Surveillance

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, jdow wrote:

> From: "Jon Savage" <jonathansavage at gmail.com>
>
>>> I must say, this has been the most interesting topic I've seen
>>> on this list. Its a real-world application. When you get it
>>> working you should write an article for a magazine such as Linux
>>> Format - they'd snap it up quick as winking.\
>> I concur this is interesting as heck. You may also want to double
>> check w/ your local law enforcement folks to ensure that nothing you
>> do runs afoul of the law. I look forward to reading about whatever
>> solution you arrive at.
>> --
>> Bests,
>> Jon
>
> I have a nasty turn of mind sometimes, Jon. I got to thinking about
> traceable to NIST. If the instrument used was ever compared to an
> instrument with documentation for its tractability to NIST then the
> instrument used is also traceable to NIST with suitable comments
> about the accuracy of the tractability. Traceable to within 10dB is
> indeed still traceable and usable in court if the lawyer does not
> let himself be bullied about it.
>
>
> (And if the fellow needs better than 10dB of accuracy to prove the
> noisemaker is out of tolerable limits then he's in trouble to prove
> his whole case to begin with.)

take a picture of your spl meter. of course there's that whole distance 
problem with sound energy.

> (And by the time you get to 20dB even a cheap Rat Shack meter is
> probably traceable with 2 minutes of work and an hour of paper work.)
>
> {^_-}
>
>
>

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