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Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick
OrangeMonkey11 writes "A Santa Fe man who claims to suffer from 'electromagnetic sensitivities' has sued his neighbor after she refused to stop using wireless devices. 59-year-old Arthur Firstenberg claims his sensitivity can be set off by cellphones, routers and other electronic devices. From the article: 'Firstenberg, 59, wanted Raphaela Monribot to limit her use of the devices. "I asked her to work with me," he said. "Basically, she refused." So he sued Monribot in state district court, seeking $530,000 in damages and an injunction to force her to turn off the electronics. "Being the target of this lawsuit has affected me very adversely," Monribot said Friday in response to e-mailed questions. "I feel as if my life and liberty are under attack for no valid reason, and it has forced me to have to defend my very basic human rights."'"
the more they'll act like morons.
I wish reporters wouldn't give this type of crap the time of day.
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In this litigious society, it's possible to sue anyone for anything. And, I'm sorry to say, probably win.
If this makes it into the courtroom the judge is the idiot.
It's the guy's problem, not his neighbour's. If he's got a sensitivity to it, he should don a tinfoil hat and live inside a Faraday cage.
I developed lactose intolerance late in my life. Should I sue the makers of all my favourite foods because they can't accomodate me?
...we can hope that this will set a precedent. (Though it will probably just be dismissed.)
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Onus is on you buddy... Good luck proving that one.. Enjoy those bills too, by the way!
He's lucky he doesn't live in a universe where "electromagnetism" is everywhere, all the time. Oh, wait...
Life needs more saving throws.
With a major point showing how much EM radiation there is from the sun and then from all the TV and cell phone signals without this person using anything and then what little increase (if noticable) there is when this person's devices are turned on...
Ok people, do you have any CLUE how many radio waves are going through your body at any given time? I mean seriously do people think that GPS's, Cell Phones, Watches, all have some kind of invisible tether? Your best hope is to find a cave in the mountains. Not a home in suburbia...
CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
If he is a homeowner, how he protects himself from his surrounding environment is his responsibility. If he really believes he is being made sick by electro-magnetic energies around him maybe he needs to wrap his house in a Faraday cage and shut the hell up.
You can't sue your neighbor when their cherry tree blooms and sets off your allergies. Same thing.
Death looks every man in the face. All any man can do is look back and smile. - Marcus Aurelius
This is the irritating thing about it. You can harass people with frivolous lawsuits, and, while the judge may throw them out, the lawyers still get paid. Provided the guy's lawyer asks for his fee up front, what is his disincentive to file lawsuits like this one? I really wish lawyers could receive some sort of punishment or censure for wasting the court's time and enabling harassment.
I suspect that the plaintiff is suffering from some significant mental health issues. Maybe paranoia or hypochondria or something. My guess is that this guy isn't suing because he's a jerk, but because he thinks the issue is real.
Hopefully the suit will be dismissed with a minimum of fuss and expense, and the guy can get the help he probably needs.
Hmm. So I guess that instead of pins, stick your Firstenberg (plaintiff) voodoo doll in the microwave.
And yes, there have been cases of people being sued for practicing voodoo and placing curses on others.
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...without telling the Moron, and then let the moron keep insisting "your wireless makes me sick". It would be funny. Especially in court.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Let's see, we are reading a generically syndicated human interest filler story from Santa Fe, New Mexico that was published in the Chicago Tribune two days ago.
This isn't the New York Times. It's pure silliness used to fill white space in newsprint as our other posters have agreed.
Kriston
I really enjoyed the cell phone usage was one of the complaints. Someone better not tell this guy that cell towers are omnidirectional so he'll experience that radiation regardless.
If he truly had an EM sensitivity, the odds of it existing on a higher wavelength(like 2.4Ghz) than visible light and on the lower wavelengths(like UV which affects everyone) are incredibly low without visible light affecting him as well. If visible light did affect him as well I think it would be very hard for a successful law suit unless he wanted to sue the sun as well.(and oh yea, the sun gives off far more things then his neighbors wifi, like trillions of neutrinos that pass through your body every second.)
If i had one dollar for every brain you dont have, i would have $1.
