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Some Northern California Cities Are Blocking Deployment of 5G Towers (techcrunch.com)

Hkibtimes tipped us off to some interesting news from TechCrunch: The Bay Area may be the center of the global technology industry, but that hasn't stopped one wealthy enclave from protecting itself from the future. The city council of Mill Valley, a small town located just a few miles north of San Francisco, voted unanimously late last week to effectively block deployments of small-cell 5G wireless towers in the city's residential areas. Through an urgency ordinance, which allows the city council to immediately enact regulations that affect the health and safety of the community, the restrictions and prohibitions will be put into force immediately for all future applications to site 5G telecommunications equipment in the city. Applications for commercial districts are permitted under the passed ordinance....

According to the city, it received 145 pieces of correspondence from citizens voicing opposition to the technology, compared to just five letters in support of it -- a ratio of 29 to 1. While that may not sound like much, the city's population is roughly 14,000, indicating that about 1% of the population had voiced an opinion on the matter. Blocks on 5G deployments are nothing new for Marin County, where other cities including San Anselmo and Ross have passed similar ordinances designed to thwart 5G expansion efforts over health concerns... The telecom industry has long vociferously denied a link between antennas and health outcomes, although California's Department of Public Health has issued warnings about potential health effects of personal cell phone antennas. Reduced radiation emissions from 5G antennas compared to 4G antennas would presumably further reduce any health effects of this technology.

The article concludes that restrictions like Mill Valley's "will make it nearly impossible to deploy 5G in a timely manner."

187 comments

  1. If they are worried about radiation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...wait until they learn about something called The Sun...

  2. Once their 4G is unsupported by Kernel+Kurtz · · Score: 1

    they will probably have a change of heart.

    1. Re:Once their 4G is unsupported by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They'll be dead by then

      Stick with copper and fiber, my friends. And clean American coal.

    2. Re: Once their 4G is unsupported by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thatâ(TM)s more appropriate course of action anyway. Why have 2X radiation sources at the same time?

    3. Re:Once their 4G is unsupported by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      4G will integrate seamlessly into the 5G framework. They'll come around after seeing the benefits in the bigger cities and witnessing the unwillingness of the broadband operators to offer anything else than wireless connections. "But, but building infrastructure costs always 50% more than any amount of subsidies to build it! Regulation!? Death and destruction of American Way of Life!!"

  3. time for caexit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This position payid for by concast cable

  4. Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look up the Inverse square law, Einstein-san. Also - They didn't "ban" 5g, they said they don't want it on light poles in dense residential areas. They still allow it downtown on office buildings. TFS is wrong.

    1. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      These liberal run towns don't care about science. FUD and appearance of 'do-gooding' is all that matters.

    2. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by spire3661 · · Score: 1

      You can feel the energy of the sun DIRECTLY on your face. If you stand in it for more than few mins it will begin to cook your skin. Its not disconnected. Those photons came from the Sun approx ~8 mins prior, directly to your face. Even inverse-square has trouble minimizing the power of the Sun, esp at one AU, where the entirety of all life on the planet is fueled directly or indirectly by the suns output.

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    3. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by meglon · · Score: 1
      The inverse square law is simply what happens; it doesn't have a problem doing anything.

      As for:

      ....where the entirety of all life on the planet is fueled directly or indirectly by the suns output

      No, it's not.

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    4. Re: Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by c6gunner · · Score: 0

      Look up the Inverse square law

      Yep, that's a great start. After you're done looking that up, go ahead and look up the power output of the sun vs a radio antenna.

    5. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Insightful

      These liberal run towns don't care about science.

      Liberals are not all alike. Some are very pro-science, while others are anti-vaxx, anti-GMO, anti-cellphone-brain-cancer, anti-scientific-evidence hippies. Marin County is badly infested with the latter.

      Disclaimer: I am not a liberal.

    6. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Look up the Inverse square law,

      The problem, if you are concerned with radiation, is moving the towers further away will cause the cell phones in peoples homes that are much much closer to crank up their transmit power.

      Yes this is worse because your phone will be blasting out at max, about 2 watts, potentially right near you in the same room. Being much closer, a much larger amount of radiation intensity remains when it gets to your body.

      The towers are normally pretty far away anyway, and due to the inverse square law the intensity remaining once it has traveled to your body is embarrassingly tiny in comparison.

      Let's actually USE the inverse square law.
      There are four values in the formula, the starting distance and intensity, and the ending distance and intensity. You need three of those values to find the forth as an unknown.

      We know the transmit powers of cell phones and towers at their source, and we can estimate the distance you'd be to both, letting us solve for the intensity at the distance to you.

      Cell phones, at max can transmit about 2 watts of power. If it is in the same room with you, say on your night stand charging, let's go with 20 feet away to be generous.

      2 watt / 20 feet squared = 0.005 watts of power when it reaches you. Ok.

      Towers, typically transmit at 10 watt with 4 and 5G.
      Let's go with one mile away as the distance, at least that's typical around where I am.
      1 mile is 5280 feet, to keep like-units.

      10 watt / 5280 feet squared is 0.0000003587 watts by the time it reaches you.

      That's 5 thousands of a watt your cell phone will be radiating you with at max power, which without a tower near by it will be doing.

      Compared to zero thousands of a watt for the tower placed close by at a mile away.
      You need to go down three whole decimal places to get the first non-zero number.
      Three one-millionths of a watt, or four one-millions of a watt if you wish to round up (rule of 5s)

      That's over a thousand times the radiation exposure now coming from your own cell phone next to you.

      *golfclap* good job on reducing our radiation exposure california!

    7. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by flatulus · · Score: 0

      So you are unfamiliar with photosynthesis?

    8. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by meglon · · Score: 4, Informative

      So you are unfamiliar with photosynthesis?

      So you are unfamiliar with chemosynthesis? There are biomes on this planet that are not beholding to the sun's energy.

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    9. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by flatulus · · Score: 0

      Fair enough. Which would you say is the rule, and which is the exception?

    10. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by meglon · · Score: 3, Informative
      Your question is wrong.

      ....where the entirety of all life on the planet is fueled directly or indirectly by the suns output

      This is not true.

      There are biomes on this planet that are not beholding to the sun's energy.

      This is true.

      Regardless of which is more or less common (photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis biomes not supported by solar energy), the first statement is still not true; because photosynthesis is far more readily seen and available to us does not make it absolute....which is what the initial comment i was responding to stated.

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    11. Re: Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by nazsco · · Score: 1

      the article is about towers in utility poles rigth out of your home. if you are 1mile from it I assume you live in a rural setting. for me it is about 50ft.

      also, you forgot about time and radiation accumulation. A cellphone is only used a few times a day, while a tower put in front of your house will be dousing you 24/7.

    12. Re: Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      the article is about towers in utility poles rigth out of your home. if you are 1mile from it I assume you live in a rural setting. for me it is about 50ft.

      Actually I live in a city of about a million people, but I am on the east coast not the west.
      We generally have 1-2 large towers in a given mile radius here.

      I have no doubt major California cities are far more densely populated.
      But if you do the math even 40 feet away will be one one-hundredth of the exposure you would get compared to your cell phone itself.

      also, you forgot about time and radiation accumulation. A cellphone is only used a few times a day, while a tower put in front of your house will be dousing you 24/7.

      I did not forget it, I explained fairly clearly why that isn't actually true.

      You personally may only use your cell phone a few times a day, but that has little to do with the fact it is transmitting around the clock so long as it is powered on.

      Not only is it transmitting every minute or so in fairly large bursts just to maintain GSM communications with the cell tower, but smartphones with background data-using apps like email will raise that frequency.

      Your phones radio has one desire in life, and that is to be on the cell network.
      During normal communications it will ramp down the transmit power to a level the tower is happy with and can hear it clearly.
      But if you remove most or all of those towers, it will crank up its TX power to the full 2 watts it is capable of just to scream for attention from the network.

      You might notice the fact that poor reception correlates precisely with worse battery life, explicitly due to a higher transmit power.

      Cell phones also have to transmit omni-directional which requires far more power due to the inverse square law compared to the towers.

      A tower will have 6-8 separate antennas and transmitters arranged in a circle around it.
      Each one with a 45-60 degree cone that comparatively is far more directional.
      They also aim slightly downward to ensure the top edge of the cone is as flat as possible to still cover the highest points around it, but most of that energy goes downward.
      This is to avoid wasting power transmitting where the signal isn't really needed, although there is still leakage and it isn't like they are line-of-sight aligned.

