Thanks for the response. I have searched a bit but there are some variables I have not seen quantified in comparison studies. For example, some towers have more or less antenna and/or more power as well as the fact your phone is 2 inches from your head when on a call. The tower is on 100% of the time. Is the differences in exposure over time due to distance so great that these don't factor in at any significant amount?
I have seen enough studies that conclude even high cell phone usage is not going to give you cancer. But I work directly under a 200ft cell tower. I would really like to hear about a few studies in reference to living/working long hours around cell towers.
But correct me if I'm wrong, she seemed to jump on board eBay when it was on it's way up and not screw it up. It would have taken HP's or Yahoo!'s BOD's to mess up eBay at the time she was made CEO.
"In October and November 2007, Raven was one of ten mentalist contestants on the primetime NBC series Phenomenon, which was hosted by Tim Vincent and judged by Criss Angel and Uri Geller.[2] He finished as runner-up on the series, after performing dangerous demonstrations of mentalism involving razor blades, snakes, scorpions, and nail guns.[3]
A demonstration with Holly Madison went wrong when Raven was bitten by a snake on live TV[4] and had to have his hand bandaged, but decided to continue.
During rehearsals for another demonstration Raven was injured which resulted in multiple ruptured disks in his back. He used a wheelchair for a period and a cane for a period thereafter. He has commented that he will reattempt this demonstration [5]"
This guy seems to have some "issues" with his "hobby" that I would consider fair game to discuss when he is put in such an important position of a leading tech company.
"John Stapp was subjected to 15 g for 0.6 second and a peak of 22 g during a 19 March 1954 rocket sled test. He would eventually survive a peak of more than 46 g, with more than 25 g for 1.1 sec.[6]
It's not everybody getting married, it's the admins hypocritically deleting notable, sourced articles and edits while endorsing much less notable articles and edits.
And after reviewing other comments here, it seems the slashdot crowd has a majority consensus on this. It's why I quit and the only other editor I know in real life has quit. The conclusion we came to is why bother wasting our time?
In your situation, you suggest a police officer decides to walk over and stand in front of you while you're innocently sitting on a park bench.
In the Mr. Bubbles incident, the protester gets in the police officer's faces and continues to blow bubbles directly at their faces from about a foot away after being asked to stop.
Really, the only thing common between the two scenarios is the use of bubbles. Besides that, they couldn't be more different.
I agree the police officer over reacted, but the protester blowing bubbles was trying to provoke the officer. And she was apparently successful at doing so.
I can see the reasoning behind this change, unlike the let's move the search box from one side of the page to the opposite side after years of muscle memory has trained millions of people to start a search on the left because 4% more people's eyes view the right area first idea.
Interesting the search box relocation happened a day or two after Wales resigned most of his admin privileges.
If you opened a shirt, intentionally to show off your holstered gun over a fucking ipod accessory, many law enforcement officers would take it from you.
If you played any mmorpg's at all 6 years ago, it would have been very difficult to not hear about Shadowbane or see one of it's adds.
Besides it being a top 5 game in terms of population, there was little competition then, UO, Everquest, heck SWG wasn't even released 6 years ago. Although I never played it for any length of time, Shadowbane reviews, adds, etc were on every gaming site I frequented...not sure how you could have missed them unless you used AOL or something.
That makes no sense. You say it's not reasonable, but then say it may have been necessary to have police involved for a search of a cell phone. You can't have it both ways.
Police do not dispatch units just to find a teenagers cell phone. And the significant portion of parents who have sued school systems into submission, prevent any staff from doing so themselves.
Those that mock this scenario truly do not understand the paradox that public school administrators and staff have been locked in when trying to manage everyone's little angels from heaven.
The saddest part about this is the parents who are so quick to blame everyone but their own little hellions are teaching the next generation how passing the buck can work for you...and you may even get paid from a law suit for it!
You are the reason people have to be absolutely crazy to want to teach in a US public school system now days. They are paid less than most who have equivalent education and have to deal with these little snowflakes everyday, and their parents who immediately go to the school board/governor/court system when you try to instill even the slightest tinge of discipline in them.
And then they get to come home and read on slashdot how they over reacted when "angel" wouldn't put the damn phone away after you've asked her 20 times while disrupting class for everyone for half an hour.
I disagree that it should be unconstitutional for incentive based investigation/prosecution in all cases. One of the better suggestion on how to restructure the SEC was to give incentives to investigators for each big case they successfully prosecute. Without this, we will never see SEC investigators constantly willing to take down billionaires like Madoff due to the consequences/blacklisting they face from doing so.
But I do agree with prohibiting it in cases like these, or even in most cases. I also agree that these judges should never see the light of day again.
Just turn them off! Tax payer money to install them, tax payer money to remove them.
This will at least make it cheaper when the next mayor/council reverse this decision and want to put them back.