Follow me here: The average household is somewhere around 2400 square feet. Let's assume for simplicity sake that it's a box measuring 49'x49'x10'. That makes for about 6800 square feet of interior surface area. The skin depth for gold at 2.4 GHz is pretty close to 200nm, but to be sure that the vast majority of the signal is stopped lets assume a coating of 1um thickness. 6800 square feet multiplied by 1um yields a volume of about 6e-4 m^3 of gold. Multiplying this by the density of gold (~20gm/cm^3) yields about 12 kilograms of gold. The last time I checked, gold was something close to $1200 dollars an ounce, which works out to be about $508k. So all the guy really wants to do is use the settlement money to WiFi proof his house. And have a gold plated interior. And a little bit left over for hookers and blow.
From the summary:
"I feel as if my life and liberty are under attack for no valid reason, and it has forced me to have to defend my very basic human rights."'"
Ok, so the guy filing the suit is a moron and the suit has no technical merit at all. But really? Running a router is now a basic human right? A little melodramatic don't you think?
1) Mount a satellite dish on the wall of a long room.
2) Place a chair at the opposite end of the room.
3) Have this guy sit in the chair for an hour.
4) See how much he complains about headaches, how much he acts up, how he has been brain-poisoned etc.
5) Show him that the dish is not connected to anything, and never has been.
If he doesn't react, affix it to a signal generator and see how he performs in an actual scientifically conducted test. But do it my way first, then make it into an amusing video montage so everyone knows how much of a tool he is.
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I have a few powerful crystals that absorb electrosmog here for sale. I also sell Bach-flower tinctures that strengthen you against the onslaught of those waves.
And if you buy that, I also have a beautiful bridge with a top notch view on SF for sale...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...when you are the victim. Don't know for an Wireless AP but I go real headaches from a telco's base station. It was as close as 70 meters from my appartment and although it was 4 storeys higher than my home it still made me sick. And the most interesting part: while climbing the stairs to my appartment going through the floors when I was getting near my floor the nasty sensation was setting off. So the guy may be in his right. All he did was to buy a house and then waited till somebody started making him sick. Why don't you look from the other side - make the lady put her house in a Faraday cage if she insist on her wireless?
I was thinking the same thing after reading an article in PopSci a couple of months ago. It seems many are just willing to believe it is true. I think a nice double blind test would be in order (much like JREF does when having psychics, etc, prove their abilities). If they try and say it is a long term thing, where the issue is "build-up", then you can do a 5 day test for each. But first they have to list the symptoms....
Also, how much more interference is caused by the electrical wiring within the persons own house, not to mention tv, microwaves, etc. If you have to have a powered antenna to pick up the frequencies (which you do - hence the wifi card), then the frequencies are minimal compared to the tons of other interference out there. Can this person also never go to a concert where there are wireless mics (or a presentation, etc)? Frankly, how can they even work?
Actually this is a slippery slope. If one court finds that it is a real malady, it could be the next disability payment since the person can't work, can't go into supermarkets or any other store, etc. They just have to stay holed up in their house all the time.
Can you successfully sue your neighbor for other types of activities that cross the border between the properties? If you cook with some strong stuff (curries, bbq, peanuts) and the fumes from these foods makes him sick, can he actually win against you?
If i can believe my TV, really strange things seems to happen all the time on islands...
I'm sorry... UTP is not the answer. The answer is to tell this guy to go fuck himself. I'm not responsible for changing my behavior because some other nutbar has a psychosomatic illness. That's for him and his doctors to deal with. Not me and his lawyers.
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being able to sit my laptop on the counter without worrying about tripping over a cable is worth more than the crazy demands of a delusional hypochondriac.
Good neighbours put up their own EM shielding when they suffer from imaginary conditions.
The fun part will be determining if he reacts to the wifi network that will most likely be present in some part of the courthouse. The wireless keyboards and mice on the computers. The sheriff's / bailiff's radio gear...
The courthouse probably has wifi...
No sig today...
If a person has an issue with his neighbors, it isn't a problem with the neighbors, it is that person. Easy fix....... get up a move away. I know a cave in the mountains that would fit this guy nicely.
Put him in a room. Set up a router in the next room. Randomly turn the router on and off. If the guy can't tell when it is on and when it is off, he is faking it.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Speaking of which, do you mind revealing what a retart is? Is it a dessert you eat twice?
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Anything can happen in America!
