I must point out that the determination of whether cell phones are safe to use should not be based on what does or does not happen to a single cell phone user. Rather, we have to test a whole bunch of cell phone users over a period of many years. That's how us scientists get our money. Of course, while we're doing our research we'll be sure to help stir up controversy about whether cell phones may or may not be dangerous because the publicity makes us feel important and, more importantly, helps us get more money. So it goes.
I had originally intended to defend scientific method in this post even though I know your post was a joke, but my cynicism is in overdrive today.
(fnord) Marajuana has been known to occasionally cause paranoia, but I think what these parents are on is the Standard American Paranoia Trip (Concerned Mom Flavor). You get high on it after watching a lot of American Media, espcecially your local news. It works best if you give up trying to critically analyze things and start acting like a knee-jerk marionet puppet. *sigh*
Are Wi-Fi signals all that different from standard radio signals? Aren't all of us being bombarded by stuff like this all the time that we're able to listen to good tunes on our AM/FM radios in our car?
I mean--I am basically clueless here--what's the issue? Is it the wavelength or what?
Okay, here's me actually clicking on some links, and I get this:
The Wi-Fi Alliance says Wi-Fi networks are safe. The radio waves in a Wi-Fi network use the same frequency as wireless home phones, and have one-thirtieth the power of cordless phones, said Grimm, the spokesman for the group.
Now the only catch is that's from the Wi-Fi alliance and they cannot be taken to be entirely neutral in this affair. Can anyone not associated with them back them up on this claim? Is a Wi-Fi network really the same frequency as wireless home phones but 1/30 the power? 'Cause if so, I think we can just chock this one up to Standard American Paranoia (Concerned Mom Flavor) and move on.
Maybe you really did pay for $150 in groceries in pennies. I mean maybe the store decided not to make a big deal about it. But in general, the store should nto be required to accept impractical monetary units.
I realize it's going to be pointless to argue with you about this because you're obviously really, really sure you're correct. I'm confident that one day in the far flung future, you'll realize that you're not correct. (Unless it turns out that you are, of course.:-) )
As an example: if your argument were correct, why can't I put 50 pennies in a soda pop machine and get out a pop? How come I can't make a phone call from a pay phone with pennies? How come I can't put a 50 dollar bill into one of these machines? Why aren't the people that make this machines required to accept pennies as well as other forms of legal tender?
Now you'll probably say, "well that's 'cause it's not practical to make the machine that way." And on that point, I'd agree with you. But I would also argue that there are various situations in which it's not practical to accept certain, specific forms of legal tender in the paying of a bill. For example, a bill of $150 in pennies. Do you realize this is 15,000 pennies! If I did the math right (questionable), that's gonna weigh about 90.9 lbs.
So I guess my question is, how did you manage to carry 90 lbs. + the weight of your groceries? I suppose you had a really good shopping cart? And why the hell didn't you just go to the bank first? And why do you seem to like being cruel to grocery store clerks?
<FAKE>
Hey, hey, hey!!! Stop all this piracy supportin' talk, OKay? If ya don't me an' my RIAA buddies might just have ta get medieval on your butt.
</FAKE>
It's gettin' pretty bad here, folks. Now editing the registry is mad, evil, hax0r piracy. argh. When oh when will RIAA go away? That's what I wanna know.
either pressing the shift key doesn't do a damn thing, in which case the student "falsely damaged" their reputation but did not violate the DMCA, or pressing the shift key breaks their 'copy protection' scheme, in which case he may have violated the DMCA but he did not damage their reputation, their lame product did. But not both.
But the way our legal system works, they can go on claiming both for a while until it looks like they are for sure going to lose/win one claim or the other. Then they can drop the claim that's not working for them. It's all lawyer games. (NOTE: IANAL and NBAYROS (Never Believe Anything You Read On Slashdot))
The odds of a programmer 'accidently' adding working code capable of deleting an end user's files or participating in a DDoS is about as likely as a programmer 'accidently' having sex with a pretty woman.
No, it really is simply "penises". Many words don't have the strange "-i" suffix when pluralized. As an example, the proper plural of "virus" is just "viruses" not "virii" or "virui".
I'm not sure about "octopus" though. Is the plural form "octopuses" or "octopi"? I know I've heard (non-techie) people pluralize it as "octopi" so that plural form must be at least semi-legit.
Oh yeah. Hey, let's give up using a unit of force (lbs.) in everyday situations. I wanna switch over to the English unit of mass (slugs). Yeah, that oughta be cool.
According to Google, there are 0.0310809502 slugs to the pound. So I mass about 4.66 slugs.
this running gag still gets a chuckle out of me, whilest all the other ones quickly became stupid. Maybe it's 'cause the Simpsons people thought it up (originally) and they're really cool.
No it didn't. MS got by in spite of it. Partly because B.G. is paranoid (i.e., he's always looking for the next threat so he saw these coming), and partly because they already had quite a bit of money built up then thanks to good ol' DOS licensing.
Don't even bother with a Netscape / IE comparison either--same thing--MS didn't have "First Mover" advantage (B.G. terminology I believe) but it did have 1E50 lb. Gorrilia advantage, which, generally speaking, is enough to crush First Movers into itty bitty little pieces of uninteresting rubbish.
