I'm not particularly worried about RF radiation affecting my health, but how can ubiquitous RF radiation possibly be strong enough to power a smartphone, while being so weak that it can't possibly affect our health?
Please don't make me have to start walking around in a faraday cage again.
I haven't RTA, but the summary says absolutely nothing about smart phones. It is talking about mobile phones. They have much lower power requirements, especially if you make one with almost no screen. Radio Waves are already almost everywhere though, and they don't cause us any harm that we know of.
The problem is... a decade from now there will probably be fewer radio and over-the-air TV stations. These phones are going to be powered by a dying media.
Talking to a computer may be a good way to enter the chemical structure of transparent aluminum, though.
It always amused me that Scotty, who had apparently never touched a keyboard and mouse (let alone would have had no familiarity with the software used in the 1980s) was able to pick up that keyboard after learning voice wouldn't work, and smash away and within 5 seconds he had come up with the blue-print for transparent aluminum despite not having any knowledge of touch-typing or the software being used.
It's like when hackers on TV shows come across a network they've never seen before... smash a few keys and they're instantly connected to everything on the network and instantly know how to operate it all.
I think my parents used to think he was funny back in the 80s.
He'd have a few funny moments and a lot of dull moments. It goes back to the time when if you only had 4 or 5 TV networks and no cable TV, you pick the best of the bad.
Now you have unlimited instant streaming choices on Netflix and others, I can't imagine too many people picking Letterman over the other options.
Voice is great on something like a Google Home or Alexa where you want an answer but not sitting in front of a keyboard.
Although then, voice recognition technology still sucks eggs. Normally takes about 4 or 5 tries to get Alexa to understand what you ask her. I'm sure with time voice recognition will eventually be acceptable, but it's still in it's infancy.
If you have a keyboard infront of you, I can't imagine anyone not preferring to use that, it's much more accurate... more private... and quieter. Can you imagine an office full of people talking to their computers concurrently?
I live in a rural city in South Carolina and I can say first hand that there is total election fraud going on in this state. I was an election observer during the 2016 Presidential election - that is - for about 20 minutes.
From the get-go, election officials repeatedly turned away minority voters for "technical issues" with their voter registrations. They only provided provisional ballots to those who absolutely demanded them. Not a single white person was turned away or had "technical issues" during the time I was observing, which lasted until I was escorted out by police for trying to bring this to the attention of the higher ups. I was threatened with charges for interfering with an election and given a trespass warning until the end of the day.
South Carolina is corrupt through and through. It would probably be a blue state were it not for corrupt election officials in the rural counties making sure that whites and republicans won.
It's not just the rural counties of South Carolina. I live in a fairly urban area that is over 50% minorities. Our wait time to vote in a Presidential election is typically 3hrs. Never enough voting booths. Lots of people don't vote because the wait is too long.
People on the other side of town where it is mainly white and affluent tell me how they were in and out in under 10 minutes.
Why does one side of town have 10 minute waits every election and the other side of town has 2-3 hour waits to vote? I don't believe it's a coincidence.
Really? Because I see an awful lot of people driving their big SUVs with + 12" clearance in my neighborhood at 2 mph, tenderly crawling over speed bumps as if they were driving a 2015 Corvette. It's kinda funny.
Most SUVs are for show. The "Sport" is just in the appearance, they're actually less practical for rough conditions than your average car because of their higher centre of gravity. Depending on the SUV going slow over the speed bumps, a lot of them probably NEED to go slow.
I had a tire blowout, which I hadn't noticed until I saw my tire go flying off into the field
Your tire blew out, and you noticed NO difference in the handling or performance of your vehicle, until you saw the tire fly off your vehicle?
I briefly drove a Pontiac LeMans (I would call it the Pontiac LeMon). The last few decades of the Pontiac were a really bad decade for Pontiacs. They were so bad, they ALWAYS felt like you were driving with a flat tyre. No car brand ever had a steeper fall from grace than Pontiac that once upon a time made some nice cars.
That's basically how I still do all my road trips. Get out the paper maps!
I almost never use GPS on my phone because I have very little data plan. (actually I have a decent data plan, but I share it with my wife, and she uses 90% of it up in the first week of every month).
