While this whole topic is pretty funny, there is a military/riot police application for this and in the works. They target rioters with an RFID gun/projective and tag you. Later they block off an area and the paddy wagon comes by with an RFID scanner and scoop up those unfortunate folks who have been tagged. Scope with digital image matched with the RFID tag number and you are toast.
With some of the tags you'll be picking them out of your flesh with a knife to get them out....
I accept your appology and know very well what radiation is since I have an MS in Radiation Medicine and am certified by the American Board of Health Physics. The stories posted on the "censored" site talk about he "appearance" of non-depleted uranium at the sites where DU penetrators were fired and try to "blame" this radioactivity on the DU. This is highly illogical and impossible.
Depleted uranium is much more chemically toxic to the kidneys and body way before it ever becomes a problem due to radiation exposure. Yet all their studies based on anecdotal "evidence" point to what they consider to be radiation effects, which of course cannot be. The radiation hazard from DU is minimal in comparison to the chemical toxicity. And no chemical toxicity has been found in these areas either.
If there were radiation effects to be seen from the DU in Kosovo, Afganastan, and Iraq we'd be seeing much higher cancer rates in areas where the background radiation (due to elevation-solar radiation and naturally occuring radioative materials in the earth) is higher and nuclear industy workers would have much higher incidence of cancer, etc. Guess what? We don't.
Lets compare the environmental damage and toxins that exposed the troups and populations by torching the oil wells in Iraq and Kuwait. Not even close there as compared to the small amount of DU deposited across the country side.
Lets not confuse anti-nuclear and anti-war groups propoganda with anything "radioactive" being harmful with science.
While war is a tragic situation, I'd rather be exposed to a little DU dust than get hit with the DU penetrator itself. That my friend is lethal.
The project Censored site it nothing more than a compilation of stories which have been reported as censored by people who haven't a clue about what they are talking about. Let take for example a story about the "Radiation Poisoning" of the Afganastani people, and are that is my studied, both undergraduate and graduate, and professionally certified area of expertise.
This story is filled with "Junk science" that every peer reviewed journal has discredited. They claimed the same nonsense in Bosnia due to our use of depleted uranium, and these were all found to be false. Depleted uranium is just that "depleted" it cannot become "non-depleted" and its presence does not cause levels of "non-depleted" uranium in the population. I've seen the studies, the data, and have had close friends sent on missions to take samples, perform laboratory analysis, and draw scientific conclusions. None of which agree with the pseudo science spawned by the activists who do not follow chain of custody sample collection and perform substandard laboratory analysis.
These stories are hardly "censored" in fact the study of this data is out in the public forum, its just that the people trying to prove their point of radiation poisoning have been entirely discredited in the scientfic arena. The solution? Claim "censorship" and a coverup to draw media attention because you can't prove your point with science. So revert to inuendo and distortion.
So very sad.
Another twist to this story is the fact that Verzon has offered news.com article5 Billion in an effort to halt the spectrum swap to its competitor Nextel. This is in comparison to the only $ 850 Million that Nextel offered to help reband its network, and pay for retuning/equipment of public safety systems and others whom its towers interfere with.
Why does Nextel want the spectrum at 1.9 GHz? It's because this is where it plans to roll out its future high speed technoloy (Flash OFDM) that it is currently piloting in the Raleigh-Durham metro area using hardware from Flarion. This spectrum will allow Nextel a huge advantage when it launches this service nationwide, essentially allowing it to jump right into and dominate the markets that Verizon (EVDO) and AT&T-Cingular(EDGE) are currently trying to capture. Company propaganda "With burst rate for the downlink is 3 Megabits per second (Mbps), and 900 Kilobits per second (Kbps) for the uplink. Typical user experience is 1 Mbps in the downlink, and 300 to 500 Kbps in the uplink, with average latency below 50 milliseconds."
