This is another of those disgusting Slashdot pseudo-science articles. Slashdot editors apparently spent their entire childhoods playing video games, and didn't learn anything about the real world.
Edited paragraph, without the nonsense: "The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that metallic objects... should not be used (or carried) outdoors during a thunderstorm..."
The warning about metal and lightning has nothing particularly to do with cell phones. A tiny cell phone is not the biggest hazard. Don't use metal umbrellas during lightning storms.
Don't fly kites with metal string. (Or any kite. Lightning travels on non-metallic paths sometimes.)
There are elements in China that are planning war against Taiwan! There are people in China who want China to administer the Taiwan government, too, when they are not successful administering their own country. That's another example of Chinese self-defeat.
From the Taipei Times: Read about China's "Taiwan Complex". "Symptoms include an irrational, even schizophrenic, approach to relations with Taiwan."
"They also threaten Taiwan with missiles deployed directly opposite the island -- 784 according to the latest count -- but appear bewildered when polls show that the Taiwanese believe the regime in Beijing is unfriendly toward them."
It's easy to understand that an American would have a lack of
appreciation of Chinese culture. Chinese culture often insists on being
self-defeating.
The U.S. culture is extremely self-defeating, too, of course. What
purpose is there in taking over from Saddam Hussein in killing Iraqis (other
than to make those with weapons and oil investments rich)? The U.S. has a
higher percentage of its people in prison than any nation in the history of
the world. The U.S. has invaded 24 countries since the end of the Second World
War.
But the Chinese culture is even more self-defeating than that. There
is a movie made in Hong Kong in which self-defeat is the theme. I don't
remember the title. A family sacrificed to send their boy to university, when
he didn't want to study, and their daughter was an excellent student.
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expect your own quality of life to diminish.
The article may be an advertisement disguised as an article. Possibly they don't want to benchmark 3Ware because it would win. Judging from the article, possibly this is an Adaptec ad.
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your own quality of life to diminish.
"I've experienced the MS communications solution but was put off by the instability of it..." [and] "... the steep price as well."
Sometimes it seems to me that Microsoft is more of an adversarial behavior company than a software company.
Today someone called from Microsoft, inviting people at my company to come to some kind of educational event. She had inaccurate information about my company, even though we have been selling Microsoft products for more than 20 years.
The previous caller from Microsoft thought we were in New York. I'm guessing Microsoft's customer relations management software is no better than the communications software.
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own quality of life to diminish.
More Intel employees should say in public what they have told me in private:
Intel CEO Paul Otellini is not a competent leader. He lacks social ability. He has
added to the adversarial management style in which employees are pitted
against other employees, rather than encouraged to do their best.
It's very, very sad to see Intel on the way down. Intel processors
have literally helped the world become a better place.
Self-destructive behavior at Intel did not start with Otellini. Long
ago, Intel closed its consumer division because it could not manage it
effectively.
Do I think I could be a better CEO of Intel than Otellini? Yes, I do.
I told one Intel employee that I thought of applying for Otellini's job, not
because I thought I could get hired, but because I might possibly be able to
educate the Intel board of directors about what needs to be done to pull Intel
out of its long-term slump.
First, I would re-organize Intel's marketing, which has become
Zombie-like in that it has been minimally connected with reality. Last year
Intel sent me several email messages offering an "Intel BunnyPeople(TM)" doll
if I would be involved with one of their marketing efforts. Possibly there were
those who make purchasing decisions who were not offended by an offer of a
free doll. However, I've never known one who would be influenced by such an
offer. There are plenty of other examples of the scary disconnection of
Intel marketing from Intel's needs.
For example, I would re-organize Intel's web site. I haven't checked
recently, because we stopped buying Intel motherboards. But before, the part
numbers for Intel motherboards were not immediately available. To get the part
numbers necessary to place an order, it was necessary to jump through hoops
with an online registration, and then have an Intel employee direct you to the
proper web page. The result was that it was difficult to call a distributor
and order Intel motherboards. The salesman at the distributor would offer
plenty of choices, but there was no way to know which one to choose unless you
had done Intel's hoop jumping.
Second, I would change the culture at Intel. Business is NOT a place
for top executives to act out their anger. Top managers should go into therapy
if they need to deal with their anger. They should NOT make their anger a
problem for the corporation. But that's what has been happening. I think it
was perhaps 15 years ago that I became acutely aware of this. I could give
several examples, and I've heard others from Intel employees.
