"Now, do you really think you can tell me how the rotation of various polar
molecules in a biological sample will affect an organism from first
principles, while considering all possible resonance effects?"
My understanding is that there isn't much chance of resonance, because
below the surface of the skin, the energy of 2400 MHz is quickly broadened by
the constant vibration of the molecules. Also, the energy of room temperature
heat is much higher than the leakage from a cell phone tower. (We are
considering a case in which the energy must go through skin and skull bone to
cause brain cancer.)
The problem is the wavelength of the 2400 MHz energy. The formula for
the wavelength of electromagnetic energy is:
Wavelength (in meters) = 3 x 10^8 (speed of light) / Frequency (in MHz)
The wavelength of 2400 MHz is about 12.5 centimeters, and each photon
has an energy of about 10^-6
electron volts.
The huge mismatch between the size of the wave and the size of a
molecule means that the effect of the electromagnetic energy is generalized
heating. There are apparently no resonance effects. The heating is caused by
friction of the molecules against each other.
A Slashdot comment is not a rigorous discussion of all the issues. I was hoping readers would visit the EB article and calculate for themselves. Here is more explanation:
From the linked article in Encyclopedia Brittanica: "The energy E of each quantum, or each photon, equals Planck's constant h times the radiation frequency symbolized by the Greek letter nu, {nu}, or simply E = h{nu}."
The frequency of cell phones is around 2,400 MHz. The frequency of ultraviolet light is 100,000 times greater, if I remember correctly. (I don't have time to calculate it.) So, each photon of ultraviolet sunlight has enough energy to cause chemical changes in skin.
Not only is cell phone electromagnetic energy too small, it has a far greater wavelength, which means that it cannot be coupled into a small area, as can an ultraviolet photon. The most interaction that 2,400 MHz can do is generalized heating. There is not nearly enough energy to do much heating.
Those who try to document Microsoft's abuses find that there are too many to investigate and explain.
For example, Ed Foster's Gripelog has a story about Microsoft's
Harshest EULA. Windows users who download the "High-Priority Update"
called Windows Genuine Advantage Notification are required to agree to a new
contract. Ed says, "Not only does Microsoft place restrictions on your right
to criticize the software, it won't allow you to uninstall the software or to
test it in an operating environment."
EULAs are a unique kind of contract in that they supposedly allow one
party to the contract to force new contract provisions on the other. Contract
law has always held that forced contracts are illegal.
If you buy, agree to the terms of use, and install Windows for your
company and train your staff to use it and applications you buy for it, your
total cost is far greater than the cost of Windows. Yet EULAs supposedly allow
the software provider to change the contract provisions at any time, with no
restrictions whatsoever. Your only option if you don't agree to the new
contract provisions is to lose all the money you have invested and stop doing
business until you can get new software. This is especially severe when a
company has a monopoly on the operating system your business software needs to
run.
The concept of fairness is completely absent from EULAs. Those who
write EULAs believe that they can do anything they like. If you go to your
kitchen and find a Microsoft employee eating your ice cream, check your EULA;
maybe Microsoft has decided that Microsoft employees can raid your
refrigerator.
"But some think the bursts used by GSM protocol create a low frequency envelope that may affect living tissues (that would behave like an AM receiver)."
Prove that, and win a Nobel Prize. Get your name on the front page of every newspaper in the world, and never have to work again.
The interaction of electromagnetic radiation and matter is very well understood. Find some new interaction, and you will be as famous as Einstein.
"On the other hand, the high occurence in this very building compared to the lack of such situation near the large majority of other antennas make me agree with the idea that there is another cause to this particular situation."
There is no reason to believe that it is due to the cell phone tower. My first guess would be that there is a leak in the air conditioning ducts and some poisonous chemical is leaking into the duct and poisoning the air on those floors.
