If the electrosensitives were that concerned about the heating effects of cell phones on the brain, it would be trivial to measure any such heating using an infrared camera. Even better that the microwave bands used by cell phones aren't even terribly efficient at heating water laden materials (like living tissue) The bands that are good at heating water rich materials can be predicted using our knowledge of chemistry and physics. This is why your microwave uses the frequency bands that it does. Those particular bands are actually quite good at being absorbed by water molecules allowing your food to be cooked while leaving the ceramic dish it is sitting on relatively cool.
Maybe it is because there's quite a few actual scientists in the relevant fields posting on Slashdot. Or maybe it's the fact that you expect people to make decisions solely on whom created the stufy rather than 1) evidence 2) rational explanation of the results. CO2 is a known greenhouse gas and is the major causal agent behind the climate change we're seeing right now. Microwaves OTOH are not capable of breaking molecular bonds found in cells.
If any warming caused by holding a cell phone near your head caused sufficient warming to actually cause damage in the long term, then exercise of any sort would kill you dead a lot quicker than a cell phone could possibly be responsible for. A two or three degree Fahrenheit increase in body temperature is completely normal during exercise and even this is larger than a cell phone is capable of doing.
I mostly agree with you but be careful before using sunbathing as an example. UV light can over a very long period of time increase the risk of skin cancer. The reason is that UV light is capable of breaking molecular bonds while the microwave bands used in a multitude of applications are far far too low in energy to do anything of the sort.
That's funny because on my system, gbrainy along with its dependencies took up 22.4 mb of space. This includes mono and a few gnome libraries among other things. The game package its self is 363kb but it would be incredibly misleading to say that the entire shebang was only 363 kb. That irrelevant game along with its dependencies is almost as large as Abiword.
This has to my knowledge, nothing to do with the kernel. It's a bug in a program used to run older applications. It was only found to be a problem very recently. Until now there was no real understanding that the bug existed and thus no reason to change that part of the OSes.
The point is that they're cutting out a lot of *useful* functionality and using some of the freed space to put apps on the thing that the vast majority of people in all likliness don't know about nor actually use. Besides, I'm pretty sure you could replace Openoffice with smaller alternatives and either gut Gnome or use Xfce and save 350 mb.
I'd really love to see the response of all the people who wanted to pull the plug on Schiavo if Florida decided it would be OK to conduct executions by starvation
I'm not saying that I agree with the Shiavo case but the brain is responsible for pretty much everything that a human being is; pain, happiness, awareness etc. So I think saying that the Shiavo case was equivalent to executing fully aware people through starvation is a bit misleading at the least. No brain, no awareness, no pain.
"copyright infringement occurred as result of use of BitTorrent, not the Internet...iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and [is] not responsible for BitTorrent system."
The important part is what isn't said. The ruling didn't say that there was no obligation to police a certain part of the net for copyright violations, just that the ISP wasn't responsible for BitTorrent and thus wasn't obligated to police that part of the net.
Teach them martial arts, any form with reasonable defensive training.
I intend to do exactly that. I was in Tae Kwon Do at the time and the reason I only landed one punch on them was that it was all that was required. They scattered and haven't bothered me since.
Damn right. It took a few years of being bullied by an entire group of bullies until one day I had enough of it. One very strong punch was enough to dissuade them from ever attempting to bully me again. One thing is for sure; when I have kids of my own, I'm teaching them how to defend themselves and if it takes knocking a bully out cold to get them to stop bullying then so be it.
Because sometimes, other kids are dicks. Next question?
Agreed although I'd like to add that part of the reason it continues is that authority figures generally turn a blind eye to it. It's harassment and it is treated in a completely different way than harassment between adults.
You're right, sending more ships to the Americas is a complete waste of our resources... It is a good thing that our ancestors weren't so pessimistic about exploration. Bonus points to whomever realized that colonizing space doesn't involve enslaving the natives.
The shuttle is the government's doing. SpaceX could do it for less than a million$ as it is. Even better considering that the price drops with time and when we start building structures in space for the purpose of space industry. Self sufficient colonies don't need to launch much from Earth. Mine the Gold and de-orbit it using a space tether and a flat, ablative, throw away heat shield.
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That is very dishonest.
If the electrosensitives were that concerned about the heating effects of cell phones on the brain, it would be trivial to measure any such heating using an infrared camera. Even better that the microwave bands used by cell phones aren't even terribly efficient at heating water laden materials (like living tissue) The bands that are good at heating water rich materials can be predicted using our knowledge of chemistry and physics. This is why your microwave uses the frequency bands that it does. Those particular bands are actually quite good at being absorbed by water molecules allowing your food to be cooked while leaving the ceramic dish it is sitting on relatively cool.