I beta tested EVDO for Verizon and when let me tell you its impressive. Nextel's foray into this space is serious and Verizon and other carriers want to prevent this from happening.
The devices are very cool. You sign in with your voice (the system stores a voice print that authenticates you). It knows who else is logged in to the system and can locate them if you assign locations to the AP's (big brother calling). It also ties in to your pbx system so you can dial the phone,"call 222-222-1342". Has a series of voice commands-voice recognition. You can setup groups and do group calls. A hospital is using it for paging/communications system in house.
Devices are small and can be clipped on or hung on your neck with a lanyard. Can be used by multiple people. If the battery runs low, you sign off, drop the old one back in the charger. Pick up a new one and sign in and off you go.
You can set it to "not disturb" you. And it tells you who is calling first (screen those calls) before you answer. Much more intelligence built into the server, this device has great potential...
Now to program them to order chinese food for me automatically....
Wow, I thought I had a problem last year when I climbed up on my roof to shovel out my Satellite dish from 26" of snow blocking its signal after 3 days with no service. But keeping Comcast as a backup? Do you keep a bag of backup dip for your chips in case you run out of dip?
This of course done under the guise of preventing Ice Damming. "hey I'm up here already, might as well shovel out the dish, eh kids?".
Other than an occasional dropout due to very heavy rain (when my Cable service is used to have would go out anyway), my DirectTV with Tivo is WAY better than Comcast. Those evils folks at Comcast offered to buy my Satellite Dish back..
And now 3 free room installs and a regular (non-HD Tivo) for only $99, how could you even think of Comcast.
Very true. The original poster failed to read the article before posting it on/. making it seem very Orwellian.
Let's face it, the law was poorly written to begin with, updated poorly to cover devices other than television broadcasts and "business" applications (let's define business eh?). And poorly reported by a person who failed to read it. See a trend here? The devices and technology today is poorly understood by the average person, never mind the politician. It is amazing we have not outlawed the use of the vast majority of technology. See why cloning and stem cell research will be done abroad. Wake up America.
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While this whole topic is pretty funny, there is a military/riot police application for this and in the works. They target rioters with an RFID gun/projective and tag you. Later they block off an area and the paddy wagon comes by with an RFID scanner and scoop up those unfortunate folks who have been tagged. Scope with digital image matched with the RFID tag number and you are toast. With some of the tags you'll be picking them out of your flesh with a knife to get them out....
I accept your appology and know very well what radiation is since I have an MS in Radiation Medicine and am certified by the American Board of Health Physics. The stories posted on the "censored" site talk about he "appearance" of non-depleted uranium at the sites where DU penetrators were fired and try to "blame" this radioactivity on the DU. This is highly illogical and impossible.
Depleted uranium is much more chemically toxic to the kidneys and body way before it ever becomes a problem due to radiation exposure. Yet all their studies based on anecdotal "evidence" point to what they consider to be radiation effects, which of course cannot be. The radiation hazard from DU is minimal in comparison to the chemical toxicity. And no chemical toxicity has been found in these areas either.
If there were radiation effects to be seen from the DU in Kosovo, Afganastan, and Iraq we'd be seeing much higher cancer rates in areas where the background radiation (due to elevation-solar radiation and naturally occuring radioative materials in the earth) is higher and nuclear industy workers would have much higher incidence of cancer, etc. Guess what? We don't.
Lets compare the environmental damage and toxins that exposed the troups and populations by torching the oil wells in Iraq and Kuwait. Not even close there as compared to the small amount of DU deposited across the country side.
Lets not confuse anti-nuclear and anti-war groups propoganda with anything "radioactive" being harmful with science.
While war is a tragic situation, I'd rather be exposed to a little DU dust than get hit with the DU penetrator itself. That my friend is lethal.
