The Crushing of Net Neutrality, Science, and Income

[jdb10987 at yahoo.com (jim bell)]

 From: grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com>

>Makers tho... ;)
>http://cbs6albany.com/news/nation-world/investigation-finds-inmates-built-computers-and-hid-them-in-ceiling-at-marion-prison-04-11-2017


In 2002, I was held at USP Atwater, Atwater California. Â In about July of that year, I began work at their local UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries) plant, which at that facility involved de-manufacturing (recycling) of (mostly) CRT computer monitors. Â  Many such monitors included audio amplifiers and speakers, as well as power supplies. Â Sometimes such components got smuggled back to the prison units, and were actually installed into the cells AND USED! (Prisoners could buy small AM/FM radios from the Commissary.) Â  Not surreptitious in the least! Â  Imagine being in a prison unit, Â which is normally silent except for talking, and hear from a cell a powerful sound of radio music. Â The large majority of guards simply didn't care. Â (nor did they have much reason to care, either.)
Myself, I smuggled out neodymium-iron-boron magnets, which I liberated from computer hard-drives, and used them as door-closers. Â (put between the steel doors and the steel door-frames, it kept the doors of cells closed against ventilation winds.) Â  One time I found an old-style neon-bulb in an older piece of equipment, smuggled it out, and impressed other prisoners by putting it inside a microwave oven, one lead parallel to a wall and the other lead pointing into microwave cavity. Â When the microwave was on (with a load of food or drink, BTW), it was very bright!!!
           Jim Bell                 "Techman of Atwater".


   
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