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girlwhowaspluggedout
on Friday March 07 2014, @01:00PM
from the try-to-tase-me-now-bro dept.
from the try-to-tase-me-now-bro dept.
Angry Jesus writes:
"A recent article on Hackaday shows how to make your clothing taser-proof by adding cheap carbon-fiber tape to the lining. It works by shorting the connection between the taser's electrodes so that even if the electrodes pierce your skin, the current will flow through the carbon fiber layer instead.
Thorshield has been selling something like this since 2006 using an undisclosed polyester fabric."
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If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Khyber on Friday March 07 2014, @01:04PM
Have fun trying to beat physics, cops!
Destroying Semiconductors With Style Since 2008, and scaring you ill-educated fools since 2013.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bob the Super Hamste on Friday March 07 2014, @01:24PM
Don't worry when the Taser fails to stop you they will, as one of our presidents said, go kenetic.
Learn to take care of your vehicle [blogspot.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday March 07 2014, @09:03PM
Simply wearing one of these jackets will come to be seen as premeditated intent to interfere with police, raising a rowdy disturbance to the level of an indecent justifying deadly force.
When Tasers fail, Resisting arrest is immediately in play and the guns come out.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Friday March 07 2014, @02:12PM
They'll just increase the voltage on the devices :) Of course it will suck if you're not wearing protective conductive clothing when they do. "How come they're all dying all of a sudden?"
(Score: 2, Funny) by middlemen on Friday March 07 2014, @02:31PM
They may also taser(sic) you in the nuts ! you better be wearing protection ;)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Friday March 07 2014, @03:44PM
Um, higher voltage isn't going to change anything. If you short out two electrodes, it doesn't matter what the voltage is, the current will flow through the path of least resistance. You need to go back and study basic electricity.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Dunbal on Friday March 07 2014, @04:32PM
No you do, because basically you have a parallel circuit with two different resistances. The BULK of the current will flow through the path of least resistance, but I guarantee that if you up the voltage indefinitely there is a point where you won't want to be on the "non conductive" end... 1/R(T) = 1/R(1) + 1/R(2) ...
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday March 07 2014, @04:47PM
Yes, but there's real limits to just how high you can boost voltage in a battery-powered device that fits into a cop's hand. Tasers probably aren't too far from that limit. Finally, even if you could boost the voltage an order of magnitude or two, there's real limits to how much current a hand-held device can supply at that voltage. For the current through the human tissue (probably at least 1000 ohms if I'm remembering my EE coursework correctly) to be anything significant, the current through the carbon-fiber would have to be huge (or else the supply voltage will fall greatly). A battery-powered device can't do that.
(Score: 1) by hamsterdan on Friday March 07 2014, @05:40PM
1000 wet, 100,000 dry. But yes, even at really high voltages its doubtful a device that size could generate enough power. (otherwise that battery technology would be in smartphones that last a week, or electric cars that run for 1,000 miles between charges)
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday March 07 2014, @06:46PM
Yep, I was going for the wet resistance, since taser probes are supposed to (IIRC) penetrate the skin.
(Score: 2) by RobotMonster on Friday March 07 2014, @03:29PM
Not going to help when they taser you in an eye. [abc.net.au]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 07 2014, @04:37PM
I'm fairly certain the police would just beat you while yelling "stop resisting!"
(Score: 1) by Ryuugami on Friday March 07 2014, @07:05PM
And once you and up dead, an investigator will appear and say:
Seems he was...
* puts on sunglasses *
...resisting arrest.
If a shit storm's on the horizon, it's good to know far enough ahead you can at least bring along an umbrella. - D.Weber
(Score: 1) by mrkaos on Friday March 07 2014, @11:50PM
They could just shoot you instead, that physics would be a lot harder to beat.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.