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Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves
luciensims writes "The Independent is running an article on another study of the long-term effects of mobile phones. Given how widespread mobile phone use has become, will we even have an adequate control group 50 years from now to gauge what the effects have been?"
Tinfoil hats
I'd gladly use a cellphone to prevent getting a case of Amish.
I've been using a cell phone for 10 years and and and ...
Easy, have em put on their tin foil hats while at home.
Mobile phones and the new wireless technology could cause a "whole generation" of today's teenagers to go senile in the prime of their lives,
;-)
No, no, teenagers have always been half-cocked.
The coolest voice ever.
And the ribs were excellent! The slow controlled cooking really helped break down connective tissue so those bones just slid out.
Cell phones, the next planet killer? Mass extinction caused by brain cancer is statistically possible.
I'd like to think we'll survive but I am skeptical. All hope lies in the Amish.
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One is born into aristocracy, but mediocrity can only be achieved through hard work.
I like microwaves from cell phones... Gives me a nice and warm feeling inside my head during those cold winter days!
Hate me!
...is annoying other people:
Cell phones involve ignoring whoever's around you while making them painfully aware there is a conversation occuring that they may not join. Cell phones cause cancer.
WiFi involves sitting quietly, tapping away, but easy to interrupt on a whim. WiFi does not cause cancer.
Smoking involves making other people smell you. Smoking causes cancer.
Nobody wants to see you get your colon checked for polyps. Not going to the proctologist doesn't cause cancer.
So says those who can't shut up about cancer.
Don't take annoyance for granted -- a large part of the law, a much larger part than you'd expect, is purely devoted to preventing people from bothering eachother excessively. But never, ever forget the true meaning of statements like "the intense use of mobile phones by youngsters": It is great for me, but I do not like it for you.
Yours Truly,
Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
http://www.doxpara.com
cell phones are able to be turned off,
What?! Are you serious? I'm going to be so much less forgiving of those people in the movie theater now that I know this.
p.s. I'm working on a l337 h4ck that will permit me to turn my 'normal' telephone off.
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> the last thing I want to do is cause brain bleeding in my kids
I guess your kids don't listen to much heavy metal or hard rock.;-)
The majority of Amish agree that technology has benefits, but for their daily life and work it is better to not use it unless they can build it/understand it themselves.
Doesn't that also describe the geek mentality ? Like "If it's not broken then take it apart and find out why."Ceci n'est pas une signature.
how many places in the world there are where there are no microwaves at all?
I live in the heavily populated south-east of England, 100 meters off the main road between two large towns each with a population of around 140,000; I'm six miles away from one and ten from the other. The only place I can get any signal on a cellphone in my house is if I stand in the corner next to the window in one of the bedrooms upstairs.
I am ten miles due east as the crow flies from a major TV and radio transmitter mast and I cannot get a strong enough signal on the digital terrestrial channels to even register on a regular set-top box. To get acceptable signals on analog TV I need a carefully aligned roof-mounted fourteen element high gain aerial and a signal booster. I cannot receive FM broacasts on portable radios with telescopic aerials; I need a roof-mounted aerial for that too. I'm not in a dip or hollow either.
It's like something is sucking all the radio waves around here into a black hole.
Maybe I'm reading too much into things, but it struck me as somewhat ironic that this story came up with a Sprint ad for "advanced wireless devices". :-)
Deven
"Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible." - Alan Kay