He feels his life and liberty are under attack for no valid reason? First of all, the reason he is being subjected to this radiation (not saying that it is an attack) is because he lives in the 21st century in a metropolitan area in North America. I can count on my fingers the number of places I've been to in my city where there is no perceptable wifi signal. It's pretty much everywhere. Secondly, he's perfectly free to move to a locale that is far enough away from everybody else that he wouldn't have to deal with it. His persecution is more self-inflicted than caused by any of his neighbor's actions... and that's even *IF* I give him the benefit of the doubt that he is actually sensitive to such things.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Didn't this same Firstenberg guy ALREADY DO THIS to another neighbor back in January?
Why is anyone even paying attention to him and his absurd claims?
Very basic human rights to do whatever lawful things she wants to do in her own house.
Next.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
>Good neighbours put up their own EM shielding when they suffer from imaginary conditions.
And if this guy is so cognitively challenged that he can't fold his own aluminum foil hat, someone should show him how. This is the traditional counter measure used by delusional hypochondriacs.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
The devices in question are already approved by the Federal government for use in residential settings.
That more than likely trumps any claims by this nutcase*.
It will be up to the nutcase* himself to insulate or shield the interior of his home.
Think about it - if instead of electromagnetic sensitivity he thought he had car sensitivity - cars driving by his house made him sick. He'd want to stop people from driving on the street, but that's another government sanctioned activity that no court would let him impose restrictions on.
*nutcase - someone with a psychological disorder that they think is caused by something external, instead of the truth which is that he's got too much time on his hands. He should really buy an old mine and live underground if he wants to avoid RF.
Putting moderation advice in your
And I insist you (my neighbor) not use cell phones. Or cordless phones of any kind. And your microwave oven -- That 1500 watt transmitter sends me into convulsions. And for heavens sake, turn off that computer, because it has a 2GHz processor. You're cable TV system must be leaking because I have a headache. The LNB in your satellite dish is screaming at me, please don't use your satellite system.
All these devices generate RF in the 2-3GHz range. Point is, this insanity has no limits. It needs to be stopped.
Sorry, but I'm not running cabling all over my house and connecting/disconnecting my laptop as I go from lounge to kitchen to bedroom (etc) just because my neighbour has an imaginary sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation.
If he can prove this sensitivity to the satisfaction of an impartial third-party expert (e.g. a medical doctor or similar) then we can talk. Until that happens, I'm going to dismiss his claims as bullshit based on the fact that we are all permanently bathed in EM radiation of both natural and man-made origin.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
She has a basic human right to act as she pleases in her own home as long as it doesn't affect anyone else. Unless this guy can prove that her actions are adversely and unreasonably affecting him, he is indeed attacking her liberty.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Actually to be fair I offer the Samer Theory:
Samer, a former radar operator of some sort apparently called into AM 1500 some years ago and offered that man made electromagnetic emmissions were driving us nuts.
Now we all know (most) that electromagnetic emissions are everywhere but, as most also know there is a given distribution of natural emissions and artifical emissions.
Over millions of years of evolution humans expect and operate with a given norm of those emissions. Those normal emissions are the "White Noise" of EM emissions. Humans, only in the last century and a half have started creating emissions that operate outside that norm. The Samer theory implies that since we haven't had millions of years to adapt to these new emissions they are a form of 'noise' that stands out from the norm we are used to. We perceive this new noise if you would and it affects are behavior. We know that EM can and does influence animals, why would we be no different then? The question is, if the Samer theory holds water is what kind of atrifical EM 'noise' affects us, and how.
I suffered from headaches for years until I bought a new LCD tv. I was 'hearing' the TV's high frequencies (That damn whine from CRTS). Now with LCDs I don't hear that at all. Imagine the amount of EM that we 'hear' but don't perceive. Like a noisy room making people irritable perhaps the Samer theory holds some water in human behavior. I am not quick to discredit the plaintiffs claim (I do disagree with a lawsuit) but if this case has real scientific implications furthering the possibility of the Samer theory being sound the impact is huge. The amount of man made 'noise' from everything from AM radio, powerlines, cell phones, etc then we have a big and pressing problem of identifying what emissions influence people physically and mentally, what the impact is, and what if anything can be done about it since we've already let the genie out of the bottle...