      That's why each transmitter can get away with only 10 watts, despite all the transmitters and thus 'the tower' consuming 6-8 times that power in total.
      But you will typically only be radiated by one antenna, and on occasion two. Never all of them.

      Your cell phone causes hundreds to thousands of times the intensity exposure to you than the tower antennas do, which is increased the further you are from a tower or are affected by any interference. That phone also transmits 24/7 just like the towers do.

      In fact the decrease of intensity exposure mostly only applies at night when you don't have the phone on your person.
      The full work day it is far less than one foot away from you, being in your pocket.
      The evening depends if you are out or at home.
      Sleep time is the main time you can be pretty assured the phone won't be in your pocket.

    13. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by ebvwfbw · · Score: 1

      If these towers are only using 2 watts then how come they have these big frickin' cables going up? A CB radio from the 1970s used to max out at 5 watts. Some people would hook up a linear and amp it up to hundreds. Seems like the cables going up are awfully big for just 2 watts. The emergency generators at these stations that I see around where I am are enough to run the neighborhood.

      Yet we're near them and we're not fried in the brain. Well some may think this is why we're going crazy recently.

    14. Re:Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If these towers are only using 2 watts then how come they have these big frickin' cables going up?

      Because they are not. I said 10 watts per transmitter on the tower.

      In another post I also explained there are 6-8 directional transmitters forming a circle, each one with only a 45-60 degree cone of output.
      (Post here)

      So yes, 6 or 8 separate 10 watt transmitters would be 60-80 watts of power emitted.
      Also the emission power in watts and the electricity going into the hardware isn't going to be the same. The electronics need power too, it isn't 100% going out as RF.

      That's why they have "these big frickin' cables going up"

      The reference to 2 watts was regarding the cell phone in your pocket, not the tower.

      I more than welcome pointing out errors in my math and corrections on assumed numbers (one such example pointed out in the parent comment to the one linked above) but please at least read what I said correctly before you attempt to do so.

      Yet we're near them and we're not fried in the brain. Well some may think this is why we're going crazy recently.

      The post you replied to, the linked one above, and this one are my only comments in this thread.
      (I know, anon and all, there's no way you could know)

      However I did intentionally not mention anything related to health or effects of RF.
      Mainly because I don't know. I'm not a doctor, or a medical scientist, or even qualified enough in that subject to know if either of those titles are the proper people to ask :P

      I am only an engineer with experience with RF, and specifically to this comment thread, experience in using the inverse square law which was being represented in so many incorrect and butchered ways above.

      But the math isn't hard, I specified my assumptions ahead of time, and you are free to plug any values you wish into the formula yourself.
      Of course slashdot doesn't allow tex formatting but I'll try to explain.

      There are 4 values: The intensity of energy at the starting point (i 1), the distance at the starting point (D 1), and the same ones at the ending point (i2 and D2)

      If you know 3 of these you can solve for the 4th, in this case I2

      The formula is i 1 over D 1 squared equals i 2 over D 2 squared.

      With small units of distance you will use "1", and since 1 squared is 1 it makes that number easy.
      I used feet and transmitter specs are in yards (or meters) so any unit 1 meter or less will just use a "1" here otherwise you'll need to find the smallest common denominator of the two distances such that D 1 is within the specification range.
      Since any value for i1 divided by 1 is i1, you can even skip this step.

      So as long as it is one meter or less you use:

      i 1 / ( D 2 squared) = i 2

      Plug in wattage of device for i 1 and the distance from the transmitter as d2, and i2 will be how much energy reaches you at that point.

      Run this twice, once for the cell phone, and once for the tower, and then compare the results.

      Use excel if it helps, run a bunch of what-if's, play around with it and change the numbers I used as assumptions. Fill in your own assumptions to compare.
      Or if you want go out and get the exact numbers for you, find your closest towers and run them all, find your phone models actual transmit power, plug in the actual distance you keep it from you at night, etc etc

      Math is fun and is our friends, don't be afraid of it!

    15. Re: Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Itâ(TM)s not liberals, itâ(TM)s CA/Snowflakes. The place is riddled with them and they are equally distributed Right and Left.

    16. Re: Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Science is ever changing and often wrong. Nothing wrong with not wanting microwaves being blasted near your house.

    17. Re: Summary is wrong, they didn't ban 5g entirely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lol, you think your cellphone is only transmitting when your calling someone...

  5. I'd push for towers by layabout · · Score: 4, Informative

    inverse square law is your friend.

    1. Re:I'd push for towers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They're specifically banning them in dense residential areas, that's it. Inverse square law is actually being applied in how they're doing this.

    2. Re:I'd push for towers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      by the Anthropic Principle, every natural law is our friend, as every natural law leads to us being able to exist in this universe. even without that principle, the concept is still true: if even one law of nature was altered, we might not exist. i for one welcome our laws of the universe overlords, and will be glad to help them in rounding up nonbelievers.

  6. ugly crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cell companies think they have the right to put their ugly crap wherever they want, and inundate people with RF who might not necessarily appreciate it, right or wrong. Glad that Mill Valley is not knuckling under to the bullies.

    1. Re:ugly crap by mbkennel · · Score: 1

      If you have cell service you have RF. If you have fewer cell towers, then to get the same minimal reception quality in the further areas, you need more radiation close to the towers. So it's exposing people to more RF.

      Again, the problem is the phone on your ear, not the station.

    2. Re:ugly crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Again, you're full of shit, the static towers bathe the local area in radiation quite well beyond what even a group of clustered cell phones in a home would do, you don't know what you're talking about.

    3. Re: ugly crap by Carewolf · · Score: 1

      No. The communication needs go both ways, this is not TV we are talking about. There is an antenna in each phone that can send just as strong signals as a cell tower but only one at a time

  7. Hmm. by Presence+Eternal · · Score: 1

    I had a customer spouting this stuff to me the other day. Super nice person, but "it changes your blood" and "It damages your mitochondrial dna" was among the stuff I heard. I wonder what the cancer incidence is among cell tower workers is though. All I can google is "They often die by falling." Gee, thanks, Cracked.

    1. Re:Hmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      "They often die by falling."

      I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED to hear that.

    2. Re:Hmm. by Presence+Eternal · · Score: 1

      I was googling cell tower workers dude. The people who get physically burned by those signals. They're the ones I was googling.

    3. Re:Hmm. by GWXerxes · · Score: 1

      You have undiagnosed schizophrenia, just like every other electromagnetic sensitivity wackjob I've ever met. Seek help

    4. Re:Hmm. by MDMurphy · · Score: 1

      Link to an article that mentions the claims were not confirmed.

    5. Re:Hmm. by Herkum01 · · Score: 1

      So you linked to a bunch of articles from purely China authors in Beijing. While I see a lot of quotes about dangers, I guess if I stick my head in a microwave for 20 or 30 minutes at a time I can understand having some DNA damage. What I don't see is is any explanation of why a microwave sitting my kitchen is danger.

      Might as well be links to the dangers of Di-hydrogen Oxide and all the nasty effects it has.

    6. Re: Hmm. by Presence+Eternal · · Score: 1

      I've read enough marginally relavent links about rat brain cells for one day. Come back with a link showing that cell tower workers, exposed to many orders of magnitude of the radiation, are suffering massive cellular damage and neural problems and I'll read it.

    7. Re: Hmm. by Presence+Eternal · · Score: 2

      Heh, cellular damage.

    8. Re:Hmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It said more study is needed to fully confirm the findings - which then occurred, confirming the findings. You don't research anything very deeply, no wonder you get tripped up by what it actually says lol.

      RF radiation increases the amount of albumin that crosses into the brain and becomes trapped there, along with whatever other junk might be in your bloodstream.

      This is why the "coincidence" of frequent cell-use sides of the head coincide with certain tumors in a significant % of the cases. You'd have to be a moron to miss it.

    9. Re:Hmm. by AlanObject · · Score: 1

      So you linked to a bunch of articles from purely China authors in Beijing.

      nih.gov is "purely China?" Good to know. The fact that you apparently think that the authors are Chinese based in Beijing (writing in perfect English) means that their research is disregard-able suggests to me that you are just so conditioned to take a side that it is your opinion is more questionable.

