could you please specify "a powerfull laser"?
i very much dought that you can damage anything on your phone with standard class 1 and 2 lasers, which are more or less eyesafe. you would have to tightly focus a class 2 laser and even then the power would still too be low. a class 3 laserwould do the trick but i wonder what your friend is doing with a class 3 laser, its not that you would get them for a few hundred bucks at wallmart. anyways, i ld say anything above 10TW is a powerfull laser...

just a small comment, a green laser is not more powerfull than a red one. the human eye is very sensitive to green light, thats why you think it is very strong, but you can only tell by reading its specs.

To answer the thread title. No, and I don't intend to.. xD


... and sorry for your loss.

Eyesafe, yes. Not necessarily camera-safe, since a camera lacks the protections found in your eye (blink reflex, pupil contraction). Still, Class 1 are almost certainly safe. (Remember, Class 2 are the ones that are eyesafe only if the blink reflex is taken into account.) Focus it, like through a camera lens? Yeah -- and IMO the power is iffy here, high-end Class 2 (1mW) is IMO likely enough. Class IIIa lasers are not at all hard to get -- or especially dangerous. Probably more like $25 at Walmart, and $10-$20 numerous places online. I have several of these, and even a Class IIIb (less than $25), and simply keep them away from eyes and cameras. Admittedly, the Class IIIb (a 20mW blue-violet pointer) was imported and sold in violation of FDA regs, which require a key lockout, etc., but legitimate versions are available with those safety features.

I'm not sure if that was a typo or a joke; the most powerful laser I've seen in operation was a 15W argon unit (very impressive, I assure you!), and the most powerful in the world are MW-class chemical lasers (for military purposes, naturally). While a class IIIa pointer may not seem "powerful" by those standards, compare it to other things likely to be shined in one's camera or eyes; the sun delivers roughly 1kW/m^2, and a laser beam with only a couple mm^2 aperture and 5mW power easily exceeds that.

It is my opinion that you have learned the wrong lesson :)

What you should have done is separate personal stuff from public - not because you lend the device, but because people look over your shoulder.

E.g, I have two browsers, and use MicroB for usual stuff and Firefox for ... the rest, mainly because Fennec has the sync feature so it publishes the favorites.

Images I keep in RAW, either mine (as shot) or converted. They don't appear in the normal image thing you can show off. There's a RAW viewer implementation from some guy I owe a lot to :)

Videos you can keep in a format not listed or not understood by Nokia's player. I think the indexer looks at extensions, so there's that, however, MPlayer doesn't care. Alternately, use a codec that's different or simply use folders and exclude them from indexing. There's a tracker cfg app out there that eases you in.

I see no reason to make sacrifices just because you're a freak. If that were the case, N900 would come natively with a padlock, since we all need one. (not to mention it does, it's a lock code)

So, remember: It's a powerful device for a reason. So it can hold two lives at the same time. :D

Why dont you get his phone when he is not looking and point that lazer at his camera

Seriously if you would have a few more brain cells then you should know that its quite dumb to point with a laser into a very sensitive camera.

Because one dolt is enough, no need to double their numbers.

I'm not sure if that was a typo or a joke; the most powerful laser I've seen in operation was a 15W argon unit (very impressive, I assure you!), and the most powerful in the world are MW-class chemical lasers (for military purposes, naturally). While a class IIIa pointer may not seem "powerful" by those standards, compare it to other things likely to be shined in one's camera or eyes; the sun delivers roughly 1kW/m^2, and a laser beam with only a couple mm^2 aperture and 5mW power easily exceeds that.[/QUOTE]

no, thats not a joke, and you are wrong, the most powerfull lasers on the world actually exceed 1petaWatt and are not used for military purpose at all. i regularly work on a 100terraWatt laser. dont forget, its not only about fluency, its also about intensity, a nuclear power plant delivers megaWatts,but over a year or so, standard high power lasers do that in femto seconds (10to the negative 15).

amd if someone uses a laser of class 2 or higher to fovus it on the camers cmos sensor, he deseerves it.

@MaxJP: C'mon man, why do you let him get off with such intentional act???

PS: Everytime I read this thread's title in the Active Topics sidebar, I just want to answer... "No, I have not. Let me just try that out in a second... ARGH!!!".

I guess people are straying too far from the title. If you don't believe it, you may try it, but I've warned you, don't regret or blame others.
@ysss: If i could punch him without getting into trouble, I would.