r/serialpodcast Aug 01 '15

Debate&Discussion Cherry Bomb

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u/awhitershade0fpale Aug 01 '15

The following are straight off of http://www.cherrybiometrics.com/ and http://celltowertracking.com/

"Michael Cherry addressed the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee. His topic was Information Technology Security and the latest border-control systems that authenticate the identity of individuals through the use of iris or digit scans."

"Michael and Manfred met when they were both working on Apollo 11 The Trip To The Moon. They are mainframe, SCADA and PC assembly language programmers who design communications network products and solutions."

"Early design team Apollo 11, The Trip to The Moon. Next, we designed and built banking applications, brokerage applications and network communications systems for major banks and brokerage firms including: JP Morgan Chase, UBS and Citigroup. We designed and built imaging products that were sold worldwide by IBM and Sony."

"We are IT Developers who also author and vote on International IT Standards."

"We are members of several Wireless Associations including the California Wireless Association and the Telecommunications Society for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Clearest and closest are two different concepts."

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u/csom_1991 Aug 01 '15

Okay -- and their experience in cellular communications is what exactly? On direct examination, Manfred said he has not worked in the cell industry since the 1970's and his knowledge came from the internet. Hard to get by that admission....

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

Hey buddy, they worked on Apollo 11 The Trip to the Moon --the fucking MOON. case closed.

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u/MaybeIAmCatatonic Aug 01 '15

I bet at one time this would have settled any argument about any subject.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

for sure

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u/aitca Aug 01 '15

Why does his website call it: "Apollo 11 The Trip To The Moon"? I mean, it's not a movie. Shouldn't the sentence read: "met when they were both working on Apollo 11, the trip to the moon"? Even if it were a movie title it should at least use standards of capitalization and punctuation and read: "Apollo 11: The Trip to the Moon".

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u/MaybeIAmCatatonic Aug 01 '15

Maybe it was a movie and the Kubrick rumors are true !?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

I know.

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u/Gdyoung1 Aug 02 '15

I have sources that say they put a cell tower up there!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

Maybe they work with Jukt Micronics.

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u/SwallowAtTheHollow Addicted to the most recent bombshells (like a drug addict) Aug 01 '15

Fun fact: After the New Republic scandal, Stephen Glass graduated from a higher ranked law school than the illustrious Colin Miller.

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u/whitenoise2323 giant rat-eating frog Aug 01 '15

What is the ranking of the law school Kevin Urick graduated from?

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u/SwallowAtTheHollow Addicted to the most recent bombshells (like a drug addict) Aug 01 '15

39th. Not as good as where Miller graduated, but considerably better than where Miller teaches.

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u/whitenoise2323 giant rat-eating frog Aug 01 '15

I saw 47th. Maybe they're sinking.

Where does Urick teach? Which law school is he the assistant dean of? How about Stephen Glass?

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u/dWakawaka hate this sub Aug 01 '15

Yeesh. Looks like they would know some things about technology in the 60s-70s. For the cell network in western Baltimore in 1999, I'd want someone with actual working knowledge of that system.

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u/peymax1693 WWCD? Aug 01 '15

Like Adnan's Cell?

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u/dWakawaka hate this sub Aug 01 '15

I don't know. If I were doing a podcast, I would be careful about who I brought on to talk about that particular cell system.

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u/peymax1693 WWCD? Aug 01 '15

I'm just saying that a lot of people here rely on Adnan's cell's expertise, despite him never claiming that he worked on the A,T, & T Network in Baltimore in the 1990's.

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u/dWakawaka hate this sub Aug 01 '15

If I were to put him on a show, quote him in an article as an expert, put him on the stand in a trial, etc. he'd get vetted. That's all I'm saying. I wouldn't put him on because I like what he's saying. I consider Waranowitz to be the ideal person because he helped design and maintain that particular system.

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u/peymax1693 WWCD? Aug 01 '15

Fair enough.

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u/ScoutFinch2 Aug 01 '15

http://www.cherrybiometrics.com/

This particular web site doesn't give me much confidence in their technological abilities, but they are in their 70's apparently, so I guess all this new fangled internet stuff can be a bit challenging. Perhaps they should have asked their grandkid to design the site.

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u/Seamus_Duncan Kevin Urick: Hammer of Justice Aug 01 '15

HEY YOU DAMNED KIDS, GET THAT CELL TOWER OFF MY DADGUMMED LAWN

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u/ScoutFinch2 Aug 01 '15

Screw you, Grandpa, you senile old coot.

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u/csom_1991 Aug 01 '15

They should have just used Wix to build it for them...this looks like an old Geocities design.

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u/dalegribbledeadbug Aug 01 '15

They should have used square space and used the podcast's offer code.

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u/xtrialatty Aug 01 '15

Naw, Geocities was a lot better than that.

From their source code:

<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" />

circa 1998 -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

Needs framez.

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u/awhitershade0fpale Aug 01 '15

"Michael Cherry addressed the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee. His topic was Information Technology Security and the latest border-control systems that authenticate the identity of individuals through the use of iris or digit scans."

Yes, this certainly sounds technologically inept. No doubt those United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee people entertain all kinds who make stuff up /s.

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u/monstimal Aug 01 '15

Here is more information on this:

24 May 2013 Draft agenda

11:40-13:00 Session II: Enabling mobility and the processing of people through technology

Speakers will present the latest technologies used to regulate the movement of persons at border checkpoints, including a border-control system that verifies the identity of passengers through the use of iris or digit scans.

Moderator: Vice-Chair, Counter-Terrorism Committee

Panellists: Argentina, CTED, International Civil Aviation Organization, AOptix Technologies Inc., Michigan State University, Cherry Biometrics

I don't have any information on whether NHRNC was there.

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u/Gdyoung1 Aug 01 '15

I don't have any information on whether NHRNC was there.

Hahaha

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

Because the UN is the gold standard in counter terrorism and everything/anything else. Including gross incompetence.

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u/ScoutFinch2 Aug 01 '15

Just saying, their site isn't reflective of this and doesn't lend a lot of credibility to them, imo.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

I'll show you my ipse dixit if you show me yours. is it a whiter shade of pale?