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Consumer Reports From Ages Past

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-for-humpday dept.

Lust sent us a link to a really sweet little subdirectory on the Consumer Reports Website. It contains assorted pictures of long gone products. Check out the Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 from Mattel. Apparently childrens toys shouldn't be allowed to produce a 157dB sound wave. Waste some time in there- you'll be glad you did.

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  1. non-lethal by craw · · Score: 3

    The U.S. Military has increased their R&D efforts in non-lethal weapons. One reason for this increase is because of the new role of peacekeeper/policeman that the military has been forced to undertake by the politicans. I'll skip any further political discussion about the actions of the UN, NATO, or the US.

    As a M-16 does not have a stun setting, the military requires effective non-lethal weapons as killing all the local inhabitants is generally regarded as poor PR. The debacle in Somalia clearly illustrates what happens when troops are deployed without the proper equipment. So weapons such as sticky foam, super lubricants, high intensity lasers, bean bag bullets, directed radio frequency, and acoustic pulses have/are being developed.

    A M-16 is designed to kill. These weapons are supposed to be designed to be a little more gentle. Maybe someone will come up with a 1st person shoot-em-up using only non-lethal weapons.

  2. I have to wonder... by jerodd · · Score: 3
    Why a webserver must come down after getting 1.000 hits in the space of a minute. Jeez--my wimpy IBM PC on a half T1 link could handle that. (Not that I'm asking anyone to test that for me...)

    Cheers,
    Joshua `I wanted to see the review of the Grid portable computer' Rodd

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    --jon. Postel is dead. May we all mourn his, and our, loss.