Anyone worried about radio waves causing cancer can try to make that
theory work. There is a huge barrier, however, in the form of a very very
small number: Planck's Constant. Planck's constant = 6.626068 x 10-34 m2 kg/S. It's
that 10**-34 that makes it difficult for low-energy electromagetism like
wireless transmissions to interact with chemical reactions. Thirty-four zeros
is a LOT of zeros after the decimal point.
Off topic: I've linked to the Encyclopedia Britannica above because
the article about Planck's constant is very short. The article in Wikipedia is
long. I've frequently seen the Encyclopedia Britannica be misleading because
of the severe limitation placed on size of the articles due to paper costs.
Wikipedia does not have that problem.
I posted Linus' comment, and I agree, of course. I've sometimes spent 15 minutes writing a comment I thought was useful, and been moderated down to -1.
Now I seem to be getting credit for Torvald's thinking.
Or, maybe I was moderated up for having the brains to re-format what Linus said so that it is more readable?
Name: Linus Torvalds (torvalds AT osdl.org) 5/9/06
___________________
_Arthur (Arthur_ AT sympatico.ca) on 5/9/06 wrote:
I found that distinction between microkernels and "monolithic" kernels
useful: With microkernels, when you call a system service, a "message" is
generated to be handled by the kernel *task*, to be dispatched to the proper
handler (task). There is likely to be at least 2 levels of task-switching (and
ring-level switching) in a microkernel call.
___________________
I don't think you should focus on implementation details.
For example, the task-switching could be basically hidden by hardware,
and a "ukernel task switch" is not necessarily the same as a traditional task
switch, because you may have things - hardware or software conventions - that
basically might turn it into something that acts more like a normal subroutine
call.
To make a stupid analogy: a function call is certainly "more
expensive" than a straight jump (because the function call implies the setup
for returning, and the return itself). But you can optimize certain function
calls into plain jumps - and it's such a common optimization that it has a
name of its own ("tailcall conversion").
In a similar manner, those task switches for the system call have very
specific semantics, so it's possible to do them as less than "real"
task-switches.
So I wouldn't focus on them, since they aren't necessarily even the
biggest performance problem of an ukernel.
The real issue, and it's really fundamental, is the issue of sharing
address spaces. Nothing else really matters. Everything else ends up flowing
from that fundamental question: do you share the address space with the
caller, or put in slightly different terms: can the callee look at and change
the callers state as if it were its own (and the other way around)?
Even for a monolithic kernel, the answer is a very emphatic no when
you cross from user space into kernel space. Obviously the user space program
cannot change kernel state, but it is equally true that the kernel cannot just
consider user space to be equivalent to its own data structures (it might use
the exact same physical instructions, but it cannot trust the user pointers,
which means that in practice, they are totally different things from kernel
pointers).
That's another example of where "implementation" doesn't much matter,
this time in the reverse sense. When a kernel accesses user space, the actual
implementation of that - depending on hw concepts and implementation - may be
exactly the same as when it accesses its own data structures: a normal "load"
or "store". But despite that identical low-level implementation, there are
high-level issues that radically differ.
And that separation of "access space" is a really big deal. I say
"access space", because it really is something conceptually different from
"address space". The two parts may even "share" the address space (in a
monolithic kernel they normally do), and that has huge advantages (no TLB
issues etc), but there are issues that means that you end up having protection
differences or simply semantic differences between the accesses.
(Where one common example of "semantic" difference might be that one
"access space" might take a page fault, while another one is guaranteed to be
pinned down - this has some really huge issues for locking around the access,
and for dead-lock avoidance etc etc).
So in a traditional kernel, you usually would share the address space,
but you'd have protection issues and some semantic differences that mean that
the kernel and user space can't access each other freely. And that makes for
some really big issues, but a traditional kernel very much tries to minimize
them. And most importantly, a traditional kernel shares the access space
across all the basic system calls, so that user/kernel difference is the only
access space boundary.
I'm sure this will make many moderators unhappy, and they will call it a troll
even though the points made are well-documented. However, it needs to be said: The problem
is unhappiness. Unhappiness causes obesity and other diseases.
