This article is quite poor; this is probably something barely re worded from a need provider (like Reuters). Can anyone find an article with more depth to corroborate this?
Edit: it looks like it isn't anything to do with the rescue effort in itself; the Italian red Cross is asking to open private wifi in order to allow people to communicate. I naively thought it would have to be something with exploiting wifi in a novelty manner, but no.
Having read here about tracking people's key presses through walls using WiFi signals I was expecting something related to that. However, probably you'd want all WiFi off for that to avoid mixing up signals.
@rescuers - hey, am trapped #rescueme #buriedalive
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Was more thinking of using the technique to detect people moving small amounts - the referenced story spoke of detecting breathing rate and heartbeat using "wifi" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12357447.
What are you going on about? This is HN, not your classic news bulletin board. If I wanted to have succinct news reports from a general news outlet, I would go to one. Feel free to do the same.
Wow, this is HN and what? Your comment is still completely out of touch with reality, there are lots of Italians reading HN, some might have lost their friends or family members and look, people are even downvoting my parent comment. Is this really the place you want HN to be? You want to change the world but you can't see things from another perspective? Or show some understanding and compassion? It's not just you, but the whole thread here is terrible, it's like if you had another 9/11 and I spent my time commenting on why mobile reception is so bad there in the area of the disaster.
To rephrase what touristtam said, HN is a place where stories about shootings, terrorist attacks, catastrophic events and other current news get flagged regularly. Just like celebrity and sport news. Plenty of news outlets already report about the earthquake. This article is about the technical aspect of enabling wifi and I see people discussion wifi and cell coverage, privacy and legal aspects of opening networks, thermal imagining systems. I don't see people disrespecting the victims or families. The event itself and the human stories/tragedies behind that - and sorry that might be hard to swallow - isn't discussion-worthy to a lot of people on HN.
Perhaps it's because you were trying to shut down discussion on the technical/communication aspects of this disaster for no reason other than it was a tragedy?
> it's like if you had another 9/11 and I spent my time commenting on why mobile reception is so bad there in the area of the disaster.
That would be an entirely appropriate topic of discussion.
I understand this might well be a very emotional time for you (and others), due to the current events, but please be a little be impartial as the quality of the article that has been posted. like I have said before this board isn't your regular news outlet, and pushing for more article like this one is only detrimental to the quality of the board as a whole. This is more appropriate for FB and other social media.
As for the personal attack, you will find that it isn't the best approach to convince the other parties in an argument.
Whole towns got destroyed, all I am saying is let's just be mindful of this and the tragedy of this fact during the discussion. As you said, people can discuss different things, which is why I think it's ok bringing this up, it's always up to you to make up your mind of course
I find your attitude nearly offensive. Association to tragedy does not excuse a lapse in quality. The attempt to make an emotional connection to allow such an excuse is hamfisted manipulation at best and has no place here.
Edit: it looks like it isn't anything to do with the rescue effort in itself; the Italian red Cross is asking to open private wifi in order to allow people to communicate. I naively thought it would have to be something with exploiting wifi in a novelty manner, but no.
Quite disappointed.