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  1. Re: They can't on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    well it would help if the 'evidence' was from a study that was relevant in the first place.

    what evidence are you offering for your assertion than non-ionizing radiation causes cancer ?

    the point of science is not grand proclamations its about doing research , explaining your methods and demonstrating the reasons for your findings
    because you might be wrong and nobody can learn from that , if you explain your working people can evaluate your conclusions properly.
    you have failed

  2. So a million stupid points to you for deciding that procuring 8000 tonnes of magnets (a years worth of turbine growth) is anywhere near as damaging as procuring even a one second of earths oil consumption.

  3. Re: There are other ways to foul DNA than ionizati on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So im guessing you where conceived on top a power station transformer then.

    The 'but' section of your post seriously needs to go back from where it came from.

  4. Re: They can't on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    That pulsing is the result of a very complex algorithm that compresses the phone signal.see ofdm and qfdm . It then shifts it into a narrower space that is constantly switched at a very high rate according to specific patterns to prevent Interference. This has the effect of of decreasing the power and bandwidth required. It has saftey implications as well because it effectively eliminates the possibility of enough energy to cause physiological issues accumulating for long enough. This is different from a microwave oven which uses orders of magntitude more power and a deliberately focused beam on specifically located target.
    This approach began with gsm but really kicked in with CDMA/HSDPA and is also used in DSL devices.

  5. Re: They can't on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A study published on the 1st April that has no indication of the strength of microwaves used and mentions specific medical applications instead of donestic microwave ovens. Why thats some compelling evidence , NOT

  6. Re: So by "conquering" on Unity 8 And Snaps Are Conquering The Ubuntu Desktop After Ubuntu 16.10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to use it but if you do you have to respect their decisions. You can allways fork it and fix it yourself if you could actually be bothered. I've used Ubuntu for years and it just works for me.

  7. Re: Are they talking about cellphones on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    The USB gadget class allows a device to change what it offers to a host, lots of phones do this and its an easy way to be slightly peer to peer with USB. This is benign version of what badusb does. I guess you could have a USB firewall but it would feel like a design failure to me.

  8. Re:Have you ever tried changing the 'culture'? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you are not a geek , you sir are an asshat.

    technical skill doesnt allow you to be horrible to people, neither does other people being horrible to you .

    being horrible to people makes you a horrible person.

    you allways have a choice how you deal with people , so be nice and you meet nice people and will become a nice person

  9. Re:If race doesn't exist, how is this possible? on Genetic Access Control Code Uses 23andMe DNA Data For Internet Racism · · Score: 1

    although it also true that you are more likely to suffer violence from people you know and are related to than from strangers

    of course there are many other factors at play here

  10. The Corporate Myth on Toshiba CEO, 8 Others, Resign Over $1.2 Billion Accounting Cover-Up · · Score: 1

    is basically just massive scale tax avoidance procured by hiring ex ministers who work for big accountancy firms.

    these people should be imprisoned for life and all their assets impounded but instead they just resign and get lucrative consultancies do the same thing elsewhere

  11. Its hard to google on MUMPS, the Programming Language For Healthcare · · Score: 1

    "MUMPS/M is poorly understood, at best, and more likely to be completely unknown."

    because anything with a single letter name is pretty much impossible to google (R anyone ?)
    and mumps is an overloaded term in the medical namespace so its going to give a lot of false positives

    I'm all for humourous names but you need to make sure they don't conflict or confuse first

  12. flash has a a ubiquity that is not related to its quality, its related to marketing

    It captured the market and its ubquity prevented other platforms from growing enough to replace it

    Its ubiquity has now become its downfall as its low grade security and sketchy updates availablity is making it continual source of exploits.

    As predicted by many its security issues have now eclipsed its utility and other better solutions are coming , like web assembly and webGL

    Its time to kill it off , although if mr facebook security wants to do that he should be making facebook lead the charge instead of asking adobe to kill their demon offspring

  13. Oblig on Satoru Iwata, Head of Nintendo, Has Died At 55 · · Score: 1

    The prince is in another castle

  14. People are scared of IPV6 on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 3, Informative

    A lot of people rely on NAT for simple security and get scared when faced with IPV6's global addressing.
    securing IPV6 networks is not so straight forward and often requires site specific approaches that are beyond a lot of home users or small businesses.

    its a good thing to run firewalls on everything but its also pain.