If you kill other people, you should expect that it will make you
unhappy. If you are a U.S. taxpayer, you have killed hundreds of thousands of
people in the past 10 years. Sure, you didn't kill them yourself, but you paid
someone to do it: The U.S. government.
There is so much U.S. government violence that it is not possible for
one person to to document it all. However, here is an article that gives a few
examples: History surrounding the U.S. wars with Iraq: Four short stories. The U.S.
government has invaded 24 countries since the Second World War!
Other reasons people in the U.S. are unhappy:
The U.S. is the most viciously sexist developed society. Any day on
U.S. TV you can see women being violent toward men, in situations in which it
is expected you will take it as a joke. Most men in the U.S. don't recognize
the adversarial behavior of U.S. women for what it is. Most men in the U.S.
think that the anger of U.S. women is "justified"; they aren't really partners
with their wives, their relationship is "yes dear". "Yes dear" does not help
women be happy; it only gives them further opportunity to act out their anger.
Sociologists have done 17 studies, all of which show that women are
responsible for slightly more domestic violence than men.
A huge percentage of young men in the U.S. spend a large part of their
time playing computer games. That usually means they spend a large part of their time
pretending to kill other people. Think about it: That can't be good. The years
from 3 to 33 are years when people learn to socialize. For example, that's
when people learn to deal with the problems of a sexist society. In the later
years, people learn to accept more responsibility and to be managers and other
leaders of society. They learn how to know and express their own needs and to
think about and satisfy the needs of others at the same time. People who fill
many hours playing games don't spend those same hours learning about
themselves and others, and the world. How could they expect to be happy?
The state and federal governments in the U.S. have a higher percentage
of their citizens in prison than any country in the world. Vice-President
Cheney's company is buildingprisons for the U.S. government.
The U.S. government pays more for secret surveillance than any country
in the world, ever. There are the NSA, CIA, FBI, and several other U.S.
government agencies who are authorized to operate in any country of the world,
and kill people there. U.S. taxpayers are not allowed to know even the names of
some of the agencies. They are expected to pay, but they are not allowed to know
how the money is spent.
If you consider conflict of interest, the U.S. government is the most
corrupt in the developed world. See this article: Unprecedented Corruption:
A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Is it any wonder
that two men whose families and friends and business associates have investments
in oil and weapons companies have started a war and raised the price of gasoline?
Those are a few of the reasons why people are unhappy in the United
States. People overeat when they are unhappy. Overeating is one of the reasons
that people in the U.S. have medical problems.
Does OpenVPN require opening a port in the hardware firewall? Can OpenVPN establish a connection when the firewall does not have an internet address, but is connected to another firewall, over which we don't have control?
I don't see anything on the OpenVPN web site about this.
One side of our system is behind a NAT with an Internet address. The other side is at an international airport, and we don't have control over the Internet arrangements there. We can only connect to their firewall.
From the story: "I tell people I bought a 360 for Oblivion. But I really bought it for the ladies of DOA."
To me that's amazing, CmdrTaco.
The years from 3 to 33 are years when people learn to socialize. For example, that's when people learn to deal with the problems of a sexist society. In the later years, people learn to accept more responsibility and to be managers and other leaders of society. They learn how to know and express their own needs and to think about and satisfy the needs of others at the same time.
People who fill many hours playing games don't spend those same hours learning about themselves and others, and the world.
I was surprised when I read your first comment in this thread and the
one above. Very few people, in my experience, understand scientific methods or
language. It's obvious that you do.
I agree that Janov's Institute seems cultish now, based on reading the
web site. My experience is from 30 years ago, when what was called
"self-primaling" was encouraged by Janov.
However, you seem to think that reading the web site and my short
comment gives you a good idea of the work done in the field. There's plenty of
material; there seems to be no hint of that on the Institute web site.
Still your guess may be a good one. I once applied to be a researcher
at Janov's institute. I was told they didn't do research. No one connected
with Janov seems to have an understanding of science.
