Also, if I store my work in the cloud and the subscription expires, will Adobe "just" hold my work ransom until I pay again... or will they even delete my data?
The Muana Loa observatory measures only at night, when air is descending from far up high. That air has come from across the Pacific Ocean, far from any specific CO2 sources. At night, the volcanic gasses are trapped in a thin layer near the ground by a temperature inversion. The observatory measures the air at several towers at different altitudes and also closer to the volcano so as to get a comparative reading.
While your current company may not be able to force you, the situation changes if you are laid off. The next company you apply to could choose not to hire you because of your objection.
I choose not to use a cell phone at all, because of various reasons, the most important being that radiation kills brain cells. I find that some prospective employers don't want to hire me because of my objection, even though the work entails sitting at the same desk all the time.
Yes. This site is part commercial and part community-driven. Discussion about the content has a place on a community-driven site.
And yes, I also answered the last Slashdot survey about what they wanted their readers to read about on Slashdot. They asked me. They want the input. That was a month or two ago, I'm sorry if you missed it.
The events in Boston are far far from the same magnitude of the 9/11 attacks. They don't even compare. The Boston bombs are like any Tuesday in Baghdad or Damascus, or in Northern Ireland back in the '80s.
I don't mean to be disrespectful to the victims of the bombings in Boston, or to those students in Cambridge, Mass. USA. who are terrified right now, but...
Does this story really have a place on Slashdot? You can read more about it on practically every major news site, and it is live on all news-oriented TV channels all over the world. It does not need to be on the tech sites too.
If you already are anxious, you don't need to be bombarded with more news that make you even more terrified. You need a place to relax, to help you concentrate on other matters.
It can't match 1:1 to the screen. There is no eye tracking, which would be required for proper eye-hand-screen coordination. Sony managed to be first to patent a combo with eye tracking, however.
The biggest thing I have against single-sign-on is that I need different levels of security for different sites, and I want to keep the sites compartmentalised from each other. For instance, I want high security for my email account and access it only from computers/devices that I have control over. However, I have private playlists on Youtube that I may want to show to a friend, on a third guy's (two degrees of separation) computer. I don't want to have to be afraid of logging into Youtube on that machine because that computer would also get access to my email.
When I am on my trusted home computer, having different accounts for different things can get cumbersome with those sites that force single-sign-on on you! Yes, while I could use the Incognito mode in Chromium to separate my logins -- it does only separate [i]two[/i] sites, and I would have to login each time I need a new window in incognito mode. It would be much more convenient if I could have different "realms" or "personas", where I could browse each site in its own realm.
I agree. Look and feel patents should not have be granted in the first place.
I am sure that there are many more pieces of software that did the same thing, just not on a "phone". Long before 2005, there were software installers that required you to scroll a license agreement to the bottom before it unlocked the button that allowed you to proceed with the install. What kind of widget control do you use to scroll a document with? A type of slider of course.
You wanted to see an epidemiological study for humans that shows a link between cell phone radiation and cancer.
Here you go:
Hardell L, Carlberg M, Hansson Mild K. Pooled analysis of case-control studies on malignant brain tumours and the use of mobile and cordless phones including living and deceased subjects. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21331446
Cancer can take many years before symptoms appear. An example is people in Ukraine and Belarus who were subjected to fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Diagnoses of thyroid cancer (for all age groups) peaked in 1996, ten years after, but people are still being diagnosed with it.... and this was is ionizing radiation that mutated genes directly during a few days in 1986.
If there are health effects from cell phones, we will probably not see the diagnoses for twenty years. (However, by then the collapse of the world's eco-systems will be a more pressing issue....)
No, it is not idiocy. There are other things that could go on than just ionizing or heating. There have been numerous studies that have shown that various things can happen inside human tissue from exposure to microwave radiation... but science does not yet understand exactly what these effects imply, or if the harm as a result of "normal" cell phone use would be significant enough to bother.
For instance, one study showed that if you dope glucose with isotopes and take a PET scan of a person head while talking in a 2G (CDMA or GSM) phone held next to the ear, you will find that isotopes will centre around the phone's antenna. Why those (brain) cells consume so much more energy than other cells is unknown.
There have also been several tests with lab rats that have shown ruptures in the blood-brain barrier, causing death of nerve cells and loss of cognitive function.
Another issue is that not all microwave radiation is equal, and with the frequency bands of 3G and 4G, we don't know that much yet.
It is not exactly like a touch screen. There is no way to detect touch -- you can only wave your hands in front of the screen. Also, because there is no eye-hand-coordination in the system, there will have to be proxy objects (like mouse pointers) on the screen for your finger tips.
