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Anyone had any experience with these? I’m thinking about picking up a few of them to distribute audio around the house…

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Well we successfully got our datacenter at work moved. No one got hurt, and we didn’t lose any hardware in the process. I took a bunch of pictures of the process which I’ll post sometime when it’s not three in the morning.

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…looks like it’s time to find some new podcasts for my commute :-)

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Very seldom do Slashdot stories grab any more than a few seconds of my attention and/or curiosity. Tonight, however, a story came through Slashdot that grabbed my attention. It was about Numbers Stations. In a nutshell, Numbers Stations are shortwave radio stations operated out of various countries around the world. These stations usually broadcast semi-regular strings of seemingly random characters (numbers, letters, etc). The presiding theory about Numbers Stations is that they’re operated by world governments as a means of communicating with their spies abroad. Using One-Time-Pad cryptography to mask the message’s true content, they’re usually broadcast using a human voice. Today, this voice is usually computer-generated, though in the past live voices were used. No governments have ever officially owned up to the fact that these are intelligence-related, though several of the transmission sites have been localized to government communications centers. Another piece of evidence that these stations are run by the government is the fact that, though operating illegally per FCC laws, these stations are never taken down. Many of the stations interfere with other “legal” radio communications – if a civilian was doing the same, the FCC would come after them with a vengence.
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