I'm not an RF expert but I am a physicist. As far as I know radiation can damage your cells in two ways:
a) Direct heating
b) Ionization
The latter one is easy to dismiss by elementary physics. Unlike in the gamma radiation, the photons of the cellphone microwave radiation simply don't carry enough energy to damage the DNA strands. Hell, microwaves pack less punch per photon than the infrared (heat) radiation!
The heating argument is more difficult to deal with. In general, the power of the RF field is again far too weak to heat your brain significantly (=more than the temperature varies naturally). However, if several fields overlap in a certain way (a standing wave forms inside your skull), then I guess there might be a possibility for an interference "hotspot" to form. Again I think this is very unlikely. Even a small head movement or the movement of the radiation source will change the geometry and thus the interference inside your head.
Quite frankly I am surprised by the anti-cellphone mentality in this thread. Most of it seems to come from experiences with annoying cellphone users. However, that's not a problem with the cellphones. That's a cultural problem. People simply have not learnt the proper etiquette yet.
Where I live the cellphones have practically replaced the landline phones. If the adaptation of the cellphones continues at this rate, there will soon be a one cellphone per citizen -- and that includes the minors. When the use is this widespread, the people in general know how to switch their phones to silent mode for meetings, movies and concerts. Having your cellphone ring, for instance, in the middle of a movie is socially extremely bad behaviour. If you start talking on your phone in the theatre, you will get thrown out -- either by the theatre staff or by the rest of the audience.
So, in essence, what Bush says is: "USA does not support this kind of research".
How do you think this will reflect on the funding in general? Do you think the venture capitalists, for instance, will see this as an opportunity? I don't think so. Too much bad publicity. Hence, this incredibly promising field of science will be blacklisted and left without finding.
The Bush cabinet is the most anti-science government in the history of the USA. That's the professional opinion over here in the Europe and the rest of the world. Yeah, cloning and genetic manipulation can be a horrific tool if abused. However, banning it won't prevent the abuse. It will only stop the research that will protect us from the abuse.
The USA is still the scientific capital of the world. You deal with this! Don't disappoint us.
However, in high school I could at least make molten metal fly.;-) A rigged high voltage experiment for which I got a permission from the teacher...
Please note that I wasn't trying to seriously dis you chemists. I might have done that few years ago, but not today. If anything I was criticising the high school chemistry education as I remember it.
The opinion - understood and respected the world over
Yes. Democracy is indeed the tyranny of the majority. Popular opinion does not, however, morally legitimize any of it. Witness the segregation laws in the US or - more recently - in South Africa.
What steps are being taken to ensure that foreigners (both physically and culturally) are aware of the rules and traditions here.
Well, that's really the problem with traditions, isn't it. "We"'ve got ours and "they"'ve got theirs. The stage for an unnecessary conflict is set. Fundamentally it comes down to Being Right; something I don't believe in.
Yet, traditions aren't really democratic. Go back a few decades in any western society and you've got traditions telling you to shun people who are born out of wedlock or even have sex with someone else than their husband/wife. I've got a grandmother who never fails to remind me how wrong it is for a guy over 30 years old like me to be a single.
Traditions are a part of the "human condition" problem. Not a solution to it. Too bad we cannot ban traditions.
There is a difference between being racist, and not wanting loads and loads of people from particular parts of the world
And that is?
What exactly entitles you to live and work in the country in which you just happened to be born but not someone else? Yeah, they might take your job but that's beside the point. Why should you have a priority for a job?
But why study chemistry when you can study its superset, physics?-)
But seriously, I got fed up with chemistry in high school (and that was over ten years ago) just because of those lame "experiments" in which you change a colour of the liquid or - even worse - something intangible like it's pH. Wohoo!
What the chemistry classes need are explosions and fireworks like thermite charges. This is what I would have liked to see back them.
I AM THE GOLEM! THIS IS MY FIFTH DIMENSION! I WILL SEND YOU THE FIFTH DIMENSION CONSTITUTION. FROM THIS DAY ON, I WILL BE RIDING AND SURFING ON YOUR CYBERWIND!
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Glitter was jailed for four months in 1999 for downloading thousands of pornographic images of children from the internet.
He is the subject of a Cambodian police inquiry after he allegedly failed to declare that he has been living in the capital, Phnom Penh for seven months.
Police seized his passport on Sunday after he was detained for questioning and later released.
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Yeah, and I heard a story of a farmer who found a potato that looked exactly like Jesus. Creepy...
I'm not an RF expert but I am a physicist. As far as I know radiation can damage your cells in two ways:
a) Direct heating
b) Ionization
The latter one is easy to dismiss by elementary physics. Unlike in the gamma radiation, the photons of the cellphone microwave radiation simply don't carry enough energy to damage the DNA strands. Hell, microwaves pack less punch per photon than the infrared (heat) radiation!