Anyone stupid enough to believe that cell phones cause cancer is in no position to correct anyone in matters of biology/physiology.
Maybe it is because there's quite a few actual scientists in the relevant fields posting on Slashdot. Or maybe it's the fact that you expect people to make decisions solely on whom created the stufy rather than 1) evidence 2) rational explanation of the results. CO2 is a known greenhouse gas and is the major causal agent behind the climate change we're seeing right now. Microwaves OTOH are not capable of breaking molecular bonds found in cells.
--A biochemist
If any warming caused by holding a cell phone near your head caused sufficient warming to actually cause damage in the long term, then exercise of any sort would kill you dead a lot quicker than a cell phone could possibly be responsible for. A two or three degree Fahrenheit increase in body temperature is completely normal during exercise and even this is larger than a cell phone is capable of doing.
I mostly agree with you but be careful before using sunbathing as an example. UV light can over a very long period of time increase the risk of skin cancer. The reason is that UV light is capable of breaking molecular bonds while the microwave bands used in a multitude of applications are far far too low in energy to do anything of the sort.
But they removed Tomboy... there's no reason to have Mono anymore except to have this game...
That's funny because on my system, gbrainy along with its dependencies took up 22.4 mb of space. This includes mono and a few gnome libraries among other things. The game package its self is 363kb but it would be incredibly misleading to say that the entire shebang was only 363 kb. That irrelevant game along with its dependencies is almost as large as Abiword.
This has to my knowledge, nothing to do with the kernel. It's a bug in a program used to run older applications. It was only found to be a problem very recently. Until now there was no real understanding that the bug existed and thus no reason to change that part of the OSes.
If that is the case, then they may as well just use xubuntu and scrape off nearly everything.
The point is that they're cutting out a lot of *useful* functionality and using some of the freed space to put apps on the thing that the vast majority of people in all likliness don't know about nor actually use. Besides, I'm pretty sure you could replace Openoffice with smaller alternatives and either gut Gnome or use Xfce and save 350 mb.
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Openoffice is "irrelevant" on a netbook but a game most /.ers have probably never even heard of made the cut? Something is wrong here.
1) Collude with a very good friend. Live in their basement the entire month and never going outside. Split the prize with them at the end.
better to be ignorant of it then right?
I'm not saying that I agree with the Shiavo case but the brain is responsible for pretty much everything that a human being is; pain, happiness, awareness etc. So I think saying that the Shiavo case was equivalent to executing fully aware people through starvation is a bit misleading at the least. No brain, no awareness, no pain.
That is per particle. At full power there's over 300 MJ total in the particle beam(s).
sigh... right you are. I suppose that given Australia's history with copyright law I really expected something sinister somewhere.
The important part is what isn't said. The ruling didn't say that there was no obligation to police a certain part of the net for copyright violations, just that the ISP wasn't responsible for BitTorrent and thus wasn't obligated to police that part of the net.
This is where electrodynamic tethers and laser brooms come in handy.
I intend to do exactly that. I was in Tae Kwon Do at the time and the reason I only landed one punch on them was that it was all that was required. They scattered and haven't bothered me since.
Damn right. It took a few years of being bullied by an entire group of bullies until one day I had enough of it. One very strong punch was enough to dissuade them from ever attempting to bully me again. One thing is for sure; when I have kids of my own, I'm teaching them how to defend themselves and if it takes knocking a bully out cold to get them to stop bullying then so be it.
Why are kids bullied and rejected?
Because sometimes, other kids are dicks. Next question?
Agreed although I'd like to add that part of the reason it continues is that authority figures generally turn a blind eye to it. It's harassment and it is treated in a completely different way than harassment between adults.
Also submarine communications. The trouble is that the bandwidth is very very low.
You're right, sending more ships to the Americas is a complete waste of our resources... It is a good thing that our ancestors weren't so pessimistic about exploration. Bonus points to whomever realized that colonizing space doesn't involve enslaving the natives.
The shuttle is the government's doing. SpaceX could do it for less than a million$ as it is. Even better considering that the price drops with time and when we start building structures in space for the purpose of space industry. Self sufficient colonies don't need to launch much from Earth. Mine the Gold and de-orbit it using a space tether and a flat, ablative, throw away heat shield.