"Basically this is how you do a placebo trial. The science is telling us that these people are sick, but it is not due to radio towers, because having the radiation on or off is not making any statistically significant difference at all in their symptoms."
Apparently the towers are causing the symptoms, not the radio emissions. The question is which solution to use: educate the sufferers, or eliminate the towers (or perhaps make them look like big trees).
"Until someone can show how rf radiation can affect DNA, there is no mechanism for rf to cause cancer."
This is the kind of arrogance that creates tinfoil hatters. Our approach should be to exercise caution until we have clear proof that this does not cause problems, not to assume no danger until proven otherwise.
I borrowed a friend's third gen iPod (the one with separate touch-sensitive buttons above the scroll wheel). Whenever I try to find the buttons by touch, I end up pressing the first one I find the moment my finger enters the touch-sensitive area of one. I hate this. Give me buttons that I can find by touch, without activating them.
The tech that should never have been created. Seriously, I just decline to bother with crippled articles like this. Where's the "printer" (reader) friendly button when you need it?
"So how is it possible that all life, on a chemical level, is more or less the same?"
At one time it probably wasn't, but one form probably came to outnumber the others and finally eliminated them. I can imagine something similar with programming, involving different processor architectures (or the very notion of a processor), and also assemblers being plentiful but now mostly hidden away, if used at all.
"I still haven't made up my mind on GPLv3, but I was under the impression that it was designed to unite, not to fork."
It creates a small fork in the road for authors currently using GPLv2: do they close the loopholes (GPLv3) or preserve them (GPLv2)? Some things can't go forward at all because the authors are too numerous to contact.
On the other hand, there is no randomness like quantum randomness. So if you believe their bit-stream faithfully represents the source, then in this case you can feel pretty good about it.
Pet peeve: just because we don't currently grasp any pattern or cause for quantum "randomness" doesn't mean it's truely random.
During that brief time, each magnetic field contributes forces that affect the precession of neighbouring fields. Each of these spins
Combining all those wobbles adds up to a lot of energy that changes the polarity of neighbouring bits and spreads across the surface, causing sections of disk drive to be wiped out.
Besides, "hard drive failure" to me means hardware damage, not data loss. Too often people say their "hard drive crashed" when in fact their hard drive mechanism is in perfect condition, and has preserved all data exactly, just their OS corrupted the data through intentional writes. And who cares about things that flip some bits? The drive's error correction will fix them in due time, resulting in no loss of user data. The things that worry me are the heads crashing into disks or motor bearing failure. Those aren't generally recoverable without lots of cost.
For me it was the shooting style and scene-to-scene tension that made it enjoyable. The episodes usually ran at a leisurely pace like a movie, with time given to take in a setting. "Darkness Falls" from the first season is a good example.
Or consider this: by whitelisting software which works at the kernel level, that code is basically allowed to become an unofficial part of your OS. Fine, except that the code is not available to anyone to thoroughly audit for vulnerabilities or release patches for.
And I am not happy wading through page after page of web search results with nothing but hits to crappy half-page-per-entry blogs. Adding -blog to the search terms doesn't help much either. I want my web-consisting-of-web-pages back (you know, the kind that you spend a few days polishing before you add to your website)?)
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I hate to be a real word Nazi, but "cum" is only a conjunction; "come" realy is the correct spelling in either case here.
"Basically this is how you do a placebo trial. The science is telling us that these people are sick, but it is not due to radio towers, because having the radiation on or off is not making any statistically significant difference at all in their symptoms."
Apparently the towers are causing the symptoms, not the radio emissions. The question is which solution to use: educate the sufferers, or eliminate the towers (or perhaps make them look like big trees).
"Until someone can show how rf radiation can affect DNA, there is no mechanism for rf to cause cancer."
This is the kind of arrogance that creates tinfoil hatters. Our approach should be to exercise caution until we have clear proof that this does not cause problems, not to assume no danger until proven otherwise.
I borrowed a friend's third gen iPod (the one with separate touch-sensitive buttons above the scroll wheel). Whenever I try to find the buttons by touch, I end up pressing the first one I find the moment my finger enters the touch-sensitive area of one. I hate this. Give me buttons that I can find by touch, without activating them.
The tech that should never have been created. Seriously, I just decline to bother with crippled articles like this. Where's the "printer" (reader) friendly button when you need it?
Apple did System 7 over 15 years ago!
(I can't believe nobody made any jokes about this)
Hope this isn't too much for you: virtual bubble wrap
"There is enough stuff written before this madness started to last a lifetime."
Outside of reading for entertainment, book A isn't a substitute for book B.
"Whooboy! I wonder what that print cartridge is going to cost!"
Don't worry, a third-party will come up with a continuous-buckyball-ink system you can retrofit your solar panel printer with.
"So how is it possible that all life, on a chemical level, is more or less the same?"
At one time it probably wasn't, but one form probably came to outnumber the others and finally eliminated them. I can imagine something similar with programming, involving different processor architectures (or the very notion of a processor), and also assemblers being plentiful but now mostly hidden away, if used at all.
"I still haven't made up my mind on GPLv3, but I was under the impression that it was designed to unite, not to fork."
It creates a small fork in the road for authors currently using GPLv2: do they close the loopholes (GPLv3) or preserve them (GPLv2)? Some things can't go forward at all because the authors are too numerous to contact.
"But then I remembered that suicide is considered a crime in some, if not most of, western countries (like mine, Spain). Too late."
Fortunely if you succeed they can't do anything to you anyway.
Pet peeve: just because we don't currently grasp any pattern or cause for quantum "randomness" doesn't mean it's truely random.
For someone paranoid, a third-party source that claims to be random should be assumed to be anything but.
That's what they get for using a hard drive!
Besides, "hard drive failure" to me means hardware damage, not data loss. Too often people say their "hard drive crashed" when in fact their hard drive mechanism is in perfect condition, and has preserved all data exactly, just their OS corrupted the data through intentional writes. And who cares about things that flip some bits? The drive's error correction will fix them in due time, resulting in no loss of user data. The things that worry me are the heads crashing into disks or motor bearing failure. Those aren't generally recoverable without lots of cost.
Moral of the story: if you want privacy, don't make bomb threats.
For me it was the shooting style and scene-to-scene tension that made it enjoyable. The episodes usually ran at a leisurely pace like a movie, with time given to take in a setting. "Darkness Falls" from the first season is a good example.
Or consider this: by whitelisting software which works at the kernel level, that code is basically allowed to become an unofficial part of your OS. Fine, except that the code is not available to anyone to thoroughly audit for vulnerabilities or release patches for.
What is this "web radio" you speak of, and does it run on port 80?
And I am not happy wading through page after page of web search results with nothing but hits to crappy half-page-per-entry blogs. Adding -blog to the search terms doesn't help much either. I want my web-consisting-of-web-pages back (you know, the kind that you spend a few days polishing before you add to your website)?)
In Soviet Russia, YOU sue the RIAA.. er... in America, YOU the RIAA sues... nevermind.
Wait, you're saying Windows isn't a virus?!?
I'm especially skeptical about their claim that "The new plant will be online in 2008". Is that the new Internet 3.0 I've been hearing about?
Where will I store my eyeglasses and magnifiers in the future?!?