anirishginger:

occupyallstreets:

Law Enforcement Considers Blocking Cell Service During NATO Protests

Reports suggest local law enforcement agencies are considering shutting down cell phone services in the city over the weekend and while it will most likely be very effective, many are questioning if the move is legitimate.

The Daily Beast reports that the FBI and Secret Service have standing authority to jam signals and they can also push for the shutdown of cell towers, thanks to “Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 303,” which lays out the nation’s official “Emergency Wireless Protocols.”

According to the National Communications System, the protocol details a “shutdown and restoration process for use by commercial and private wireless networks during national crises.”

The irony of the situation is, of course, in the fact that the US security services are considering doing something they’ve condemned others for. Just a month ago, President Barack Obama announced a plan to penalize authoritarian regimes that block internet access for protesters. The penalties will be aimed at countries like Syria and Iran that use technology to enable human-rights abuses against dissidents – but to many, this is a perfect example of double standards.

This potential development is just one of the drastic security measures Chicago law enforcement agencies are considering. They’ve also invested as much as $1 million on riot-control equipment, including at least one long-range acoustic device, or LRAD, and upgrades to shields to be worn by the police.

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I doubt it will happen, because it’s not just protesters that will be affected, but rich and poor alike.  Or have the rich developed for themselves a new wireless service only they can use?

(via violentopinions)

destroyedforcomfort:

saschaeatsteeth:

gnarlydump:

WENDY CARLOS

from brbnightmares:

…..She is entirely humorless, but she can do whatever the fuck she wants. She’s Wendy Carlos……

One thing a lot of people don’t appreciate… and not to get too synth-nerd on you… but all of those symphonic arrangements she made came from a time where there was no such thing as a polyphonic synthesizer. You know how chords are multiple notes at one time? Ok, she had to record SEPARATE performances for EACH note in a chord, for each instrument, in each song. There are interviews where she talks about the different ways she accomplished this, all of it is laboriously bonkers. Not to mention the way sequencing was accomplished back then. All voltages — and you had to have a tone recorded to its own tape track that played back into the sequencer so the BAJILLION tracks you’re recording stay in synch. You don’t even want to know, your head would explode.

She’s amazing.

Her input on how analog synthesizers should be arranged and controlled is invaluable. The men designing them had NO idea how anyone would want to use them, and she bossed everyone around. Bob Moog has talked and talked about how much she shaped this entire world of these instruments. She is basically an astronaut.

  thanks to destroyedforcomfort for the suggestion!

Note: Tonight I’ll be making short posts/reblogs on creative trans/genderqueer/etc folks from recent history- artists, writers, musicians, etc. Feel free to drop suggestions in my ask box, and they’ll all be grouped here as I post them. Enjoy!

No, thank you. I insist. :D

motherjones:

iloveoldmagazines:

Not sure if this is quite old enough for you, but it’s got Isaac Asimov!

Typically we’ll only post if we have the magazine title and year it came from. But for Isaac I’ll make an exception.

via tumblingus

Wow.

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