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On The State of Wireless

There's a short piece on Mindjack about the state of wireless. Actually, the piece is a minireview of a piece that Nicholas Carroll produced at Hastings Research. Yes, it's a PDF, and yes, it costs money. Having read through it, it's also totally worth it, especially if you are an organization that does basically anything with wireless.

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  1. Re:Hun? by M-G · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's either:

    a) A devious plot to increase revenue by getting a kickback on each pay-to-view

    b) A way to show how many people comment on Slashdot without bothering to read the linked material...

  2. Ummmm by wiredog · · Score: 4, Funny
    . Imagine being able to watch "Star Trek - TNG" on your mobile phone!

    Just imagined it. Eyes hurt. Head hurts. From trying to focus on small screen.

  3. Re:FYI - if you're thinking wireless... by SilentChris · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should've spent the money on some better linebackers for your football team. :)

  4. Re:Any Truth to this? I'd like some editor comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Cool. Slashdot can run the next generation competitor to Passport.

  5. Re:Hun? by aclarke · · Score: 3, Funny

    I admit it, I just go here for the pictures.

  6. Effect of Wireless may be CUMULATIVE. by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 2, Funny
    I was walking through the city the other day with a Shaman friend of mine. We played this game:

    He'd point to people and say, "Yeech! That guy's energy is severely messed up." And I'd run across the street and ask how often s/he used a cell phone.

    9 for 9. Each individual canvassed reported using a cell phone for, on average, two hours every day.

    Altered energy patterns were described as the following. . .

    A separate, small bubble of energy now integrated into the side of the person's larger bubble at the side of the head where the cell phone 'plugs' in; weird effects on the rest of the energy pattern, especially when the phone is in use. ('Bubble', being the loose term meaning a 3D version of a pattern which somewhat resembles that seen when iron filings are sprinkled around a magnet).

    My friend notes that the alteration of people's energy patterns appears to be a cumulative effect, and that people with energy patterns altered in this way seem much more prone to 'fliers' and similar.

    This is a relatively new twist on my old mis-trust of wireless technology which up until recently was based purely on the disturbing and much pooh-poohed reports of weird effects to the nervous system resulting from EM radiation in the bandwidths common to Cell and PCS phones.

    Of course, the above is rather far to the left of where most Slashdotters are. Nonetheless, I'd like to point out the following;

    The human brain and nervous system are electrochemical in nature; this is why things like stun guns and EEG machines work. We emit EM radiation. Everybody knows this. Conversely, it is foolish to think that EM radiation when pumped through us will have absolutely no effect whatsoever. --And the straight mechanical heating of cells doesn't seem to be the issue in any of the lab reports I've read; the true issue appears to be that the functions of brain and nerve cells are in part mitigated by various electrical wave forms, and like AC and magnets, this is a two way street. That which emits EM can be affected by EM. Simple as that.

    Of course, those who stand to make billions of dollars from the entrenching of wireless technology will tell you a very different story; one which sounds a great deal like the "There's no proof," thing that the cigarette companies piped at us for decades.

    Okay. Enough. Do some of your own research before knee-jerking based on what you've been tricked into believing is true by Corporate media, bought & sold Governments, and school books provided by said interests.

    Have fun!


    -Fantastic Lad

  7. Re:Wireless is definately the way forward. by sethg · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's why I think wireless will increase security: it'll get people to realize that they have to patch up their holes.

    You have a lot more faith in human nature than I do.
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