The heating argument is more difficult to deal with. In general, the power of the RF field is again far too weak to heat your brain significantly (=more than the temperature varies naturally). However, if several fields overlap in a certain way (a standing wave forms inside your skull), then I guess there might be a possibility for an interference "hotspot" to form. Again I think this is very unlikely. Even a small head movement or the movement of the radiation source will change the geometry and thus the interference inside your head.
Quite frankly I am surprised by the anti-cellphone mentality in this thread. Most of it seems to come from experiences with annoying cellphone users. However, that's not a problem with the cellphones. That's a cultural problem. People simply have not learnt the proper etiquette yet.
Where I live the cellphones have practically replaced the landline phones. If the adaptation of the cellphones continues at this rate, there will soon be a one cellphone per citizen -- and that includes the minors. When the use is this widespread, the people in general know how to switch their phones to silent mode for meetings, movies and concerts. Having your cellphone ring, for instance, in the middle of a movie is socially extremely bad behaviour. If you start talking on your phone in the theatre, you will get thrown out -- either by the theatre staff or by the rest of the audience.
For instance, compiling Linux on a 10 krpm SCSI drive and a 7200 rpm IDE drive is a no-contest.
It will not happen if the federal government is actively against such reseach.
How do you think this will reflect on the funding in general? Do you think the venture capitalists, for instance, will see this as an opportunity? I don't think so. Too much bad publicity. Hence, this incredibly promising field of science will be blacklisted and left without finding.
The Bush cabinet is the most anti-science government in the history of the USA. That's the professional opinion over here in the Europe and the rest of the world. Yeah, cloning and genetic manipulation can be a horrific tool if abused. However, banning it won't prevent the abuse. It will only stop the research that will protect us from the abuse.
The USA is still the scientific capital of the world. You deal with this! Don't disappoint us.
Now that I think about it, it must have been the teacher and the regulations.
I suspect the "safety" regulations came into force earlier in the chemistry class.
Oh god... please explain yourself. ;-)
An excellent point.
However, in high school I could at least make molten metal fly. ;-) A rigged high voltage experiment for which I got a permission from the teacher...
Please note that I wasn't trying to seriously dis you chemists. I might have done that few years ago, but not today. If anything I was criticising the high school chemistry education as I remember it.
I could concur with that if you had written: "i am living here".
I consider myself a socialist and a non-nationalist to the extreme. I am always prodding for a debate -- not the least with myself.
Yes. Democracy is indeed the tyranny of the majority. Popular opinion does not, however, morally legitimize any of it. Witness the segregation laws in the US or - more recently - in South Africa.
What steps are being taken to ensure that foreigners (both physically and culturally) are aware of the rules and traditions here.
Well, that's really the problem with traditions, isn't it. "We"'ve got ours and "they"'ve got theirs. The stage for an unnecessary conflict is set. Fundamentally it comes down to Being Right; something I don't believe in.
Yet, traditions aren't really democratic. Go back a few decades in any western society and you've got traditions telling you to shun people who are born out of wedlock or even have sex with someone else than their husband/wife. I've got a grandmother who never fails to remind me how wrong it is for a guy over 30 years old like me to be a single.
Traditions are a part of the "human condition" problem. Not a solution to it. Too bad we cannot ban traditions.
And that is?
What exactly entitles you to live and work in the country in which you just happened to be born but not someone else? Yeah, they might take your job but that's beside the point. Why should you have a priority for a job?
But seriously, I got fed up with chemistry in high school (and that was over ten years ago) just because of those lame "experiments" in which you change a colour of the liquid or - even worse - something intangible like it's pH. Wohoo!
What the chemistry classes need are explosions and fireworks like thermite charges. This is what I would have liked to see back them.
I agree.
I ignore your pitiful anonyomus coward demands.
So far there has been no comment from Linus or Alan Cox.
Take a laptop with WLAN to the crapper and you're set for some serious crapflooding...
It just isn't right.
Correcting optics, that is.
Wouldn't it be much easier to build telescopes with correcting on Earth and not in space?
It's BSD that's dying.
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Glitter was jailed for four months in 1999 for downloading thousands of pornographic images of children from the internet.
He is the subject of a Cambodian police inquiry after he allegedly failed to declare that he has been living in the capital, Phnom Penh for seven months.
Police seized his passport on Sunday after he was detained for questioning and later released.
I you wish you all libertarians and Ayn Rand disciples a happy eve of 1st May for tomorrow is the festival of the working class.
Well, that was a short article.