I note that Russia has just provided positive evidence of direct participation in the insurgency. Only they have that equipment and only they have the training to use it in that way.
Cell phones are short range radios which actually reduce power wherever possible to save battery life. Anti-radiation missiles typically have a minimum range of hundreds of meters.
Without a lock, you don't waste an expensive missile in hopes of a last-second contact and individual soldiers are not worth the expense.
Determining cell phone locations is not precise or timely enough for tactical uses either. You can't aim a weapon with those signals because they are designed to maintain contact with cell towers in a noisy, multipath environment. (The signal is both weak and bouncing all over the place.)
Tracking a single phone is possible but requires you to get so close that it's much safer to put down the tracker and unholster a pistol because it's inside pistol range anyway.
Your passive-aggressive demand to be spoon-fed everything reveals that all the passive-aggressive vibes you perceive are coming from your side of the internets. ;]
Dabla Deng was not an FBI badgeholder. He was a hireling.
This "agent" doesn't have to let them live in order to get the credit for stopping a "terrorist" attack. He wins both ways. He wouldn't even have to admit his undercover role afterward; but if he did he still wins.
Running away at that moment was cowardice. No more. No less.
They already got their manufactured "terrorists". A dramatic takedown would be a double-win for them. That done, there's no way they'd turn on their own guy.
They have armoured vehicles, but none with major weapons of war. They may get anti-drone tools, but nothing that could shoot down occupied aircraft. They have planes and helicopters, but those are all exclusively for cameras and Stingrays.
He had a car, with engine running; and was looking right at them. Any reasonable agent, coward or not, knows what to do right then, and if they survive to face charges, even better.
Consumer ovens usually use 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 12.2 centimetres (4.80 in)—while large industrial/commercial ovens often use 915 megahertz (MHz)—32.8 centimetres (12.9 in).
For household purposes, 2.45 GHz has the advantage over 915 MHz in that 915 MHz is only an ISM band in the ITU Region 2 while 2.45 GHz is available worldwide.
1. an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river. 2. Geology. natural levee. 3. Agriculture. one of the small continuous ridges surrounding fields that are to be irrigated. 4. History/Historical. a landing place for ships; quay.
verb (used with object), leveed, leveeing. 5. to furnish with a levee: to levee a treacherous stream.
1. an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force. 2. the amount owed or collected. 3. the conscription of troops. 4. the troops conscripted.
verb (used with object), levied, levying. 5. to impose (a tax): to levy a duty on imports. 6. to conscript (troops). 7. to start or wage (war).
verb (used without object), levied, levying. 8. to seize or attach property by judicial order.
One little fact which may have escaped the surveillance fetishists' attention…
…is that cell phone companies have no need for IMSI catchers [so they have never bought any] and the proposed law doesn't force them to go out and buy them now just for this purpose.
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It all depends on how you apply the voltage.
1930s American ranching technology in action! ;]
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, …that is…
dollar) to deliver a stunning shock on physical contact… ;]
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Aside from that…
participation in the insurgency. Only they have that equipment
and only they have the training to use it in that way.
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It's too close for missiles.
wherever possible to save battery life. Anti-radiation missiles
typically have a minimum range of hundreds of meters.
Without a lock, you don't waste an expensive missile in hopes
of a last-second contact and individual soldiers are not worth
the expense.
Determining cell phone locations is not precise or timely
enough for tactical uses either. You can't aim a weapon
with those signals because they are designed to maintain
contact with cell towers in a noisy, multipath environment.
(The signal is both weak and bouncing all over the place.)
Tracking a single phone is possible but requires you to get
so close that it's much safer to put down the tracker and
unholster a pistol because it's inside pistol range anyway.
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I think I'll go for a walk…
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East Germany was such a society…
Maybe that's who Comey wants to emulate. ;]
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…and now a toddler is in charge; who can take all the blame later. ;]
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That up there /^\ …
… The More You Know … ;]
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reveals that all the passive-aggressive vibes you perceive
are coming from your side of the internets. ;]
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I suspect this idea won't fly for two simple reasons:
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Dabla Deng was not an FBI badgeholder. He was a hireling.
This "agent" doesn't have to let them live in order to get the
credit for stopping a "terrorist" attack. He wins both ways.
He wouldn't even have to admit his undercover role afterward;
but if he did he still wins.
Running away at that moment was cowardice. No more. No less.
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A dramatic takedown would be a double-win for them.
That done, there's no way they'd turn on their own guy.
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They may get anti-drone tools, but nothing that could shoot down
occupied aircraft.
They have planes and helicopters, but those are all exclusively
for cameras and Stingrays.
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Explicitly so.
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Re: You don't see the forest for the trees.
Any reasonable agent, coward or not, knows what to do right then,
and if they survive to face charges, even better.
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Wikipedia disagrees:
wavelength of 12.2 centimetres (4.80 in)—while large
industrial/commercial ovens often use 915 megahertz
(MHz)—32.8 centimetres (12.9 in).
For household purposes, 2.45 GHz has the advantage over 915
MHz in that 915 MHz is only an ISM band in the ITU Region 2
while 2.45 GHz is available worldwide.
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:P
1. an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river.
2. Geology. natural levee.
3. Agriculture. one of the small continuous ridges surrounding fields that are to be irrigated.
4. History/Historical. a landing place for ships; quay.
verb (used with object), leveed, leveeing.
5. to furnish with a levee: to levee a treacherous stream.
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Levy: [lev-ee]
1. an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
2. the amount owed or collected.
3. the conscription of troops.
4. the troops conscripted.
verb (used with object), levied, levying.
5. to impose (a tax): to levy a duty on imports.
6. to conscript (troops).
7. to start or wage (war).
verb (used without object), levied, levying.
8. to seize or attach property by judicial order.
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One little fact which may have escaped the surveillance fetishists' attention…
[so they have never bought any] and the proposed law doesn't
force them to go out and buy them now just for this purpose.
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