That's not EHS. Those people are bothered by the low-frequency flicker of older types of fluorescent lights that use magnetic ballasts - especially older or low-quality lamps with or older or low-quality ballasts. The flicker can get as low as half of the power supply frequency, where it is just at the limit of being visible. Modern lamps and CFLs use electronic ballasts that operate at a much higher frequency, and that is why they don't bother people.
No serious scientific study has been able to establish that electrosensitivity exists....
There are literally thousands of studies that have confirmed that electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) exists. The intra-cellular mechanism has been discovered independently by different research teams composed of credited scientists in the field at major well-regarded universities in different parts of the globe.
But of course, a study about something that does not exist can not be "serious", now can it?
Here are the search terms to google for: Voltage-Gated Calcium Canals (VGCC), NO-ONOO cycle. There are a couple of very good videos about it on Youtube, by professor Martin Pall. I very much recommend them, especially how he debunks earlier studies that had claimed that electrosensitivity wouldn't exist.
BTW, 40 people are nothing. The associations for people with electrohypersensitive disorders have thousands of members that would love to move to a town like Green Bank.
Digital face construction from DNA is used to identify people for as simple a crime as throwing a used chewing gum on the street. http://www.digitaljournal.com/...
That's it? Really? The comment was not more specific than that? That's "defamation"??
Not that it really concerns me, but yes I checked out what view he has: he lives on the other side of a well-trafficked road from the front entrance of the school. He could see kids being dropped off and picked up by their parents. That's it. It took me 20 seconds to check this on Google. If anyone else did what I did, then they would also see that the comment has no merit.
Both are being kept secret, available only to the ones doing the direct negotiation... and are containing much of the same cruft favouring transnational corporations over nations and their citizens.
You could expect Germany to phase out lignite before they phase out coal. There is a wide-spread public resistance against it and it is likely that it will be taxed out of being profitable. Many "blocks" (lignite-burning power plants) will reach end-of-life in the next one or two decades anyway so if power companies would want to continue burning lignite then they would have to invest heavily in new plants and that wouldn't be a good financial decision.
Imagination Technologies showed a demo of Vulkan on PowerVR the same day as Vulkan was presented at GDC this year. PowerVR GPUs have been powering all of Apple's iOS devices.
I am sure that AMD would use the same core for Mantle, DirectX 12 and Vulkan. They are phasing out development on Mantle in favour of Vulkan.
Yet another proprietary API...
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Anybody else think that Apple should ditch Metal in favour of Vulkan? If they want the latest games ported to Mac then they should use an open API that is used on other platforms.
But I am starting to think that maybe ports is not Apple's game... Maybe they want there to be almost only Apple-specific titles on Mac so that people wouldn't compare performance on Mac to that on PC or consoles. Now that they are known mostly for laptops and their desktop machines are also having laptop-grade internals then they are not going to be able to compete on graphics performance anyway.
The "green revolution" depended on cheap fuel and artificial fertilizer. We have already run into peak oil and are soon running into peak phosphorous. If you also factor in climate change into the equation, you will see that we will have to drastically change how and where food is going to be produced in the future.
Sure we have plenty of food now but that is not the issue.
Mandrake was the only distro that I bought [i]boxed[/i].. but I never used it enough to remember what was so special about it. One thing stands out in my memory though: a post in the Slashdot comments to the name change from Mandrake to Mandriva.
The problem is that people sometimes tend to leave their phones to recharge in rooms that they don't occupy, and that would leave a data-acquisition gap. The microphone in the teddy bear could help fill that gap...
I wouldn't say that people's tastes calcify. Good music holds up to the tests of time and bad music doesn't.
There is a lot of music of low quality produced in every age that became popular then but doesn't hold up. Even in the 19th century there were then popular composers that practically nobody listened to ten years later.
I started liking early '80s synth-pop when I was in my mid-30's - a genre I didn't listen to when I was younger because it had its peak when I was in kindergarten. But I listen to only a small subset of the music from that era. The music I listen to tend naturally to be from the groups who still go on tours, the songs that are still being made into covers and remixes - because that is the subset of the music of that genre and era that was the best.
People get car-sick the easiest when there is poor correlation between the sense of sight and the sense of movement. Thus, having windows on the car prevent travel sickness, to a degree.
I am not going to say that people shouldn't drink, but if you drink responsibly then you shouldn't get a hangover in the first place.
I can imagine that hangovers were more common in earlier times because alcoholic drinks could have been of lower quality - with more of the chemicals that would worsen hangover. Production and quality control these days are done using scientific methods. One of those chemicals is methanol, which I would expect there to be more of in moonshine than in store-bought vodka. Another cause of hangover is dehydration.
So... Know your limit and stick to it, drink high-quality drinks and let every other glass contain a non-alcoholic drink, and then you should avoid the hangover.