Third, very important, I would take good care of the technical staff.
At present they are not treated sufficiently well. If I were Intel CEO and I saw a
floor that needed to be sweeped to give the technical staff a better work
environment, I would sweep it myself if necessary. Intel's business DEPENDS on
creativity. It's difficult to be creative in a poor social environment.
There's more, but this is is not a complete proposal, of course. It is
just a Slashdot comment.
Notice what happened with the parent comment. It was correct, and it sparked an interesting interchange of other comments, but it was moderated down to -1 in an attempt to hide it from readers. Why? Because it criticized the U.S. government.
There are many people who claim to be Republicans who are only angry.
It was definitely government corruption that the public was never allowed to participate in the dialogue about the genetic modification of food. Now perhaps 30% or more of food in the U.S. has been genetically modified, with unknown results. The results are unknown because the big companies are doing things that never occurred in nature.
Notice, however, that genetically modified food is not labeled. That was accomplished by corrupting the U.S. government. Probably that will happen in the case of DRM, too.
There are a lot of computer companies that, in my opinion, sell garbage
products, products that cause IT professionals grief, or would if they weren't
eliminated.
HP's products are worse than garbage, in my experience. They are
scary garbage. I tried to un-install an HP printer driver and the
un-install program deleted more than 900 files in the WinNT folder, files
belonging to the operating system, not HP.
An HP technical support person told me to solve a problem with an HP
printer driver by renaming an HP file so the driver could not be used.
Another HP technical support person told me to solve a problem with
an HP network printer driver by not trying to use the network facility.
When installing an HP printer, it has been common that there are error
messages. This is during installation. We stopped buying HP products
because of that.
It's sad to see HP on a downward spiral. Lou Platt was a terrible
manager. Carly Fiorina was FAR worse. I'm guessing the company is rated about
0.1 Enron now.
Watch for this: The top managers of HP will destroy the company, but
will still take home tens of millions of dollars in salary and "bonuses", as
Carly Fiorina did. Top managers have become enemies of companies and enemies
of society.
I don't know if this is true, but it has been said that HP would not
be profitable if the company could not sell Inkjet printer ink for $800 per
gallon. If that is true, then it is possible that HP is not primarily a
computer company, but is primarily an "expoiter of customer ignorance"
company.
HP was once a company admired by everyone.
I agree with previous comments that probably HP is planning to fire
the employees.
Nicole C. Wong, the author of the article did a surprisingly good job
in writing it. Normally business writers are clueless about technology.
The U.S. government is becoming involved in a culture of all war, all
the time, and all surveillance, all the time.
Most people don't realize that former presidents have access to CIA
and NSA data. So, if voters in the U.S. elect a president who has family and
friends and business associates heavily invested in oil and weapons companies,
that president will be able to use the data to spy on competitors. It's not so
crude as that; it's much more sneaky, but that's the result.
The main purpose of the Iraq war was to arrange that the Iraq oil
profits would go to Americans. Other purposes: 1) Saddam Hussein of Iraq was
upsetting the planned artificial scarcity of oil, and oil companies wanted
oil prices to go up. (Yes, there is real scarcity, too.) 2) The oil was being
sold by Saddam Hussein for euros. If other countries began selling their oil
for euros, the dollar, weakened by unprecedented debt, could crash. Instead, the
value is going
down slowly, making everything more expensive for people in the United
States. The weakening of the dollar is equivalent to stealing the value of
people's savings.
3) The U.S. government gives perhaps $5 billion each year to Israel;
the money is used to kill Arabs. Saddam Hussein had made threatening
statements about that, and Paul Wolfowitz arranged
that the U.S. would pay for Israel's security, serving his culture against the
best interests of his country. (They call it "doctrine" to give it a kind of
religious importance.)
There's nothing "conservative" about Republicans. Some
Republicans are responsible leaders, but others have formed a kind of crime
syndicate to sell the U.S. government to whomever can use influence to make
money. See U.S. Federal Deficit by
Political Party.
U.S. Vice-president Cheney, whose friends and family and business
associates are invested in oil and weapons, had a secret meeting with oil
executives. A few months later, the price of gas rose enormously. Coincidence?
-- Taxpayer Karma: If you give money to kill people, expect your
own quality of life to diminish.
The U.S. government is becoming involved in a culture of all war, all
the time, and all surveillance, all the time.