Off topic: I am trying to advise someone in university what computer
related field in which to specialize. She currently is impressed with AI. Is
Artificial Intelligence advanced enough that someone who does not have a PhD
should specialize in it? Or is it still work done in research labs, and far
from having practical uses? Judging from your web site, I think you may have
some ideas and maybe links to web sites.
I agree with what you said. I think you meant "not falsifiable". What was weird for me when I read "The Primal Scream" for the first time was that the book, basically, proposes an easily testable theory. Most "theories" of Psychology are cleverly arranged to be untestable.
I have personal experience that Janov's theory works.
Primal Therapy is a cure for depression. However, it's a lot of work, and most people are looking for an externally administered way out.
It's possible to read the book and do what it says. But that is very scary and only someone with a strong sense of logic is able to guide himself or herself.
Microsoft is making more money by supplying insecure software, and then withholding or providing fixes.
If that is the Microsoft business model, there will never be a secure version of Windows.
I'm against piracy, but I don't like how Microsoft does business. All of us legal customers are put through a lot of hassles so that Microsoft can prevent piracy. All of us legal customers must deal with the vulnerabilities so that Microsoft will be able to make money selling the next version of Windows, that really, really, this time, will be more secure.
The only real answer I can see is software that is designed to be secure, and is open source and free.
Note that OpenVPN requires that you have access to the router to open a port.
Hamachi works when you don't have access to the router. In some cases in which the router in administered by someone who won't give you access, Hamachi can work where OpenVPN won't.
Slashdot Mirror
You're not "sorry". You are using harsh words, and you know they are harsh.
You said "Planck's constant connects *gravity* with electromagnetism."
You and the Encyclopedia Britannica disagree. Planck's constant is used to calculate the energy.
Trying to be helpful -- You should look at my post below: BroadVoice.com.
Exactly. I did that too. Also try BroadVoice.com. 35 countries, no per minute charge.
However, OneSuite is indispensable. Often the voice quality is much better than VOIP calls.
BigZoo folded, but OneSuite.com is still doing well.
Embarrassing. The man's name is Robert Shimp, not Shrimp, as it says in the Slashdot story.
I should have said "Frequency (in Hz) "
"Now, do you really think you can tell me how the rotation of various polar molecules in a biological sample will affect an organism from first principles, while considering all possible resonance effects?"
My understanding is that there isn't much chance of resonance, because below the surface of the skin, the energy of 2400 MHz is quickly broadened by the constant vibration of the molecules. Also, the energy of room temperature heat is much higher than the leakage from a cell phone tower. (We are considering a case in which the energy must go through skin and skull bone to cause brain cancer.)
The problem is the wavelength of the 2400 MHz energy. The formula for the wavelength of electromagnetic energy is:
Wavelength (in meters) = 3 x 10^8 (speed of light) / Frequency (in MHz)
The wavelength of 2400 MHz is about 12.5 centimeters, and each photon has an energy of about 10^-6 electron volts.
The huge mismatch between the size of the wave and the size of a molecule means that the effect of the electromagnetic energy is generalized heating. There are apparently no resonance effects. The heating is caused by friction of the molecules against each other.
"Sunlight causes cancer..."
A Slashdot comment is not a rigorous discussion of all the issues. I was hoping readers would visit the EB article and calculate for themselves. Here is more explanation:
From the linked article in Encyclopedia Brittanica: "The energy E of each quantum, or each photon, equals Planck's constant h times the radiation frequency symbolized by the Greek letter nu, {nu}, or simply E = h{nu}."
The frequency of cell phones is around 2,400 MHz. The frequency of ultraviolet light is 100,000 times greater, if I remember correctly. (I don't have time to calculate it.) So, each photon of ultraviolet sunlight has enough energy to cause chemical changes in skin.
Not only is cell phone electromagnetic energy too small, it has a far greater wavelength, which means that it cannot be coupled into a small area, as can an ultraviolet photon. The most interaction that 2,400 MHz can do is generalized heating. There is not nearly enough energy to do much heating.
