To shamelessly appropriate from The Babylon Bee, "private companies shouldn't be allowed to control what people see on the Internet, say people who think private companies should be allowed to control what people see on the Internet".
All that is true of RF radiation as well, especially in the frequency ranges used for mobile phones, WiFi, and so forth. The body is pretty opaque to those photons, so there is not much reasonable concern beyond mild surface and near-surface heating. Those concerns are much greater for sunlight, but the "RF allergy" people never complain about walking outside.
Strenuous exercise very often involves more than 800 W of power. My concern was not with the nameplate power, it was with the sheer ignorance and apparent incompetence of the builder.
Blood oximeters would not work if that were true. Pick up a flashlight and try to shine it through your fingers. Besides, if your body were transparent to RF waves, that means they would not interact with your body and so couldn't cause harm.
More to the point, visible light (not UV) and even infrared have much more energy per photon than what mobile phones transmit, and you are exposed to higher energies when you go outside than when you have a phone nearby.
Many adult human males have cross-sections from the front or back of 0.6 to 0.7 square meters. The Sun delivers 1400 W/m/m to the Earth, so someone on the low end of that range would -- if they were lying down -- receive about 840 W of energy from the Sun. Even if you de-rate that because you only spend (say) 5% of the time in direct sun, and you only expose 20% of your maximum cross-section on average, 1% of the total is still 8.4 W. A person absorbs much more electromagnetic radiation from the Sun than from a phone that is right next to them.
For that matter, a typical human body emits about 100 W of energy. Good news for/.ers: Sleeping next to another person is known to the State of California to lead to cancer and/or reproductive harm!
What's interesting about the bitcoin crowd is that they rely so heavily on ignorance and lies. Tulipmania is not obscure to anyone with even a passing familiarity with economics. It is the first well-known speculative bubble in a market. My other comment in this thread -- posted almost four hours before yours -- listed two prominent examples of bubbles from 10 and 20 years ago. Is it going to be bitcoin this decade?
You only think that makes no sense because nobody hired you to work for the latest hot blockchain deep learning pen testing VR natural language processing startup. Did Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net reject your application?
Perhaps you should not have mentioned particular government clearance levels if you were talking about some kind of non-government background check.
However, the same incentives that led the government's contract background checkers to cheat would apply to private sector firms, with the additional problem that it is much harder for a private employer to check the results they got.
The reason that employers pay a premium to cleared people is not simply because it costs money to do the background check, or for anything having to do with government or government contractors. It is simple supply and demand. Imposing a strict background check significantly restricts the supply of candidates. Whatever the level of demand, there will be a smaller supply of workers who pass that check than those who might or might not pass, and so salaries will tend to be higher for people who do pass it.
Until a few years ago, most of the background investigations were contracted out. The biggest contractor(s? I forget) got in serious trouble for regularly faking information, and the government decided it wasn't worth contracting the checks to outside companies.
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To shamelessly appropriate from The Babylon Bee, "private companies shouldn't be allowed to control what people see on the Internet, say people who think private companies should be allowed to control what people see on the Internet".
All that is true of RF radiation as well, especially in the frequency ranges used for mobile phones, WiFi, and so forth. The body is pretty opaque to those photons, so there is not much reasonable concern beyond mild surface and near-surface heating. Those concerns are much greater for sunlight, but the "RF allergy" people never complain about walking outside.
Strenuous exercise very often involves more than 800 W of power. My concern was not with the nameplate power, it was with the sheer ignorance and apparent incompetence of the builder.
Blood oximeters would not work if that were true. Pick up a flashlight and try to shine it through your fingers. Besides, if your body were transparent to RF waves, that means they would not interact with your body and so couldn't cause harm.
If it was built by someone stupid enough to ask that question, no.
More to the point, visible light (not UV) and even infrared have much more energy per photon than what mobile phones transmit, and you are exposed to higher energies when you go outside than when you have a phone nearby.
Many adult human males have cross-sections from the front or back of 0.6 to 0.7 square meters. The Sun delivers 1400 W/m/m to the Earth, so someone on the low end of that range would -- if they were lying down -- receive about 840 W of energy from the Sun. Even if you de-rate that because you only spend (say) 5% of the time in direct sun, and you only expose 20% of your maximum cross-section on average, 1% of the total is still 8.4 W. A person absorbs much more electromagnetic radiation from the Sun than from a phone that is right next to them.
For that matter, a typical human body emits about 100 W of energy. Good news for /.ers: Sleeping next to another person is known to the State of California to lead to cancer and/or reproductive harm!
Is this where someone posts an affiliate link spam advertising some sale on tin-foil pants?
Tin foil: It's not just for hats any more!
Did they make a Beowulf cluster of those?
What's interesting about the bitcoin crowd is that they rely so heavily on ignorance and lies. Tulipmania is not obscure to anyone with even a passing familiarity with economics. It is the first well-known speculative bubble in a market. My other comment in this thread -- posted almost four hours before yours -- listed two prominent examples of bubbles from 10 and 20 years ago. Is it going to be bitcoin this decade?
That's what they told me about stock prices in 2000 and housing prices in 2006/2007, too.
Tulip bulbs are where the money will be at over the next 12 months.
Presumably you were thinking 3.5mm, the standard size for small electronics that have an analog audio jack, and somehow the units got swapped :)
Does Amazon carry adapter cables to convert from those 3.5" jacks to the 1/8â jacks that most of my equipment has?
You only think that makes no sense because nobody hired you to work for the latest hot blockchain deep learning pen testing VR natural language processing startup. Did Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net reject your application?
The Estonian government was informed of the breach by August 30: http://estonianworld.com/techn...
Still, it's good that they moved reasonably quickly to use a more secure algorithm.
Given Oracle's licensing enforcement, choosing their database is usually a major failure in your execution plan all on its own.
Give Rust some time. Have you ever tried to drink Rust-flavored Kool Aid? It's horrible!
Apparently, the future of work is driving a truck for somebody else's trucking business. Yes, this implies the article is written for AIs.
Don't ever be the first to stop applauding! I mean, booing!
So exactly where was Woz when he exceeded the speed limit by that much, and attempted to enter what was probably a "reckless driving" speed range?
Perhaps you should not have mentioned particular government clearance levels if you were talking about some kind of non-government background check.
However, the same incentives that led the government's contract background checkers to cheat would apply to private sector firms, with the additional problem that it is much harder for a private employer to check the results they got.
The reason that employers pay a premium to cleared people is not simply because it costs money to do the background check, or for anything having to do with government or government contractors. It is simple supply and demand. Imposing a strict background check significantly restricts the supply of candidates. Whatever the level of demand, there will be a smaller supply of workers who pass that check than those who might or might not pass, and so salaries will tend to be higher for people who do pass it.
Until a few years ago, most of the background investigations were contracted out. The biggest contractor(s? I forget) got in serious trouble for regularly faking information, and the government decided it wasn't worth contracting the checks to outside companies.
... until they include a few improvement improvements to improve on things they previously improved.
Kumbayah, comrade, kumbayah!
Sigh, stupid phone keyboard. 2000 / 36 = 55.555....