    I can see there being some crazy security breaches and much confusion during the changeover, as a tester every network product i've tested
    has had a test plan for ipv6 that gets de-prioritised to the bottom because 'nobody is using ipv6 yet' and its hard to find people who know about it.

  15. Re:The addresses are there... but still... on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    one of those will be HP , when i worked there everything had a real ip but was firewalled and proxied which kind of defeated the point.

    they could have just as easily used one of the reserved offline ranges

  16. Re:Because the Greeks are so stupid? on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    wasn't it forcing the world to sell oil only in dollars that did that ?

    have a search to see a list of countries that tried to sell oil using other currencies and you will see a very close match to the list of US Invasions

  17. Re:Why would the festival cooperate? on Police Scanning Every Face At UK Download Festival · · Score: 1

    its called download but thats just a name , it means nothing other than some marketing people though the target market would think it is cool

  18. download is a shit festival on Police Scanning Every Face At UK Download Festival · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been involved in quite a few uk festivals and know several organisers and IMNSHO opinion this could have been rejected by the organisers.

    Download has a reputation in the festival scene for being one of the grimmest most corporate of festivals, think mainstream moshing meatheads on speed
    and lager , not hugging hippies on ecstasy. Its quite likely the police strong armed download about this because of their target audience but its just as
    likely download came up with this themselves to reduce policing bills. Having seen policing bills for other festivals its quite likely download were
    hit with something in the order of millions and hired someone (lots of ex-coppers consult on this ) to analyse how to mitigate it and they came up with this.
    Note the almost total lack of outcry from festival goers about this, downloaders just don't care, if this was tried with glastonbury there would be riots.

    The RFID purchasing thing is way more dangerous in my opinion , this has been tried as several festivals and has resulted in a lot of festival
    traders getting ripped off by organisers who simply loot their traders revenue if they fail to make enough money (which happens a lot because
    festival running is subject to a bewildering array of regulations that don't make sense and cause unpredictable expenditure). People who work
    at festivals know full well that accepting anything that isn't cash is a gamble on the skills of the organisers. It turns festival organisers into banks
    which is a terrible idea.

    the police strategy of applying more and more over the top requirements on festival organisers is driving festivals into smaller and smaller events,
    this is typically because the explosion of festivals is a direct response to similar controlling behaviour regarding events and venues in cities. Its a dangerous game to play , over zealous legislation drives events underground where they are potentially less safe (although often much more sensible), where they generate no tax revenue and have no access to sensible venues. This also dramatically increases the possible harms of drug use , contributes to a lot of post drug use psychosis and creates a vast revenue for criminals.

    Until the government and the police recognise and protect the right to have fun and gather socially as the vital part of our culture that it is we will continue to
    have all manner of baffeling social problems as people do it anyway in less than safe circumstances.

  19. Re:Let me answer this question: on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 0, Troll

    we invade their countries , we interfere in their political systems , we call them terrorists.

    can't really make it any more obvious than that.

  20. Re:Let me answer this question: on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: -1, Troll

    it would be seriously remiss to not countenance the fact the we in the west are severely provoking muslim culture in a way that it has never done to us.

    civilisation is something that the people do and that rulers mostly tend to undo

  21. Re:Odd thoughts: on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    i know , i was saying that mostly is the wrong choice

    it must have been obvious to the designers how irksome it would be
    to people who are used to the bash tab complete.

  22. Re:hexadecimal floating point numbers? on Perl 5.22 Released · · Score: 1

    while $enlightened
            print 0xMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

  23. Re:Odd thoughts: on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    useless use of cat award to you anonymous coward

    sudo less /var/log/messages instead of sudo cat /var/log/messages | less

    and

    sudo -i if you want to make an interactive shell

    also , never ever ever leave your shell unattended , just lock your screen

    guesisng those three ommisions where why you posted as anonymous

  24. Re:Odd thoughts: on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    but its a wired autocomplete , i like a list of options not choose the first one.

    its a dubious assumption that the first option is the most likely

  25. Re:oh the Irony on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    nope , dc over long lines means lots of energy via heat loss