Regardless of the debate about privacy, as soon as a mayor or important rich person in the community is assaulted, in a crash, looses a kid, etc where the cameras would have helped, these will get reinstalled.
I'm not a Dem but I agree and support most of our new President's ideas/policies, with two exceptions.
Wars used to be won by the nation with the most powerful Navy. Then Air Superiority became the dominating tactic. Space is the next step and banning these will only put the "honest" nations at a disadvantage here.
The tech may not be here yet to make it apparent just how space will dominate air, sea and land, but it's only a matter of time and hamstringing our military in this area is the last thing we should do.
I'd suggest the most obvious is the ability to disable or even confiscate enemy nation's spy satellites but future tech will increase the importance of orbital superiority.
The other unrelated exception is the stimulus. This money should be used to repair and improve current US infrastructure (bridges, fiber, etc). This approach eventually worked to lift us out of our first depression and I believe is much better than giving it to the CEO's who put us in this position in the first place.
New server hardware is getting cheaper while refurbished has remained relatively steady by comparison.
This is one of the few articles I feel comfortable commenting on since I've had the good fortune to be able to buy server hardware (reasonably equivalent for the era) every few years for the last 14 years.
It used to be buying refurbished/used would save you more than enough to justify the lack of warranty/inherent risk. For example, you could buy 2-3 used for the price of 1 new, but that is no longer the case in my experience.
For the first time ever, I got more server for less $ buying a NEW PE 2900 just a few months ago. Dell was running a special (buy over 4 grand, get 1200 off - per order) but I noticed this trend in previous years purchases.
My refurb vendors came in close (on similarly configured server), but why pay slightly more for used when you can get brand new w/manufacturer warranty for less?
I even got a "free" 17" LCD monitor that was not included in the refurb vendor quotes. But the price and 3 year warranty are the major factors (vs 30-90 days used).
These aren't top of the line nor are they bare bones, but my purchases/price comparisons have always been on similarly configured hardware.
For the past decade, I've been a buyer of lightly used servers like IBM 44P, Dell PowerEdge, etc purchasing these mainly as redundant hardware for existing servers.
In the last year, I have solicited quotes for used equivalents and the price gap has narrowed to the point where new is as cheap as used.
My last purchase of PowerEdge 2900's was actually cheaper through Dell (brand new, 3 yr warranty, etc) than a stripped down 2900 from refurbished vendors.
It seems it's followed car parts in that in the 70's and 80's you could save a lot buying from a salvage yard, but now days you save little or none vs buying from new car part dealers.
I get quotes from multiple vendors so it's not just one company inflating prices.
Just wanted to add that, in my experience, the trend is the opposite of what the article is suggesting.
Although I agree it is a serious distraction, it is not equivalent to drunk driving.
Maybe when you compare the accidents from alcohol (a small % of the population and usually reserved for Fri/Sat night) vs cell phones (+50% of the population everyday) you might find similar numbers but it's misleading to say it's the same as drunk driving.
Distraction is momentary, sobriety is not.
Instead of eliminating all communications in vehicles for everyone, they should try using age limits first.
You get a learning permit at 15. You get a license at 16. You can make short calls or hands free only after 18/21 while driving a motor vehicle.
While I hate to stereotype, one of the biggest issues based on my experience is teenagers yapping on cell phones while weaving in and out of traffic like it's a video game.
At least that's what caused the two fender benders I've been in. It seems friends and family have similar experiences as well.
Let's start with age limits and possibly mandating hands free, and go from there.
You seem to be suggesting that terrorist/counter-terrorist strategies don't evolve.
No previous terror attack on US soil is comparable in any shape to 9/11. For the US, and Bush (since we're discussing Bush policies), that was the beginning.
We could go back to the 1960's/70's if you wanted to contrast/compare minor "terrorist" attacks between presidents. Heck, in the civil war half the country was "terrorists" according to your insinuated definition.
And to suggest that Bill Clinton prevented an attack like 9/11 (since we didn't have one, right?) is so woefully naive on it's face, it doesn't require a serious response.
As I said, I'm ready for Bush to go, but every problem in the country/world is not his fault and to suggest so only takes away from any meaningful valid points you might make/have made.
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*reasonably defend
You can't reasonably an industry that has a steady stream of these stories:
http://naturalsociety.com/kv-pharmaceutical-company-raises-makena-drug-price/
Big pharma list of priorities:
1. Profit
2. Ease suffering, eliminate disease and make the world a better place as long as it doesn't effect #1 too significantly.
You state it's illegal to buy/sell those old cars like it applies everywhere. I'm going to speculate that it's legal in more areas than it's illegal.
Packet latency can be due to a number of issues: congestion, damaged wiring, lose connections, etc. Many of which are serviceable.
