Subject: Re: Helping Apple get iPod hearing protection right From: Toth Laszlo <tothl@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:18:14 +0200On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, J. Scott Merritt wrote: > It is inconceivable to me that there would be any legal > impediment in the USA to a parent utilizing a "volume lock" > to protect their child's hearing. Just to prevent this growing into a thread: my comment was intended to be ironic. Probably it is not obvious from "inside" what I was joking with, or simply it was a very weak joke. In the latter case I apologize. (Not to mention that it was also totally off-topic). > From a practical standpoint, I reckon it is much more > likely that the children will "outsmart" the parents > and develop methods of defeating the volume lock ... Yes, it will probably be a good motivation for children to learn how to build a little pre-amp from a couple of transistors... Laszlo Toth Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins e-mail: tothl@xxxxxxxx * when you stop trying" http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl *