Dispatches from the front, an SPDC Update

There was a lot of relevant activity today in Steorn's forum. Sean provided some interesting links in this post to some of Steorn's previous work, including links to FraudHalt and DiscMatch. Also today, crank started the thread Dispatches from the front to give us all a developer's club update:

Sean produces a test carried out on a €4000 machine, and within a few days people can replicate his results using parts cannibalised from other equipment.

It sounds like a lot of the SPDC members are very hands on. Here is part of her analysis of the current situation within the SPDC:

I think it's fair to say that there has been some movement towards the fence by hardened sceptics, and fence-sitters are gingerly lowering toes onto the believer side.

In the words of one sceptic "I'm only looking at recipes for humble pie, it's not cooking yet! But my skeptical foundation has just suffered a magnitude 5.5 quake."

pcstru4, an SPDC member and skeptic, mentioned in the thread that he's shifted a bit, from a 0.000001 chance to 0.00000125 chance :-) enginerd, another skeptic in the SPDC, also commented that no fence movement has taken place for him yet.

Make sure to read the whole thread if you have time. Crank goes on to say:

SPDC members now know the identity of the engineer in the Kinetica video, and know more about who has tested Steorn's tech in the past.

If you've listened to the interview from Friday, you'll know that I'm a bit fascinated with the whole SPDC model. I think it's great that there are true skeptics in the SPDC, and it's also great that crank is allowed to post updates like she has. The more informed we all are, the more likely it is we'll be able to figure out where this is all heading.

SPDC Update, Fraudhalt Details

SeamusF dropped in on the forums today and had an update :

Hi,

Seeing as nobody must read my comments () I had said that we were doing update 1.4. during this week.
Updated modules and a new module will go up by close of business today along with the version update. You may experience intermittent log on difficulties before that.

Are you guys experiencing withdrawal symptoms yet!! LOL!

Cheers

S

It seems the SPDC is ranked up with cocaine as far as addictiveness.

Also today, chili fries asks:

Were Mike and Sean working on Fraudhalt's ATM surveillance system when they "discovered" the Orbo effect? Has Sean discussed that? Did Fraudhalt have the right of first refusal?

< http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8164 >

"FraudHalt is finalising a deal with one of Ireland’s largest banks to roll out an ATM surveillance system that can detect if the machine has been compromised by criminals."

SeamusF replies:

Hi Chilli Fries,

Good find on that article, I hadn’t seen it.

To clarify a couple of points that you asked. This is the same surveillance system that highlighted the “anomaly” when we were looking at power options for the monitoring system. The “anomaly” was put aside until the surveillance project was handed over to Fraudhalt. A lot of our early work with Fraudhalt was also on the Discmatch and the hologram verification projects.

On your first refusal point, which I assume is in regard to Orbo. Once we started looking at the initial "anomaly" it took us a couple of months to realise we had what we thought () had.

We are all delighted for numerous reasons that things are really starting to take off for Fraudhalt as their tech offerings are really a significant technological step-up in fraud prevention.

Cheers

S

The orbo creation story has always fascinated me. It's amazing that Steorn went from developing surveillance systems, etc to being a multi million dollar funded free energy company.