Maybe I am reading too much into it, but my experience show that this would be typical double meaning often used by covert operations.
That and the fact that they chose MD5 (which seems odd... unless they're trying for a collision) would seem to suggest that there might be another, possibly more naturally worded, phrase with the same MD5 sum. This phrase could have been carefully crafted as 'cover.'
for example, what do they mean when they say that the only macroscopic force is electromagnetic? In fact, all the forces you do experience in everyday life actually are electromagnetic in nature...
Many scientists need to realize that their goals, ideals, and ethical standards may not be universal.
Is that insightful? I think most scientists are acutely aware that their perspectives are not universal. I don't know what you expect them to do about it. Lower their standards?
I could be wrong about this, but I think the fast neutrons generated by Farnsworth-type devices will go right through anything this guy is likely to have in his apartment. They won't hang around long enough to create significant amounts of heavy (i.e. radioactive) isotopes,
I would agree with this part.
and the flux won't be intense enough to do any damage while the machine is turned on.
This part might be an unwarranted assumption. Neutron radiation can cause adverse biological effects at much lower levels than alpha or beta radiation.
I remember the ones that start with a BASIC one-liner that loaded the rest of the code into RAM.
10 FOR A = 828 TO 2249 : READ B : POKE A, B : NEXT
20 DATA 32, 155, 220, 165, 100, 133, 252, 165
30 DATA 101, 133, 251, 160, 0, 177, 251, 168
And I remember making a typo at about line 345. And line 502... then after hours of mind-numbing data entry and error hunting, the sweet reward of playing... Snake.
This taught me attention to detail, stubbornness, and being satisfied with low expectations, all of which have served me well in the field of system administration.
I only looked at the top link: the lightweight multitouch netbook. So I'm really sorry if I've offended your sensibilities. Here, maybe this will help.
That's like asking whether a sloth can outrun a tortoise. It probably can, but what does it take to convince people that there are a lot of other, probably better, options?
Microwave ovens are at 2.4 GHz, the oscillating frequency of a water molecule. That's why they heat things.
??? That's simply not true. Dielectric heating will work at any frequency, on any polar molecule. Water is an example of a molecule with a strong dipolar moment, which is why it heats more than other molecules with weaker dipole moments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating
There are a number of scientists who disagree with you. Either way, this is the sort of thing that should have been studied further BEFORE rolling out these things to hundreds of airports.
If you're concerned about your exposure to terahertz radiation, you'd better hide in a cave because it's everywhere. Don't go anywhere near a microwave oven. It's less energetic than visible light radiation, so keep all the lights off. Watch out for that high energy TV remote too, that thing's spitting out infrared, for God's sake. Won't somebody think of the children?
The only studies I've seen which showed any medical effect at all from radiation at frequencies lower than UV was if the intensity was high enough to actually heat the tissue (like in a microwave oven). It is POSSIBLE to damage tissue with low frequency radiation if the intensity is high enough (through heating), but you're not going to see that kind of intensity from a terahertz airport scanner.
Now, X-rays are a whole different kettle of fish. There is some risk of DNA damage from X-rays at any intensity. Sure, the X-ray scanners are putting out far less radiation than the average person gets from even just background radiation, but people get cancer from background radiation too.
I strongly doubt millimeter wavelength radiation (somewhere around microwave/low IR) is going to cause any problems unless it's at such high magnitude that it actually causes tissue heating. These scanners probably operate at 1-10nm. Very high energy. Even at very low intensity, X-ray radiation imposes some risk of DNA damage.
But I'd probably be more concerned about cataracts in frequent flyers and airport security employees.
http://lowdose.energy.gov/abstracts/kleiman_cataract.aspx
Summary and title are misleading; article refers to the smartphone data service explicitly, not DSL/FiOS internet users.
Mod parent up. Corporation bashing is fun and all, but get your goddamn bashing right.
No, no, no. Slashdot gets more page views, and thus more revenue, from posting inflammatory headlines and writeups. Besides, actually reading the article is so unfashionable. We should be able to count on knee-jerk responses, and responses to those responses cycling out of control with no basis in reality. It's the economic engine behind every successful news aggregator.
Just like their profits have been?
Newsflash: prices have almost nothing to do with costs. If Microsoft thinks consumers will accept a price increase without reducing purchase volume, we will get a price increase whether there's a new tax or not.
Yeah, if video games actually influenced real-life behavior, all of us from the Pac-Man generation would be sitting in dark rooms, listening to rhythmic music and popping pills.
Cool story, bro.
