On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:27:48 +0200 Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:40:55PM -0800, Tim Howard wrote: > > > On 3/30/07, listreader <listreader@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >I saw the mosquito device that will annoy younger > > >people, but not older people: > > > http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/teenage_control_products.html > > > > > >Its pretty expensive. How would I begin to create that > > >from scratch? Can a sound-card generate those frequencies? > > As pointed out by Tim below, it shouldn't be expensive. > > This thing seems to be targeted to people with enough > money and holding strange opinions. To quote the web page: > > "Anti social behavior has become the biggest threat to > private property over the last decade and there has > been no effective deterrent until now." > > As if you could solve this by a 'deterrent'. If I were > an "anti-social teenager" I'd keep my iPod earphones in > place and be immune to this gadget. The even more anti- > social would probably use a paint spray to disable the > thing in seconds. I wouldn't blame them for doing so. A really astute teenager (with a rich lawyer daddy) might successfully sue the owner/user of the device for assault. -- Will J G