We know that various forms of EM can affect behaviors (migration, grazing patterns, maze memory in rats, etc.) Perhaps his claim is legitimate. If so the implications warrant more then a passing "Meh" in regards to the case.
White noise we are used to, anything that stands out from it (dripping faucet, etc.) can really piss people off. I wouldn't be suprised if people have sensitivities to various forms\freq\etc.
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As others have pointed out in similar cases, what she could have done was turn off the SSID broadcast on her router. As far as he would be concerned, the wireless signal would be "off" and his symptoms would abate.
On the other hand, it is generally pointless to try to compromise with a crazy person. She might be better off sticking to her guns and countersuing him for harassment.
Electromagnetic sensitivity has been thoroughly debunked as a complete bullshit myth. The guy would have better grounds to sue his neighbors for psychic interference by setting him on fire in their imagination (which they doubtlessly do).
But I cant help but notice the statement that she feels her basic human rights are being violated... Umm sweety., wifi is not a basic human right... water...now theres something we should be talking about... hA!
you know you can fry stuff putting things into things that dont like the things you put into it...
But wireless is easier, and less intrusive to set up a dispersed network with. This isn't a workspace designed with cable runs and conduit. It's a home, so she could pay Electricians to come in and run cable all over the house inside the walls (with or without conduit), or she could have cables running all over the house. Or she can do as she has and run one wi-fi router and all is good (except for one idiot of a neighbor).
Sure it's not as fast as UTP but it's a hell of a lot more convienient. Even more so if she uses a laptop and likes to move around the house with it.
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
A while back, a "psychic" got an MRI
and sued doctors for malpractice when she
supposedly lost her powers after getting the MRI.
She won.
In our Federal Courthouse here, we have to surrender all cell phones at the door where the scanner is located. They of course prefer you leave such devices in your vehicle instead of bringing them in. (I think it has to do with the photo taking capability of most phones now, although it may have to do with the annoyance of phone calls when court is in session too)
Unless they're too stupid to notice.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
I have a friend who was my college roommate. We were both big into Street Fighter. A friend of his was a champion Street Fighter played (a 3rd place finish in the national SF2:CE tournament capcom held), and also was a fanatical and highly-ranked Mario Kart player. He also played poker online and so on. But he was no shut in; he was lean and fit, played basketball, and was a generally very cool guy.
Anyhow, my friend and I were chatting a couple years ago and I asked what this guy was up to - and I was told he had to swear off gaming entirely, because if he played, he'd get sick. It apparently affected him if he was around anything electronic for too long, too close. Of course, you never know - but he was completely normal, funny, balanced when I knew him. So while this feels incredibly preposterous, I do know a guy, who knows a guy, who swore off electronics. (He didn't sue anyone, and afaik, he wasn't affected by something as far away as a neighbor's wifi; he had to be in close proximity to a TV or computer or such.)
It's the same neighbour, Raphaela Monribot.
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The neighbor's lawsuit has caused an increase in electromagnetic radiation. Oops.
There was a article in Popular Science recently about a man that was "allergic" to radio waves, here's the link: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/disconnected
So it's not so far-fetched that what he is claiming is indeed possible, however what idiot with this kind of problem would live near people? Like the guy in the PopSci article I'd be living waaaay out in the woods as far away from cities, towns or villages as possible. Just my 2 cents anyway...
If having wifi is a basic human right for life and liberty the world has gone to shit like I had never thought.
Unless he is suing his other neighbours for using wifi as well, then yes, her life and liberty are under attack. She's being sued for half a million dollars. The street the guy lives on is right in the middle Santa Fe, less than a mile from the state capitol buildings, and he is surrounded by houses. The basic right isn't wifi per se, but the right to do your own thing in your own home. How does that phrase go... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... or something like that?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
You mean, like, the basic human right to a cell phone? Basic human right to WiFi?
Don't forget that the U in UTP stands for "Unsheilded". That can't be good - hell, I bet the neighbour would use it as evidence of malice!
Problem solved and he will also be trapped in there so he cannot bother the rest of us.
Stories about EMR like this make me sick.
I don't care because Lost is on tonight.
Take pictures of him when he is outside the home. When he is going into any place that has open, or closed WiFi.
Take a picture of him using a cordless of cell phone.
Take a picture of him with a bluetooth headset.
Take a screen cap of all the WiFi networks in the area.
