Hmmm...humor's becoming rather 'smelly' of late, maybe that gong was indicative of an expiration date's being passed...
Here's something funnier, Mr. Kait's
"definitive explanation" for how the "Intelligent Chip" is supposed to work. After wading through all the pseudo-quantum gobbledygook (not an easy task, since it seems to have been written mainly with confusion and obfuscation in mind), it basically boils down to the assertion -- rather mundane in fact, were the alleged vector of causation not so fantabulous -- that placing the I.C. atop a player spinning a CD for 2 seconds will clarify the optical properties of the disc's polycarbonate layers and thereby "improve" its sound, forever. Naturally, no actual evidence is offered in support of what ought to be an eminently measurable phenomenon -- if it existed -- and so far as I could tell, the argument presented neglects to actually specify, despite its length, exactly how the means described is supposed to alter the polycarbonate for the better (among other logical flaws).
After you've attempted to digest this nonsense, I suggest following one of the links Mr. Kait has conveniently listed at the bottom and read the Wired Magazine article for an interesting and cleansing chaser (coincidentally enough, it contains a metaphor comparing one of the discussed technologies to CDs superceding vinyl records). Now, I'm no quantum physicist (and neither is Mr. Kait, with his claimed undergrad engineering degree), so I'm not going to pretend to qualify his rambling, cobbled-together "theory", but it did occur to me that some of the technical articles referenced contain email addresses, and I could write to some of the scientists whose work is cited and see if they might agree to check out the article and offer their expert opinions on the validity of Mr. Kait's expropriations...
