21st March 2010, 7:58 PM
Well I'd say that's just a bit of hyperbole, but the idea of using "shock value" as a means of protection is kinda stupid. If you were going to do that, set up a tesla coil and some wired insulated metal gloves so that when they enter the room it looks like you are shooting lightning out of your hands. Now THAT is intimidating.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)