Thanks for the response. I have searched a bit but there are some variables I have not seen quantified in comparison studies. For example, some towers have more or less antenna and/or more power as well as the fact your phone is 2 inches from your head when on a call. The tower is on 100% of the time. Is the differences in exposure over time due to distance so great that these don't factor in at any significant amount?
I have seen enough studies that conclude even high cell phone usage is not going to give you cancer. But I work directly under a 200ft cell tower. I would really like to hear about a few studies in reference to living/working long hours around cell towers.
She definitely makes more sense than Leo.
But correct me if I'm wrong, she seemed to jump on board eBay when it was on it's way up and not screw it up. It would have taken HP's or Yahoo!'s BOD's to mess up eBay at the time she was made CEO.
While you make a good point -
"In October and November 2007, Raven was one of ten mentalist contestants on the primetime NBC series Phenomenon, which was hosted by Tim Vincent and judged by Criss Angel and Uri Geller.[2] He finished as runner-up on the series, after performing dangerous demonstrations of mentalism involving razor blades, snakes, scorpions, and nail guns.[3]
A demonstration with Holly Madison went wrong when Raven was bitten by a snake on live TV[4] and had to have his hand bandaged, but decided to continue.
During rehearsals for another demonstration Raven was injured which resulted in multiple ruptured disks in his back. He used a wheelchair for a period and a cane for a period thereafter. He has commented that he will reattempt this demonstration [5]"
This guy seems to have some "issues" with his "hobby" that I would consider fair game to discuss when he is put in such an important position of a leading tech company.
"John Stapp was subjected to 15 g for 0.6 second and a peak of 22 g during a 19 March 1954 rocket sled test. He would eventually survive a peak of more than 46 g, with more than 25 g for 1.1 sec.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#Human_tolerance_of_g-force
While Mr. Stapp's tests were short, the coaster doesn't appear to sustain the high level of g's necessary either.
It's not everybody getting married, it's the admins hypocritically deleting notable, sourced articles and edits while endorsing much less notable articles and edits.
And after reviewing other comments here, it seems the slashdot crowd has a majority consensus on this. It's why I quit and the only other editor I know in real life has quit. The conclusion we came to is why bother wasting our time?
Thank you! This is my only issue with LibreOffice. Please remove java from LibreOffice henceforth!
In your situation, you suggest a police officer decides to walk over and stand in front of you while you're innocently sitting on a park bench.
In the Mr. Bubbles incident, the protester gets in the police officer's faces and continues to blow bubbles directly at their faces from about a foot away after being asked to stop.
Really, the only thing common between the two scenarios is the use of bubbles. Besides that, they couldn't be more different.
I agree the police officer over reacted, but the protester blowing bubbles was trying to provoke the officer. And she was apparently successful at doing so.
I can see the reasoning behind this change, unlike the let's move the search box from one side of the page to the opposite side after years of muscle memory has trained millions of people to start a search on the left because 4% more people's eyes view the right area first idea.
Interesting the search box relocation happened a day or two after Wales resigned most of his admin privileges.
If you opened a shirt, intentionally to show off your holstered gun over a fucking ipod accessory, many law enforcement officers would take it from you.
You are the exact type of person that should not be allowed to carry a firearm.
I hope your boss reads this.
If you played any mmorpg's at all 6 years ago, it would have been very difficult to not hear about Shadowbane or see one of it's adds.
Besides it being a top 5 game in terms of population, there was little competition then, UO, Everquest, heck SWG wasn't even released 6 years ago. Although I never played it for any length of time, Shadowbane reviews, adds, etc were on every gaming site I frequented...not sure how you could have missed them unless you used AOL or something.
That makes no sense. You say it's not reasonable, but then say it may have been necessary to have police involved for a search of a cell phone. You can't have it both ways.
Police do not dispatch units just to find a teenagers cell phone. And the significant portion of parents who have sued school systems into submission, prevent any staff from doing so themselves.
Those that mock this scenario truly do not understand the paradox that public school administrators and staff have been locked in when trying to manage everyone's little angels from heaven.
The saddest part about this is the parents who are so quick to blame everyone but their own little hellions are teaching the next generation how passing the buck can work for you...and you may even get paid from a law suit for it!
You are the reason people have to be absolutely crazy to want to teach in a US public school system now days. They are paid less than most who have equivalent education and have to deal with these little snowflakes everyday, and their parents who immediately go to the school board/governor/court system when you try to instill even the slightest tinge of discipline in them.
And then they get to come home and read on slashdot how they over reacted when "angel" wouldn't put the damn phone away after you've asked her 20 times while disrupting class for everyone for half an hour.
Unbelievable
I disagree that it should be unconstitutional for incentive based investigation/prosecution in all cases. One of the better suggestion on how to restructure the SEC was to give incentives to investigators for each big case they successfully prosecute. Without this, we will never see SEC investigators constantly willing to take down billionaires like Madoff due to the consequences/blacklisting they face from doing so.
