"causing intense pain but no lasting harm."

Gitmo v2?

would be really useful for the politicians. Tie them to every CCTV camera and, given how common these are in the UK, you could fry everyone in the country in minutes.

In fact, you could play a low level of pain over all your subjects continuously, and only lower it as a present to the few who perform well in your eyes. Or perhaps you could have the occasional pain-free public holiday?

No need for expensive 'special rendition' flights any more. Torture your slaves from the privacy of your own luxury villa....

I really need a 'God of the Old Testament' icon, but Bill will have to do.

P.S. - where is the Paris angle?

An electronic weapon/perv scanner/mantracker radar device.

Nice

How big a battery will this need exactly?

But don't you realise that this will just be the first step in active denial of mobile phones in "troublesome areas" where the authorities will be able to jam or even fry this technology...?!

This sounds a hell of a lot like scorpion stare...

http://www.goldengryphon.com/Stross-Concrete.html

"In fact, you could play a low level of pain over all your subjects continuously"

I've been feeling that for some time already.

opera or classical music for clearing rowdy drunks and ner-do-wells. Well, rowdy drunks wont necessarily feel much pain... but space denial outside specific times might be nice. Link it in to a burglar alarm and a big sign. Take your time responding, random time on, random time off.... word will get around.

just a thought...

Bring me my patent application form.....

Just read this article and realised that it sounded familiar - the episode of CSI:NY that aired in the UK on Saturday used one of this micro-death-ray thingies.

But, if this is representative of the real device then it's definitely not "non lethal" - the poor victim had his pacemaker explode! And he also got some pretty 'good' burns from spectacles, wrist watch etc.

Maybe with our Home Sec (Wacky Jacqui) they can automate the body scan to death ray transition, thereby removing the need for inconvenient/expensive trials. How do you like your crims sir/madam - medium rare or well done? Trouble is, I seem to remember that the CSI device also did a good job of zapping the local CCTV camera - oops!

(Coat icon because someone's bound to come up with some sort of anti-death ray body armour).

Isn´t it the name of a movie starring Eddie Murphy where he goes to a gun convention where there is a weapon with embedded microwave oven?

Pun on another movie...

'Set your phasers to extra crispy'

Wait, one more, given the opportunity...

'Beam me up, Scotty. Oh, beam my coat up too.'

Pete wrote:

>TV = fiction

I'm sure the BBC News or Discovery channels would love to hear that they're no better than Hallmark, MTV, etc.

>> But, if this is representative of the real device

My bad - didn't explain myself properly here - wasn't suggesting for a nanosecond that Raytheon et al were programme consultants. And yes, I'm also aware that no-one's suggesting some kind of sci-fi microwave focusing widget for the real device - unlike the one in CSI, (plus there's the small matter of the behaviour of high energy beams in atmosphere). Point I was trying to make is that 'non lethals' can have lethal effects that are directly obvious - like tasers/tear-gas killing folks with cardiac-problems/asthma respectively.

Anyway back to the Perl manual I'm reading - can't wait to see how the story pans out. Usual deal - good cast, but the dialog sucks. ;)

... mild pain-causing raygun on its head.

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The Death Star would not have been half as popular if it was the Mild Pain Star.