Most people don't realize that former presidents have access to CIA
and NSA data. So, if voters in the U.S. elect a president who has family and
friends and business associates heavily invested in oil and weapons companies,
that president will be able to use the data to spy on competitors. It's not so
crude as that; it's much more sneaky, but that's the result.
The main purpose of the Iraq war was to arrange that the Iraq oil
profits would go to Americans. Other purposes: 1) Saddam Hussein of Iraq was
upsetting the planned artificial scarcity of oil, and oil companies wanted
oil prices to go up. (Yes, there is real scarcity, too.) 2) The oil was being
sold by Saddam Hussein for euros. If other countries began selling their oil
for euros, the dollar, weakened by unprecedented debt, could crash. Instead, the
value is going
down slowly, making everything more expensive for people in the United
States. The weakening of the dollar is equivalent to stealing the value of
people's savings.
3) The U.S. government gives perhaps $5 billion each year to Israel;
the money is used to kill Arabs. Saddam Hussein had made threatening
statements about that, and Paul Wolfowitz arranged
that the U.S. would pay for Israel's security, serving his culture against the
best interests of his country. (They call it "doctrine" to give it a kind of
religious importance.)
There's nothing "conservative" about Republicans. Some
Republicans are responsible leaders, but others have formed a kind of crime
syndicate to sell the U.S. government to whomever can use influence to make
money. See U.S. Federal Deficit by
Political Party.
U.S. Vice-president Cheney, whose friends and family and business
associates are invested in oil and weapons, had a secret meeting with oil
executives. A few months later, the price of gas rose enormously. Coincidence?
-- Taxpayer Karma: If you give money to kill people, expect your
own quality of life to diminish.
Quote from the first linked article: "In MLIS, an infrared laser is directed at uranium hexafluoride gas. The laser excites uranium 235 hexafluoride gas, while not disturbing the uranium 238 hexafluoride gas."
In 1972 or 1973, I built an apparatus to test whether a flowing gas carbon monoxide laser could excite uranium 235 hexafluoride. My little project was shut down without explanation.
The Silex web site gives almost no information. The "about Silex" web page misspells the word neutrons as "neutrins".
It could be that the U.S. government has been successful at laser enrichment, but has published misleading information about the project. The article linked by Slashdot says, "One US effort involving 500 scientists gave up after spending $2 billion." That doesn't make sense. You know very early, without spending a lot of money, whether you have a laser tuned to the right frequency.
-- Taxpayer Karma: If you contribute money to kill people, expect your
own quality of life to diminish.
The U.S. government is becoming involved in a culture of all war, all
the time, and all surveillance, all the time.
Most people don't realize that former presidents have access to CIA
and NSA data. So, if voters in the U.S. elect a president who has family and
friends and business associates heavily invested in oil and weapons companies,
that president will be able to use the data to spy on competitors. It's not so
crude as that, and a lot more sneaky, but that is the result.
U.S. Vice-president Cheney had a secret meeting with oil executives. A
few months later, the price of gas rose enormously. Coincidence?
The article referenced in the Slashdot story seems like a press release to me. I see no reason whatsoever to believe that Webroot is better. When the magazines began saying it was the best, SpySweeper had a bug that crashed Windows in some cases. If the magazines had truly tested SpySweeper, they would have discovered the bug, which I found after very little testing. (The bug was verified by someone at Webroot.)
It seems to me that Webroot is better at marketing than other software companies. There is no reason to believe the claims in the article, that I can see.
You said, "And I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to look up the importance of the orientation of polar molecules to the functioning of various biological systems, many of which could lead to cancer and other effects when they malfunction."
That "exercise for the reader" would earn the reader a Nobel Prize.
You said, "... resonance effects will show up any time a molecular bond causes a dipole to return to its previous position..."
Molecular bonds are bound with an energy far greater than the energy supplied by electromagnetism, in the case we are considering. In addition, the energy of room temperature heat causes continuous motion. I don't see any way there can be resonance.
Slashdot Mirror
This is another of those disgusting Slashdot pseudo-science articles. Slashdot editors apparently spent their entire childhoods playing video games, and didn't learn anything about the real world.
Edited paragraph, without the nonsense: "The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that metallic objects... should not be used (or carried) outdoors during a thunderstorm..."
The warning about metal and lightning has nothing particularly to do with cell phones. A tiny cell phone is not the biggest hazard. Don't use metal umbrellas during lightning storms.