But I do agree with prohibiting it in cases like these, or even in most cases. I also agree that these judges should never see the light of day again.
Just turn them off! Tax payer money to install them, tax payer money to remove them.
This will at least make it cheaper when the next mayor/council reverse this decision and want to put them back.
Regardless of the debate about privacy, as soon as a mayor or important rich person in the community is assaulted, in a crash, looses a kid, etc where the cameras would have helped, these will get reinstalled.
Might as well make it easier on the taxpayer!
I'm not a Dem but I agree and support most of our new President's ideas/policies, with two exceptions.
Wars used to be won by the nation with the most powerful Navy. Then Air Superiority became the dominating tactic. Space is the next step and banning these will only put the "honest" nations at a disadvantage here.
The tech may not be here yet to make it apparent just how space will dominate air, sea and land, but it's only a matter of time and hamstringing our military in this area is the last thing we should do.
I'd suggest the most obvious is the ability to disable or even confiscate enemy nation's spy satellites but future tech will increase the importance of orbital superiority.
The other unrelated exception is the stimulus. This money should be used to repair and improve current US infrastructure (bridges, fiber, etc). This approach eventually worked to lift us out of our first depression and I believe is much better than giving it to the CEO's who put us in this position in the first place.
I agree and in addition, this will encourage students to avoid sharing some discoveries in the long term.
Hopefully they (Uni's) will recognize their error and do more to encourage "eureka moments" instead of the opposite due to their own greed.
You'd think they could split rights/royalties with students that develop them. Everyone wins. Too easy?
No, it's actually the opposite.
New server hardware is getting cheaper while refurbished has remained relatively steady by comparison.
This is one of the few articles I feel comfortable commenting on since I've had the good fortune to be able to buy server hardware (reasonably equivalent for the era) every few years for the last 14 years.
It used to be buying refurbished/used would save you more than enough to justify the lack of warranty/inherent risk. For example, you could buy 2-3 used for the price of 1 new, but that is no longer the case in my experience.
For the first time ever, I got more server for less $ buying a NEW PE 2900 just a few months ago. Dell was running a special (buy over 4 grand, get 1200 off - per order) but I noticed this trend in previous years purchases.
My refurb vendors came in close (on similarly configured server), but why pay slightly more for used when you can get brand new w/manufacturer warranty for less?
I even got a "free" 17" LCD monitor that was not included in the refurb vendor quotes. But the price and 3 year warranty are the major factors (vs 30-90 days used).
These aren't top of the line nor are they bare bones, but my purchases/price comparisons have always been on similarly configured hardware.
For the past decade, I've been a buyer of lightly used servers like IBM 44P, Dell PowerEdge, etc purchasing these mainly as redundant hardware for existing servers.
In the last year, I have solicited quotes for used equivalents and the price gap has narrowed to the point where new is as cheap as used.
My last purchase of PowerEdge 2900's was actually cheaper through Dell (brand new, 3 yr warranty, etc) than a stripped down 2900 from refurbished vendors.
It seems it's followed car parts in that in the 70's and 80's you could save a lot buying from a salvage yard, but now days you save little or none vs buying from new car part dealers.
I get quotes from multiple vendors so it's not just one company inflating prices.
Just wanted to add that, in my experience, the trend is the opposite of what the article is suggesting.
Although I agree it is a serious distraction, it is not equivalent to drunk driving.
Maybe when you compare the accidents from alcohol (a small % of the population and usually reserved for Fri/Sat night) vs cell phones (+50% of the population everyday) you might find similar numbers but it's misleading to say it's the same as drunk driving.
Distraction is momentary, sobriety is not.
Instead of eliminating all communications in vehicles for everyone, they should try using age limits first.
You get a learning permit at 15. You get a license at 16. You can make short calls or hands free only after 18/21 while driving a motor vehicle.
While I hate to stereotype, one of the biggest issues based on my experience is teenagers yapping on cell phones while weaving in and out of traffic like it's a video game.
At least that's what caused the two fender benders I've been in. It seems friends and family have similar experiences as well.
Let's start with age limits and possibly mandating hands free, and go from there.
You seem to be suggesting that terrorist/counter-terrorist strategies don't evolve.
No previous terror attack on US soil is comparable in any shape to 9/11. For the US, and Bush (since we're discussing Bush policies), that was the beginning.
We could go back to the 1960's/70's if you wanted to contrast/compare minor "terrorist" attacks between presidents. Heck, in the civil war half the country was "terrorists" according to your insinuated definition.
And to suggest that Bill Clinton prevented an attack like 9/11 (since we didn't have one, right?) is so woefully naive on it's face, it doesn't require a serious response.
As I said, I'm ready for Bush to go, but every problem in the country/world is not his fault and to suggest so only takes away from any meaningful valid points you might make/have made.