It's nice to get out of a bind, but if I'm planning a trip, I do it the same way I always have. I look at a map (nowadays on a computer) before I leave. Memorise my route- and leave.
If I have to make more than a dozen turns on unfamiliar roads, I'll print off, or hand write the directions down. You'll be surprised how you learn routes better when you're not relying on GPS. Next time you make the trip you have it committed in memory instead of having to look it up again.
They have been doing this in Japan and some northern European countries for at least a decade. They paint little pyramid looking things on the road that cause drivers to slow down. It's an odd feeling, you know they are just painted on but feel like you want to slow down anyway for some reason.
I wonder if fake speed bumps are as effective.
I imagine they may work great if it's not a road you frequently travel, but surely, over time you get used to them and learn to ignore them.
I don't slow down in my pickup truck for speed bumps. I think the effectiveness of fake speed bumps depends greatly on what kind of suspension your car has and how little you give a fuck.
There are nowhere near as many pickups or truck-based SUVs on the road in Britain compared to the US. Even in my old pickup though I would slow down for speed bumps- you can still screw your truck up on one of them if you hit it wrong and at speed. Trucks may be designed for off-roading but they're not designed for off-roading at 40mph against rock hard surfaces.
It may be a cliche, but I have indeed seen a good many ads like that per IT. One insider who admitted to "playing the game" said he simply lied to get jobs like that. But those kinds of people will encourage HR and PHB's to do it again, which is probably why the practice persists.
I remember when the.Net framework was brand new (like a year or two old, tops) seeing jobs advertised that had requirements of 10 years of experience working with "C#.Net".
I'm not a lawyer so I couldn't accurately say if it is, or isn't illegal.
However, I will say I don't think writing Malware per se is necessarily an arrest-able crime. Unless it impacts someone negatively.
If you write Malware for research purposes, and it stays locked in your network. No-one can argue that that should be punishable.
If you write Malware and that Malware impacts another human being (intentionally or not) YES you shoulder some of the responsibility and should be held accountable.
It's not illegal to have a vicious dog, but if your vicious dog escapes and mauls a child; you're partially responsible.
Because women don't lie about being on the pill? I got some bad news for you.
A responsible adult (man or woman) should be able to take control of their own birth control. They should never have to rely on the other party doing their part- or be in a position where the other party could be misleading them.
Doesn't matter if you're man or woman, it's much better to have your destiny in your own hands.
Sounds about the same as the female pill regarding mood swings and depression, or altered personality. Anyone who has been with someone before and after they started taking birth control will know what I'm talking about.
My wife was on various hormone based birth control when I met her. She blamed it on all sorts of crap, this that and the other.
She hasn't been on it for 4 or 5 years now. No change- she just finds other things to blame stuff on. I'm not saying some women don't get impacted by them; I'm just saying, some women blame problems on the pills that are really just their own personalities.
Of course, the best solution would be for society to realize that it's women who get pregnant, not men, and that it's obviously their body, their choice, and therefore their responsibility, but society doesn't like the idea that women should be responsible for their body.
I know you're just trolling... but for the record. Damn right, if you get someone pregnant you're 50% responsible and better be prepared to take ownership of that child.
If a woman tricks you into getting her pregnant that would suck really bad. I'd much rather have control over my own destiny than leave it up to someone else.
It' s been practiced for thousands of years. I do it. Just press at the base of the perineum just before ejaculation and voila. Orgasm with no ejaculation.
Yeah... and you know that is far from fool proof... right? There can even be sperm in your pre-ejaculate. You can get someone pregnant without even having an orgasm.
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I'm not particularly worried about RF radiation affecting my health, but how can ubiquitous RF radiation possibly be strong enough to power a smartphone, while being so weak that it can't possibly affect our health?
Please don't make me have to start walking around in a faraday cage again.
I haven't RTA, but the summary says absolutely nothing about smart phones. It is talking about mobile phones. They have much lower power requirements, especially if you make one with almost no screen. Radio Waves are already almost everywhere though, and they don't cause us any harm that we know of.
The problem is... a decade from now there will probably be fewer radio and over-the-air TV stations. These phones are going to be powered by a dying media.
Gee.. Their necks must be awfully stiff at the end of the day. Looking down all the time.
