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University Bans wi-fi as Health Concern

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the microwaves-still-ok dept.

BaltikaTroika writes "A Canadian university has banned wi-fi, since the university President sees a possible link between electric and magnetic fields and brain tumors. According to the head of the university, "the jury's out on this one, I'm not going to put in place what is potential chronic exposure for our students." Is anybody outside of this university's administration concerned about this?"

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  1. Re:What about cell phones? by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and Slashdot editors were suckered by it

    It was posted under "It's funny, Laugh". Perhaps we should give them the benefit of the doubt.

  2. Re:Other things to ban at University: by VGPowerlord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a "totally unrelated to the article" comment, I like your sig.

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  3. Re:Hell yes I'm worried by jrockway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > "Mozilla is not an HTML user agent" comment for bug 915.

    "... it is a CSS user agent that happens
    to have knwoledge [sic] of some HTML semantics. Thus when the two specifications
    conflict, as they do in this case, CSS has priority in deciding for which
    specification the design should be optimised."

    Way to take that out of context, though. Good work.

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  4. Re:NO, 2.4 GHZ IS NOT THE FREQUENCY by Mahou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but what about the peaceful iraqi rioters?!?!?! (from an old slashdot article)

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  5. Re:Other things to ban at University: by Imsdal · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The White House are hard at work on this. So far, they report complete success on the subjects of scientific method and rational thought. Freedom of choice, can do attitude, self confidence and pragmatic thought have been redefined to better suit the purposes of the government. All world class facilities will be bombed in the next decade.

    This leaves only pareto of risk. There is a bit of a disagreement on this. Cheney and Rumsfield both think it sounds vaguely arabic. Rove thinks it's an invetion of the liberal media. Bush thinks it's a small animal he used to hunt on his farm when he was a kid.