Off a "regular" antenna the radiation propagates radially out from the antenna. I don't know about your phone, though it would still have to be omnidirectional or you'd have to turn a certain way to get a signal.
Of course, I could be wrong...hopefully someone smarter about these things will chime in.
I'm not making a wag about his death. He died of brain cancer, that much is known. No, I didn't need to find some reason for his death. I was just struck by the coincidence, as he was on his cell phone all the time. Yes, it could be a coincidence. It could also be due to cell phone usage. No one can say either way. I'm open to either reason, given proof. There's enough uncertainty in the studies (i.e. long term effects) for me to say, "cell phones are perfectly safe."
I thought of that too. I believe the power drops off with the square of the distance. Also, if the antenna is right up against your head you'd get everything coming off that side of the antenna, while if the phone is further away you'd intersect a smaller slice of the radiation pie.
This is not a very rigorous look at what's going on, obviously. I suppose I could sit down and do the math but I'll leave that exercise to the reader.
It doesn't seem like a good idea to put a transmitter strong enough to broadcast for miles right up against the side of my head. When I had a cell phone I used a bluetooth headset in the hopes of lessening the amount of radiation entering my skull.
A few years back my boss died of brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme). The tumor was right above his left ear...the side he held his cell phone to. He went to the doctor in May for headaches and the next March we were at his funeral. Yes, it's only one anecdotal case, but still it reinforces my belief that holding a cell phone against your head just can't be good for you.
...because he fears he'd be locked into buying blades from one vendor?
Seriously, though, if the guy cleaned up it might do the whole "movement" some good. If he wants converts, looking like a leftover from Woodstock isn't going to help. The message is important but so is the messenger...he needs a PR person.
I'm working on it. In the meantime I'll fill my remaining days with activities other than amassing a collection of 15,000+ images and discovering my inner wrestling boot fetishist.
You just made the point of the article. You're no longer stimulated by what once stimulated you - you need more extreme and different images to get off. Are you better off now because you're turned on by wrestling boots? How much time a day to you spend on these activities?
I pity you and your sad life, for yours is the definition of "empty". Your justifications, your defensiveness, your attack on those against online porn are pathetic. I write all this not as a "religious busybody" (because I'm not particularly religious) but as a human. You're obsessed, addicted, and you don't even know it. Or maybe you do and throw up excuses to justify it.
I agree. The fact that all machines weren't 100% identical makes the need for 3rd party oversight that much more obvious. Before each election every machine should be minty fresh...wiped completely and all reloaded with the same baseline code. These didn't even come from the factory that way.
The clerk could have gotten enough attention without inviting Diebold-haters to the party...I think that's detracting from the main problem.
Your used car salesman analogy doesn't fit the situation. I want outsiders to check the system. I don't want the clerk to be able to bring in whoever he wants to have unsupervised access to the machines. Blackboxvoting.org is not impartial either.
I didn't see where Diebold threatened anyone. The clerk was not too bright to just call in some group to evaluate the state's machines. He clearly didn't have the authority to do so and will undoubtedly lose his position.
Hmmm...given the tone of the submission ("make sure the 'right' candidates win", "Diebold goon", "company witch doctor") I think I know who the submitter is. Bruce Funk, step away from the computer. You are not the hero whistleblower you thought you'd be. You're a future ex-clerk who clearly didn't know what he was doing.
Look, I'm all for openness with these voting machines but I'd be much happier if some knucklehead didn't have the power to give anyone unsupervised access to the voting machines.
Just when you got used to 10 digit dialing, now even more ways to get a phone number. I'm sure we'll be running out of numbers in the next 10 years and see more digits added. Or will phone numbers become like social security numbers? You register and have one for life.
How many digits in a chinese phone number? Is their system capable of handling billions of numbers?
Accoona gave three (!) results, all from a single source, covering a single press release.
That's because you clicked the "news" button and thus searched their news archive. Had you pressed the "web" button you would have received 200 results. Certainly that's less than 14,700, but how deep into Google's results do you need to go? "Yeah, here's what I was looking for, right at item 8297."
Live.com returns 1,732 and Yahoo 782. Interestingly, mamma.com (a metasearch engine) returned only 33.
But I digress. Look before you push. (yes, the UI is poorly laid out and I naturally want to click the "news" button as well)
Google isn't the only game in town and isn't necessarily the best. I've been using Yahoo mostly and Google when I need to search newsgroups. I use A9 a couple of times a day (yes, I know the results come from Google) to get the Amazon discount.
Recently, though, I've been using Windows Live...the UI is outstanding (no more pages...just one continuous scroll through all the results - I expect to see Google adopt it) and the results are very good. I close all the portal-like features (news, mail) so I'm presented with a nice, uncluttered screen.