The project Censored site it nothing more than a compilation of stories which have been reported as censored by people who haven't a clue about what they are talking about. Let take for example a story about the "Radiation Poisoning" of the Afganastani people, and are that is my studied, both undergraduate and graduate, and professionally certified area of expertise. This story is filled with "Junk science" that every peer reviewed journal has discredited. They claimed the same nonsense in Bosnia due to our use of depleted uranium, and these were all found to be false. Depleted uranium is just that "depleted" it cannot become "non-depleted" and its presence does not cause levels of "non-depleted" uranium in the population. I've seen the studies, the data, and have had close friends sent on missions to take samples, perform laboratory analysis, and draw scientific conclusions. None of which agree with the pseudo science spawned by the activists who do not follow chain of custody sample collection and perform substandard laboratory analysis. These stories are hardly "censored" in fact the study of this data is out in the public forum, its just that the people trying to prove their point of radiation poisoning have been entirely discredited in the scientfic arena. The solution? Claim "censorship" and a coverup to draw media attention because you can't prove your point with science. So revert to inuendo and distortion. So very sad.
Another twist to this story is the fact that Verzon has offered news.com article5 Billion in an effort to halt the spectrum swap to its competitor Nextel. This is in comparison to the only $ 850 Million that Nextel offered to help reband its network, and pay for retuning/equipment of public safety systems and others whom its towers interfere with. Why does Nextel want the spectrum at 1.9 GHz? It's because this is where it plans to roll out its future high speed technoloy (Flash OFDM) that it is currently piloting in the Raleigh-Durham metro area using hardware from Flarion. This spectrum will allow Nextel a huge advantage when it launches this service nationwide, essentially allowing it to jump right into and dominate the markets that Verizon (EVDO) and AT&T-Cingular(EDGE) are currently trying to capture. Company propaganda "With burst rate for the downlink is 3 Megabits per second (Mbps), and 900 Kilobits per second (Kbps) for the uplink. Typical user experience is 1 Mbps in the downlink, and 300 to 500 Kbps in the uplink, with average latency below 50 milliseconds." I beta tested EVDO for Verizon and when let me tell you its impressive. Nextel's foray into this space is serious and Verizon and other carriers want to prevent this from happening.
The devices are very cool. You sign in with your voice (the system stores a voice print that authenticates you). It knows who else is logged in to the system and can locate them if you assign locations to the AP's (big brother calling). It also ties in to your pbx system so you can dial the phone,"call 222-222-1342". Has a series of voice commands-voice recognition. You can setup groups and do group calls. A hospital is using it for paging/communications system in house. Devices are small and can be clipped on or hung on your neck with a lanyard. Can be used by multiple people. If the battery runs low, you sign off, drop the old one back in the charger. Pick up a new one and sign in and off you go. You can set it to "not disturb" you. And it tells you who is calling first (screen those calls) before you answer. Much more intelligence built into the server, this device has great potential... Now to program them to order chinese food for me automatically....
Wow, I thought I had a problem last year when I climbed up on my roof to shovel out my Satellite dish from 26" of snow blocking its signal after 3 days with no service. But keeping Comcast as a backup? Do you keep a bag of backup dip for your chips in case you run out of dip?
This of course done under the guise of preventing Ice Damming. "hey I'm up here already, might as well shovel out the dish, eh kids?".
Other than an occasional dropout due to very heavy rain (when my Cable service is used to have would go out anyway), my DirectTV with Tivo is WAY better than Comcast. Those evils folks at Comcast offered to buy my Satellite Dish back..
And now 3 free room installs and a regular (non-HD Tivo) for only $99, how could you even think of Comcast.
Very true. The original poster failed to read the article before posting it on /. making it seem very Orwellian.
Let's face it, the law was poorly written to begin with, updated poorly to cover devices other than television broadcasts and "business" applications (let's define business eh?). And poorly reported by a person who failed to read it. See a trend here? The devices and technology today is poorly understood by the average person, never mind the politician. It is amazing we have not outlawed the use of the vast majority of technology. See why cloning and stem cell research will be done abroad. Wake up America.