Find out where the cell towers are in your area.
It exists and solves this guy's problem, you know, if he wants to live inside. Buy him a can of this stuff and tell him to go nuts. http://www.safelivingtechnologies.ca/RF/Products_RF_Shielding_Paint_HSF54.htm
The effects of her wi-fi and other wireless devices on this man can easily be disproved by running a signal strength meter in his home to find out what radio signals at what strengths are received within it. Likely her 2.4 GHz wireless is probably at a negligible -89 dBm, which may be even weaker by the time it goes through his walls. A wireless (cellular) telephone is doubly not a problem since the signal for the cell tower is radiated everywhere, not just in a local field around her handset, so his claim there is also null and void. Another way to catch him in a lie is to turn on hidden 2.4 GHz transmitters at regular wi-fi strength while he's in a room during a deposition, displaying no devices which use it, and if he displays no "symptoms" or complains of any discomfort, then it's pretty obvious he's lying and just a hair-brained Luddite.
Also, someone on the story's site made a good point in the comments. This is similar to a neighbor's flowers causing allergies. It's your own responsibility to shield yourself from that problem, not the neighbor's. Should he feel that things which radiate in the electromagnetic spectrum are triggering some sort of allergy, he can always wrap his house in a Faraday cage.
Then the neighbor will go to jail for cyberbullying him with RF. And be charged with statatory rape, and be hounded by the IRS. I think America has gone certifiably bat-shit insane. It's too bad you can't lock up a whole country. Call me when ya'll learn to deal with life and become mature adults.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
The WiFi-using neighbor should counter-sue, saying that she, too, is sensitive to electromagnetic signals, except that her symptoms only occur in the *absence* of such signals. Thus, the crazy dude's unwillingness to use WiFi causes her harm.
Holy shit, it would be infinite recursion of idiocy.
This seemed familiar somehow...
Same town, same complaint. According to the article he's part of this first group.
Another claim of sensitivity that didn't go very far.
It's worse than that. Think 2girls1cup.
As if it was so extremely difficult to use UTP cables... Maybe his neighbor really have physical problems, maybe only he think it. Good neighborhood worth such small thing. And UTP is safer, more reliable and faster. But no, they visit the court instead.
UTP isn't going to fix anything.
From the article:
But last October, when a friend of his rented a house on the next block that backed up to Firstenberg's property, the familiar waves of nausea, vertigo, body aches, dizziness, heart arrhythmia and insomnia returned -- all, he says, because she was using an iPhone, a laptop computer, a wireless router and dimmer switches.
So, you're going to plug your iPhone in with UTP? You're going to run your dimmer switches off UTP?
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde
A high powered 2.4 GHz microwave beam shined at you that would induce 1000W/kg would probably be felt because your flesh would rapidly heat up. So anyone can detect RF at sufficient power levels. The problem is that a cell tower would likely cause a few nanowatts to a few milliwatts of heating energy per kg and nobody can detect this.
You can actually by Wi-Fi blocking paint and window film. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=45. It's not cheap for a whole house, but that's his problem due to an imaginary ailment.
This thing here's got 430 comments and counting.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
The thing is, even if he's not nuttier than a fruitcake (unlikely as that may be), if he doesn't like it, the moral and (I suspect; IANAL) legal responsibility to prevent it is his. As others have noted, if you have a pollen allergy it doesn't mean you can required your neighbor to uproot all the plants in her yard.
You can seal your house up nice and tight, you can have HEPA-filtered everything, you can wear the appropriate mask when your outside if necessary. You can put a big fan in your yard and blow air away from your house :p
But you can't expect that your neighbor will not use her property as she sees fitSo , within the bounds of the law.
So, he should paint his house with anti-RF paint, build himself a Faraday cage, line his walls with metal, whatever. Maybe move out to the countryside. I'm not unsympathetic to anyone whose really sick - I have an epileptic daughter and I understand about managing chronic illness - but if my something at my neighbor's house tended to trigger her seizures and my neighbor couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it, mitigating the problem would be up to me.
So even on the off chance that this guy isn't a kook, that's not her problem.
