asciilifeform: re: 100hz - i do lean towards the soviet hypothesis that at least a third of the sleep cycle is a vestigial waste of time.

asciilifeform: i once set about building this one too - but life got in the way.

asciilifeform: (helmholtz coil with plumbing for water - must actively cool - and a power source similar to what one might find in a large stroboscope.)

asciilifeform: at this point there's probably a 'for dummies'

asciilifeform: for good overview, see wassermann, epstein & ziemann - 'oxford handbook of transcranial stimulation'

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: last i checked - none that had predictive power (i.e. worth bothering with.)

asciilifeform never heard of a 'clinkle' before - and guesses that it might be a service which lets you nominate people for the clink.

asciilifeform: mega-lol >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsWoNpHg2s << had no idea someone had an english translation of this.

asciilifeform read this many years ago, and wondered if anyone tried the obvious next step

asciilifeform: but tied to eeg peaks of victim.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall an experiment from the '70s where everyone who was placed in apparatus had seizure. from ordinary flash lamp - but not at the familiar 20hz which sets off known sufferers

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually, there's a way.

asciilifeform: americans, if i recall, tried ear-to-ear.

asciilifeform: nope. afaik that never worked.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: for the latter, i never found a satisfactory setting where i could pronounce the old papers - replicated. but the usual idea is to set 100-200 Hz, square wave (some insist sinusoid instead), constant current (not constant voltage) output, and ramp up from zero.

asciilifeform showed to pet, who believes it's plausible

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's gotta be fake

asciilifeform: http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~dsculley/tutorial/opamps/opAmpCurrentSource.JPG << like this.

asciilifeform: salt water is great for electric chair, where the action is over in minutes, but useless here. use the green gel that is sold for eeg machines.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: looks quite like their smallest 'ipod' product, but with straps on.

asciilifeform: (i. johnston's translation. lifted from http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~davis/crs/e321/Kafka-PenalColony.pdf)

asciilifeform: he felt in his mouth—otherwise the straps around his throat would break his neck.” “That’s cotton wool?” asked the Traveler and bent down. “Yes, it is,” said the Officer smiling,“feel it for yourself.”''

asciilifeform: ''There are straps for the hands here, for the feet here, and for the throat here, to tie him in securely. At the head of the bed here, where the man, as I have mentioned, first lies face down, is this small protruding lump of felt, which can easily be adjusted so that it presses right into the man’s mouth. Its purpose is to prevent him screaming and biting his tongue to pieces. Of course, the man has to let t

asciilifeform: beautiful comic, but missing the gag pad, which is why i even remembered about der strafkolonie - jurov's toothmark authenticator.

asciilifeform: what teacher.

asciilifeform: (that's -exactly- how i pictured it. and why herr kafka never gets credit for inventing dot-matrix printer, i'll never understand. this confounded me as a schoolboy.)

asciilifeform: nobody'd use it << who the hell wants to use today's, with its palm scanner ?

asciilifeform pictures a future, arabian btc atm, with built-in hand chopper for those who trip some alarm or other.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa, never such a problem. they'd simply confiscate houses, cars, mattresses of money, until shortfall vanishes.