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  1. Re:Well, technically on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I'm not your professor. You might spend some time on Wikipedia -- an example of what you're asking about might be the so-called "gamma knife." Individual beams of ionizing radiation converge on the spot to be treated, delivering an increased dose where it's needed without doing as much harm to the surrounding tissue.

  2. Re:Well, technically on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    Then you either use ionizing radiation to begin with, or you use nonionizing radiation in a thermal capacity.

  3. Re:Well, technically on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    No, the logical extreme would be multiple RF photons hitting the same molecule at the same time thus ionizing it.

    Which isn't going to happen.

  4. Re:Well, technically on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    Sure, but if your point was irrelevant, why'd you even bring it up?

    If we took the argument to its logical extreme, I could assert that moving water can create ionizing radiation. Then, when someone argues with me, I'll fondly recall that one (hypothetical) time back at Science Camp when I rigged an X-ray tube up to a water wheel. Optical multipliers are almost that far removed from what's being discussed.

  5. Re:Well, technically on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    I've done it myself in the lab - a 10Mw picosecond pulse neodymium YAG laser puts out light in the infrared (non-ionizing). But with frequency doubling optics you get green light. And you can then combine the green light and some of the infrared and get ultraviolet (ionizing) radiation out. (And incidentally, I was a physic postdoc at the time - that's how you get to play with such cool expensive toys.)

    The phrase "that's not even wrong" comes to mind. Your nonlinear optical crystals aren't doing anything applicable in a discussion of microwaves. But yes, if my brain ever evolves a broadband comb generator with femtosecond recovery times, I'll indeed start to worry about how it might interact with my cell phone.

  6. Re:Non-ionizing on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    Thermal effects. Visible-light lasers harm living cells by burning them up.

  7. Re:Well, technically on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    So non-ionizing radiation could in theory interact in a way to produce ionizing energy. No, they can't. Take a physics class, then post.

  8. Re:follow on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you meant 'transparent'

  9. Re:Hmm on Carmack On the Wii U and PS Vita · · Score: 1

    If the answer involves giving money to Sony, then you asked the wrong question.

  10. Re:Seconded on Dropbox Accused of Lying About Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Regulatory capture has proven to be a much bigger problem than deregulation, I think. It seems better not to give the government so much power in the first place.

    Put another way, a government that's big enough to give Exxon and the MPAA everything they want is big enough to take it away from you.

  11. Re:Comcast isn't a monopoly everywhere on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 0

    Furthermore, what's the difference between a police officer pointing a gun at you and throwing you in jail because you stole some CDs, and a police officer pointing a gun at you and throwing you in jail because of a law that the corporation running the state jail drafted put through the legislature through bribery - sorry, I meant campaign contributions?

    Gee, Wally, maybe you should've thought of that before you gave the government so much power in the first place.

  12. Re:Indeed on Jesse Jackson, Jr. Pins US Job Losses On iPad · · Score: 0

    u mad bro?

  13. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Aussie Security Forces Testing Apple's iOS · · Score: 0

    Well, Hitler certainly regretted his choice of iOS.

  14. Re:What do you think should be on Linux.com? on Linux Foundation Purchases Linux.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's wrong with how they spelled my name?

  15. MOD DOWN on Cognitive Dissident: Interview with John Perry Barlow · · Score: 1

    Score:-1,Idiot

  16. Re:Was there some kind of entry requirement? on Linux Conference Australia Write-Up · · Score: 1

    Is there some kind of unspoken rule that you must be a troll to post on Slashdot? No.