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10,000 is a good number becasue it will raise awareness; which is what causes the real decline. People, many posting on slashdot, are really clueless about the impact a laser can have on a flight deck, and on pilots. So you need to get there attention some how.

and here.

http://www.pangolin.com/faa/la...

You should look into this great tool called 'Google'

In fact...not even a 200mw laser will blind ANY pilot, as it is a physical impossibility to hold a 200mw laser beam of any significant distance steady by a human hand, it will shake - it will sway, it will swing...and the atmosphere will pollute and defocus the beam itself so it won't harm anyone.

Ever since this issue first hit the news many years ago, this kind of armchair quarterbacking has been a problem. Yes, you can prove that handheld laser pointers cannot cause actual blindness for pilots in any real-world situation, but it's ridiculous to go so far as to claim that it "won't harm anyone" if it looks like this or this inside the cockpit of a commercial passenger airliner during landing, even momentarily. Just because it can't cause direct eye damage does not mean that it could not cause enough of a distraction to interfere with the landing process, which definitely could lead to "harm" (a crash, in other words). Do we really need to wait for that to happen before putting a stop to this shit?

...you'd come across this example of what it does to a pilot's view of a runway.

I have a Latitude C640 (thank you work place!)
and I have a dock station this thing, I think. In class right now, but its pretty darned close.

The dock has 2 pci slots, so I plugged in a radeon 7000 card and so I can run 3 displays (2 crt, laptop LCD).

If you have an insp laptop, it is possible to modify it (and flash with a latitude bios) so that it will work with a latitude dock station.

Note: the latitude c640 requires a 70 watt power supply, but with the dock it demands a 90 watt power supply. I don't have a 90 watt, so it works with the 70 watt, running the cpu at 1.2 gig instead of 2.4 gig. Doesn't matter for me because my work requires me to do simple graphical and text. No fancy graphics, etc.

Grump.

you can get a scanner for between $300 & $500. Note that this does NOT include the laser or the chassis, which can run you MUCH MUCH more depending on the laser power. IF you already have a cheep laser, you can rig up one of these on a homemade chassis and use it with software like the one in this story.

http://www.camtech.com/

www.gsilumonics.com

other sources and info from this page.

We have been projecting video-like images with lasers for several years. Since laser images are inherently vector based, we refer to these types of images as raster images. Yes, obvious and redundant. BUT, you must remember that we are using vectors to emulate the other medium. So I suppose it is not such a false nomenclature when you remeber that X-Y TV's get that extra vector prefix!

The current version of Pangolin's QM2000 (link in earlier post) supports direct projection of any video source -- even a composite input! We routinely project video from a live camera feed at our performances... perhaps those in Pittsburgh this weekend will get a demonstration.

Althought the best scanners today are projecting 50k points per second, this is measured using a special calibration frame. Since the X scanner is only following a sawtooth waveform, it is possible to more than double this speed. The Y scanner is basically relaxing to provide the vertical waveform. The color control comes from the PCAOM, which modulates the color at >120Khz. The results are stunning. Pangolin's website has great infomation on these techniques:

Real Time Video Raster Info

Thus, ANY video or GAME for that matter could be projected -- but the unique quality of laserMAME is that the format stays entirely in the vector realm, and infinite scalabilty is achieved.

George Dodworth
Lightwave International
lasershows.net

We have been projecting video-like images with lasers for several years. Since laser images are inherently vector based, we refer to these types of images as raster images. Yes, obvious and redundant. BUT, you must remember that we are using vectors to emulate the other medium. So I suppose it is not such a false nomenclature when you remeber that X-Y TV's get that extra vector prefix!

The current version of Pangolin's QM2000 (link in earlier post) supports direct projection of any video source -- even a composite input! We routinely project video from a live camera feed at our performances... perhaps those in Pittsburgh this weekend will get a demonstration.

Althought the best scanners today are projecting 50k points per second, this is measured using a special calibration frame. Since the X scanner is only following a sawtooth waveform, it is possible to more than double this speed. The Y scanner is basically relaxing to provide the vertical waveform. The color control comes from the PCAOM, which modulates the color at >120Khz. The results are stunning. Pangolin's website has great infomation on these techniques:

Real Time Video Raster Info

Thus, ANY video or GAME for that matter could be projected -- but the unique quality of laserMAME is that the format stays entirely in the vector realm, and infinite scalabilty is achieved.

George Dodworth
Lightwave International
lasershows.net