      What I was hoping for is someone to check what part of the spectrum 5G uses, or maybe the use case and deployment practice, or something else not considered and provide insight as to the safety of the technology. Guess I'll have to wait longer.

    10. Re:Hmm. by AlanObject · · Score: 1

      I was googling cell tower workers dude.

      So why were you doing that? I am left to guess that your idea was that cell tower workers get more exposure than regular consumers so therefore if they don't get sick from it nobody else should be either.

      If that is the case I see lots of problems with your assumptions. For one thing I would expect a cell tower linesman to be safety trained with regard to not being in front of a powered-up directional signal source. Are the antennas even powered up when they are up there? Once the are done with the installation do they tend to live somewhere where they don't have 5G coverage? (or 3GPP/3G/LTE/ whatever.) Line workers tend to be more fit than the general population (all that climbing and carrying) and would that be a factor? I could think of other things but I don't see what you were trying to prove.

      You certainly weren't looking for data with regard to your foolish-but-nice customer's concerns.

    11. Re: Hmm. by Presence+Eternal · · Score: 1

      It was based on a tower workers saying they needed to power things up to test them, and photos of RF burn. Also, the premise of the fear is that proximity increases risk. It's a more logical course of investigation than rat cells in whatever petri dish analogue they're grown in, especially given how such studies are notorious for being hard to get good actionable data from. Or are you not aware of how many methods that have been successfully used to eridacate nearly every horrible disease in rats? If rats were good enough models, diabetes, cancer, dementia etc would have been eliminated by the 1980s. Those studies are not good enough for me.

    12. Re:Hmm. by Herkum01 · · Score: 2

      You listed studies about these dangers, but somehow they are all from China, with only Chinese contributors with no details on their results. Combine that with China have a serious problems with a lack of peer review I am saying that I have some bias on the source of the information. Whether it is listed by the NIH or not is irrelevant.

      If the information is not that common and your struggling to find something on the dangers of 5G usage, I find it unlikely that Mills Valley has some secret knowledge that they are objecting to the installation of the towers. It is more likely it is just NIMBY's attitude which shows up a lot in wealthy neighborhoods and towns when they can get away with it.

    13. Re: Hmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So in other words, you are on the other side of mainstream science with no evidence to present for your belief.

    14. Re: Hmm. by c6gunner · · Score: 1

      No, your "mainstream science" are preliminary studies without any evidence of real-world effects. It's a decent starting point if you're looking to justify further research on human beings, but other than that it's meaningless.

    15. Re: Hmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      At least he doesn't childishly resort to impersonating others like apk and twisting slashdotters words like you do c6gunner https://linux.slashdot.org/com... when apk challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock him first https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

    16. Re:Hmm. by RockDoctor · · Score: 1
      What are the odds that the antennae of a cell tower would be shut down before a maintenance worker goes up on the cherry picker (ladder, ropes, whatever). What is the first rule of working on electrical equipment? Switch it off and unplug it. For these things, "switch off" might involve a shutdown procedure of refusing new connections, then handing off existing connections to the next nearest tower (which has to be built into the system, for car users), blah other things, then "shutdown -P NOW"

      If there are multiple antennae sets (2x phone companies, 1x police/fire comms, plus whatever you're going to add), then you'll need to (shocking concept) plan the intervention. Maybe even do a little paperwork. Same as you have to do for any work above 6ft above the ground.

      It's almost as if ... there are industry best practices which company directors are required to ensure are followed, on pain of personal jail time (for the directors). And these things have happened for centuries before the radio-telephony industry existed.

      All I can google is "They often die by falling." Gee, thanks, Cracked.

      Surprising - I'd have thought it was an excellent work type for "rope access" - where of course, falling should be practically impossible. It's not as if it's difficult - 10 to 20 hours of training. Even my idiot trainees at the caving club could generally manage to not kill themselves.

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  8. Ever notice that birds... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...never land on cell towers? What does that tell you?

    1. Re: Ever notice that birds... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It tells you they like to poop at cars more.

    2. Re:Ever notice that birds... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      https://www.google.com/search?q=birds+cell+tower&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS737US737&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPpNqLwb3dAhXumuAKHdjUC6gQ_AUIDigB&biw=1847&bih=907

      Ummmmm?

    3. Re:Ever notice that birds... by robsku · · Score: 1

      Heh, the link above, by AC, shows photos of birds even nesting on cell towers, so what does that tell you? For me it tells absolutely nothing that I didn't yet know.

      Don't believe just anything that people tell you.

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  9. Some Rich People In Marin County Don't Want 5G by careysub · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm perfectly okay with that. They can change their mind any time they want 5G. I'm sure Verizon will be happy to oblige. A wealthy enclave of 14,000 people is not going to hold up the deployment of 5G anywhere, but their own little community.

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    1. Re:Some Rich People In Marin County Don't Want 5G by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Great, nobody will miss it. It's for zombies who can't look up for their phones who get hit by cars because they're immersed morons streaming while they walk around. Get life insurance, morons! You're like pokemon for car tires.

    2. Re:Some Rich People In Marin County Don't Want 5G by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nobody should be forced to get on board with the new mobile dynamic streaming cyber culture of youth today. INHO if we are not constantly bombarded with web enabled apps telling us how much white people suck, and how great everything the media is, society will return to normalcy.

      End Cell phone service. End Television. Force face to face human interaction. USENET and 80 columns of phosphorescent green goodness is the way to avoid the Spectre, meltdown, and other Chineses / Russian controlled cyberattacks.

      Putin is going to bring down the web so might as well get used to it now.

  10. Then you need to leave the Solar System. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you are worried about radiation, you need to read up about something we refer to as The Sun.,,

  11. Re: Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by DigiShaman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Locust voters - they destroy their own area, so flee to another region only to fuck it up all the same with their same ignorant socialist preferences.

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  12. except that mobile systems self-regulate power by mbkennel · · Score: 3

    they dynamically use the minimum power, whether for transmitting or receiving that allows for low error communication.

    The biggest radiation threat is with the transmitter on your phone next to your head. Therefore you want your phone to be as close as possible to the cell tower so that it emits the least radiation.

    1. Re:except that mobile systems self-regulate power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nope, you get a much, much bigger dose from being near a tower than you do a cell phone. You're being stupid lol. It's also about cumulative exposure - nobody uses a phone 24/7, a residential community can't move away from towers.

    2. Re:except that mobile systems self-regulate power by religionofpeas · · Score: 1

      The biggest radiation threat is with the transmitter on your phone next to your head

      Except when you're not using a phone, then it's the tower.

    3. Re: except that mobile systems self-regulate power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Phones should be using WiFi

    4. Re:except that mobile systems self-regulate power by dgatwood · · Score: 2

      Nope, you get a much, much bigger dose from being near a tower than you do a cell phone. You're being stupid lol. It's also about cumulative exposure - nobody uses a phone 24/7, a residential community can't move away from towers.

      The closer the devices are to the tower, the less power the tower uses, too. The close spacing of 5G towers means that everybody's exposure is fairly consistent, rather than having hotspots near towers where people get more exposure. The range of a 5G tower is measured in tens to hundreds of *feet*, i.e. power levels are more comparable to Wi-Fi than to existing cell towers, which means you can't get 5G service from towers that are blocks away, so moving towers farther away from people has the effect of preventing 5G service outright.

      But the main reason you're wrong in your analysis is that 5G uses a MIMO design (much like 802.11n) with beamforming on its towers so that the emissions can be focused precisely on the location of the active device. Because of this design, exposure levels fall off significantly the farther you get away from the device that the tower is talking to. Because of that design, whether you are next to a tower or not, you should get significantly less exposure than you would get with existing cell tower services.

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    5. Re:except that mobile systems self-regulate power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nope, you get a much, much bigger dose from being near a tower than you do a cell phone. You're being stupid lol

      This is only true if you are trying to have sex with said tower. Otherwise at any practical distances no.

      Cell phone pressed up against your ear is far far worse. For many phones using the device in this way actually causes user to exceed radiation exposure limits. They get away with this because the manuals say hold it 1" from your head which literally nobody on earth actually does.

    6. Re:except that mobile systems self-regulate power by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1

      Except when you're not using a phone, then it's the tower.

      Nope. For ionizing radiation able to cause cancer, bananas are a bigger threat.

