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Homeland Security Commissions LED-Based Puke-Saber
E++99 writes "Homeland Security has contracted with Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. to develop an "LED Incapacitator," a nonlethal weapon consisting of a large flashlight with a cluster of LEDs capable of emitting "super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths." Sounds innocuous enough... until they they shine "the evil color" at you and you start puking! A working prototype has been completed, and they will soon be putting it through its paces. Homeland Security hopes to give it to Border Patrol agents and National Guardsmen by 2010."
If only to pummel Tom Cruise with................
...as long as the bad guys aren't allowed to have mirrors.
coding is life
How will people defend themselves against this?
Use the MAD method: Wear mirror sunglasses.
Does it also work against editors who relentlessly post the same stories over and over again?
Puke, I am your father.
Why do I feel its only a matter of time till the design leaks out and dick teenagers start buying them on ebay and carrying them around. I hope this doesn't work as advertised.
I think you are referring to the technicolor yawn wavelength.
warning: This post is likely to contain gobs of dripping sarcasm. Consume at your own risk.
We definitely need some kind of device to shield our eyes from this "light". As I understand a practical way would be just covering our eyes, we could shape them as glasses! Not only that, but it could protect us from the suns blinding rays... I suggest we call this device "sunglasses" to deceive others of its true purpose!
Now if someone just invented these "sunglasses"...
to clean up all the puke at the borders?
Walk with Music;
Superbowl. Jumbotron.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
this makes me sick
Just browse a few pages on myspace...you'll get a similar nauseating effect.
Not Java, but here are some of the world's worst websites:
A full background rainbow color cycle going on: Accept Jesus Forever Forgotten
This site has a scrolling polka dot pattern: SoulWax
How not to make a website: The World's Worst Website?
Or just a really bad color scheme: Lubees Pump and Irrigation
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
Coming up next, Slashdot follows the troubling development of a nonlethal technological device for "controlling" troublesome individuals, consisting of two small metal or plastic bracelets joined by a short chain that can be "locked" around the suspect's hands, entirely preventing him from using them until someone "unlocks" the device with a special key.
On whom will this fiendish device be used? Are YRO at risk if this nasty little tool falls into the hands of border guards and police? What if someone immobilized by this device falls and hits his head because he can't break his fall with his hands? Will he sue? Doesn't this violate the Constitution somehow?
"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
Sure, you can close your eyes, but you'd better hold your ears too. One of their elite researchers has discovered the brown noise
;-)
You could use it as some sort of anti-captcha for a social networking sight meant to be only used by blind people. If you can make it through the sign-in form, you get to join.
Take THAT all you people that don't put alt tags on your images!
(By the way, does the "evil color" work on colorblind people?)
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
They've been watching too much powerpuff girls.
That'll teach those slowpokes not to hog the left lane.
Have gnu, will travel.
Good point. I was going to say, "The goggles, they do nothing!", but Wikipedia told me not to. Bad Wikipedia!
They have a prototype of such an application at goatse.cx and there is an alternative competing version found at tubgirl.com
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
I can't help it, it's so beautiful...
BLLLLEEEUUUGGHHH!!
What's your name and address? I'd like to... um... thank you for getting me fired. Asshole.
Beauty is just a light switch away.
Er, so you've got a confrontation between a border agent and an illegal alien. Neither one can understand the language of the other. One of them suddenly feeling violently ill improves the situation... how?
"Flag on the moon. How did it get there?"
Yeah I bet homeland security is definitely worried about devices that exist within the imagination of your average slashdotter.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Its called the blink tag.
They do, but their job is to mop up the puke.
And galoshes...
STOP. You're being farmed.
Can they be far behind ?
Your genius is needed today more than ever, Spider.