[Milsurplus] [spam?] LO DFing, the myth that never dies!

[J. Forster]

Absolutely true. When I was working on the Harvard SETI effort, years ago,
THE prime consideration was processing the signals in real time. Data was
stored for just over the time it took to do the FFTs and analyze the
results (in case anything showed up), then ditched. Any other preoceedure
would have been madness.

I've SEEN warehouses with pallet after pallet, stacked floor to roof, full
of data tapes in boxes. Tens of thousands of them.

-John

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> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:08:27PM -0800, J. Forster wrote:
>> I get the impression  the intel community are really a bunch of data
>> packrats. If they found out a target liked Persian Cats or bread with
>> Sesame seeds on top, they's possibly consider that important intel.  It
>> might be useful some day, some way.
>>
>> The Feds are still doing it, according to the PBS Nova program on data
>> mining. Scarf up everything and try and fill in pieces of a puzzle.
>
> Remember the warehouse in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"? They exist. There
> are _ENORMOUS_ climate-controlled buildings full of audio and data tapes
> from all over the world, just waiting to be run through the mill. Some
> of them have been waiting for 50+ years. They're filling faster than
> they can be processed, of course.
>
> --
> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin
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