to Westwood.
The 48-year-old coach succeeds Ben Howland, who was fired last weekend after 10 years and a 233-107 record that included three consecutive Final Four appearances and four Pac-12 titles. The Bruins were 25-10 this season, which ended with a 20-point loss to Minnesota in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Alford led New Mexico to a 29-6 record this season that included the Mountain West regular-season and tournament titles. But the Lobos were upset by Harvard in the second round of the NCAAs shortly after Alford's new deal with the school had been announced.
Alford will be introduced at UCLA on Tuesday.
"I have been so fortunate and blessed in my life, and an opportunity to lead one of the greatest programs in college basketball history is once-in-a-lifetime," he said in a statement.
Alford had a 155-52 record in six years at New Mexico, with the Lobos making three trips to the NCAA tournament. He was selected Mountain West coach of the year three times.
His other head coaching stints were at Iowa (2000-07), Missouri State (1996-99) and Manchester College (1992-95) in his native Indiana.
Alford is a legend in the Hoosier state, where he starred at Indiana University from 1984-87 under coach Bob Knight. The Hoosiers won the national championship in his senior year. He also played on the gold medal-winning 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team in Los Angeles as a college sophomore. Knight coached that team.
Alford was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 and played four years in the NBA before starting his head coaching career at tiny Manchester.
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Add a Detachable Microphone to Your Over-the-Ear Headphones
This particular mod uses a pair of cheap Monoprice 8323 headphones, but you could probably perform the process on any set of cans (though the more expensive your headphones, the less we'd recommend breaking them open). You'll need a bit of electronics experience to make this work, and the instructions aren't incredibly detailed, but if you know what you're doing they're pretty easy to follow. When you're done, you'll have a cheap gaming headset with a completely detachable microphone.
Of course, if you really want the features a good headset can offer, check out our roundup of the five best gaming headsets. Hit the link for the full set of instructions.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Contemplating Privacy and Radio Communications 5 - The Silicon ...
Something I neglected to cover yesterday - not deliberately; I just couldn't find reference details for it - is how resistant to interference or jamming these digital modes are.? I can tell you they won't be as resistant as a specially designed communications data link because they just don't have all the attributes of one, but I can't give you numbers for how resistant they are.? Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of operating experience with the various wider band/faster amateur digital modes.? Also, the exact effect of an interferer or jammer would depend on what sort of radio system we're using, FM or Single Side Band (SSB).? An SSB radio has the effect of taking the modulation band we produce at audio and converting it to a small band of radio frequencies, wherever we choose to place it.
Jamming is complex phenomenon, but it usually works by overloading the radio; exposing it to a signal so strong that some part of the radio can't respond properly.? Some systems are easier to jam than others, but basically older modulation forms (AM and FM) are easier.? Depending on the modulation mode and type of jammer, it can cause the detector to just respond to the jammer.? AM radios will receive everything on the channel they're tuned to, and make annoying squeals and squawks.? FM radios have a limiter that amplifies everything to high level, and in doing so, "captures" the stronger signal.? Even a slightly higher signal level can dominate the audio delivered to the speaker.? (In an engineering lab I worked in, ages ago, one of the guys hated the music another guy tuned in on his FM radio.? His answer?? Put a signal generator on that FM frequency and stick a small wire in it's output connector as an antenna.? The generator's unmodulated output made the FM receiver produce no audio output).? The weak point of jammers is that they need to either put lots of power everywhere, or they need to some power on frequencies they know an "enemy" is using.? The second one is much cheaper and easier.?
In the case of these complex MFSK modes, especially the ones with error coding like Olivia or MT63-2000, I imagine they'd be rather resistant to jamming, because they're designed to be resistant to interference.? Some jammer effects can probably be made up by error correction.? They'd need to wipe out the entire audio passband.? I believe it would be easier to find and jam a narrowband FM system running these modes than to find and jam an SSB system running the same modulation.? (This page has tabs for many of these modes that lead to descriptions of how they work).
True story about jammers.? I heard this as hall talk, I did not see it with my own eyes, but have no reason to doubt it.? Major Southeast Defense Contractor made an AJ (Anti-Jam) modem for the military. ? The buyers specified a variety of jammers it would be tested against, with very specific parameters.? Late in development, after all these specified tests were all passed, someone happened to turn on a Dremel Moto-Tool next to the system while it was passing data.? The Dremel completely jammed this complex, multimillion dollar data link better than all of the jammers specified by the customer.?
I tell this to bring up a simple point: jamming can work both ways, just like tracers.? It's not just simple systems that can be jammed by simple methods. ? I'm picturing a huge Dremel now... maybe 40 feet tall... just kidding.? Maybe a TIG or MIG welder.? But with online stores selling GPS jammers, movie theaters adding cellphone jammers, and other electronics stores selling jammers of all types, it is becoming a rather brave new world these days, isn't it?? I've heard of people going down the highway, with their in-dash or other GPS receiver telling them when the next turn is coming, suddenly losing their GPS link when a truck or panel van goes by.?
Probable conclusion tomorrow...
Source: http://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2013/03/contemplating-privacy-and-radio_30.html
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