"Gone is the sharp-suited, debonair, sliver-tongued fraudster who'd charm his way to a personal fortune."
Hey, BBC writer, didn't you ever hear of Enron?
Those who try to document Microsoft's abuses find that there are too many to investigate and explain.
For example, Ed Foster's Gripelog has a story about Microsoft's Harshest EULA. Windows users who download the "High-Priority Update" called Windows Genuine Advantage Notification are required to agree to a new contract. Ed says, "Not only does Microsoft place restrictions on your right to criticize the software, it won't allow you to uninstall the software or to test it in an operating environment."
EULAs are a unique kind of contract in that they supposedly allow one party to the contract to force new contract provisions on the other. Contract law has always held that forced contracts are illegal.
If you buy, agree to the terms of use, and install Windows for your company and train your staff to use it and applications you buy for it, your total cost is far greater than the cost of Windows. Yet EULAs supposedly allow the software provider to change the contract provisions at any time, with no restrictions whatsoever. Your only option if you don't agree to the new contract provisions is to lose all the money you have invested and stop doing business until you can get new software. This is especially severe when a company has a monopoly on the operating system your business software needs to run.
The concept of fairness is completely absent from EULAs. Those who write EULAs believe that they can do anything they like. If you go to your kitchen and find a Microsoft employee eating your ice cream, check your EULA; maybe Microsoft has decided that Microsoft employees can raid your refrigerator.
"But some think the bursts used by GSM protocol create a low frequency envelope that may affect living tissues (that would behave like an AM receiver)."
Prove that, and win a Nobel Prize. Get your name on the front page of every newspaper in the world, and never have to work again.
The interaction of electromagnetic radiation and matter is very well understood. Find some new interaction, and you will be as famous as Einstein.
"On the other hand, the high occurence in this very building compared to the lack of such situation near the large majority of other antennas make me agree with the idea that there is another cause to this particular situation."
There is no reason to believe that it is due to the cell phone tower. My first guess would be that there is a leak in the air conditioning ducts and some poisonous chemical is leaking into the duct and poisoning the air on those floors.
Anyone worried about radio waves causing cancer can try to make that theory work. There is a huge barrier, however, in the form of a very very small number: Planck's Constant. Planck's constant = 6.626068 x 10-34 m2 kg/S. It's that 10**-34 that makes it difficult for low-energy electromagetism like wireless transmissions to interact with chemical reactions. Thirty-four zeros is a LOT of zeros after the decimal point.
Off topic: I've linked to the Encyclopedia Britannica above because the article about Planck's constant is very short. The article in Wikipedia is long. I've frequently seen the Encyclopedia Britannica be misleading because of the severe limitation placed on size of the articles due to paper costs. Wikipedia does not have that problem.
I posted Linus' comment, and I agree, of course. I've sometimes spent 15 minutes writing a comment I thought was useful, and been moderated down to -1.
Now I seem to be getting credit for Torvald's thinking.
Or, maybe I was moderated up for having the brains to re-format what Linus said so that it is more readable?
Name: Linus Torvalds (torvalds AT osdl.org) 5/9/06
___________________
_Arthur (Arthur_ AT sympatico.ca) on 5/9/06 wrote:
I found that distinction between microkernels and "monolithic" kernels useful: With microkernels, when you call a system service, a "message" is generated to be handled by the kernel *task*, to be dispatched to the proper handler (task). There is likely to be at least 2 levels of task-switching (and ring-level switching) in a microkernel call.
___________________
I don't think you should focus on implementation details.
For example, the task-switching could be basically hidden by hardware, and a "ukernel task switch" is not necessarily the same as a traditional task switch, because you may have things - hardware or software conventions - that basically might turn it into something that acts more like a normal subroutine call.