From what I have understood from reading Leap' employees posts in the Linux subforum, a large amount of input processing is done in drivers on the host which will therefore have to stay proprietary.
The word would have been more correct Swedish if it had been "ogooglingsbar". The verb that people use is "googla", not "googl". There should be an 's' before "bar" before the prefix is a composite.
If all you want is a USB and a bunch of pins with it, then the Raspberry Pi is overkill where a simpler microcontroller board would do.
One example of such a board is the Teensy 3.0 USB Development Board. It has a 48MHz ARM cpu (Cortex-M4), is only 1.4 by 0.7 inch large, has 28 pins and a micro USB port. By default, it gets its power from a host computer, but you could also wire up its own power supply. There is also an optional Micro-SD card board for storage. However, I don't think that it would run Linux like the Raspberry Pi, only your own code. It is definitely in a small form factor.
Well, I think that all organised religions are in some way made up. Most religions are based on powerful experiences that influential people have had, but these people would have had to make up systems in which to place their experiences so that they can make sense for themselves and to be able to get their message across to others.
I have had a long talk with a minister in the Scottish Jedi religion about his faith, because I had found it fascinating. The point that he made about his faith is that he had held his basic beliefs about spirituality for a long time and for many years he had been searching for a congregation that shared these beliefs. He had been part of various "New Age" groups but in the long term, none of them had felt right for him. After many years, he found the Jedi church, and discovered to his astonishment that the basic beliefs were the same to his. He also told me that while they have adapted the spiritual and ritual content from Star Wars, there is no mythology from the movies. For instance, they don't believe that Darth Vader had existed -- that would just be weird...
Like all ThinkPad's before it, it has a trackpoint, but how the L did the Lenovo designers think that trackpoint users are going to be able to click with no mouse buttons?
Apparently, you are supposed to click by pressing on the top of the trackpad... However, there are quite a few users out there who are used to disabling the trackpad in the BIOS because it is too easy to nudge it by mistake. With such a large trackpad (twice as wide than before) and practically no space between the Space Bar and the trackpad this is bound to happen more often.
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Just have two batteries. On on charge and one in the phone. It will also take 20 seconds to change the battery.
You mean ... the MINGW version of Emacs?
Also, if I store my work in the cloud and the subscription expires, will Adobe "just" hold my work ransom until I pay again ... or will they even delete my data?
Sorry, the "only at night" was from another source.
Here you go.
The Muana Loa observatory measures only at night, when air is descending from far up high. That air has come from across the Pacific Ocean, far from any specific CO2 sources.
At night, the volcanic gasses are trapped in a thin layer near the ground by a temperature inversion. The observatory measures the air at several towers at different altitudes and also closer to the volcano so as to get a comparative reading.
You can read more in this report.
While your current company may not be able to force you, the situation changes if you are laid off.
The next company you apply to could choose not to hire you because of your objection.
I choose not to use a cell phone at all, because of various reasons, the most important being that radiation kills brain cells. I find that some prospective employers don't want to hire me because of my objection, even though the work entails sitting at the same desk all the time.
Yes. This site is part commercial and part community-driven. Discussion about the content has a place on a community-driven site.
And yes, I also answered the last Slashdot survey about what they wanted their readers to read about on Slashdot. They asked me. They want the input. That was a month or two ago, I'm sorry if you missed it.
You have got a point.
The events in Boston are far far from the same magnitude of the 9/11 attacks. They don't even compare.
The Boston bombs are like any Tuesday in Baghdad or Damascus, or in Northern Ireland back in the '80s.
I don't mean to be disrespectful to the victims of the bombings in Boston, or to those students in Cambridge, Mass. USA. who are terrified right now, but ...
Does this story really have a place on Slashdot?
You can read more about it on practically every major news site, and it is live on all news-oriented TV channels all over the world. It does not need to be on the tech sites too.
If you already are anxious, you don't need to be bombarded with more news that make you even more terrified. You need a place to relax, to help you concentrate on other matters.
It can't match 1:1 to the screen. There is no eye tracking, which would be required for proper eye-hand-screen coordination.
Sony managed to be first to patent a combo with eye tracking, however.
The biggest thing I have against single-sign-on is that I need different levels of security for different sites, and I want to keep the sites compartmentalised from each other.
For instance, I want high security for my email account and access it only from computers/devices that I have control over.
However, I have private playlists on Youtube that I may want to show to a friend, on a third guy's (two degrees of separation) computer. I don't want to have to be afraid of logging into Youtube on that machine because that computer would also get access to my email.
When I am on my trusted home computer, having different accounts for different things can get cumbersome with those sites that force single-sign-on on you!
Yes, while I could use the Incognito mode in Chromium to separate my logins -- it does only separate [i]two[/i] sites, and I would have to login each time I need a new window in incognito mode.
