Edit - This is for the Phantom v2
You would need better internet connections than everywhere in the world to be better than they are now. It stinks of returfing of old bullshit though. 7 years ago probably would place it around the last time remote computer management shit was all the rave (Client based technology was it being called last time?), you have now and "Cloud computing" is the big thing, so large corporations can pay other (Overworked underpayed) people to (poorly) run their servers instead of hiring on site IT staff (who have to do 4 times as much work as their own IT people because they have to give substandard service to 8 times as many customers). Seems like another pipe dream in the trendy corporate sector leaking its way into the consumer level somehow. It might work really nice in theory and in clean test environments. As soon as you introduce large numbers of users I predict such a service would go completely tits up.
No thanks, I will keep upgrading my PC and you can keep selling me games instead of leasing them to me. Fuck you.
Edit - This is for NotJim's Brittish Fail link.
You know what bothers me about this shit? It is to make people FEEL safe. They never say that there is an epidemic of youth violence. They never say it is attempting to reduce the amount of violence. It is all to make people FEEL safe. To stop feeling threatened. And for what? Oppressing the underaged population that can't vote. They can't even fucking sit around and talk in public with this kind of shit. OH MY GOD YOUNG PEOPLE GATHERING IN LARGE FLOCKS OUTSIDE OF THE INSTITUTIONALIZED FORCED GROUPS THAT WE SQUEEZE THEM INTO DURING THE HOURS OF 9 - 3 DURING THE WEEK, LOCK YOUR DOORS AND RUN FOR THE FUCKING HILLS.
While I agree that a bunch of kids sitting around underpasses and drinking isn't exactly something you really want to have, but the way to deal with it isn't to fucking deter them from underpasses. Seriously how completely fucked up is your society if the best thing teens want to do is hang out under a goddamned highway? Underage drinking is sure as fuck something that isn't going to be solved with fluorescent pink lighting.
If this mirrors anything like the same shit in Brisbane, the first place that they installed the noise making shit was in the high frequency shopping areas, so you force kids out of generally safe widely policed areas with high pitched squealing and wonder why they go somewhere worse? How about looking at the availability of alcohol in this fucked up arse backwards society we have instead of just herding around youths with the human equivalent of Cattle Dogs.
Gods I hate our species.