To make a stupid analogy: a function call is certainly "more expensive" than a straight jump (because the function call implies the setup for returning, and the return itself). But you can optimize certain function calls into plain jumps - and it's such a common optimization that it has a name of its own ("tailcall conversion").
In a similar manner, those task switches for the system call have very specific semantics, so it's possible to do them as less than "real" task-switches.
So I wouldn't focus on them, since they aren't necessarily even the biggest performance problem of an ukernel.
The real issue, and it's really fundamental, is the issue of sharing address spaces. Nothing else really matters. Everything else ends up flowing from that fundamental question: do you share the address space with the caller, or put in slightly different terms: can the callee look at and change the callers state as if it were its own (and the other way around)?
Even for a monolithic kernel, the answer is a very emphatic no when you cross from user space into kernel space. Obviously the user space program cannot change kernel state, but it is equally true that the kernel cannot just consider user space to be equivalent to its own data structures (it might use the exact same physical instructions, but it cannot trust the user pointers, which means that in practice, they are totally different things from kernel pointers).
That's another example of where "implementation" doesn't much matter, this time in the reverse sense. When a kernel accesses user space, the actual implementation of that - depending on hw concepts and implementation - may be exactly the same as when it accesses its own data structures: a normal "load" or "store". But despite that identical low-level implementation, there are high-level issues that radically differ.
And that separation of "access space" is a really big deal. I say "access space", because it really is something conceptually different from "address space". The two parts may even "share" the address space (in a monolithic kernel they normally do), and that has huge advantages (no TLB issues etc), but there are issues that means that you end up having protection differences or simply semantic differences between the accesses.
(Where one common example of "semantic" difference might be that one "access space" might take a page fault, while another one is guaranteed to be pinned down - this has some really huge issues for locking around the access, and for dead-lock avoidance etc etc).
So in a traditional kernel, you usually would share the address space, but you'd have protection issues and some semantic differences that mean that the kernel and user space can't access each other freely. And that makes for some really big issues, but a traditional kernel very much tries to minimize them. And most importantly, a traditional kernel shares the access space across all the basic system calls, so that user/kernel difference is the only access space boundary.
Now, the real problem with split acce
I'm sure this will make many moderators unhappy, and they will call it a troll even though the points made are well-documented. However, it needs to be said: The problem is unhappiness. Unhappiness causes obesity and other diseases.
... waiting for anrtx.tacoda.net. Why?
If you kill other people, you should expect that it will make you unhappy. If you are a U.S. taxpayer, you have killed hundreds of thousands of people in the past 10 years. Sure, you didn't kill them yourself, but you paid someone to do it: The U.S. government.
There is so much U.S. government violence that it is not possible for one person to to document it all. However, here is an article that gives a few examples: History surrounding the U.S. wars with Iraq: Four short stories. The U.S. government has invaded 24 countries since the Second World War!
Other reasons people in the U.S. are unhappy:
The U.S. is the most viciously sexist developed society. Any day on U.S. TV you can see women being violent toward men, in situations in which it is expected you will take it as a joke. Most men in the U.S. don't recognize the adversarial behavior of U.S. women for what it is. Most men in the U.S. think that the anger of U.S. women is "justified"; they aren't really partners with their wives, their relationship is "yes dear". "Yes dear" does not help women be happy; it only gives them further opportunity to act out their anger. Sociologists have done 17 studies, all of which show that women are responsible for slightly more domestic violence than men.
A huge percentage of young men in the U.S. spend a large part of their time playing computer games. That usually means they spend a large part of their time pretending to kill other people. Think about it: That can't be good. The years from 3 to 33 are years when people learn to socialize. For example, that's when people learn to deal with the problems of a sexist society. In the later years, people learn to accept more responsibility and to be managers and other leaders of society. They learn how to know and express their own needs and to think about and satisfy the needs of others at the same time. People who fill many hours playing games don't spend those same hours learning about themselves and others, and the world. How could they expect to be happy?
The state and federal governments in the U.S. have a higher percentage of their citizens in prison than any country in the world. Vice-President Cheney's company is building prisons for the U.S. government.
