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UK Schools Bans WiFi Due To Health Concerns
Mantrid42 writes "Schools in the UK are getting rid of their WiFi network, citing health concerns from parents and teachers. The wireless emanations, parents fear, may be the root cause of a host of problems from simple fatigue to the possibility of cancer. A few scientists think younger humans may be more vulnerable to the transmissions, because of thinner skulls. From the article: "Vivienne Baron, who is bringing up Sebastian, her ten-year-old grandson, said: 'I did not want Sebastian exposed to a wireless computer network at school. No real evidence has been produced to prove that this new technology is safe in the long term. Until it is, I think we should take a precautionary approach and use cabled systems.'"
Glad to see we don't have a monopoly on idiocy here in the States...
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I wonder if young Sebastion is being protected from cell phone users? Someone call Youth Services and get someone other there pronto!
Stands a greater risk of injury from tripping over the cables of a wired network than from the RF emitted from a wireless network. Our poor, ignorant UK friends...
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
I haven't been able to pee since I installed my new linksys. This solves it.
... until it's proven that the sun won't explode tomorrow we should continue to live in caves.
... until it's proven that Jesus Christ, our lord and saviour, is not returning, we should non-christian people for oil.
... until it's proven that the moderation at /. works, we should accept the editorial level currently presented.
Having installed wireless networks in *dozens* of schools, this is pretty much the reaction I experience with a few hours exposure to schools.
Too bad the cables are covered in asbestos!!! Muhahahhaa.
I don't get it, are we not bombarded with radio waves. AM/FM Radio, cell phones, cordless phones. Natural occurring radio waves? I though it was just something in the environment we learned to harness.
Another question is: what is the real reason behind banning wifi in schools? You don't ban technology because your child's skull is thin, do you?
hospitals have wireless networks
people die in hospitals, these wireless network tubes must be dangerous things! won't anyone think of the children?
I would take you up on that offer, but online gambling is illegal in the US.
What doesn't cause cancer?
Large values of 1
Small values of 0
Prime Numbers
Et cetera
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Gullibility is fatal. You just have to encourage it a bit.
Don't forget the cordless phones! Will someone please think of the children and get rid of the cordless phones?
"I forgot my mantra."
like the rest of us....
join the club....
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Why in hell can't they just wear tinfoil hats like the rest of us?
You're using her as bait, Master!
I hope these kids don't have televisions, wireless phones, or god forbid cellphones. I also, for the sake of the CHILDREN, hope they don't go outside ever where they will be bombarded by RADIATION from a gigantic nuclear furnace! The horror!Why do you think I'm down here in the basement where it's cool and dark?
You're using her as bait, Master!
Have you ever tried turning on a radio, there's hundreds of stations - not many people seem to realise the danger but even the sun is producing radio waves, my god we're surrounded by wireless radiation - why isn't the government doing something, won't somebody think of the children!
"As a rational human being, Al-Qaeda are a loose association of psychopathic zealots who could be rounded up with a sustained police investigation. But speaking as a parent, they're all eight foot tall, they've got lasers under their moustaches, a huge eye in their foreheads and the only way to kill them is to nuke every country that hasn't sent us a Christmas card in the the last 20 years. Speaking as a mother..." - Bill Bailey
I'm reminded of a story from when I was at my British school in the eighties. We had a day trip to British Aerospace as they sponsored the technology course I was doing. At BA they had an enormous experimental radar system that the guy explained emitted MW radiation to work. To show us how much power there was in front of us he *threw* a raw sausage past the front of the thing and with much glee retrieved it and let us feel how hot it was!!
Pretty sure I was exposed to more radiation that day than in my whole life. And felt a man's hot sausage. But no-one thought of the children in those days so it didn't matter.
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Large doses of hydrogen cyanide.
I'm sorry, you did ask.
I see the luminiferous Aether is one of the main causes of cancer causing radiation. We should immediatly force the government to remove this material from all public places, and inform everyone of its danger! Wont someone PLEASE think of the children!
I would have used a fucking spellchecker before posting.
From a teacher:
Funny, I had the same reaction. But I don't recall there being wifi in my classrooms.
hazard that wasn't investigated (e.g., hearing loss or arthritis).
So *that's* why my arthritis and hearing loss get worse every time I search the internet for information on arthritis and hearing loss...
ZuluPad, the wiki notepad on crack
Young Sebastion ... Meme Alert.
Please everyone start using "Young Sebastion" to describe our vulnerable children.
Come on guys, use your heads. Why do you think so many of us wear tin-foil all the time? Sure, my kids get flack about it at school, but cancer is worse. Just be sure to use real tin-foil! The aluminum stuff will give you Alzhiemer's.
Won't you think of Young Sebastion before starting another internet meme?!
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
...and Poloniun-210, apparently.
(How you gonna mod that one!?)
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I wonder if young Sebastion is being protected from cell phone users? Someone call Youth Services and get someone other there pronto!
Mrs Turgid teaches English at a UK comprehensive school. She says that the things some of the kids have on their cellphones would make The Hun blush. Her own son does not have a cell phone (he's 12) and he will not be getting one, although he wants one and, "it has to have a colour screen."
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Really?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
There: Problem Solved!
fucks you off? what does that mean?
That's okay, I'm not using Aethernet, I'm using Tolkien Ring.
(Yah, I know, but is that really any worse than some of ther other jokes in this thread?)
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Well, if the parents of these young sebastards would bother to get educated on what does (and does not!) constitute a health risk to their children, said offspring would be a lot better off. Those kids are more at risk from skin cancer due to playing outdoors on a sunny day than they'll ever be from some unforeseen malady induced by a WRT54G or a DI-624. And most parents see nothing wrong with ordering their kids outside on a sunny day.
Amazing. I have to wonder if there's something wrong with the water these people are drinking.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.