    7. Re: except that mobile systems self-regulate power by Carewolf · · Score: 1

      Also because there is no proven danger of exceeding the official limits

    8. Re:except that mobile systems self-regulate power by Snotnose · · Score: 1

      they dynamically use the minimum power, whether for transmitting or receiving that allows for low error communication.
      (someone else)
      The closer the devices are to the tower, the less power the tower uses, too.

      This post only applies to CDMA, I have no experience with TDM or GSM systems.

      Handsets use minimum power not to save the battery, but to avoid drowning out other nearby handsets. Think of a party. If you and your friends are talking you can hear each other over the background noise. Soon as some bozo in the room starts yelling nobody can hear anything but the bozo.

      All packets from the base station to the handset have a power control bit. If the bit is set the handset will up the transmit power, otherwise the handset uses less power to transmit. There is no mechanism to keep the transmit power the same. The base station tries to keep all incoming packets at the same power level, no matter how near nor far away they may be.

      The tower is talking to several devices on the same frequencies at the same time. It always sends at it's maximum (well, whatever some tech set the transmit power to). With CDMA there is literally no way to send x watts to me and y to you (assuming x != y). Physically impossible.

      But won't the tower be "louder" than other, nearby towers? Who cares? The phone gets signals from all nearby towers, when one is "louder" than the one it's using a handoff (e.g. switching towers) is initiated.

    9. Re:except that mobile systems self-regulate power by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Banana equivalent dose has been debunked many times here. The body is designed to handle eating potassium and passes any excess out. It isn't so good with ionising radiation.

      Not that this type of radiation is a huge deal either, just that using banana as a comparison is flawed.

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    10. Re: except that mobile systems self-regulate power by c6gunner · · Score: 1

      Banana equivalent dose has been debunked many times here. The body is designed to handle eating potassium and passes any excess out. It isn't so good with ionising radiation.

      You're horribly confused. Potassium emits ionizing radiation. Cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation. Ergo far from "debunking" the argument, you've just reinforced it.

    11. Re: except that mobile systems self-regulate power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're horribly confused c6gunner if you thought impersonating apk and altering slashdotters words was effective https://linux.slashdot.org/com... because apk challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock him first https://linux.slashdot.org/com... . Your actions made you look like a childish idiot.

    12. Re: except that mobile systems self-regulate power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      sars ratings are for when the phones is at least 1/8 of an inch from your skin.

      Listen to any emf warriors podcast.

  13. Luddites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Excellent, let the luddites continue to fall behind.

  14. 5G is for home so the tellco doesn't need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Damn thing or cable because

  15. Define ionizing vs. non-ionizing radiation by StandardCell · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Ask the idiots who wrote in and on Mill Valley city council what the difference is, and if they have scientific evidence corroborating health dangers.

    This is the most aggravating thing about California...it's all about science until it isn't.

    1. Re:Define ionizing vs. non-ionizing radiation by SuperDre · · Score: 1

      But the fact is, there still isn't conclusive evidence that the G4/G5 cellphone towers AREN'T a health problem. Provider payed research claims it's not, independant research claims it might... Problem is, we still don't know the longterm effects of extra radiation like Wifi/mobile etc.. It's the same a bit with powerlines, it used to be said that it wasn't a problem, but now we know powerlines do create a health problem.
      And looking at some studies in regard to cellphone towers, it seems there is an increased ammount of people with cancer related diseases who live directly near a cellphone tower, but ofcourse that also may have another cause.
      But the fact is, you cannot say with certainty that a cellphonetower has no impact on your health, just like a cellphone itself (where multiple studies do see an increase in brain tumors).
      But as cellphones itself aren't that old yet, it's still not clear what real impact in long term they have on our health.

  16. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by careysub · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ah yes, the people fleeing California trope so ever so popular on the right and in the meme-hyping media. In the reality-based world however amazingly few Californians leave the state (the OC Register is a famously right-wing newspaper BTW). In the 2010-2015 period studied no state had a lower per-capita movement rate than California, with an out-migration rate of 1.55%. Since that time the rate has increased, and is currently slightly above the national average (which is 2.3%).

    Of course with the largest population of any state (one in 8 Americans) even a low, or average, rate is a relatively large number of people, due to simple arithmetic. But California is a high-income state (8th, 5th if you take out low population resource extraction economy states) with a diverse high-tech economy, and even with the current out-migration its population is still growing (despite the fact that the undocumented population isn't - so that's not why), and the real dynamic is that young(ish) people are coming into California for the jobs and salaries, and retired people are leaving.

    This is a very healthy dynamic for California. Let Florida be the place where people go to die, and vote against education and the environment since they don't care about the future. Enjoy that red tide Floridians.

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  17. waaaaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    waaaa we cant "innovate" (read, be greedy and make money). nimby is hurting us! legislate our business model! we're entitled!

  18. There might be some merit to it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Whenever my phone rings, by nipples tingle.

  19. This is BS by Grand+Facade · · Score: 2

    Towers will not be allowed in residential areas but will be allowed in commercial areas.
    So if there were actual health concerns I will be exposed at work and what about the folks with property adjacent to commercial locations where towers are allowed? How do you keep the RF from crossing zoning boundaries?

    I think this is about money,
    This effectively diverts the income stream from site leases to only those with commercial property.

    Too bad for the people who want bitchen 5G coverage.

    And it sucks for the residential property owners loss of possible income.

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    1. Re:This is BS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also 5G will be at higher frequencies and there will be less penetration of the skin.
      Your going to get them eventually anyways.

    2. Re:This is BS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If 5g is anything like LTE...
      It’s gonna be shit and when not it’ll blast you to your data cap or throttling.
      Who needs it.

    3. Re:This is BS by alvinrod · · Score: 1

      So if there were actual health concerns I will be exposed at work and what about the folks with property adjacent to commercial locations where towers are allowed? How do you keep the RF from crossing zoning boundaries?

      The kind of people who will seek to ban something for the reasons that they've expressed probably lack the understanding of the technology or the reasoning ability to consider that.

      As someone else pointed out, if there is a link between cellular radio waves and negative health effects, the biggest cause is going to be the radio in your phone that's right next to your head when you're talking on it. You know, the one that has to increase the power when the cell tower it's trying to connect to is farther away.

    4. Re:This is BS by grep+-v+'.*'+* · · Score: 1

      How do you keep the RF from crossing zoning boundaries?

      The exact SAME way you solve the "only good people can use crypto-backdoors" problem: LEGISLATION! It's glorious, wonderful, and more is better.

      As a matter of fact, let's pass a law requiring more legislation. After all, we have to do something to prove our worth. You wouldn't want us to actually work or understand things for a living, would you? That'd be cruel and inhumane -- and bothersome.

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    5. Re:This is BS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FR2 higher frequencies INCREASE skin absorption.

    6. Re:This is BS by Kaenneth · · Score: 1

      > faggot

      well, clearly you are a voice of scientific intelligence and wisdom.

    7. Re:This is BS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >if there is a link between cellular radio waves and negative health effects

      Frequency is everything. 5g operates outside of cellular.

    8. Re:This is BS by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Chainlink fence.

  20. Ubiquitous small-cell stations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Reduced radiation emissions from 5G antennas compared to 4G antennas would presumably further reduce any health effects of this technology.

    Enjoy your greatly increased exposure to "reduced radiation emissions" that you'll be getting from small-cell 5G placed everywhere.

    Of course, any worries about microwave and millimeter wave emissions causing harm to anyone or anything are total bullshit.

    Is 5G technology dangerous? Early data shows a slight increase of tumors in male rats exposed to cellphone radiation

    2.45GHz Microwave Radiation Impairs Learning and Spatial Memory via Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress Induced p53-Dependent/Independent Hippocampal Apoptosis: Molecular Basis and Underlying Mechanism.

    1. Re:Ubiquitous small-cell stations by kenh · · Score: 1

      The rats were exposed to nine hours of radiation daily, in 10-minutes-on, 10-minutes-off intervals, over their whole bodies for two years. The researchers found increased incidences of rare brain and heart tumors starting at about the federally allowable level of cellphone radiation for brain exposure, with greater incidences at about two and four times those levels.

      WTF does that study have to do with cell phone towers? Seriously, they put rats in a cage on top of a cell phone transmitter for two years with a "ten minute on/ten minute off"... How does that relate to living in a town with a cell tower?

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  21. No, you're a moron. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Idiot, if you break down and read they are only stopping them from going up on existing light and power poles. There are ZERO residential leases for these towers. Your straw man can't fap fast enough to set itself on fire, sorry.

