This could not drive anyone insane as it could be easily blocked by covering the ears or wearing earplugs and it's a good thing..
I could easily see this being adopted by cheaters in passing exams:)
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#113I love all the innovation that's created to warn us about active shooters, all to let the active shooters keep their guns.
Take them, they'll build more. It's metal, for fuck's sake. Not rocket science.
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Can't we just make (targeted) advertising illegal? It would solve so many problems ...
You’ll get more ads that don’t relate to you, so you’ll feel like there’s more advertising. If you don’t want to be bothered by ads, we probably need better targeting, not a ban on it.
> You’ll get more ads that don’t relate to you
Great! That means they're less likely to influence me.
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#115Reminds met of the book series Daemon by Daniel Suarez [0], only there they use nonlinear acoustics to get this effect (if I remember correctly). Nice books, nice ideas by the way. Edit: They call it Hypersonic Sound System, not nonlinear acoustics, see [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series) [1] http://daniel-suarez.com/daemontech.html
The hypersonic sound system was kind of productized years ago as the "Sound Lazer" among other things. The effect is really quite stunning! It is a truly strange effect. But, as the manufacturer themselves state, it involves pointing an array of 120dB ultrasonic emitters running at full blast, even when it is transmitting silence. It's an oppressive feeling to be in a 'loud' room, yet not be able to hear anything.
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#116I wonder how the sound fidelity is like, how is the bass response on it?
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#117If you want a sound in your year, you get a device for that. If you are a business wanting to notify people who trust you, you can give them devices or blast a speaker. This fills the use case of an actor distributing information to people who do not have enough contact or trust with that actor or who do not want the information (because they would willingly use their own device if they did). Most likely use cases: p…
I suppose it could be used in espionage situations where it would be too risky to carry a receiver.
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#118Imagine the scary future of retargeting. - Doctor, I hear voices in my head - Don't worry, it's just ads
Reminds me of that black mirror episode where you had to pay to mute commercials.
Henry Kuttner and his wife C.L. Moore described hyper-aggressive physical ads and ad-blockers in the short story “Year Day,” published in '53. Notably, the anthology that first included the story is named “Ahead of Time.”
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It still is, if you watch only the BBC in the UK. Of course, people still moan about “being forced to pay for it”, even when you tell them how to legally stop paying for it.
How would you do that?
The requirement for a TV licence is specifically “live” and “BBC iPlayer”. Any online service that isn’t live and isn’t iPlayer, isn’t covered by the legislation; many (most?) of the other UK TV broadcasters have their own online catchup/on demand services.
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It still is, if you watch only the BBC in the UK. Of course, people still moan about “being forced to pay for it”, even when you tell them how to legally stop paying for it.
You can't legally not pay for the bbc and then watch, say, ITV, though.
You can if you only watch ITV through thrir online catchup service. When the UK government closed the “iPlayer loophole”, the new rules covered literally only BBC iPlayer.
At least, that’s what the TV licencing website says, I don’t know the name of the actual law so I can’t look it up.