Also has the advantage that it is basically untraceable... i mean, what to you want, google it?

Which makes it even more pointless... cou could just drop the ashes out of a plane. Same result.

The thing is, Kodak was a frontrunner in digital cameras. They build the first. They had the first DSLR 20 years ago (with funky shoulder-stray storage and power units, like the lasers in Akira).

They just pissed it away by the way of bad decisions.

Er, no.

Why would you want to _preserve_ that light? And the sun is to bright to look into even if you cut the intensity by 50%.

They are supposed to _cut out_ reflections from horizontal surfaces, like windscreens, water as the GP said, or the glass/plastic in front of the dashboard instruments...

Oh, bullshit calling time.

Give me a citation for your 10-^8 death rate due to 1 pCi exposure.(Btw, _what length_ of exposure? 10^6 years? Thats why anybody remotely competent uses sievert instead of curie - you know the correct unit for "exposure"...)

Cause you know, the human body radiates on its own (simple because of natural radioactive isotopes). This acticity is >100nCi, or 10^6 pCi (http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm) So 1% of everybody would die by their _intrinsic_ radiation by your argument. Even before we even touch cosmic rays, ground radon, x-rays, etc.

The SS was the anti-counterfeit department of the treasury long before "protecting the president" became its job.

Or maybe you just got that impression because everybody who does not really love their king risks life in jail?

Of course, and it has been done for (relative) ages.
All the directly imaged exoplanets were detected by that exact principle.

The news part is not the method, but that an amateur did it.

Not to mention that they demand those noises in low speed areas, i.e. cities. EXACTLY where you do not want noise cars.

Car noise at night is bad enough already, but it will be horrible if every car makers is playing a different jingle...

You are thinking the wrong way.

It was used in calculators.
4bit is enough to encode 0-9. The rest was done in software (using arbitrary precission math, although for very limited values of "arbitrary", given past constrains...