  22. Only in California by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So many fringe people in California one has to wonder is it the water causing so many crazy ideals from anti immunizations to all sorts of radical ideals about everything causing some health issue. Just glad I don't live there, and have to deal with these idiots making decisions for the rest of us.

  23. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0

    This is why it is California's great pride to contribute so much to the federal budget, and take so little in return. CA keeps other, poorer states solvent when absent that help, those states would not be able to fund their social welfare recipients. What a great state, so unselfish and willing to help. Other states would take a transactional attitude: I did for you, now you do for me. Fortunately the good people of California don't believe in that kind of right wing bullshit. To each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities. The founding statement of socialism, which California is firmly putting into practice.

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  24. Not In My Living Room! by BrendaEM · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there's a reason why a cellphone tower can't be somewhere.

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  25. Except cell towers put out massive power ANYWAY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    None of that changes the fact that cell towers put out orders of magnitude more power than phones, and being near them is an associated risk that much greater despite your dithering about power levels.

    You're unsuccessfully obfuscating from the fact that being near a cell tower you get more radiation than having a phone nearby. Fact, period.

    1. Re:Except cell towers put out massive power ANYWAY by dgatwood · · Score: 1

      None of that changes the fact that cell towers put out orders of magnitude more power than phones, and being near them is an associated risk that much greater despite your dithering about power levels.

      Actually, it does change that "fact". These are the 5G equivalent of microcells or even picocells, which put out much less power than primary cell phone towers (2–20W for a microcell or 250mW–2W for a picocell). In fact, picocell output is comparable to the output of a cell phone (which can produce 2–3W when talking to a distant tower). Heck, even a full tower (160W max, 40W typical) is less than two orders of magnitude more than your cell phone when it is shouting at maximum volume towards a distant tower.

      In fact, in short-range radio system designs, the base station power output is almost always similar to the individual device's power output. These high-density 5G cells might have slightly higher output than your phone, but not by orders of magnitude, and probably not even by an order of magnitude.

      Now as you (or some other AC) said, the exposure is potentially over a greater period of time, in that the cell tower transmits when any device in the area is active, but the tower covers a much smaller area, so the number of active devices is lower proportional to the area covered. The coverage area, in turn, is proportional to the square of the radius. Its worst-case power output also increases also proportional to the square of the radius (though each cell only covers a narrow vertical and horizontal angle, so this part isn't *equal* to the square of the radius). The total exposure is proportional to the product of those numbers. Thus, the total exposure is proportional to the tower's transmission radius to the fourth power even if you're look at current picocells (omnidirectional radiators). Smaller cells that are closer to you are always going to be much safer to be around.

      When you add in beamforming (which allows the tower to transmit highly directionally, thus minimizing EM exposure except in a straight line from the tower to each active device), these 5G picocells should produce much lower average exposure than existing large towers.

      If you want to argue about safety, the right argument is about whether the frequency of EM used is safe. That's a bigger question. That said even if it is dangerous, you will still, on average, get less exposure if the transmission range (and thus the transmit power) is kept to a minimum by using a larger number of stations that are closer together. So in the best case, these people are making their coverage worse, and in the worst case, they are increasing their cancer risk by causing their phones to use more power. There is no form of mathematics under the sun in which using distant towers instead of MIMO picocells reduces your EM exposure, period.

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  26. The FCC may have something to say about this.. by toonces33 · · Score: 1

    I don't know whether localities can impose such restrictions.

    1. Re:The FCC may have something to say about this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      true. Listen to episode 1 of the emf warriors podcast. The government has given local rights over to the telcos.

  27. Re: Except cell towers put out massive power ANYWA by c6gunner · · Score: 2

    None of that changes the fact that cellphones and cellphone towers put out low level non ionizing radiation which does not cause any negative health effects.

  28. Towers = more RF than phones, deal with it bitch. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sorry, that doesn't change the fact that being near the tower you get a much larger dose than you do from being near even a cluster of phones, so you're just wrong about that. There are zones where either is true, but being near to a tower = a larger dose than being near to a phone, period, and I don't expect you to understand basic shit or research the issue but I install RF equipment for a living and you don't know what you're talking about. Being near a transmission tower = more RF radiation by a long way than any group of phones, and it's 24/7 on as opposed to a phone by your ear for an hour. Don't be a moron please, we have plenty of denialist shills around without you being a know-nothing blatherer also.

  29. Re: DENIALIST FAGGOT GETS ASS SCIENCE-KICKED AGAIN by c6gunner · · Score: 1

    Your quoted study found that it affects male rats but not female rats. Even without looking at their methodology, that tells me one of two things is going on. Either:

    1. Their study is crap, and there's no actual effect, or
    2. Miniscule changes in brain chemistry can have a significant impact on this effect, which means the results are useless when it comes to figuring out effects on humans.

    Either way it doesn't tell us anything useful. Unless you're really really worried about the health of male rats.

  30. Learn to read c6gunner - by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Still, the results add to the evidence that cell phone signals might potentially impact human health."

    "The study found that when people had an active cell phone held up to their ear for 50 minutes, brain tissues on the same side of the head as the phone used more glucose than did tissues on the other side of the brain. Glucose is a sugar that normally serves as the brain’s fuel. Glucose use goes up in certain parts of the brain when it is in use, such as when we are thinking, speaking, or moving. The possible health effect, if any, from the increase in glucose use from cell phone energy is unknown."

    https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposure/cellular-phones.html

    Go stick your head in a microwave if you're so sure it's harmless, c6 faggot.

    1. Re: Learn to read c6gunner - by c6gunner · · Score: 1

      That's some wonderful quote mining there. The majority of the page says "no", but you dig for the couple parts which say "well, there's this weird result in this one study". I'm always amazed how professionals like yourself manage to find the one nugget of shit in a pile of gold.

  31. Well, no true bird... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ....would ever land on a cell tower. Especially an Irish bird.

  32. c6gunner nothing changes you're a punk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    c6gunner your FAKEname's on a post impersonating me & worse is you altering /. user's words https://linux.slashdot.org/com... as I challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock me you hypocrite LYING loser https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

    * You're online FAKENAME trash c6gunner & a childish dishonest punk.

    APK

    P.S.=> Impossible to deny FACT of your FAKEname (for your FAKE wasted lie of a so-called life) on that 1st post link above you unbelievable pussy loser... apk

    1. Re:c6gunner nothing changes you're a punk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your tears are delicious.

  33. c6gunner your stupidity shows YOU = crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    c6gunner your FAKEname's on a post impersonating me & worse is you altering /. user's words https://linux.slashdot.org/com... as I challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock me you hypocrite LYING loser https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

    * You're online FAKENAME trash c6gunner & a childish dishonest punk!

    APK

    P.S.=> Impossible to deny FACT of your FAKEname (for your FAKE wasted lie of a so-called life) on that 1st post link above you unbelievable pussy loser... apk

  34. Under his eye. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Blessed be the fruit.

  35. Mod this garbage flamebait, please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And the poster should post a peer-reviewed study involving humans, not rats. The last big rat study posted here was flawed as the comments indicate.

  36. California BANANAs! by Chas · · Score: 0

    Can California just have it's huge earthquake and slide off under the Pacific NOW?
    Nothing of any real importance will be lost.

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    1. Re:California BANANAs! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1/3 of the US economy, 1/4 of the US produce is nothing to "chas" bono here... what a jealous uneducated red state faggot lol.

    2. Re:California BANANAs! by balbeir · · Score: 1

      You will all be poor when that happens

  37. FCC overrules them by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1
    FCC wins:

    The statute also preempts local decisions premised directly or indirectly on the environmental effects of radio frequency (RF) emissions, assuming that the provider is in compliance with the Commission's RF rules.

    In other words, ban what you want - but the FCC will ignore your ban and you have no legal standing as a city/town/State to say "we're worried about RF emissions" and use that as any part of the justification in banning new cell towers/sites.

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    1. Re:FCC overrules them by toonces33 · · Score: 1

      That sounds familiar. The communities may have some latitude with regards to aesthetics (disguised as a tree, or a certain color). They might be able to keep them out of certain areas as long as there is another nearby place that is also suitable.

      But they can't just outright ban them.

