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Using Your Computer to Repel Pests

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

circletimessquare writes "A Thai guy wrote a program that uses your computer speaker to repel mosquitoes, cockroaches, and rats! Just when you thought you heard it all before (pun intended for no good reason). " Thats nothing- CowboyNeal can repel all known lifeforms just by playing his massive collection of boy band MP3s.

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  1. Windows bugs by luugi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wonder what is going to happen when you run this thing on a MS Windows system.

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    1. Re:Windows bugs by gorac · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      being that windows contains so many bugs, I think it will repel windows

  2. Very unprofessional by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Taco,

    Again with the vapid comments posted as a follow up to an article. Not only does it display your over-inflated ego, it is extremely unprofessional. Frankly, I find your comments banal and boring. I had hoped that you would have more respect for your readership, but you don't. It is time to contact VA Software to complain about your lack of professionalism and disdain for your customer.

    FYI: LNUX at $0.69 must be substantially lower than your strike price of the options you were given. What was it like when you used to be rich. . . on paper?

  3. I don't think so. by eikonoklastes · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    This type of technology has been advertised many times on infomercials. It just doesn't work, though. My wife bought one of those roach repellers that plugs into the wall and emitts sound and EM pulses. Guess what? No change. We didn't have roaches before and we still don't.

    I would imagine if this type of beg repellant really did work cities would have speakers everywhere. They don't because it doesn't.

  4. But why? by ryanvm · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why would they want to repel cockroaches and rats? I thought they ate that shit in Thailand.

  5. HAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!! ... no. (en tea) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    retard.

  6. Re:I've used such devices... by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cruelty to animals is a fucking hoot.

    I guess you are totally vegan too. Animals have no rights, at least until the point where we STOP FUCKING EATING THEM FOR LUNCH. Then maybe we might give them the right to vote, or something. Maybe dolphins could vote, like Flipper, he was smart. And maybe Lassie, but then if Lassie could vote, she/he would ban abandoned wells. What was I talking about again?

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