The problem is that neither cancer nor cold are of "common" types: there are quite a few types of each. One man's cancer could be quite different from another man's, even if they are both found at the same place in the body. The pancreatic cancer mentioned in the article is only one type of pancreatic cancer, although it is the most common form that would originally form there. Cancer in the pancreas could also be another type of cancer that was formed elsewhere and metastasized. Similarly, there are many different viruses that can cause "cold".
Search features I depend on: * Non-English characters. Handle multiple encodings of web pages and URL-encoded characters in search queries. * site: to search only within a domain. This is often a national domain, such as "site:co.uk" to search only British sites. * Minus: Begin able to block certain words, or sites. * Plus: A word prefixed with a plus is required. * Quotes/hyphen: Searching for exact phrases. "Java class file" is different from "Java File class".
Where current search engines are lacking: * If there is a period between the words then they do not belong to the same phrase. (A search for "Hello Google" should not return "Say Hello. Google for it." as its top result) * Use word order in search query to weigh how important a search term is. Rank pages higher wihen those words are closer together. * Don't correct my spelling by default, assuming that my search query is in US-English. (I am speaking to you Duck-Duck Goo!). I can spell, and I do not always write English. If I misspell then that is my mistake, and sometimes I search for a brand name that was misspelled intentionally. * When indexing a web page, identify what is the important text on the page and ignore the rest. For instance, on an internet news site, the text in the articles is most important. On a forum text inside the comments. On this forum, articles followed by comments. What people have written in their signatures is not important. Slashboxes are not and ads are definitely not. It is aggravating when you use Google on a collecting site and you get every other page on that site in every search result because members have listed their collections in their signatures. If I search for the word "review", I don't want every page on every web store that has a Reviews tab. Pages on a site often follow a certain pattern - find that pattern to find which text on each page that is the most unique.
"56 per cent of radio listeners use digital radio every day."
I wonder... Would there be more radio listeners overall if stations hadn't closed down on FM already as part of the transition to DAB? How many stations worth listening to are still on FM? How many radio listeners are there now in total compared to a decade ago?
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It sounds to me as if the parking meter was designed to make you use the credit card.
Anyone who is considering learning jQuery should also check out Vanilla JS.
Indeed, a significant portion of people with EHS are known to suffer from MCS as well. He brings that up in his talk.
The good news is that this points to it being likely that it is not EM radiation alone that would have triggered EHS in these individuals.
Because skin cancer is just a hoax perpetuated by the skin lotion industry.
That's not EHS. Those people are bothered by the low-frequency flicker of older types of fluorescent lights that use magnetic ballasts - especially older or low-quality lamps with or older or low-quality ballasts. The flicker can get as low as half of the power supply frequency, where it is just at the limit of being visible.
Modern lamps and CFLs use electronic ballasts that operate at a much higher frequency, and that is why they don't bother people.
The quote from the article says:
There are literally thousands of studies that have confirmed that electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) exists. The intra-cellular mechanism has been discovered independently by different research teams composed of credited scientists in the field at major well-regarded universities in different parts of the globe.
But of course, a study about something that does not exist can not be "serious", now can it?
Here are the search terms to google for: Voltage-Gated Calcium Canals (VGCC), NO-ONOO cycle.
There are a couple of very good videos about it on Youtube, by professor Martin Pall. I very much recommend them, especially how he debunks earlier studies that had claimed that electrosensitivity wouldn't exist.
BTW, 40 people are nothing. The associations for people with electrohypersensitive disorders have thousands of members that would love to move to a town like Green Bank.
Digital face construction from DNA is used to identify people for as simple a crime as throwing a used chewing gum on the street.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/...
That's it? Really? The comment was not more specific than that? That's "defamation"??
Not that it really concerns me, but yes I checked out what view he has: he lives on the other side of a well-trafficked road from the front entrance of the school. He could see kids being dropped off and picked up by their parents. That's it.
It took me 20 seconds to check this on Google. If anyone else did what I did, then they would also see that the comment has no merit.
That is why many "gaming" keyboards offers a special "Window Lock" mode that does nothing but disabling the left Windows key ...
The specs are "leaked".
AMD has been hyping the card for weeks already.
It is easy to confuse TTP with TTIP ...
Both are being kept secret, available only to the ones doing the direct negotiation ... and are containing much of the same cruft favouring transnational corporations over nations and their citizens.
You could expect Germany to phase out lignite before they phase out coal. There is a wide-spread public resistance against it and it is likely that it will be taxed out of being profitable.
Many "blocks" (lignite-burning power plants) will reach end-of-life in the next one or two decades anyway so if power companies would want to continue burning lignite then they would have to invest heavily in new plants and that wouldn't be a good financial decision.
It doesn't look like it is far off.
Imagination Technologies showed a demo of Vulkan on PowerVR the same day as Vulkan was presented at GDC this year.
PowerVR GPUs have been powering all of Apple's iOS devices.