Corporations* are always evil to some degree or another. (Yes, that includes you, IBM--and you too, Redhat (et. al.).) Your mistake was in seeing things as a contest in which you root for some team to win. They're all evil. The only way that we win is to have the really, really evil ones take each other out (if we're very lucky), and try to somehow prevent the other ones from becoming as bad as the most evil ones. It pays to be cynical.
* echo Corporations | sed -e s/pora/rup/ and you will see why.
Oh, and never believe anything you read on slashdot... including this.
Nah, nah, nah. That's all lies. The top nVidia execs came from the planet Monop in the galaxy Oly. Their high tech, snazzy spacecraft crashed on this planet one day because they were smoking too much grass and also, their VR UI was second rate to the one made by ATI Trans-Dimensional.
Since then, the nVidia people have been trying to get enough money together so they can rebuild or repair their ship and get the hell off this blighted ball of mud and water we call "Earth".
I automatically believed something Darl McBride said was the truth, and the whole truth, without checking the real facts. I won't make that mistake again.
good. also remember to never trust anything you read on slashdot. or anything on TV. or anything your parents tell you. definitely don't believe something an elected (or apointed) official tells you. Hell, even when a friend I know and trust tells me something that sounds too good to be true or just really weird, I ask, "what's your source of information?" or sometimes, "how do you know this is true? how many different news articles have you seen verifying this?" etc.
But I want to stress that I don't believe that most of these inacuracies that people foist upon you are done on purpose. (Well, maybe I'd make an exception for the elected/appointed officials.) Generally people are just careless and they don't fact check enough. They just ass|u|me that the other person did all the necessary fact checking.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can adequately explained by stupidity.
Mr. Pawling (my high school physics teacher): Throughout your life, most of the things people try to teach you will be half-truths.
(note: his class was not an exception even to his own rule.:-) )
What, what? We're not stealing--or at least not technically. Oh, wait... sorry, my bad. See, whenever I read anything from Bill Gates I mentally replace every occurence of "innovate", "innovation", "innovating", etc. with the appropriate form of the word "steal" or "theft". Because that's what "Microsoft's freedom to innovate" actually means. Occasionally, I get pissed off that B.G. tarnished and ruined such a cool word as "innovate".
This rant has been brought to you by the letter K, the number 42 and years of smouldering anger at Microsoft's ineptitude and apathy.
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I must point out that the determination of whether cell phones are safe to use should not be based on what does or does not happen to a single cell phone user. Rather, we have to test a whole bunch of cell phone users over a period of many years. That's how us scientists get our money. Of course, while we're doing our research we'll be sure to help stir up controversy about whether cell phones may or may not be dangerous because the publicity makes us feel important and, more importantly, helps us get more money. So it goes.
I had originally intended to defend scientific method in this post even though I know your post was a joke, but my cynicism is in overdrive today.
(fnord) Marajuana has been known to occasionally cause paranoia, but I think what these parents are on is the Standard American Paranoia Trip (Concerned Mom Flavor). You get high on it after watching a lot of American Media, espcecially your local news. It works best if you give up trying to critically analyze things and start acting like a knee-jerk marionet puppet. *sigh*
Are Wi-Fi signals all that different from standard radio signals? Aren't all of us being bombarded by stuff like this all the time that we're able to listen to good tunes on our AM/FM radios in our car?
I mean--I am basically clueless here--what's the issue? Is it the wavelength or what?
Okay, here's me actually clicking on some links, and I get this:
Now the only catch is that's from the Wi-Fi alliance and they cannot be taken to be entirely neutral in this affair. Can anyone not associated with them back them up on this claim? Is a Wi-Fi network really the same frequency as wireless home phones but 1/30 the power? 'Cause if so, I think we can just chock this one up to Standard American Paranoia (Concerned Mom Flavor) and move on.
Maybe you really did pay for $150 in groceries in pennies. I mean maybe the store decided not to make a big deal about it. But in general, the store should nto be required to accept impractical monetary units.
I realize it's going to be pointless to argue with you about this because you're obviously really, really sure you're correct. I'm confident that one day in the far flung future, you'll realize that you're not correct. (Unless it turns out that you are, of course. :-) )
As an example: if your argument were correct, why can't I put 50 pennies in a soda pop machine and get out a pop? How come I can't make a phone call from a pay phone with pennies? How come I can't put a 50 dollar bill into one of these machines? Why aren't the people that make this machines required to accept pennies as well as other forms of legal tender?
Now you'll probably say, "well that's 'cause it's not practical to make the machine that way." And on that point, I'd agree with you. But I would also argue that there are various situations in which it's not practical to accept certain, specific forms of legal tender in the paying of a bill. For example, a bill of $150 in pennies. Do you realize this is 15,000 pennies! If I did the math right (questionable), that's gonna weigh about 90.9 lbs.