It would be much more convenient if I could have different "realms" or "personas", where I could browse each site in its own realm.
I agree. Look and feel patents should not have be granted in the first place.
I am sure that there are many more pieces of software that did the same thing, just not on a "phone".
Long before 2005, there were software installers that required you to scroll a license agreement to the bottom before it unlocked the button that allowed you to proceed with the install.
What kind of widget control do you use to scroll a document with? A type of slider of course.
Over here, slices of pressed, boiled horse meat have been marketed as "Hamburger meat" for decades. Not really foul play, but anyway ...
You wanted to see an epidemiological study for humans that shows a link between cell phone radiation and cancer.
Here you go:
Hardell L, Carlberg M, Hansson Mild K.
Pooled analysis of case-control studies on malignant brain tumours and the use of mobile and cordless phones including living and deceased subjects.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21331446
It could have been in an email:
* State/gov authorities.
* Insurance company.
* Your doctor
* Digital copy of payslip
etc.
Do you not have access to your email via your phone?
How do you know that your Glass has not been hacked? Laptop webcams get hacked all the time.
Cancer can take many years before symptoms appear. An example is people in Ukraine and Belarus who were subjected to fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Diagnoses of thyroid cancer (for all age groups) peaked in 1996, ten years after, but people are still being diagnosed with it. ... and this was is ionizing radiation that mutated genes directly during a few days in 1986.
If there are health effects from cell phones, we will probably not see the diagnoses for twenty years. (However, by then the collapse of the world's eco-systems will be a more pressing issue....)
No, it is not idiocy. There are other things that could go on than just ionizing or heating. There have been numerous studies that have shown that various things can happen inside human tissue from exposure to microwave radiation ... but science does not yet understand exactly what these effects imply, or if the harm as a result of "normal" cell phone use would be significant enough to bother.
For instance, one study showed that if you dope glucose with isotopes and take a PET scan of a person head while talking in a 2G (CDMA or GSM) phone held next to the ear, you will find that isotopes will centre around the phone's antenna. Why those (brain) cells consume so much more energy than other cells is unknown.
There have also been several tests with lab rats that have shown ruptures in the blood-brain barrier, causing death of nerve cells and loss of cognitive function.
Another issue is that not all microwave radiation is equal, and with the frequency bands of 3G and 4G, we don't know that much yet.
It is not exactly like a touch screen. There is no way to detect touch -- you can only wave your hands in front of the screen.
Also, because there is no eye-hand-coordination in the system, there will have to be proxy objects (like mouse pointers) on the screen for your finger tips.
From what I have understood from reading Leap' employees posts in the Linux subforum, a large amount of input processing is done in drivers on the host which will therefore have to stay proprietary.
The word would have been more correct Swedish if it had been "ogooglingsbar". The verb that people use is "googla", not "googl". There should be an 's' before "bar" before the prefix is a composite.
Take that, Språkrådet!
If all you want is a USB and a bunch of pins with it, then the Raspberry Pi is overkill where a simpler microcontroller board would do.
One example of such a board is the Teensy 3.0 USB Development Board. It has a 48MHz ARM cpu (Cortex-M4), is only 1.4 by 0.7 inch large, has 28 pins and a micro USB port.
By default, it gets its power from a host computer, but you could also wire up its own power supply. There is also an optional Micro-SD card board for storage.
However, I don't think that it would run Linux like the Raspberry Pi, only your own code.
It is definitely in a small form factor.
Well, I think that all organised religions are in some way made up. Most religions are based on powerful experiences that influential people have had, but these people would have had to make up systems in which to place their experiences so that they can make sense for themselves and to be able to get their message across to others.
I have had a long talk with a minister in the Scottish Jedi religion about his faith, because I had found it fascinating. ...
The point that he made about his faith is that he had held his basic beliefs about spirituality for a long time and for many years he had been searching for a congregation that shared these beliefs. He had been part of various "New Age" groups but in the long term, none of them had felt right for him.
After many years, he found the Jedi church, and discovered to his astonishment that the basic beliefs were the same to his. He also told me that while they have adapted the spiritual and ritual content from Star Wars, there is no mythology from the movies. For instance, they don't believe that Darth Vader had existed -- that would just be weird
Like all ThinkPad's before it, it has a trackpoint, but how the L did the Lenovo designers think that trackpoint users are going to be able to click with no mouse buttons?
Apparently, you are supposed to click by pressing on the top of the trackpad...
However, there are quite a few users out there who are used to disabling the trackpad in the BIOS because it is too easy to nudge it by mistake. With such a large trackpad (twice as wide than before) and practically no space between the Space Bar and the trackpad this is bound to happen more often.