(keitai-l) Re: Sound projection (was Re: Re: Everyone is wrong [OT:luxophilia] re: OT:silly)

From: Chris Lowery <chris_at_onegoodwindow.com>
Date: 05/31/01
Message-ID: <3B161919.55ECF8EF@onegoodwindow.com>
> I worry for your soul, Chris.  

Michael michael, it's already bought and paid for. But thanks
for the mundivagrant, er, dictography:

> Remember that one old term
> for The Direct Competitor ("Shaitan") translates roughly from
> Arabic as "excessive bandwidth."  Another ("Lucifer"), from
> Latin, as "spatio-optical transport layer."  And there's the
> plain old Hebrew ("Satan" - "Direct Competitor") with its
> modern Internet meaning of "Way Gnarly Port Scanner."

For scholarship's sake you've glossed over the Latin-French
luci-fer*, a bearer of light. My only Hebrew is YHWH, and I don't 
know where the vowels go. *incidentally, the name of my cat.
Plus, as a Turing-taoist, I know to get work done you have to 
play the field.

> Just because this guy had an early, very positive role in system
> architecture before he was kicked off the UETF doesn't mean
> he can't come up with some pretty pernicious hacks - quite the
> contrary, if anything.  And this laser-input idea sounds like just
> his kind of security hole.  So don't go looking no gift laser in the
> business end, OK?  Especially if it comes to your house in a
> plain brown wrapper.

No, that was Cue:Cat. I sent mine to Rob Lowe.

> Before we veer too far off into theological debate: did anyone
> catch that story about targeted projection of sound finally
> becoming practical?  I didn't clip the story, but it sounded
> pretty real.  If this became ubiquitous, you wouldn't even
> have to carry a phone, just a locator!

Is that anything like the Cupola Effect, which helps lobbyists
whisper ideas in the ears of innocent congresspersons?

> More likely, it's headed for niche markets - like so many
> apparent miracles of modern science.  Still, it struck me as
> kind of cool.....

So is holography, but I'm still waiting for my interferometric,
touch-sensitive, waterproof laptop. Next year in Kyoto!--
-chris

> -m
> leap@gol.com
> 
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Received on Thu May 31 13:04:27 2001