    2. Re:FCC overrules them by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1

      Yep. And since this is putting new antennas on existing poles and towers, it's going to be VERY hard to argue on the grounds of aesthetics. 5G antennas tend to be smaller than 3G antennas, so...

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    3. Re:FCC overrules them by kenh · · Score: 1

      In other words, ban what you want - but the FCC will ignore your ban and you have no legal standing as a city/town/State to say "we're worried about RF emissions" and use that as any part of the justification in banning new cell towers/sites.

      When someone says they want to ban cell towers "for the children" ask them if their children have cell phones, and ask them why they think the cell tower on the other side of town is a greater threat to their children's health than the transmitter in their kid's pocket?

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    4. Re:FCC overrules them by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1

      HEY! Knock it off with the logic and reason, there's a hysterical crowd to whip into a frenzy here!

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  38. First Prop 65, now this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If 5G and wireless is so dangerous, why doesn't Mill Valley ban all cellular base stations?

    1. Re: First Prop 65, now this by c6gunner · · Score: 1

      Would you stand in a millimeter wave scanner all day

      I do; it's called sunlight. My clothes do a pretty good job of blocking the harmful bits, but when it gets really strong I throw on some sunblock. If the 5G towers ever get that strong we might have a bit of a problem; until then I'm not much interested in your FUD.

    2. Re: First Prop 65, now this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      At least he doesn't childishly resort to impersonating others like apk and twisting slashdotters words like you do c6gunner https://linux.slashdot.org/com... when apk challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock him first https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

  39. Re: Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by flatulus · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Locust voters

    Thank you for this new moniker - I think it is a brilliant metaphor!

  40. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You are the most self righteous ignorant asshole yet on Slashdot. And that includes the GNAA guy.

  41. There are a few of these in my neighborhood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I can't say that they are 5G, but there are a lot of cabinet boxes on telephone poles with antenna sprouting up around my neighborhood (urban area). One concern I would have is the noise...these have the electric hum of a transformer, with also a noticeable fan making noise. I see people's second/third floor apartments very close to these poles/cabinets and I think I would find the constant background noise to be super annoying.

    If Mill Valley doesn't want 5G, then that's their right as a town. Hear the pros and cons and vote on it, or have their elected representatives do the same. Even if their reasoning is ludicrous, that's their right. I find it surprising that the some in the Slashdot crowd feel like it's in Verizon/Comcast/ATT's 'inalienable' right to force themselves on a community. Ooo faster Facebook. Tweets in half the time.

    Or will the corporations pull the 'First Responder' trump card and say 5G is necessary for emergency services.

  42. Whiny DNS-BIND faggot upset @ red state poverty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Get back in the welfare line, whiny red state faggot. California will feed your pathetic impoverished uneducated white nazi punk ass, not that you deserve it really..

  43. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by DigressivePoser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ah yes, the people fleeing California trope so ever so popular on the right and in the meme-hyping media.

    It's not a 'trope'. I just checked uhaul. To rent a 26' truck for six days from Austin to San Francisco costs $1150. To go from San Francisco to Austin, the same truck costs $4380. The rates are similar for other states to/from San Fran. Why do you think that is, huh? The rich love CA because they can afford it, the poor are stuck there, but the middle class is renting uhaul trucks to escape.

  44. That's informative. Thanks. No mod points today by raymorris · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod ooints to mod up the parent.

  45. Re:Towers = more RF than phones, deal with it bitc by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that doesn't change the fact that being near the tower you get a much larger dose than you do from being near even a cluster of phones, so you're just wrong about that. There are zones where either is true, but being near to a tower = a larger dose than being near to a phone, period, and I don't expect you to understand basic shit or research the issue but I install RF equipment for a living and you don't know what you're talking about.

    Every doubling of distance results in 4x reduction of energy density. Distance matters more than people tend to intuitively understand.

    Assume a cell tower is 100ft AGL and you happen to be standing right under it.

    100 watt transmitter with 10 dB gain @ 100 ft distance = 0.008 mW/cm^2
    1000 watt transmitter with 10 dB gain @ 100 ft distance = 0.085 mW/cm^2
    10000 watt transmitter with 10 dB gain @ 100 ft distance = 0.856 mW/cm^2

    Assume you are 10 ft from a small cell tower /w 100 watt transmitter attached to a pole or roof of a building.

    100 watt transmitter with 10 dB gain @ 10 ft distance = 0.856 mW/cm^2

    Now lets compare with cell phone.

    1 watt cell phone transmitter with 0 dB gain @ 1" distance = 12.340 mW/cm^2

    1" distance does not actually occur in nature They are kept in pockets or pressed up to ears. The same setup at a half inch is 49.363 mW/cm^2

    Obviously RL is much more complicated actual transmit power, duty cycles and exposure vary wildly. Thru it all distance is the dominating factor.

  46. Here's the math by raymorris · · Score: 1

    Someone did the math for us.

    https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

  47. Re:Blathering faggot Bill obfuscates again? Of cou by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ionizing radiation isn't what we're talking about nor the "only" way to get cancers, obfuscation artist faggot Bill. But you knew that, you dishonest cunt apologist shill. Putin's cock isn't going to suck itself, faggot. Get on it.

    You lefty loonies are certainly obsessed with homosexual behavior. I hate to break this to you but men sucking other men's cocks is pretty rare among the demographics you seek to denigrate. On the other hand, the demographics you represent seem to have a lot of it. You guys are known for trying to mainstream and protect it even.

  48. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by DigressivePoser · · Score: 1

    Citation please. Who says rental vehicles have to be registered in Texas? I picked one up that was registered in CA. In any event, lets pick a different destination. Peoples Republic of San Fran to Boise ID is $3375. Boise to San Fran utopia is $646.

  49. Nonsense by kenh · · Score: 1

    The telecom industry has long vociferously denied a link between antennas and health outcomes, although California's Department of Public Health has issued warnings about potential health effects of personal cell phone antennas.

    Cell tower antennas are much different from personal cell phone antennas - one is on top of a tower and pointed towards the horizon, the other is typically between 1" to 6" away from your body/head.

    Obviously, the antenna within a few inches of your body is the greater threat, but they want to eliminate the comparatively safe cell towers because it makes them "feel" like they've done something "for the children".

    --
    Ken
  50. Learn to read Trump faggots, before you hang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.03683.pdf

    I. INTRODUCTION
    It is acknowledged that exposure to RF has negative impacts
    on human body. The rapid proliferation of mobile telecommunications
    has occurred amidst controversy over whether
    the technology poses a risk to human health [1]. At mmW
    frequencies where future mobile telecommunications systems
    will likely operate, two changes that will likely occur have the
    potential to increase the concern on exposure of human users
    to RF fields. First, larger numbers of transmitters will operate.
    More base stations (BSs) will be deployed due to proliferation
    of small cells [2]-[4] and mobile devices accordingly. This
    will increase chance of human exposure to RF fields. Second,
    narrower beams will be used as a solution for the higher
    attenuation in higher frequency bands [3]-[7]. Very small
    wavelengths of mmW signals combined with advances in RF
    circuits enable very large numbers of miniaturized antennas.
    These multiple antenna systems can be used to form very high
    gains. Such higher concentration of RF energy will increase
    the potential to more deeply penetrate into a human body

  51. Shanghai Faggot Bill lies and obfuscates AGAIN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "It is acknowledged that exposure to RF has negative impacts
    on human body. The rapid proliferation of mobile telecommunications
    has occurred amidst controversy over whether
    the technology poses a risk to human health [1]. At mmW
    frequencies where future mobile telecommunications systems
    will likely operate, two changes that will likely occur have the
    potential to increase the concern on exposure of human users
    to RF fields. First, larger numbers of transmitters will operate.
    More base stations (BSs) will be deployed due to proliferation
    of small cells [2]-[4] and mobile devices accordingly. This
    will increase chance of human exposure to RF fields. Second,
    narrower beams will be used as a solution for the higher
    attenuation in higher frequency bands [3]-[7]. Very small
    wavelengths of mmW signals combined with advances in RF
    circuits enable very large numbers of miniaturized antennas.
    These multiple antenna systems can be used to form very high
    gains. Such higher concentration of RF energy will increase
    the potential to more deeply penetrate into a human body.