That's why there is free health-care to take care of all the bad necks.
Talking to a computer may be a good way to enter the chemical structure of transparent aluminum, though.
It always amused me that Scotty, who had apparently never touched a keyboard and mouse (let alone would have had no familiarity with the software used in the 1980s) was able to pick up that keyboard after learning voice wouldn't work, and smash away and within 5 seconds he had come up with the blue-print for transparent aluminum despite not having any knowledge of touch-typing or the software being used.
It's like when hackers on TV shows come across a network they've never seen before... smash a few keys and they're instantly connected to everything on the network and instantly know how to operate it all.
I think my parents used to think he was funny back in the 80s.
He'd have a few funny moments and a lot of dull moments. It goes back to the time when if you only had 4 or 5 TV networks and no cable TV, you pick the best of the bad.
Now you have unlimited instant streaming choices on Netflix and others, I can't imagine too many people picking Letterman over the other options.
Voice is great on something like a Google Home or Alexa where you want an answer but not sitting in front of a keyboard.
Although then, voice recognition technology still sucks eggs. Normally takes about 4 or 5 tries to get Alexa to understand what you ask her. I'm sure with time voice recognition will eventually be acceptable, but it's still in it's infancy.
If you have a keyboard infront of you, I can't imagine anyone not preferring to use that, it's much more accurate... more private... and quieter. Can you imagine an office full of people talking to their computers concurrently?
Watching video sucks when I want the news quickly.
Indeed. I always skip articles that have videos embedded. I can read a lot quicker than a video plays.
I live in a rural city in South Carolina and I can say first hand that there is total election fraud going on in this state. I was an election observer during the 2016 Presidential election - that is - for about 20 minutes.
From the get-go, election officials repeatedly turned away minority voters for "technical issues" with their voter registrations. They only provided provisional ballots to those who absolutely demanded them. Not a single white person was turned away or had "technical issues" during the time I was observing, which lasted until I was escorted out by police for trying to bring this to the attention of the higher ups. I was threatened with charges for interfering with an election and given a trespass warning until the end of the day.
South Carolina is corrupt through and through. It would probably be a blue state were it not for corrupt election officials in the rural counties making sure that whites and republicans won.
It's not just the rural counties of South Carolina. I live in a fairly urban area that is over 50% minorities. Our wait time to vote in a Presidential election is typically 3hrs. Never enough voting booths. Lots of people don't vote because the wait is too long.
People on the other side of town where it is mainly white and affluent tell me how they were in and out in under 10 minutes.
Why does one side of town have 10 minute waits every election and the other side of town has 2-3 hour waits to vote? I don't believe it's a coincidence.
Really? Because I see an awful lot of people driving their big SUVs with + 12" clearance in my neighborhood at 2 mph, tenderly crawling over speed bumps as if they were driving a 2015 Corvette. It's kinda funny.
Most SUVs are for show. The "Sport" is just in the appearance, they're actually less practical for rough conditions than your average car because of their higher centre of gravity. Depending on the SUV going slow over the speed bumps, a lot of them probably NEED to go slow.
It is because in Britain they are called Lorry.
Not pick-up trucks, They're called pick-up trucks. The larger vehicles called trucks in the US are what are called lorries in the UK.
Your tire blew out, and you noticed NO difference in the handling or performance of your vehicle, until you saw the tire fly off your vehicle?
I briefly drove a Pontiac LeMans (I would call it the Pontiac LeMon). The last few decades of the Pontiac were a really bad decade for Pontiacs. They were so bad, they ALWAYS felt like you were driving with a flat tyre. No car brand ever had a steeper fall from grace than Pontiac that once upon a time made some nice cars.
That's basically how I still do all my road trips. Get out the paper maps!
I almost never use GPS on my phone because I have very little data plan. (actually I have a decent data plan, but I share it with my wife, and she uses 90% of it up in the first week of every month).
It's nice to get out of a bind, but if I'm planning a trip, I do it the same way I always have. I look at a map (nowadays on a computer) before I leave. Memorise my route- and leave.
If I have to make more than a dozen turns on unfamiliar roads, I'll print off, or hand write the directions down. You'll be surprised how you learn routes better when you're not relying on GPS. Next time you make the trip you have it committed in memory instead of having to look it up again.