So I guess my question is, how did you manage to carry 90 lbs. + the weight of your groceries? I suppose you had a really good shopping cart? And why the hell didn't you just go to the bank first? And why do you seem to like being cruel to grocery store clerks?
s/tracking/trafficing/
<FAKE>
Hey, hey, hey!!! Stop all this piracy supportin' talk, OKay? If ya don't me an' my RIAA buddies might just have ta get medieval on your butt.
</FAKE>
It's gettin' pretty bad here, folks. Now editing the registry is mad, evil, hax0r piracy. argh. When oh when will RIAA go away? That's what I wanna know.
But the way our legal system works, they can go on claiming both for a while until it looks like they are for sure going to lose/win one claim or the other. Then they can drop the claim that's not working for them. It's all lawyer games. (NOTE: IANAL and NBAYROS (Never Believe Anything You Read On Slashdot))
Well gee, darn, there goes that fantasy...
No, it really is simply "penises". Many words don't have the strange "-i" suffix when pluralized. As an example, the proper plural of "virus" is just "viruses" not "virii" or "virui".
I'm not sure about "octopus" though. Is the plural form "octopuses" or "octopi"? I know I've heard (non-techie) people pluralize it as "octopi" so that plural form must be at least semi-legit.
Sweet. That's an excelent term. It's tempting to write a great, big essay bemoaning slacktivism, but I can't because I am a slacktivist.
Oh yeah. Hey, let's give up using a unit of force (lbs.) in everyday situations. I wanna switch over to the English unit of mass (slugs). Yeah, that oughta be cool.
According to Google, there are 0.0310809502 slugs to the pound. So I mass about 4.66 slugs.
I'm confused. How is dealing with sqrt(2) elephants any easier than a pure, unlabeled sqrt(2)?
Although, I admit it is fun to try to imagine them... it.. whatever...
this running gag still gets a chuckle out of me, whilest all the other ones quickly became stupid. Maybe it's 'cause the Simpsons people thought it up (originally) and they're really cool.
No it didn't. MS got by in spite of it. Partly because B.G. is paranoid (i.e., he's always looking for the next threat so he saw these coming), and partly because they already had quite a bit of money built up then thanks to good ol' DOS licensing.
Don't even bother with a Netscape / IE comparison either--same thing--MS didn't have "First Mover" advantage (B.G. terminology I believe) but it did have 1E50 lb. Gorrilia advantage, which, generally speaking, is enough to crush First Movers into itty bitty little pieces of uninteresting rubbish.
Corporations* are always evil to some degree or another. (Yes, that includes you, IBM--and you too, Redhat (et. al.).) Your mistake was in seeing things as a contest in which you root for some team to win. They're all evil. The only way that we win is to have the really, really evil ones take each other out (if we're very lucky), and try to somehow prevent the other ones from becoming as bad as the most evil ones. It pays to be cynical.
* echo Corporations | sed -e s/pora/rup/ and you will see why.
Oh, and never believe anything you read on slashdot... including this.
I say: Why the hell doesn't slashdot have this?
Nah, nah, nah. That's all lies. The top nVidia execs came from the planet Monop in the galaxy Oly. Their high tech, snazzy spacecraft crashed on this planet one day because they were smoking too much grass and also, their VR UI was second rate to the one made by ATI Trans-Dimensional.
Since then, the nVidia people have been trying to get enough money together so they can rebuild or repair their ship and get the hell off this blighted ball of mud and water we call "Earth".
Or maybe I've been reading too much Illuminatus!
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I know your game. You're working for the Discordians. Or is it the Illuminatists?
What is this "EEO" you're going on about? s/EEO/EOE/g
Are you affiliated with ragingbull.com ?
But surely, it's only plausible if ESR was, in fact, "quoted as saying" it.
good. also remember to never trust anything you read on slashdot. or anything on TV. or anything your parents tell you. definitely don't believe something an elected (or apointed) official tells you. Hell, even when a friend I know and trust tells me something that sounds too good to be true or just really weird, I ask, "what's your source of information?" or sometimes, "how do you know this is true? how many different news articles have you seen verifying this?" etc.
But I want to stress that I don't believe that most of these inacuracies that people foist upon you are done on purpose. (Well, maybe I'd make an exception for the elected/appointed officials.) Generally people are just careless and they don't fact check enough. They just ass|u|me that the other person did all the necessary fact checking.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can adequately explained by stupidity.
Mr. Pawling (my high school physics teacher): Throughout your life, most of the things people try to teach you will be half-truths. :-) )
(note: his class was not an exception even to his own rule.
Hey, watch it with that "you people" talk, mister. That sounds like another dicto simpliciter to me. ;-)
My opinion? Be happy. Lotsa people kinda suck once you get to know 'em. Anti-social is the way ta be! :-)
What, what? We're not stealing--or at least not technically. Oh, wait... sorry, my bad. See, whenever I read anything from Bill Gates I mentally replace every occurence of "innovate", "innovation", "innovating", etc. with the appropriate form of the word "steal" or "theft". Because that's what "Microsoft's freedom to innovate" actually means. Occasionally, I get pissed off that B.G. tarnished and ruined such a cool word as "innovate".
This rant has been brought to you by the letter K , the number 42 and years of smouldering anger at Microsoft's ineptitude and apathy.