Leaves out the minor details like people in those neighborhoods needing to actually use 520 themselves once in a while, and the fact that on one side of the bridge it's already three lanes right up to the bridge, and on the other side it's up on pillars almost right up to I-5.... but it's a cool story anyway.
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Were these European swallows, or African swallows?
That and the fact that they chose MD5 (which seems odd... unless they're trying for a collision) would seem to suggest that there might be another, possibly more naturally worded, phrase with the same MD5 sum. This phrase could have been carefully crafted as 'cover.'
With the exception of gravity, of course
So far all I see are strawman arguments. Maybe you could be a little more specific?
Is that insightful? I think most scientists are acutely aware that their perspectives are not universal. I don't know what you expect them to do about it. Lower their standards?
I would agree with this part.
This part might be an unwarranted assumption. Neutron radiation can cause adverse biological effects at much lower levels than alpha or beta radiation.
That wasn't an actual person you were responding to, it was one of the mindless "commercial software BAAAD" bots that inhabits Slashdot.
"What I'd do if I had 2.5 million dollars"
-Lawrence, Office Space
I remember the ones that start with a BASIC one-liner that loaded the rest of the code into RAM.
10 FOR A = 828 TO 2249 : READ B : POKE A, B : NEXT
20 DATA 32, 155, 220, 165, 100, 133, 252, 165
30 DATA 101, 133, 251, 160, 0, 177, 251, 168
And I remember making a typo at about line 345. And line 502... then after hours of mind-numbing data entry and error hunting, the sweet reward of playing... Snake.
This taught me attention to detail, stubbornness, and being satisfied with low expectations, all of which have served me well in the field of system administration.
But this will definitely put the last nail in the Apple Newton's coffin.
I only looked at the top link: the lightweight multitouch netbook. So I'm really sorry if I've offended your sensibilities. Here, maybe this will help.
That's like asking whether a sloth can outrun a tortoise. It probably can, but what does it take to convince people that there are a lot of other, probably better, options?
So, you're saying you'd support a towelie ban?
??? That's simply not true. Dielectric heating will work at any frequency, on any polar molecule. Water is an example of a molecule with a strong dipolar moment, which is why it heats more than other molecules with weaker dipole moments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating
If you're concerned about your exposure to terahertz radiation, you'd better hide in a cave because it's everywhere. Don't go anywhere near a microwave oven. It's less energetic than visible light radiation, so keep all the lights off. Watch out for that high energy TV remote too, that thing's spitting out infrared, for God's sake. Won't somebody think of the children?
The only studies I've seen which showed any medical effect at all from radiation at frequencies lower than UV was if the intensity was high enough to actually heat the tissue (like in a microwave oven). It is POSSIBLE to damage tissue with low frequency radiation if the intensity is high enough (through heating), but you're not going to see that kind of intensity from a terahertz airport scanner.
Now, X-rays are a whole different kettle of fish. There is some risk of DNA damage from X-rays at any intensity. Sure, the X-ray scanners are putting out far less radiation than the average person gets from even just background radiation, but people get cancer from background radiation too.
I strongly doubt millimeter wavelength radiation (somewhere around microwave/low IR) is going to cause any problems unless it's at such high magnitude that it actually causes tissue heating. These scanners probably operate at 1-10nm. Very high energy. Even at very low intensity, X-ray radiation imposes some risk of DNA damage. But I'd probably be more concerned about cataracts in frequent flyers and airport security employees. http://lowdose.energy.gov/abstracts/kleiman_cataract.aspx
No, no, no. Slashdot gets more page views, and thus more revenue, from posting inflammatory headlines and writeups. Besides, actually reading the article is so unfashionable. We should be able to count on knee-jerk responses, and responses to those responses cycling out of control with no basis in reality. It's the economic engine behind every successful news aggregator.
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Just like their profits have been? Newsflash: prices have almost nothing to do with costs. If Microsoft thinks consumers will accept a price increase without reducing purchase volume, we will get a price increase whether there's a new tax or not.
No.
Yeah, if video games actually influenced real-life behavior, all of us from the Pac-Man generation would be sitting in dark rooms, listening to rhythmic music and popping pills.
Cool story, bro. Leaves out the minor details like people in those neighborhoods needing to actually use 520 themselves once in a while, and the fact that on one side of the bridge it's already three lanes right up to the bridge, and on the other side it's up on pillars almost right up to I-5.... but it's a cool story anyway.
Needed more help fixing all the problems with the iPhone 3.1 upgrade.
Next thing you know, the story will be picked up by the Mainstream MSM Media.
Totally misleading. When I saw that "reinventing the internet" phrase, for a minute there I thought they were gonna start changing my tubes around.