They have been doing this in Japan and some northern European countries for at least a decade. They paint little pyramid looking things on the road that cause drivers to slow down. It's an odd feeling, you know they are just painted on but feel like you want to slow down anyway for some reason.
I wonder if fake speed bumps are as effective.
I imagine they may work great if it's not a road you frequently travel, but surely, over time you get used to them and learn to ignore them.
I don't slow down in my pickup truck for speed bumps. I think the effectiveness of fake speed bumps depends greatly on what kind of suspension your car has and how little you give a fuck.
There are nowhere near as many pickups or truck-based SUVs on the road in Britain compared to the US. Even in my old pickup though I would slow down for speed bumps- you can still screw your truck up on one of them if you hit it wrong and at speed. Trucks may be designed for off-roading but they're not designed for off-roading at 40mph against rock hard surfaces.
What's a 'Cisco Meraki'? What's a 'cloud managed IT service'? Can we get these described with real words, and not marketing babble?
I don't know, my eyes read it as "Cisco Meerkat" for a split second when I first read the headline.
That's why you don't trust members of the mongoose family to look after your data.
What if Amazon secretly own Wal-Mart.
If I had to select somebody to run something like this, my first choice would be Bill Nye, without a doubt.
My second choice would be Stephen Hawking.
Why not Al Gore, he invented the telescope.
It may be a cliche, but I have indeed seen a good many ads like that per IT. One insider who admitted to "playing the game" said he simply lied to get jobs like that. But those kinds of people will encourage HR and PHB's to do it again, which is probably why the practice persists.
I remember when the .Net framework was brand new (like a year or two old, tops) seeing jobs advertised that had requirements of 10 years of experience working with "C#.Net".
I'm not a lawyer so I couldn't accurately say if it is, or isn't illegal.
However, I will say I don't think writing Malware per se is necessarily an arrest-able crime. Unless it impacts someone negatively.
If you write Malware for research purposes, and it stays locked in your network. No-one can argue that that should be punishable.
If you write Malware and that Malware impacts another human being (intentionally or not) YES you shoulder some of the responsibility and should be held accountable.
It's not illegal to have a vicious dog, but if your vicious dog escapes and mauls a child; you're partially responsible.
By the same standard, Obama would get life sentence for his involvement in Operation Fast and Furious.
Yeah, and Vin Diesel along with him.
Because women don't lie about being on the pill? I got some bad news for you.
A responsible adult (man or woman) should be able to take control of their own birth control. They should never have to rely on the other party doing their part- or be in a position where the other party could be misleading them.
Doesn't matter if you're man or woman, it's much better to have your destiny in your own hands.
Sounds about the same as the female pill regarding mood swings and depression, or altered personality. Anyone who has been with someone before and after they started taking birth control will know what I'm talking about.
My wife was on various hormone based birth control when I met her. She blamed it on all sorts of crap, this that and the other.
She hasn't been on it for 4 or 5 years now. No change- she just finds other things to blame stuff on. I'm not saying some women don't get impacted by them; I'm just saying, some women blame problems on the pills that are really just their own personalities.
Of course, the best solution would be for society to realize that it's women who get pregnant, not men, and that it's obviously their body, their choice, and therefore their responsibility, but society doesn't like the idea that women should be responsible for their body.
I know you're just trolling... but for the record. Damn right, if you get someone pregnant you're 50% responsible and better be prepared to take ownership of that child.
If a woman tricks you into getting her pregnant that would suck really bad. I'd much rather have control over my own destiny than leave it up to someone else.
It' s been practiced for thousands of years. I do it. Just press at the base of the perineum just before ejaculation and voila. Orgasm with no ejaculation.
Yeah... and you know that is far from fool proof... right? There can even be sperm in your pre-ejaculate. You can get someone pregnant without even having an orgasm.
Perhaps male contraception was a viable issue to address during the boomer generation.
Today, the divorce rate has never been higher.
Divorce rates peaked in the 80's and have been steadily falling for decades now.
"The joke in the field is that the male contraceptive has been five years away for the last 40 years"
Did anyone else immediately think of nuclear fusion?
Nuclear Fusion seems a bit heavy handed just to achieve a male contraceptive.