I might be able to replace my wife with a little effort, I'd say my kids are pretty indispensable. Sure, I could live without them, but would I want to? If you've got young children you know what I'm talking about...
I usually work 40-45 hours a week so I'm not being worked to death. To encourage the employees to work 1840 hours in a year (46 weeks of 40 hours) the company I work for offers a trip for two to those meeting that threshold...most of my coworkers don't exceed that number of hours by much.
And as further evidence that I'm not working myself to death, I made my post from work:)
They need something to do after their 35 hour work week is completed and during their 5+ weeks of vacation!
(No, I'm not jealous, I'm just cracking wise. My current job (programmer) is hourly (W-2, not 1099), so I get paid for every.1 hours I work and if I don't go to work I don't get paid. This also means I have to save money for sick time and vacation time, but my hourly rate is pretty high. So I could work 35 hours a week and take 8 weeks off, but I go for the cash)
What are the effects of exposure to this paint as dust? Eventually that stuff will come off the walls. I can't imagine breathing copper would be good for you. Would the particles be small enough to get into the bloodstream?
I'm all for cell phone blocking technology, but perhaps a little more research is in order on what happens in the long term.
I still have my Atari 800...and Temple of Apshai. Infocom games too (and a lot of pirated stuff). I had a pirated Happy mod installed on my drive, and when the drive broke the repair shop made me buy a legit Happy mod because they were friends with the guy who made it (otherwise they wouldn't fix my drive). And the good ol' San Leandro Computer Club...
It's taken 4 years to get to ver 0.19, so only 16 more years until version 1.0 is released.
That's perfect! It will be ready just when my kids are finishing high school and getting ready to go off to college! Hopefully the developers will keep working on it so "Myth" doesn't live up to its name.
...someone has to pay the bills. If ad support isn't working then the listeners have to pay. I though this lesson was learned about 5 years ago (though judging by Vonage's IPO filing, maybe not)...
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Off a "regular" antenna the radiation propagates radially out from the antenna. I don't know about your phone, though it would still have to be omnidirectional or you'd have to turn a certain way to get a signal.
Of course, I could be wrong...hopefully someone smarter about these things will chime in.
I'm not making a wag about his death. He died of brain cancer, that much is known. No, I didn't need to find some reason for his death. I was just struck by the coincidence, as he was on his cell phone all the time. Yes, it could be a coincidence. It could also be due to cell phone usage. No one can say either way. I'm open to either reason, given proof. There's enough uncertainty in the studies (i.e. long term effects) for me to say, "cell phones are perfectly safe."
I thought of that too. I believe the power drops off with the square of the distance. Also, if the antenna is right up against your head you'd get everything coming off that side of the antenna, while if the phone is further away you'd intersect a smaller slice of the radiation pie.
This is not a very rigorous look at what's going on, obviously. I suppose I could sit down and do the math but I'll leave that exercise to the reader.
It doesn't seem like a good idea to put a transmitter strong enough to broadcast for miles right up against the side of my head. When I had a cell phone I used a bluetooth headset in the hopes of lessening the amount of radiation entering my skull.
A few years back my boss died of brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme). The tumor was right above his left ear...the side he held his cell phone to. He went to the doctor in May for headaches and the next March we were at his funeral. Yes, it's only one anecdotal case, but still it reinforces my belief that holding a cell phone against your head just can't be good for you.
...because he fears he'd be locked into buying blades from one vendor?
Seriously, though, if the guy cleaned up it might do the whole "movement" some good. If he wants converts, looking like a leftover from Woodstock isn't going to help. The message is important but so is the messenger...he needs a PR person.
Why don't you just die?
I'm working on it. In the meantime I'll fill my remaining days with activities other than amassing a collection of 15,000+ images and discovering my inner wrestling boot fetishist.
You just made the point of the article. You're no longer stimulated by what once stimulated you - you need more extreme and different images to get off. Are you better off now because you're turned on by wrestling boots? How much time a day to you spend on these activities?
I pity you and your sad life, for yours is the definition of "empty". Your justifications, your defensiveness, your attack on those against online porn are pathetic. I write all this not as a "religious busybody" (because I'm not particularly religious) but as a human. You're obsessed, addicted, and you don't even know it. Or maybe you do and throw up excuses to justify it.
I agree. The fact that all machines weren't 100% identical makes the need for 3rd party oversight that much more obvious. Before each election every machine should be minty fresh...wiped completely and all reloaded with the same baseline code. These didn't even come from the factory that way.
