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Post #209,226 by tuberculosis 5/31/05 4:25:19 PM 8/21/07 5:46:39 AM Reply	The cone of silence! [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/technology/30hillis.html?ex=1275105600&en=4a1c68b85a47519f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss\|http://www.nytimes.c...suserland&emc=rss] The cone of silence, called Babble, is actually a device composed of a sound processor and several speakers that multiply and scramble voices that come within its range. About the size of a clock radio, the first model is designed for a person using a phone, but other models will work in open office space. ------ I wonder whether the NSA will insist on disclosure of the algorithm to allow government surveillance. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:46:39 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #209,236 by inthane-chan 5/31/05 5:04:10 PM Reply	So quiet it had to be posted twice to be heard!
Post #209,239 by a6l6e6x 5/31/05 5:21:05 PM Reply	OT: Sith happens! :) Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #209,240 by tuberculosis 5/31/05 5:22:48 PM 8/21/07 5:47:07 AM Reply	Blame QWEST DSL "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:47:07 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #209,245 by inthane-chan 5/31/05 6:29:35 PM Reply	I say - that's a joke son! ;)
Post #209,248 by Ashton 5/31/05 8:11:22 PM Reply	Seems that Arthur Clarke missed this one in that little novel about the fate of 'privacy'. Still, his voyeur-monitors were apparently in such proximity that -- maybe this technique wouldn't have worked. Give it a few years; the die is cast: the desire to perpetually find new gossip material (and see whose really Is bigger) shall triumph over any of those old 1776 ideas n'such. But there will be Winston.. and other all-new-people; what's to lose, if you never had it and can't read anymore?
Post #209,351 by dlevitt 6/1/05 10:47:29 AM Reply	Or maybe not :-) Anyone else remember the 'Fenton Silencer' from Clarke's "Tales from the White Hart"? [and the inventor's fate?]
Post #209,443 by Ashton 6/1/05 8:32:03 PM Reply	Hmmm Alas - not a regular Clarke groupie; tended toward PK Dick, back then. Sounds intriguing, as does The Defenstration of Ermintrude Inch (after a quick google) :-\ufffd Seems that ol Arthur was prescient about there being a future use for windows. Too. Added to used-book lookers. Thanx. A.
Post #209,517 by CRConrad 6/2/05 3:49:07 AM Reply	Vaguely familiar - but can't recall anything; details or end
Post #209,277 by static 5/31/05 10:56:33 PM Reply	So when are they going to do hover-cover? :-) Save Fintlewoodlewix

The cone of silence! - (tuberculosis) - (9) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:46:39 AM EDT

So quiet it had to be posted twice to be heard! -NT - (inthane-chan) - (3) - May 31, 2005, 05:04:10 PM EDT

OT: Sith happens! :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - May 31, 2005, 05:21:05 PM EDT

Blame QWEST DSL -NT - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:47:07 AM EDT

I say - that's a joke son! ;) -NT - (inthane-chan) - May 31, 2005, 06:29:35 PM EDT

Seems that Arthur Clarke missed this one - (Ashton) - (3) - May 31, 2005, 08:11:22 PM EDT

Or maybe not :-) - (dlevitt) - (2) - June 1, 2005, 10:47:29 AM EDT

Hmmm - (Ashton) - June 1, 2005, 08:32:03 PM EDT

Vaguely familiar - but can't recall anything; details or end -NT - (CRConrad) - June 2, 2005, 03:49:07 AM EDT

So when are they going to do hover-cover? :-) -NT - (static) - May 31, 2005, 10:56:33 PM EDT

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