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Rather than banning it this will be heralded as capitalist innovation and will be rolled out in all sectors.

If I've learned anything in the last 6 months it's that the president makes laws.

VPNs will help. The article is only talking about VPN servers based in a location with a geo ban, which, duh. But if you actually use your VPN to be in a different country and not just a different city it'll work fine.

It's no longer the product you bought, eh? Seems like everyone who owns one should be doing whatever they can to get their money back.

Why do you need to identify specific cats over merely the presence of movement or cats in general?

If all you need is presence detection then a motion sensor would be vastly more efficient.

If you actually need identity detection, then maybe, but you'll still have to have a camera or detailed access logs to associate the interference signature with a known entity and at that point you may as well just put an RFID reader under the bowl you throw your keys into or use facial or gait detection.

Probably not.

This kind of thing relies on the fact that the emitter and environments are static, impacting the propagation of the signals in a predictable way and that each person, having a unique physique, consistently interferes with that propagation in the same way. It's a tool that reports "the interference in this room looks like the same interference observed in these past cases."

Search and rescue is a very dynamic environment, with no opportunity to establish a local baseline, and with a high likelihood that the physiological signal you are looking for has been altered (such as by broken or severed limbs).

There are some other WiFi sniffing technologies that might be more useful for S&R such as movement detection, but I'm not sure if that will work as well when the broadcaster is outside the environment (as the more rubble between the emitter and the target the weaker your signal from reflections against the rubble).

Don't think of this as being able to see through walls like with a futuristic camera, think of this as AI assisted anomaly detection in signal processing (which is exactly what the researchers are doing).

That was 💯 my thought while reading it as well.

ensure that discretionary grants ... fund evidence-based programs and do not fund programs that fail to achieve adequate outcomes, including so-called “harm reduction” or “safe consumption” efforts that only facilitate illegal drug use and its attendant harm

I'm glad he's promoting evidence-based programs like harm reduction, safe use sites, housing first policies, and doubling down on banning non-consentual admital to asylums and rehab centers instead of those arbitrary leftist ideas of harm reduction, safe use sites, housing first policies, and doubling down on banning non-consentual admital to asylums and rehab centers.

Also there's a fair bit in their about sex crimes which is ironic coming from a sex crime afficionado who's definitely on the Epstein list for sex criming children.

I'm generally pro research, but occasionally I come across a body of research and wish I could just shut down what they're doing and rewind the clock to before that started.

There is no benefit of this for the common person. There is no end user need or product for being able to identify individuals based on their interactions with WiFi signals. The only people that benefit from this are large corporations and governments and that's from them turning it on you.

Continued research will ease widespread surveillance and mass tracking. That's not a good thing.

Mobile looks a lot better, great job!

It would cause traffic change, sure. But that change could be modeled, tested, and adapted around beforehand. Hell you can even go a step further and implement more routes for the free mall ride, move parking and traffic even further from the city center and use it as an opportunity to promote public transit. Sure nimbys would complain, cause that's what they always do, but when they see how much easier it is travel to and within downtown, how much quieter it is there, and how great the now enlarged park is surrounded by stuff to actually see and do they'll pretend like it's always been that way or that they were always for it.