The clerk could have gotten enough attention without inviting Diebold-haters to the party...I think that's detracting from the main problem.
Your used car salesman analogy doesn't fit the situation. I want outsiders to check the system. I don't want the clerk to be able to bring in whoever he wants to have unsupervised access to the machines. Blackboxvoting.org is not impartial either.
I clicked on the link and ended up here:
r -review/
http://www.fbi.gov/?2006/03/29/google-page-creato
BTW, there's no review there.
I didn't see where Diebold threatened anyone. The clerk was not too bright to just call in some group to evaluate the state's machines. He clearly didn't have the authority to do so and will undoubtedly lose his position.
Hmmm...given the tone of the submission ("make sure the 'right' candidates win", "Diebold goon", "company witch doctor") I think I know who the submitter is. Bruce Funk, step away from the computer. You are not the hero whistleblower you thought you'd be. You're a future ex-clerk who clearly didn't know what he was doing.
Look, I'm all for openness with these voting machines but I'd be much happier if some knucklehead didn't have the power to give anyone unsupervised access to the voting machines.
Just when you got used to 10 digit dialing, now even more ways to get a phone number. I'm sure we'll be running out of numbers in the next 10 years and see more digits added. Or will phone numbers become like social security numbers? You register and have one for life.
How many digits in a chinese phone number? Is their system capable of handling billions of numbers?
Accoona gave three (!) results, all from a single source, covering a single press release.
That's because you clicked the "news" button and thus searched their news archive. Had you pressed the "web" button you would have received 200 results. Certainly that's less than 14,700, but how deep into Google's results do you need to go? "Yeah, here's what I was looking for, right at item 8297."
Live.com returns 1,732 and Yahoo 782. Interestingly, mamma.com (a metasearch engine) returned only 33.
But I digress. Look before you push. (yes, the UI is poorly laid out and I naturally want to click the "news" button as well)
What web site do you use for search, by the way?
Google isn't the only game in town and isn't necessarily the best. I've been using Yahoo mostly and Google when I need to search newsgroups. I use A9 a couple of times a day (yes, I know the results come from Google) to get the Amazon discount.
Recently, though, I've been using Windows Live...the UI is outstanding (no more pages...just one continuous scroll through all the results - I expect to see Google adopt it) and the results are very good. I close all the portal-like features (news, mail) so I'm presented with a nice, uncluttered screen.
I might be able to replace my wife with a little effort, I'd say my kids are pretty indispensable. Sure, I could live without them, but would I want to? If you've got young children you know what I'm talking about...
I usually work 40-45 hours a week so I'm not being worked to death. To encourage the employees to work 1840 hours in a year (46 weeks of 40 hours) the company I work for offers a trip for two to those meeting that threshold...most of my coworkers don't exceed that number of hours by much.
:)
And as further evidence that I'm not working myself to death, I made my post from work
They need something to do after their 35 hour work week is completed and during their 5+ weeks of vacation!
(No, I'm not jealous, I'm just cracking wise. My current job (programmer) is hourly (W-2, not 1099), so I get paid for every
The Grand Prize, an Alienware computer, runs Windows:
Powered by Windows XP operating systems, the Aurora 7500 provides unparalleled compatibility with hardware, software, and peripheral devices.
So Linux isn't ready for the desktop, it's not fit for education, and now they can't even give it away. Firefox confirms, Linux is dying!
(it's funny, laugh)
I suggest you don't apply this test to your marriage...
What are the effects of exposure to this paint as dust? Eventually that stuff will come off the walls. I can't imagine breathing copper would be good for you. Would the particles be small enough to get into the bloodstream?
I'm all for cell phone blocking technology, but perhaps a little more research is in order on what happens in the long term.
What if someone offered you one of these for one of your hands?
I still have my Atari 800...and Temple of Apshai. Infocom games too (and a lot of pirated stuff). I had a pirated Happy mod installed on my drive, and when the drive broke the repair shop made me buy a legit Happy mod because they were friends with the guy who made it (otherwise they wouldn't fix my drive). And the good ol' San Leandro Computer Club...
Damn I'm old now...
It's taken 4 years to get to ver 0.19, so only 16 more years until version 1.0 is released.
That's perfect! It will be ready just when my kids are finishing high school and getting ready to go off to college! Hopefully the developers will keep working on it so "Myth" doesn't live up to its name.
...someone has to pay the bills. If ad support isn't working then the listeners have to pay. I though this lesson was learned about 5 years ago (though judging by Vonage's IPO filing, maybe not)...
I was thinking of the API, not the hardware...that MS developed a consistent interface that allowed the software to be compiled for both platforms.