Don't fly kites with metal string. (Or any kite. Lightning travels on non-metallic paths sometimes.)
The should not have given their party a self-defeating name.
There are elements in China that are planning war against Taiwan! There are people in China who want China to administer the Taiwan government, too, when they are not successful administering their own country. That's another example of Chinese self-defeat.
From the Taipei Times: Read about China's "Taiwan Complex". "Symptoms include an irrational, even schizophrenic, approach to relations with Taiwan."
"They also threaten Taiwan with missiles deployed directly opposite the island -- 784 according to the latest count -- but appear bewildered when polls show that the Taiwanese believe the regime in Beijing is unfriendly toward them."
"... why don't they just open more schools?"
It's easy to understand that an American would have a lack of appreciation of Chinese culture. Chinese culture often insists on being self-defeating.
The U.S. culture is extremely self-defeating, too, of course. What purpose is there in taking over from Saddam Hussein in killing Iraqis (other than to make those with weapons and oil investments rich)? The U.S. has a higher percentage of its people in prison than any nation in the history of the world. The U.S. has invaded 24 countries since the end of the Second World War.
But the Chinese culture is even more self-defeating than that. There is a movie made in Hong Kong in which self-defeat is the theme. I don't remember the title. A family sacrificed to send their boy to university, when he didn't want to study, and their daughter was an excellent student.
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Exactly.
The article may be an advertisement disguised as an article. Possibly they don't want to benchmark 3Ware because it would win. Judging from the article, possibly this is an Adaptec ad.
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"I've experienced the MS communications solution but was put off by the instability of it..." [and] "... the steep price as well."
Sometimes it seems to me that Microsoft is more of an adversarial behavior company than a software company.
Today someone called from Microsoft, inviting people at my company to come to some kind of educational event. She had inaccurate information about my company, even though we have been selling Microsoft products for more than 20 years.
The previous caller from Microsoft thought we were in New York. I'm guessing Microsoft's customer relations management software is no better than the communications software.
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First, read the forums and learn about the people who have lost all their EFS data because of the sloppiness of Microsoft.
In some cases EFS is tied to the computer on which it is installed. You cannot restore it to another computer, even if you have all the keys.
Were you thinking, oh this time Microsoft won't be sloppy?
The NSA is out of control and should be stopped. Hear that, NSA?
More Intel employees should say in public what they have told me in private: Intel CEO Paul Otellini is not a competent leader. He lacks social ability. He has added to the adversarial management style in which employees are pitted against other employees, rather than encouraged to do their best.
It's very, very sad to see Intel on the way down. Intel processors have literally helped the world become a better place.
Self-destructive behavior at Intel did not start with Otellini. Long ago, Intel closed its consumer division because it could not manage it effectively.
Do I think I could be a better CEO of Intel than Otellini? Yes, I do. I told one Intel employee that I thought of applying for Otellini's job, not because I thought I could get hired, but because I might possibly be able to educate the Intel board of directors about what needs to be done to pull Intel out of its long-term slump.
First, I would re-organize Intel's marketing, which has become Zombie-like in that it has been minimally connected with reality. Last year Intel sent me several email messages offering an "Intel BunnyPeople(TM)" doll if I would be involved with one of their marketing efforts. Possibly there were those who make purchasing decisions who were not offended by an offer of a free doll. However, I've never known one who would be influenced by such an offer. There are plenty of other examples of the scary disconnection of Intel marketing from Intel's needs.
For example, I would re-organize Intel's web site. I haven't checked recently, because we stopped buying Intel motherboards. But before, the part numbers for Intel motherboards were not immediately available. To get the part numbers necessary to place an order, it was necessary to jump through hoops with an online registration, and then have an Intel employee direct you to the proper web page. The result was that it was difficult to call a distributor and order Intel motherboards. The salesman at the distributor would offer plenty of choices, but there was no way to know which one to choose unless you had done Intel's hoop jumping.
Second, I would change the culture at Intel. Business is NOT a place for top executives to act out their anger. Top managers should go into therapy if they need to deal with their anger. They should NOT make their anger a problem for the corporation. But that's what has been happening. I think it was perhaps 15 years ago that I became acutely aware of this. I could give several examples, and I've heard others from Intel employees.
Third, very important, I would take good care of the technical staff. At present they are not treated sufficiently well. If I were Intel CEO and I saw a floor that needed to be sweeped to give the technical staff a better work environment, I would sweep it myself if necessary. Intel's business DEPENDS on creativity. It's difficult to be creative in a poor social environment.