    This paper has highlighted the significance of human RF
    exposure issue in downlink of a cellular communications
    system. This paper measured the exposure level in terms of
    PD and SAR, and compared them to those calculated in the
    Release 9 as a representative of the current mobile communications
    technology. Distinguished from the prior art that studied
    uplinks only, this paper has found that the downlinks of a 5G
    also yield significantly higher levels of PD and SAR compared
    to a Release 9. Our results emphasized that the increase stems
    from two technical changes that will likely occur in 5G: (i)
    more APs due to deployment of smaller cells and (ii) more
    highly concentrated RF energy per downlink RF beam due to
    use of larger phased arrays.
    As such, unlike the prior work, this paper claims that RF
    fields generated in downlinks of 5G can also be dangerous in
    spite of far-field propagations. Therefore, we here urge design
    of cellular communications and networking schemes that force
    an AP to avoid generation of RF fields if pointed at a human
    user with an angle yielding a dangerous level of PD and SAR.
    To this end, this paper identifies as the future work proposition
    of techniques that reduces human exposure to RF fields in 5G
    downlinks."

            https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.03683.pdf

  52. c6gunner lookup your own stupidity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    c6gunner your FAKEname's on a post impersonating me & worse is you altering /. user's words https://linux.slashdot.org/com... as I challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock me you hypocrite LYING loser https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

    * You're online FAKENAME trash c6gunner & a childish dishonest punk.

    (PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH TOO saying what I don't (on spectre/meltdown) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... - bank on 1 thing fucker - THIS exposing YOUR DIRTY BULLSHIT is NOT going to stop...)

    APK

    P.S.=> Impossible to deny FACT of your FAKEname (for your FAKE wasted lie of a so-called life) on that 1st post link above you unbelievable pussy loser... apk

  53. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by DigressivePoser · · Score: 1

    CITATION. Show us where you can't bring an owned vehicle in CA that has been registered in some other state. Otherwise good day sir.

  54. Ironic by GoRK · · Score: 2

    The irony is these fuckers will be the loudest ones bitching when their phones dont work for shit at home. I have already had to explain this to a lot of work collegues that live in large developments with HOAs. No antennas = no service. How much more fucking obvious can you get?

    1. Re:Ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The irony is these fuckers will be the loudest ones bitching when their phones dont work for shit at home.

      Which is why you have wifi at home. How much bandwidth do you need for a phone call? Oh, except most modern phones can also use wifi for calls. IMHO, the density required of the cell towers for 5G does not make it seem worthwhile.

    2. Re:Ironic by vandamme · · Score: 1

      They're not towers. You won't have 5G towers every 500 feet. You have short poles. Like you already have to carry power and cable, and that one old lady down the block who still has a land line.

  55. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here try this http://bfy.tw/JuBv

  56. Learn to read, Republican faggots. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "It is acknowledged that exposure to RF has negative impacts
    on human body. The rapid proliferation of mobile telecommunications
    has occurred amidst controversy over whether
    the technology poses a risk to human health [1]. At mmW
    frequencies where future mobile telecommunications systems
    will likely operate, two changes that will likely occur have the
    potential to increase the concern on exposure of human users
    to RF fields. First, larger numbers of transmitters will operate.
    More base stations (BSs) will be deployed due to proliferation
    of small cells [2]-[4] and mobile devices accordingly. This
    will increase chance of human exposure to RF fields. Second,
    narrower beams will be used as a solution for the higher
    attenuation in higher frequency bands [3]-[7]. Very small
    wavelengths of mmW signals combined with advances in RF
    circuits enable very large numbers of miniaturized antennas.
    These multiple antenna systems can be used to form very high
    gains. Such higher concentration of RF energy will increase
    the potential to more deeply penetrate into a human body.

    This paper has highlighted the significance of human RF
    exposure issue in downlink of a cellular communications
    system. This paper measured the exposure level in terms of
    PD and SAR, and compared them to those calculated in the
    Release 9 as a representative of the current mobile communications
    technology. Distinguished from the prior art that studied
    uplinks only, this paper has found that the downlinks of a 5G
    also yield significantly higher levels of PD and SAR compared
    to a Release 9. Our results emphasized that the increase stems
    from two technical changes that will likely occur in 5G: (i)
    more APs due to deployment of smaller cells and (ii) more
    highly concentrated RF energy per downlink RF beam due to
    use of larger phased arrays.
    As such, unlike the prior work, this paper claims that RF
    fields generated in downlinks of 5G can also be dangerous in
    spite of far-field propagations. Therefore, we here urge design
    of cellular communications and networking schemes that force
    an AP to avoid generation of RF fields if pointed at a human
    user with an angle yielding a dangerous level of PD and SAR.
    To this end, this paper identifies as the future work proposition
    of techniques that reduces human exposure to RF fields in 5G
    downlinks."

                                    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.03683.pdf

  57. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You were the guy in the back of the Macroeconomics class that was just playing games on his phone instead of listening to the lecture, weren't you?

  58. Don't want any cell towers close by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't want any cell towers too close to where I work or live.
    http://emrabc.ca/?page_id=1088... has examples.

    From my current home, looking out the front door, I can see a cell tower on some church property at the far end of our neighborhood. It is about 0.25 miles away, so I'm not worried, but I wouldn't want to live in the homes in that corner and definitely don't want my kids playing there too much.

    This could easily be the same stuff that caused issues for the Canadian and US diplomats in Cuba and China. Microwaves aren't good for human brains.

        "In France researchers found that people living within 300m of a base station suffered from tiredness, headaches, sleep disruption, and within 100m irritability, depression, loss of memory, dizziness, and loss of libido."

  59. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Not the original anon, but here you go: how much to move outta san francisco

    Obvs not the same as parent anon was hoping...its because there's a shortage of uhaul trucks in the bay area.

  60. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Kernel+Kurtz · · Score: 1

    Citation please. Who says rental vehicles have to be registered in Texas? I picked one up that was registered in CA. In any event, lets pick a different destination. Peoples Republic of San Fran to Boise ID is $3375. Boise to San Fran utopia is $646.

    You want to take their truck from civilization to the middle of nowhere? Of course that is going to cost you.

    The people bringing it back get a break, cause that is what they would have to do anyway.

  61. 5 Terrifying Realities of Cell Tower Climber by tepples · · Score: 1

    Where is Cracked spouting RF alarmism? I thought that even for an infotainment site, Cracked was better than that. So let's first get on the same page as to which article we're looking at.

    (searches the web for site:cracked.com cell phone radiation)
    Are you referring to "5 Terrifying Realities Of My Job As A Cell Tower Climber" by Ryan Menezes? It mentions RF burn, falling, beehives and bird nests, urination, and dropped tools.

  62. Re:Learn to read Antifa Retard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Since I did not reference anything regarding the effects of microwave radiation on the human body, I fail to see what this has to do with my claim regarding you being a homosexual obsessed idiot. If you want to claim that cell phone radiation caused your obvious cognitive impairment, I am willing to listen though.

  63. Re: apk your stupidity shows YOU = crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your software is just crap - written in crayon, fictional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine as a punchline to a joke by mmell February 17, 2017

    Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is fucking insane - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

    his hosts "program" is actually a broken batch file by xenotransplant August 10 2015

    his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to be a laughingstock while consuming excessive amounts of alcohol by alexgieg September 25 2015

    I like your tinfoil hat by Karmashock September 09 2015

    that APK nut, I can't get him to stop talking about his piece of shit file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

    I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

    APK

    P.S.=> When YOU do better than THAT by our /. registered peers, then talk (from behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a "so-called" WASTED life) - ok? apk

  64. Ah, now "choice" quotes of c6gunner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    c6gunner your FAKEname's on a post impersonating me & worse is you altering /. user's words https://linux.slashdot.org/com... as I challenged you to show you do better work and you can't after you tried to mock me you hypocrite LYING loser https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

    * You're online FAKENAME trash c6gunner & a childish dishonest punk.

    (PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH TOO saying what I don't (on spectre/meltdown) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... - bank on 1 thing fucker - THIS exposing YOUR DIRTY BULLSHIT is NOT going to stop...)

    PATENTED by APK (no, sorry Cardinal Richelieu - you've got dibs on it & it works (especially when you don't fire the 1st shot like WORMS like c6gunner do ONLY TO BE GUNNED DOWN by their own assholishness, publicly))).