I live in Santa Fe, unfortunately people around here give these cranks far to much leeway. Case in point, ATT Wireless wanted to put a cell tower on top of a building at Santa Fe High School which sits on top of a hill. They'd pay the school district thousands of dollars a month to allow them to do this. So, although the school district is in a budget crisis the School Board decided against it because they were concerned about the backlash from the public for inflicting electromagnetic energies on the students. The City wanted to set up a city wide public WiFi network, but while admitting that there was no proven correlation between EMF and health problems the City decided to let these wingnuts get their way and they stopped it because of the 'health effects'.
Haven't read too many coments that made me laugh like that...
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
The cave would ideally be in a granite mountain where the radon from the granite would quickly kill them.
Damping absorbs vibrations. Dampening is caused by moisture.
Sure you can. You could sue me for disagreeing with you. I DARE YOU!
Damping absorbs vibrations. Dampening is caused by moisture.
>Good neighbours put up their own EM shielding when they suffer from imaginary conditions.
And if this guy is so cognitively challenged that he can't fold his own aluminum foil hat, someone should show him how. This is the traditional counter measure used by delusional hypochondriacs.
No, no, no... The aluminum ones are no good, it has to be tin foil.
Bow-ties are cool.
This woman has a typical American grasp of ethics. "How DARE he try to tell me what to do and when to do it IN MY OWN HOME!" What she fails to grasp is the very nature of ethics and why they're needed.
She indeed should be allowed to do whatever the hell she wants in her own home, AS LONG AS what she does doesn't escape those four walls with a potential to infringe on someone else's "pursuit of happiness". She's broadcasting EM radiation that indeed is escaping those walls. WHAT IF the guy actually has the sensitivity he claims in this case? WHAT IF instead his complaint was that her signals were interfering with some DEVICE of his IN HIS OWN HOME? Alternatively, what if this was about a loud stereo? It "sounds" as if she might have displayed a typical knee-jerk anti-ethical reaction. I know that reaction all too well.
When we live and interact the way we do, no one actually has the complete freedom of action that they (Americans?) think they do, and have been ritually brainwashed to believe they should. Ethics exist precisely to govern and moderate human INTERACTIONS; if we all lived on our own private islands and had no contact, then ethics would be moot. How many of us live that way? The more densely humans live and the more they interact, the greater the ethical framework needed to govern that. It's only gonna get worse for most of us. For a few, who get to buy those private islands or those 40 acres out in the country, they indeed do get to do almost anything they want.
The rest of us SHOULD be considering the effects of our actions on others and whether those effects can be mitigated, every minute of the day. I turn the car stereo down at stoplights, take 3 or 4 carts into stores from the parking lot, walk softly like a ballerina on the second floor of my row house, and don't slam anything. If there's a chance my behavior might diminish someone else's happiness, then I change or stop the behavior if the cost isn't too great. Isn't this what a certain authors have called "enlightened self interest"? It's neither impossible nor impractical; it just requires less brainwashing and indoctrination to the contrary.
This story is on a collision course with another recent slashdot story.
Table-ized A.I.
She should state that she will turn off transmitters on random half-days, and ask him to identify those half-days. I bet he can't.
.. where is my cat? Mini Me? have you seen my cat?
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
I worked for an ISP in California where this guy used to live. When we tried to setup WiFi in our town he complained about it to our board and complained to the FCC. The FCC sent investigators out to look at our equipment. The meters they brought showed EM field coming from all kinds of devices in the office (especially when you put the meter up against an CRT display). When the used the meter on our WiFi equipment it didn't even register a signal.
When he came to the board meeting he made them turn off the wireless microphone in the room.
When asked about him working on a computer that has a monitor putting off much more EM then the WiFi equipment he said that it hurt him but he suffered through it so that he could do his online research. I'm really glad he is Sante Fe's problem and not ours anymore!!
I found software written by EMSS that can simulate the radiation danger zones (ICNIRP standard) around cell phone base stations on buildings for anyone interested. The evaluation version gives some interesting results. Don't know if it will work for wi-fi, though.
Whats next will I have to carry insulin because I may run into a diebetic that went into shock, or will I have to build wheelchair accibile ramps at my house. Maybe I'll have to write ym secnitnes sdrawkcab for the people who are dyslesic. The point I'm making is that you can not expect people to change their lives because you have a disability. Personally I think he is full of *&^% but who knows this may be a real disability. If so there are things he can do to minimize or negate all signals into his house. A simple layer or two of alumimim foil will do as a start.