I am sure that AMD would use the same core for Mantle, DirectX 12 and Vulkan. They are phasing out development on Mantle in favour of Vulkan.
Anybody else think that Apple should ditch Metal in favour of Vulkan? If they want the latest games ported to Mac then they should use an open API that is used on other platforms.
But I am starting to think that maybe ports is not Apple's game... Maybe they want there to be almost only Apple-specific titles on Mac so that people wouldn't compare performance on Mac to that on PC or consoles. Now that they are known mostly for laptops and their desktop machines are also having laptop-grade internals then they are not going to be able to compete on graphics performance anyway.
The "green revolution" depended on cheap fuel and artificial fertilizer. We have already run into peak oil and are soon running into peak phosphorous.
If you also factor in climate change into the equation, you will see that we will have to drastically change how and where food is going to be produced in the future.
Sure we have plenty of food now but that is not the issue.
Mandrake was the only distro that I bought [i]boxed[/i].. but I never used it enough to remember what was so special about it. One thing stands out in my memory though: a post in the Slashdot comments to the name change from Mandrake to Mandriva.
Mandriva - Womenshouta!
The problem is that people sometimes tend to leave their phones to recharge in rooms that they don't occupy, and that would leave a data-acquisition gap. ...
The microphone in the teddy bear could help fill that gap
I wouldn't say that people's tastes calcify. Good music holds up to the tests of time and bad music doesn't.
There is a lot of music of low quality produced in every age that became popular then but doesn't hold up. Even in the 19th century there were then popular composers that practically nobody listened to ten years later.
I started liking early '80s synth-pop when I was in my mid-30's - a genre I didn't listen to when I was younger because it had its peak when I was in kindergarten. But I listen to only a small subset of the music from that era. The music I listen to tend naturally to be from the groups who still go on tours, the songs that are still being made into covers and remixes - because that is the subset of the music of that genre and era that was the best.
Yes, but not only for barfing out of ...
People get car-sick the easiest when there is poor correlation between the sense of sight and the sense of movement.
Thus, having windows on the car prevent travel sickness, to a degree.
I am not going to say that people shouldn't drink, but if you drink responsibly then you shouldn't get a hangover in the first place.
I can imagine that hangovers were more common in earlier times because alcoholic drinks could have been of lower quality - with more of the chemicals that would worsen hangover. Production and quality control these days are done using scientific methods.
One of those chemicals is methanol, which I would expect there to be more of in moonshine than in store-bought vodka.
Another cause of hangover is dehydration.
So... Know your limit and stick to it, drink high-quality drinks and let every other glass contain a non-alcoholic drink, and then you should avoid the hangover.
The problem is that neither cancer nor cold are of "common" types: there are quite a few types of each.
One man's cancer could be quite different from another man's, even if they are both found at the same place in the body. The pancreatic cancer mentioned in the article is only one type of pancreatic cancer, although it is the most common form that would originally form there. Cancer in the pancreas could also be another type of cancer that was formed elsewhere and metastasized.
Similarly, there are many different viruses that can cause "cold".
XKCD also covered mobile sites in Server Attention Span.
Search features I depend on:
* Non-English characters. Handle multiple encodings of web pages and URL-encoded characters in search queries.
* site: to search only within a domain. This is often a national domain, such as "site:co.uk" to search only British sites.
* Minus: Begin able to block certain words, or sites.
* Plus: A word prefixed with a plus is required.
* Quotes/hyphen: Searching for exact phrases. "Java class file" is different from "Java File class".
Where current search engines are lacking:
* If there is a period between the words then they do not belong to the same phrase. (A search for "Hello Google" should not return "Say Hello. Google for it." as its top result)
* Use word order in search query to weigh how important a search term is. Rank pages higher wihen those words are closer together.
* Don't correct my spelling by default, assuming that my search query is in US-English. (I am speaking to you Duck-Duck Goo!). I can spell, and I do not always write English. If I misspell then that is my mistake, and sometimes I search for a brand name that was misspelled intentionally.
* When indexing a web page, identify what is the important text on the page and ignore the rest. For instance, on an internet news site, the text in the articles is most important. On a forum text inside the comments. On this forum, articles followed by comments. What people have written in their signatures is not important. Slashboxes are not and ads are definitely not.
It is aggravating when you use Google on a collecting site and you get every other page on that site in every search result because members have listed their collections in their signatures.
If I search for the word "review", I don't want every page on every web store that has a Reviews tab.
Pages on a site often follow a certain pattern - find that pattern to find which text on each page that is the most unique.
"56 per cent of radio listeners use digital radio every day."
I wonder... Would there be more radio listeners overall if stations hadn't closed down on FM already as part of the transition to DAB?
How many stations worth listening to are still on FM? How many radio listeners are there now in total compared to a decade ago?
How in the world did the parent to this post get modded "Score:5 Interesting"?