Guess I'm guilty as most when it comes to suspecting the worst intentions of some of the posters. Think the most recent was the guy looking to build a wireless magnetic strip reader. If not him, then somebody else reading the details...
What gets me, is the response to pretty much any post from the middle eastern countries. It's just so wrong to label everyone from those countries as potential terrorists. There are terrorists in pretty much every country on this planet, fortunately they're numbers are few. They just seem much larger and stronger, because they use our fears and imagination against us. They stay hidden, their actual numbers a secret. Out of the millions of people living in the middle east, just a small fraction are involved in there terror attacks, perhaps only a few thousand at best.
From what I've learned from the news reports, these terrorist aren't looking to design new devices, but to use things already built. Why build a timer circuit, when you can get an alarm clock for under $5. I can understand that some requests if answered, could be turned in to something deadly, perhaps not by the person asking, but anybody reading the posts. Here in America, we've been having problems past few years with high school kids shooting up their schools...
Anyway, I tend to believe that most of posts on here aren't made with evil intent, and find it a little offensive the automatic link to terrorism when somebody posts from the middle east. Kids can grow up and turn either way, depends on what kind of example the adults give them. I don't know how racism works in other countries, here it's a huge problem, most likely always will be, but we have the most diverse population.
Considering that the terrorist must remain hidden to be most effective, and I'm pretty sure there are ways to track down the who and where a post came from, it's hard to believe this forum will ever be a source of technical help for terrorist. Also, most of the projects here are almost never posted 100% complete or accurate. I'm probably the worst at this, got too many in the works, and not enough spare time. Usually get something functional, and leave it at that for some new project. Hardly even put stuff in cases, unless its for outdoors.
Personally, I'll continue to offer what ever help I can, regardless of country of origion. There are somethings that I know are best not to get involved with, but its not the people, but the project. The magnetic-strip guy, there are only a few places you see these strips anymore, and none that need to be read wirelessly. If somebody wanted to know about mixing household chemicals to make explosives (dangerous), something lots of kids messed with, but usually a bad idea. Wireless remote controlling stuff is great, running wires sucks. Timers are something so common, and make a lot of routine tasks simpler.
Just wish people could be a little nicer and more tolerant to the middle eastern people that visit this forum. Nobody is obligated to help on any project, just don't call them a terrorist because of their country.
The war on terror is a good thing, and it will work. I think it needs more troops, and more intensive work to root out the terror leaders. There aren't that many in numbers, just spread out, and well hidden. Just keep them on the move, and they'll get caught. It will end eventually.
What gets me, is the response to pretty much any post from the middle eastern countries. It's just so wrong to label everyone from those countries as potential terrorists. There are terrorists in pretty much every country on this planet, fortunately they're numbers are few. They just seem much larger and stronger, because they use our fears and imagination against us. They stay hidden, their actual numbers a secret. Out of the millions of people living in the middle east, just a small fraction are involved in there terror attacks, perhaps only a few thousand at best.
From what I've learned from the news reports, these terrorist aren't looking to design new devices, but to use things already built. Why build a timer circuit, when you can get an alarm clock for under $5. I can understand that some requests if answered, could be turned in to something deadly, perhaps not by the person asking, but anybody reading the posts. Here in America, we've been having problems past few years with high school kids shooting up their schools...
Anyway, I tend to believe that most of posts on here aren't made with evil intent, and find it a little offensive the automatic link to terrorism when somebody posts from the middle east. Kids can grow up and turn either way, depends on what kind of example the adults give them. I don't know how racism works in other countries, here it's a huge problem, most likely always will be, but we have the most diverse population.
Considering that the terrorist must remain hidden to be most effective, and I'm pretty sure there are ways to track down the who and where a post came from, it's hard to believe this forum will ever be a source of technical help for terrorist. Also, most of the projects here are almost never posted 100% complete or accurate. I'm probably the worst at this, got too many in the works, and not enough spare time. Usually get something functional, and leave it at that for some new project. Hardly even put stuff in cases, unless its for outdoors.
Personally, I'll continue to offer what ever help I can, regardless of country of origion. There are somethings that I know are best not to get involved with, but its not the people, but the project. The magnetic-strip guy, there are only a few places you see these strips anymore, and none that need to be read wirelessly. If somebody wanted to know about mixing household chemicals to make explosives (dangerous), something lots of kids messed with, but usually a bad idea. Wireless remote controlling stuff is great, running wires sucks. Timers are something so common, and make a lot of routine tasks simpler.
Just wish people could be a little nicer and more tolerant to the middle eastern people that visit this forum. Nobody is obligated to help on any project, just don't call them a terrorist because of their country.
The war on terror is a good thing, and it will work. I think it needs more troops, and more intensive work to root out the terror leaders. There aren't that many in numbers, just spread out, and well hidden. Just keep them on the move, and they'll get caught. It will end eventually.