    APK

    P.S.=> Impossible to deny FACT of your FAKEname (for your FAKE wasted lie of a so-called life) on that 1st post link above you unbelievable pussy loser (thanks for helping me PROVE IT more)... apk

  65. Re:Learn to read retarded Republican denialist fag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hey anonymous douchewad: stock market is doing great, unemployment is at a 50 year best, we have 4.2% growth, and no terrorist attacks in a while. The only people unhappy about their country are fucking dipshit sheep whose Democrat Thought Leaders programmed them to be constantly outraged about everything after they lost an election they were supposed to win. In a landslide! The funniest thing is that even after being proven wrong over and over, you fucking insane morons still believe the people who are lying to you.

  66. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Note, though, that this is selecting a subset of the population. The typical UHaul renter who is moving herself is going to be of substantially lower income than those that use moving companies. So, rich people could be moving in and poor people moving out but UHaul wouldn't see that even though there were more people, overall, moving into California than out of California.

    For a more balanced picture, both sources must be considered (I have read that moving companies are exhibiting similar pricing premiums on "out of California" moves but don't have a cite handy).

  67. Still shows nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Show a study that actually affects humans in a realistic way, or go away.

  68. Re: honest reviews of apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your software is just crap - written in crayon, fictional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine as a punchline to a joke by mmell February 17, 2017

    Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is fucking insane - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

    his hosts "program" is actually a broken batch file by xenotransplant August 10 2015

    his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to be a laughingstock while consuming excessive amounts of alcohol by alexgieg September 25 2015

    I like your tinfoil hat by Karmashock September 09 2015

    that APK nut, I can't get him to stop talking about his piece of shit file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

    I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

    APK

    P.S.=> When YOU do better than THAT by our /. registered peers, then talk (from behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a "so-called" WASTED life) - ok?

  69. Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cell companies should just turn off their 3G and 4G towers when the time comes. Leave that area as a HUGE dead zone.

  70. If 5G get's deployed in my area by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I will build devices out of microwave ovens that will jam 2GHz - 5Ghz radio trainsmissions.

    It's a simple way to build 110W microwave jammer.

  71. Re: Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So your logic is pretty much "coffee is more expensive in SF than Boise, which means people are leaving SF, rather than them being able to afford such outrageous prices, because I assume the economy in SF and fucking Boise are the same".

    I understand you have a shitty bias to feed and false superiority to feel, probably because you're already socially cast out of society, but ffs, you're twisting the most pointless data (uhaul, they can charge whatever they want wherever they want, has nothing to do with real statistics like the ones GP posted) to reach the most pointless conclusions.

    Note: I don't live in or care about any of the cities mentioned

  72. Re: Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by DigressivePoser · · Score: 1

    ... you're twisting the most pointless data (uhaul, they can charge whatever they want wherever they want, has nothing to do with real statistics like the ones GP posted) to reach the most pointless conclusions.

    Go bing keywords uhaul, prices, and population. You'll find dozens and dozens of news stories that use rental prices as a gauge to population migrations. Companies like uhaul charge market prices based primarily on supply and demand. Since there are fewer trucks to rent because more people use them to move away, prices go up. It's all very simple really.

    And by the way, yes I do feel superior to idiots like you. I mean you don't have a clue how capitalism works and don't have the common sense to to see cause and effect when a large group of people are spending their own money in common ways.

  73. Re: Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by c6gunner · · Score: 1

    You want to take their truck from civilization to the middle of nowhere? Of course that is going to cost you.

    The people bringing it back get a break, cause that is what they would have to do anyway.

    That's not really how that works. Anyway you can run similar comparisons to other large cities and see what you get. For instance, I just checked Atlanta to Boise and vice versa. It's about the same in each direction; $1,483 to leave Atlanta, and $1,421 to come back. Atlanta isnt "in the middle of nowhere", but you might complain that it has a relatively small population. Fine. At over 2 million people, Huston is one of the largest cities in the USA. From Huston to Boise it's $1,854; from Boise to Huston it's $1,101.

    He's right; while the remoteness/isolation of the destination may play some small part in the calculation, this is primarily about supply and demand.

  74. Re: Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    c6gunner seeing you reduced to childishly impersonating apk and altering slashdotters words was priceless https://linux.slashdot.org/com... when apk challenged you to show you do better work and you couldn't after you tried to mock him first https://linux.slashdot.org/com... .

  75. Re: apk FAKE NAME buttboy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject "APK" (fake name do-nothing nobody): You're a "ne'er-do-well" chatterbox (all talk & no work BETTER than mine) & you proved it.

    APK

    P.S.=> Don't take "potshots" @ your BETTERS like me you CHUMP (& I can say that since you ARE obviously a NOBODY chump do-nothing vs. me)... apk

  76. Re: the passion of the apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's here! APK Ass File Engine 1.0++ 64-bit for MacOS https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RSDU2ZU

    Yields more power/speed/penetration/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!

    Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing you hosts speed u up 2 ways: Assblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition loaded w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation!

    * ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 MacOS!

    (Better vs. Windows model in speed/efficiency/merge)

    APK

    P.S.=> Protects against Spectre & Meltdown + HIV & gonorrhea redirect poisoned or downed DNS/botnets/malware downloads/malcript/email malicious payloads... apk

  77. Re: the passion of the apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your hardware is just fine - thick, vibrational... I'm going to continue using the Ass File Engine by apk February 17, 2017

    Your premise that assfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by apk April 20, 2016

    his ass program is actually pretty good by apk August 10 2015

    his ass tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally unblock stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by apk September 25 2015

    I like your ass system by apk September 09 2015

    that APK guy, I use his ass file by apk Tuesday March 03, 2015

    I personally use a ASS file engine produced from a genius called APK by apk October 27 2017

    * b>SEE SUBJECT+ below...

    APK

    P.S.=> When YOU do better than THAT by our /. registered peers, then talk (from behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a "so-called" WASTED life) - ok? apk

  78. Re:Can you idiots in CA quit leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here, at the Research Triangle Park, NC, I see an explosive growth of the population and the number of high-tech companies coming in. Guess where most incomers are from? Yes, California. The middle class. Most;y, because of the affordable housing.

    Leaking the middle class is a very dangerous symptom. Never mind the relatively high average income (thanks to the super-rich) or the overall population growth (thanks to incoming poor). With the middle class shrinking, the status quo is no longer sustainable.

  79. affect on voltage gated calcium channels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'll just quote it here:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780531/

    Discussion and conclusions
    How do EMFs composed of low-energy photons produce non-thermal
    biological changes, both pathophysiological and, in some cases,
    potentially therapeutic, in humans and higher animals? It may be surprising
    that the answer to this question has been hiding in plain sight
    in the scientific literature. However, in this era of highly focused and
    highly specialized science, few of us have the time to read the relevant
    literature, let alone organize the information found within it in useful
    and critical ways.
    This study shows that:
    1 Twenty-three different studies have found that such EMF
    exposures act via activation of VGCCs, such that VGCC channel
    blockers can prevent responses to such exposures (Table 1).
    Most of the studies implicate L-type VGCCs in these responses,
    but there are also other studies implicating three other classes
    of VGCCs.
    2 Both extremely low frequency fields, including 50/60 cycle
    exposures, and microwave EMF range exposures act via activation
    of VGCCs. So do static electric fields, static magnetic fields
    and nanosecond pulses.
    3 Voltage-gated calcium channel stimulation leads to
    increased intracellular Ca2+, which can act in turn to stimulate
    the two calcium/calmodulin-dependent nitric oxide synthases
    and increase nitric oxide. It is suggested here that nitric oxide
    may act in therapeutic/potentially therapeutic EMF responses
    via its main physiological pathway, stimulating cGMP and protein
    kinase G. It is also suggested that nitric oxide may act in
    pathophysiological responses to EMF exposure, by acting as a
    precursor of peroxynitrite, producing both oxidative stress and
    free radical breakdown products.
    4 The interpretation in three above is supported by two specific
    well-documented examples of EMF effects. Electromagnetic
    fields stimulation of bone growth, modulated through EMF
    stimulation of osteoblasts, appears to involve an elevation/nitric
    oxide/protein kinase G pathway. In contrast to that, it seems
    likely that the EMF induction of single-stranded DNA breaks
    involves a Ca2+/elevation/nitric oxide/peroxynitrite/free radical
    (oxidative stress) pathway

  80. Wonderful! by vandamme · · Score: 1

    You can instead roll out 5G in my neighborhood. You can put a tower in my back yard. Literally, I have half an acre just growing weeds. Of course I will charge you rent for it, but hey.