The U.S. government pays more for secret surveillance than any country in the world, ever. There are the NSA, CIA, FBI, and several other U.S. government agencies who are authorized to operate in any country of the world, and kill people there. U.S. taxpayers are not allowed to know even the names of some of the agencies. They are expected to pay, but they are not allowed to know how the money is spent.
If you consider conflict of interest, the U.S. government is the most corrupt in the developed world. See this article: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Is it any wonder that two men whose families and friends and business associates have investments in oil and weapons companies have started a war and raised the price of gasoline?
Those are a few of the reasons why people are unhappy in the United States. People overeat when they are unhappy. Overeating is one of the reasons that people in the U.S. have medical problems.
--
Does OpenVPN require opening a port in the hardware firewall? Can OpenVPN establish a connection when the firewall does not have an internet address, but is connected to another firewall, over which we don't have control?
I don't see anything on the OpenVPN web site about this.
One side of our system is behind a NAT with an Internet address. The other side is at an international airport, and we don't have control over the Internet arrangements there. We can only connect to their firewall.
From the story: "I tell people I bought a 360 for Oblivion. But I really bought it for the ladies of DOA."
To me that's amazing, CmdrTaco.
The years from 3 to 33 are years when people learn to socialize. For example, that's when people learn to deal with the problems of a sexist society. In the later years, people learn to accept more responsibility and to be managers and other leaders of society. They learn how to know and express their own needs and to think about and satisfy the needs of others at the same time.
People who fill many hours playing games don't spend those same hours learning about themselves and others, and the world.
Yes that's true, but underlying the Symantec hits is an enormous amount of lost time and pain. -- From a fellow sufferer.
Trouble with a Symantec product? Symantec Error gets 3,000,000 hits.
James,
I was surprised when I read your first comment in this thread and the one above. Very few people, in my experience, understand scientific methods or language. It's obvious that you do.
I agree that Janov's Institute seems cultish now, based on reading the web site. My experience is from 30 years ago, when what was called "self-primaling" was encouraged by Janov.
However, you seem to think that reading the web site and my short comment gives you a good idea of the work done in the field. There's plenty of material; there seems to be no hint of that on the Institute web site.
Still your guess may be a good one. I once applied to be a researcher at Janov's institute. I was told they didn't do research. No one connected with Janov seems to have an understanding of science.
Off topic: I am trying to advise someone in university what computer related field in which to specialize. She currently is impressed with AI. Is Artificial Intelligence advanced enough that someone who does not have a PhD should specialize in it? Or is it still work done in research labs, and far from having practical uses? Judging from your web site, I think you may have some ideas and maybe links to web sites.
I agree with what you said. I think you meant "not falsifiable". What was weird for me when I read "The Primal Scream" for the first time was that the book, basically, proposes an easily testable theory. Most "theories" of Psychology are cleverly arranged to be untestable.
I have personal experience that Janov's theory works.
Primal Therapy is a cure for depression. However, it's a lot of work, and most people are looking for an externally administered way out.
It's possible to read the book and do what it says. But that is very scary and only someone with a strong sense of logic is able to guide himself or herself.
Microsoft is making more money by supplying insecure software, and then withholding or providing fixes.
If that is the Microsoft business model, there will never be a secure version of Windows.
I'm against piracy, but I don't like how Microsoft does business. All of us legal customers are put through a lot of hassles so that Microsoft can prevent piracy. All of us legal customers must deal with the vulnerabilities so that Microsoft will be able to make money selling the next version of Windows, that really, really, this time, will be more secure.
The only real answer I can see is software that is designed to be secure, and is open source and free.
Note that OpenVPN requires that you have access to the router to open a port.
Hamachi works when you don't have access to the router. In some cases in which the router in administered by someone who won't give you access, Hamachi can work where OpenVPN won't.
Question: The new "Genuine Advantage" tester is an Update on Windows Update. What happens if you just don't install it?