If you really wanted pictures of whatever this was being used to protect and had to use a digital camera for some reason, I'm sure someone could wrap a film camera's shutter system around a CCD. I'm not sure how well it would work, or even if it would. It would depend upon the detection speed of the protection system really.
Another thing killing the listeners to that sort of internet radio could be Last.fm and Pandora. I'm not saying it most certainly is, but I happen to like to be able to atleast seemingly control what I listen to.
A company may come up with more hit titles if it, say, quit coming out with a new football game yearly. Sure, it might not free up time to think up all the nifty aspects of a game, but it'd allow for the coding, testing and such of said game. Eventually rehashing the same title, be it a movie or a game, gets too old to really sell anymore. I, for one, am waiting for that day to come in regards to the EA Sports lineup.
Personally I'm fine getting only a few games a year out of one particular publisher or design house. I'm in it for quality, if a game called Rob's Roundabout Circus came out and it looked/sounded awesome, I'd be leaping all on it's awkwardly named goodness. Maybe I'm strange but I like innovation. But hey, maybe that's just me.
Yes, I think you're right about using it as a sort of external consience, it would be abused, and eventually someone would push the blame for a drunk driving accident onto it.
But when I read the article blurb I thought to myself why not use this device, or one similar to it, for rationing water, or grain in countries that need it, or disaster areas? It would remove the people from rationing it, taking them away from understandable anger and violence on the part of the people only getting a small daily allotment of food and/or water.
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If you really wanted pictures of whatever this was being used to protect and had to use a digital camera for some reason, I'm sure someone could wrap a film camera's shutter system around a CCD. I'm not sure how well it would work, or even if it would. It would depend upon the detection speed of the protection system really.
Not only is it illegal to use a cell phone jammer, or any other radio-signal jammer, it's illegal to even advertise one for sale according to the FCC
Another thing killing the listeners to that sort of internet radio could be Last.fm and Pandora. I'm not saying it most certainly is, but I happen to like to be able to atleast seemingly control what I listen to.
I'm not entirely sure patents from a galaxy far, far away are valid in the US.
A company may come up with more hit titles if it, say, quit coming out with a new football game yearly. Sure, it might not free up time to think up all the nifty aspects of a game, but it'd allow for the coding, testing and such of said game. Eventually rehashing the same title, be it a movie or a game, gets too old to really sell anymore. I, for one, am waiting for that day to come in regards to the EA Sports lineup.
Personally I'm fine getting only a few games a year out of one particular publisher or design house. I'm in it for quality, if a game called Rob's Roundabout Circus came out and it looked/sounded awesome, I'd be leaping all on it's awkwardly named goodness. Maybe I'm strange but I like innovation. But hey, maybe that's just me.
Yes, I think you're right about using it as a sort of external consience, it would be abused, and eventually someone would push the blame for a drunk driving accident onto it.
But when I read the article blurb I thought to myself why not use this device, or one similar to it, for rationing water, or grain in countries that need it, or disaster areas? It would remove the people from rationing it, taking them away from understandable anger and violence on the part of the people only getting a small daily allotment of food and/or water.
That's just my two cents.