There's more, but this is is not a complete proposal, of course. It is just a Slashdot comment.
It is my impression that most "reviews" are fraudulent. NEC isn't listed because NEC is the best.
Notice what happened with the parent comment. It was correct, and it sparked an interesting interchange of other comments, but it was moderated down to -1 in an attempt to hide it from readers. Why? Because it criticized the U.S. government.
There are many people who claim to be Republicans who are only angry.
It was definitely government corruption that the public was never allowed to participate in the dialogue about the genetic modification of food. Now perhaps 30% or more of food in the U.S. has been genetically modified, with unknown results. The results are unknown because the big companies are doing things that never occurred in nature.
Definitely, DRM products should be labeled.
Notice, however, that genetically modified food is not labeled. That was accomplished by corrupting the U.S. government. Probably that will happen in the case of DRM, too.
Sorry, HP printer ink is $8,000 per gallon, not $800.
I would know more about HP if I thought it was safe to buy HP products.
$17 for 24 refills
There are a lot of computer companies that, in my opinion, sell garbage products, products that cause IT professionals grief, or would if they weren't eliminated.
HP's products are worse than garbage, in my experience. They are scary garbage. I tried to un-install an HP printer driver and the un-install program deleted more than 900 files in the WinNT folder, files belonging to the operating system, not HP.
An HP technical support person told me to solve a problem with an HP printer driver by renaming an HP file so the driver could not be used.
Another HP technical support person told me to solve a problem with an HP network printer driver by not trying to use the network facility.
When installing an HP printer, it has been common that there are error messages. This is during installation. We stopped buying HP products because of that.
It's sad to see HP on a downward spiral. Lou Platt was a terrible manager. Carly Fiorina was FAR worse. I'm guessing the company is rated about 0.1 Enron now.
Watch for this: The top managers of HP will destroy the company, but will still take home tens of millions of dollars in salary and "bonuses", as Carly Fiorina did. Top managers have become enemies of companies and enemies of society.
I don't know if this is true, but it has been said that HP would not be profitable if the company could not sell Inkjet printer ink for $800 per gallon. If that is true, then it is possible that HP is not primarily a computer company, but is primarily an "expoiter of customer ignorance" company.
HP was once a company admired by everyone.
I agree with previous comments that probably HP is planning to fire the employees.
Nicole C. Wong, the author of the article did a surprisingly good job in writing it. Normally business writers are clueless about technology.
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Edwards: George W. Bush is the "worst president of our lifetime".
Senator John Edwards: George W. Bush is the "worst president of our lifetime".
The U.S. government is becoming involved in a culture of all war, all the time, and all surveillance, all the time.
Most people don't realize that former presidents have access to CIA and NSA data. So, if voters in the U.S. elect a president who has family and friends and business associates heavily invested in oil and weapons companies, that president will be able to use the data to spy on competitors. It's not so crude as that; it's much more sneaky, but that's the result.
The main purpose of the Iraq war was to arrange that the Iraq oil profits would go to Americans. Other purposes: 1) Saddam Hussein of Iraq was upsetting the planned artificial scarcity of oil, and oil companies wanted oil prices to go up. (Yes, there is real scarcity, too.) 2) The oil was being sold by Saddam Hussein for euros. If other countries began selling their oil for euros, the dollar, weakened by unprecedented debt, could crash. Instead, the value is going down slowly, making everything more expensive for people in the United States. The weakening of the dollar is equivalent to stealing the value of people's savings. 3) The U.S. government gives perhaps $5 billion each year to Israel; the money is used to kill Arabs. Saddam Hussein had made threatening statements about that, and Paul Wolfowitz arranged that the U.S. would pay for Israel's security, serving his culture against the best interests of his country. (They call it "doctrine" to give it a kind of religious importance.)
There's nothing "conservative" about Republicans. Some Republicans are responsible leaders, but others have formed a kind of crime syndicate to sell the U.S. government to whomever can use influence to make money. See U.S. Federal Deficit by Political Party.
U.S. Vice-president Cheney, whose friends and family and business associates are invested in oil and weapons, had a secret meeting with oil executives. A few months later, the price of gas rose enormously. Coincidence?
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Taxpayer Karma: If you give money to kill people, expect your own quality of life to diminish.
Edwards: George W. Bush is the "worst president of our lifetime".
