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Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise
ars writes "The New York Times is reporting on a device called the Mosquito invented by Howard Stapleton designed to drive teens away by emitting a high frequency noise at 75db. Apparently most older people can not hear the sounds, but teens can not stand it. Reports are that it works quite well, but some older people can hear it too. He found the prefect irritating sound by experimenting on his children."
Everyone driven away?
-={ Security does not exist - give up }=-
sitting on the porch yelling and shaking a cane?
We sell skateboards and paintball shit. We aren't in the mall.
1. Hide a few dozen of these in the mall shops
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
We used to rebel in the 5th grade by blowing air through the small holes in our proctractors. Teacher nearing retirement had no clue. Sometimes the din was so loud that we couldn't hear teacher clearly...
The teen population today is growing up with the voices of "pop music". If they can survive that drivel and keep it on the Top 20, what chances does this gadget have?
What's the buzz?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
This reminds me of a guy I knew once who kept an opera CD in his far-too-tricked-out-for-an-old-man car stereo. Only he optimized his stereo for treble rather than bass.
Everytime a low-rider came next to his car at a stop light thumping away, he opened his windows and cranked some good ol' Italian opera out to screw with them. He told me he never could quite drown them out, but quite a few did turn down their stereos to try and figure out what the crazy old man next to them was doing...
In Toronto, we used to have a problem with teen gangs hanging around the Kennedy subway station. The solution to this? The TTC started playing classical music over the loudspeakers. Pow, the gangs were gone, plus it was actually quite nice for those of us that enjoy classical music.
The only thing to watch out for now would be gangs that listen to classical music. Care for a bit of Ludwig Van?
When I was a kid I built a variable frequency tone generator. Once I got it up above the range I could hear, I could make my dog go batshit. Not as in running around yelping, but scratching and chewing himself with a passion. Turns out it was the fleas that were going batshit; against his white fur, I could clearly see them start jumping incessanctly when I hit that certain range.
So maybe his kids are just nasty.
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Oh, you must be kidding me! I didn't sign up for that...
Can I revoke my membership to society?
I have this really funny quote that I like to put here. Unfortunately, there's this really annoying thing called a char
If only we could come up with a noise frequency to ATTRACT the elderly. Then we could lead a merry dance of baby boomers straight off a cliff into the ocean and watch them all drown :)
As a teen, having gone through very frustrating and annoying shit just because of my age, I'd love to know why the fuck this was modded funny.
This *is* discrimination. If the guys are annoying, call the cops on the fuckers. Don't take it out on everyone who just happen to be the same age. It's no better than racism.
toresbe
Why is this country so anti-teenager?
They don't buy enough CDs or go to enough movies.
I mean irritating smell and irritating lighting dont stop people from going to bars do they?
They still come in, they just don't sit next to me.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
It's easy enough for me to create a home made high pitched squeal. Just take the phone away from my teenage daughter. From what I have been able to ascertain, the telephone is permanently attached to her ear. Taking it away causes her physical pain which results in her emitting an extremely loud high pitched squeal.
I try not to do that anymore because the neighbors complain.
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Maybe this will spark an arms war where kids start carrying around ghetto-blasters playing rap music to drive those pesky adults away.
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RS
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Severe to profound losses range from PTAs of 75 dB and greater.
I think you may have mixed up your measurements. The 75dB referred to in TFA is the noise level. The 75dB in your linked page is the level of hearing loss - that is, the threshold at which the person can hear a sound of that pitch.
The standard TWA for industrial noise is 85dB for 8 hours, so it's unlikely this device would cause any problems.
In fact, many years ago, I used to make little devices with two 555 CMOS chips (or one 556), a photocell and a hearing aid speaker coil. They'd put out this high-pitched heterodyning whine that sounded a lot like a mosquito circling. The trick was to hide one in a dark area like a cupboard or under furniture so when someone opened the cupboard, or let light under the furniture, the photocell would cut the noise. There was no way they could locate it by sound, and you could fit the whole thing in a matchbox. As far as I'm aware, we never sent anyone deaf. Insane perhaps, but they could definitely still hear...
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Not that we abused this or anything...
Here I was hoping that that they'd found a way to drive off prefects of various kinds. Not that I dislike the one we have around here, but sometimes it could be useful.
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"You DO know that the 80s, and thus the 60s..."
I might be misunderstanding your post. It sounds like you claiming the "greed is good" era (80's) was similar to the "flower power" era (60's)? If so, were you actually alive to participate in either of them?
"Ever met a teenager?" - I kept two of them until they grew into adults, the last one without female assistance. I released them both into the wild at age 18-19. They both lead usefull lives and have been sucessfull in finding a mate. I am now waiting to see if they breed.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
"Ever met a teenager?" - I kept two of them until they grew into adults, the last one without female assistance. I released them both into the wild at age 18-19. They both lead usefull lives and have been sucessfull in finding a mate. I am now waiting to see if they breed.
Glad you're a biologist - most of the computer geeks here wouldn't get past the design document.
NO! Don't play any Celine Dion! You might get a rootkit on your PC and then you'll need those kids to help you get it off!
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Yet if someone was to invent the Retard-Prod(tm) that jabs everyone with an IQ less than 60, the inventor would be lynched within a day.
If someone were to invent the Retard-O-Prod that jabs everyone with an IQ of less than X, the inventor would be hailed as a conquering hero.
If you give me a working Retard-O-Prod (with variable IQ tolerance dial; crank that baby UP!), I will give you a cool $1,000,000 cash.
Keep one by the doorway to your house to drive away solicitors! Put one at the entrance to your finer discriminating stores! Sorry, Billy, you must be at least this smart to shop here. I won't even bother getting into the obvious possibilities (putting them in voting booths, the DMV, et cetera).
If you can make a wearable version, that would be even better. That way, I wouldn't constantly feel the need to shout YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS everywhere I go. I'll let the Retard-O-Prod do the shouting for me. ^_^ We can call it the iProd!
Of course, considering the number of annoyingly foolish conversations I've heard among alleged 'geniuses', we'd really need to turn it up to 140 or 150...
If you ask me, there's too much discrimination based on race, gender, religion, age, et cetera, and NOT ENOUGH discrimination against stupidity.
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