Hmmm, wonder if they ever got past the elementary physics of the device. For the shield to be effective it has to have an earth - and not just any earth either - they need one that's low impedance at the frequency they think is irradiating them. On the bright side - they may well have created the world's largest (ugly) capacitor, and who knows what the e and h fields are doing there - possible making them sicker?
I've wondered this question for some while - it's not different, just how long till the first cases of OOS come about through texting and then how long until all phones come with a warning label - less than 10 years till the first seccessfull prosecution? Potentially rings of the tobacco industry to my mind...
You're right on here. And to limit the potential even further is the effect that the *cause* might have on the altruism of the user. I for one would think differently about what I do with my spare clock cycles depending on who the end user is. Consider a pure research, potentiallly common good project versus a *pure research* funded by a AN Other Megacorp project.
Its still an interesting idea though - BOINC would seem to me to be the next step in allowing different actions (programmed to a certain extent) to be carried out in a distributed fashion.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm, wonder if they ever got past the elementary physics of the device. For the shield to be effective it has to have an earth - and not just any earth either - they need one that's low impedance at the frequency they think is irradiating them. On the bright side - they may well have created the world's largest (ugly) capacitor, and who knows what the e and h fields are doing there - possible making them sicker?
I've wondered this question for some while - it's not different, just how long till the first cases of OOS come about through texting and then how long until all phones come with a warning label - less than 10 years till the first seccessfull prosecution? Potentially rings of the tobacco industry to my mind...
You're right on here. And to limit the potential even further is the effect that the *cause* might have on the altruism of the user. I for one would think differently about what I do with my spare clock cycles depending on who the end user is. Consider a pure research, potentiallly common good project versus a *pure research* funded by a AN Other Megacorp project. Its still an interesting idea though - BOINC would seem to me to be the next step in allowing different actions (programmed to a certain extent) to be carried out in a distributed fashion.