The U.S. government is becoming involved in a culture of all war, all the time, and all surveillance, all the time.
Most people don't realize that former presidents have access to CIA and NSA data. So, if voters in the U.S. elect a president who has family and friends and business associates heavily invested in oil and weapons companies, that president will be able to use the data to spy on competitors. It's not so crude as that; it's much more sneaky, but that's the result.
The main purpose of the Iraq war was to arrange that the Iraq oil profits would go to Americans. Other purposes: 1) Saddam Hussein of Iraq was upsetting the planned artificial scarcity of oil, and oil companies wanted oil prices to go up. (Yes, there is real scarcity, too.) 2) The oil was being sold by Saddam Hussein for euros. If other countries began selling their oil for euros, the dollar, weakened by unprecedented debt, could crash. Instead, the value is going down slowly, making everything more expensive for people in the United States. The weakening of the dollar is equivalent to stealing the value of people's savings. 3) The U.S. government gives perhaps $5 billion each year to Israel; the money is used to kill Arabs. Saddam Hussein had made threatening statements about that, and Paul Wolfowitz arranged that the U.S. would pay for Israel's security, serving his culture against the best interests of his country. (They call it "doctrine" to give it a kind of religious importance.)
There's nothing "conservative" about Republicans. Some Republicans are responsible leaders, but others have formed a kind of crime syndicate to sell the U.S. government to whomever can use influence to make money. See U.S. Federal Deficit by Political Party.
U.S. Vice-president Cheney, whose friends and family and business associates are invested in oil and weapons, had a secret meeting with oil executives. A few months later, the price of gas rose enormously. Coincidence?
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The date on that article about the ABit motherboard: July 31, 2003. What happened? Apparently that idea was not successful.
Slashdot thread about EFS failures: EFS is very poorly documented. EFS failures.
EFS is VERY buggy and limited, according to Microsoft technical support representatives.
MOD PARENT UP!!! Excellent links.
Quote from the first linked article: "In MLIS, an infrared laser is directed at uranium hexafluoride gas. The laser excites uranium 235 hexafluoride gas, while not disturbing the uranium 238 hexafluoride gas."
In 1972 or 1973, I built an apparatus to test whether a flowing gas carbon monoxide laser could excite uranium 235 hexafluoride. My little project was shut down without explanation.
The Silex web site gives almost no information. The "about Silex" web page misspells the word neutrons as "neutrins".
It could be that the U.S. government has been successful at laser enrichment, but has published misleading information about the project. The article linked by Slashdot says, "One US effort involving 500 scientists gave up after spending $2 billion." That doesn't make sense. You know very early, without spending a lot of money, whether you have a laser tuned to the right frequency.
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MOD PARENT UP!!!
The U.S. government is becoming involved in a culture of all war, all the time, and all surveillance, all the time.
Most people don't realize that former presidents have access to CIA and NSA data. So, if voters in the U.S. elect a president who has family and friends and business associates heavily invested in oil and weapons companies, that president will be able to use the data to spy on competitors. It's not so crude as that, and a lot more sneaky, but that is the result.
U.S. Vice-president Cheney had a secret meeting with oil executives. A few months later, the price of gas rose enormously. Coincidence?
George W. Bush is the "worst president of our lifetime".
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John Edwards says that George W. Bush is the "worst president of our lifetime"
Publicity is the public's last defense against the most corrupt government the U.S. has had in modern times, and probably ever.
For an early article about U.S. government conflict of interest, see Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. The corruption has increased enormously since then.
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The article referenced in the Slashdot story seems like a press release to me. I see no reason whatsoever to believe that Webroot is better. When the magazines began saying it was the best, SpySweeper had a bug that crashed Windows in some cases. If the magazines had truly tested SpySweeper, they would have discovered the bug, which I found after very little testing. (The bug was verified by someone at Webroot.)
It seems to me that Webroot is better at marketing than other software companies. There is no reason to believe the claims in the article, that I can see.
You said, "And I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to look up the importance of the orientation of polar molecules to the functioning of various biological systems, many of which could lead to cancer and other effects when they malfunction."
That "exercise for the reader" would earn the reader a Nobel Prize.
You said, "... resonance effects will show up any time a molecular bond causes a dipole to return to its previous position..."
Molecular bonds are bound with an energy far greater than the energy supplied by electromagnetism, in the case we are considering. In addition, the energy of room temperature heat causes continuous motion. I don't see any way there can be resonance.