Unintended uses like illuminating cars, planes, ships, trains, soccer players, football players, baseball batters, hockey players, concert goers, rock stars, and idiotic stuff like this is why FDA is asking to roll back to 1990s rules and performance. Once upon a time when laser diodes were expensive and never expected to get above 10 mW of 670 nm red, the FDA issued a blanket ruling allowing bypass of manufacturing paperwork and approval for Class IIIA and under pointing devices. The idea back then was CDRH/BRH officials could spend their timing reviewing approvals for more serious uses, and to AID COMMERECE by reducing regulatory burden.
The FDA now wishes to roll things back and take back their authority, due to idiots being idiots and the fact that the market is FLOODED with less then 20$ devices. It was never expected in the late 1990s and early 2000s that a pointer could be made for less then say 75$ and sold at gas stations. Back then many pointers were priced at 400-700$ and used a HENE Tube for the most part. Technology got better, and the rules did not catch up. Bar code readers and CD players drove the cost of IR and red diodes down. FDA is merely asking for the ability to roll back to an older rule, one that was in effect when I was in High School and College, due to unexpected consequences.
Stuff like this idiot is also why.....
https://youtu.be/Q8zC3-ZQFJI
I think he's too young to understand that posting the source code makes him a Class IV IDIOT. Either that or he clamors for his 15 minutes in the spotlight.
I think his future engineering or computer industry employers will find that video interesting "pre-interview".
Yes, once in a while some one from the FDA in DC reads LPF, more or less to keep an idea on what is "out there" in terms of new implementations of diode technology. I'm quite sure with the Wicked mess, those threads were read daily. Don't ask me to go into details, but I KNOW the 445 thread(S) was/were read all the time back then.
DC is not anti-hobbyist when it comes to lasers. Over the years, I've heard that time and time again from specialists inside the beltway. FDA has a mandate to increase commerce and to aid in science. It is the commercial production of devices that they are mainly interested in.
Other agencies pretty much scan all on-line forums, so if a politician or someone in LE or FAA, or some one in Intelligence or Homeland, , requests a report, a computer generated summary is generated in seconds based on keywords. In fact, in most cases, no human is involved. Get used to that, it is here, and its not going away short of Armageddon. A MUCH LARGER threat then the government ever will be, is the private data harvesting companies that are interested in doing an automated summary of everything you post or look at, with the intent of selling everything they know about you.
Steve
The FDA now wishes to roll things back and take back their authority, due to idiots being idiots and the fact that the market is FLOODED with less then 20$ devices. It was never expected in the late 1990s and early 2000s that a pointer could be made for less then say 75$ and sold at gas stations. Back then many pointers were priced at 400-700$ and used a HENE Tube for the most part. Technology got better, and the rules did not catch up. Bar code readers and CD players drove the cost of IR and red diodes down. FDA is merely asking for the ability to roll back to an older rule, one that was in effect when I was in High School and College, due to unexpected consequences.
Stuff like this idiot is also why.....
https://youtu.be/Q8zC3-ZQFJI
I think he's too young to understand that posting the source code makes him a Class IV IDIOT. Either that or he clamors for his 15 minutes in the spotlight.
I think his future engineering or computer industry employers will find that video interesting "pre-interview".
Yes, once in a while some one from the FDA in DC reads LPF, more or less to keep an idea on what is "out there" in terms of new implementations of diode technology. I'm quite sure with the Wicked mess, those threads were read daily. Don't ask me to go into details, but I KNOW the 445 thread(S) was/were read all the time back then.
DC is not anti-hobbyist when it comes to lasers. Over the years, I've heard that time and time again from specialists inside the beltway. FDA has a mandate to increase commerce and to aid in science. It is the commercial production of devices that they are mainly interested in.
Other agencies pretty much scan all on-line forums, so if a politician or someone in LE or FAA, or some one in Intelligence or Homeland, , requests a report, a computer generated summary is generated in seconds based on keywords. In fact, in most cases, no human is involved. Get used to that, it is here, and its not going away short of Armageddon. A MUCH LARGER threat then the government ever will be, is the private data harvesting companies that are interested in doing an automated summary of everything you post or look at, with the intent of selling everything they know about you.
Steve
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some people shouldn't be allowed to have lasers!
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Even the pilots who have reported being the target of laser pointers. To date there have been no accidents or crashes anywhere in the world because of laser pointers. NONE. No injuries either. No blinding or even flash blindness. Just angry pilots reporting that they have been targeted.