I believe his approach was probably more effective. If you go around insulting people, they're less likely to take you seriously or listen to your opinion in the future.
But if we take that approach to everything then the idiots will always win eventually, leading to idiocracy.
If you aren't at least introducing concepts related to dosage, population level statistical study, various epidemiological techniques, you are basically just waving your hands from first principles.
I wonder how much of the occasional health panic that springs up around wifi - and indeed other technologies - can actually be attributed to the high pitched hums that can be emitted by badly manufactured devices.
Good post!! But really no need to post it here you need to fax this (oh wait that may also cause cancer)
That thermal FAX paper also contains massive amounts of oestrogen imitators that will make you sterile and grow massive moobs. Watch out for those next time you touch a till receipt in a shop...!
Science Media Centre manager Peter Griffin says the death of Te Horo pupil Ethan Wyman from a brain tumour was a tragedy for his family, friends and school mates, but that to blame it on wi-fi is wrong.
Mr Griffin notes there is no evidence anywhere in peer-reviewed literature to suggest wi-fi signals pose an elevated risk of developing brain cancers.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
You'd think that as a "scientist" Mr. Peter Griffin would have heard of the Stark-Einstein of photochemical equivalence, which tells you why WiFi is harmless. It was only one of the most studied pieces of science of the 20th century. Simply saying "we have no evidence" is a bit feeble.
"Naturally occurring potassium is composed of three isotopes, one of which, 40K, is radioactive. Traces (0.012%) of this isotope is found in all potassium making it the most common radioactive element in the human body and in many biological materials, as well as in common building materials such as concrete."
(Wikipedia)
Gee, I hope the "parents" never find out. This is real radioactivity, not the wussy WiFi sort.
OTOH a banana panic would lower the price of one of my favorite fruits, so.... maybe somebody should warn them - they might be feeding their kids cancer-causing bananas right now in their ignorance!
Unfortunately researcher is almost right. I have a teenage relative that only uses instagram and snapchat. She has a Facebook profile but that's only because myself and other "older" relatives use Facebook.
Would you post your stuff to anything that has your parents and "older" relatives on it?
Slashdot Mirror
Seems plausible.
Huh? How is that in any way "plausible"?
Why would they want to kill every plant in the area? (At great expense)
If they do, why do they only do this for power lines and not other types of construction?
If I google for images of "power lines", why is there usually grass underneath?
Did you know that most power lines go across farmer's fields....?
I believe his approach was probably more effective. If you go around insulting people, they're less likely to take you seriously or listen to your opinion in the future.
But if we take that approach to everything then the idiots will always win eventually, leading to idiocracy.
Gluesticks isn't a fruit, it's a carbohydrate.
Do you still remember the garden cress experiment?
As evidenced by all the barren wastelands around the multi-megawatt radio transmitters out there?
Or not.
If you aren't at least introducing concepts related to dosage, population level statistical study, various epidemiological techniques, you are basically just waving your hands from first principles.
You're also willfully ignoring the actual science that's been done regarding electromagnetic radiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectrochemical_process
(In particular the Stark-Einstein law and the lower bound it places on the photon energy needed to cause a chemical reaction)
I wonder how much of the occasional health panic that springs up around wifi - and indeed other technologies - can actually be attributed to the high pitched hums that can be emitted by badly manufactured devices.
Most of it can be attributed to Mr. Paul Brodeur: http://fumento.com/cancer/emf.html
So tell us Mr. Scientist... how does photosynthesis work?
Photosynthesis is a chemical reaction caused by light and it doesn't need UV to work
(red/green light works best)
If light can cause chemical reactions then it can also cause cancer.
What he really needs to to is to grow a pair and tell them not to be so fucking stupid (or words to that effect).
They'll also have to pull down all those cancer-causing concrete buildings...
Good post!! But really no need to post it here you need to fax this (oh wait that may also cause cancer)
That thermal FAX paper also contains massive amounts of oestrogen imitators that will make you sterile and grow massive moobs. Watch out for those next time you touch a till receipt in a shop...!
What about Gold Pressed Latinum?
Science Media Centre manager Peter Griffin says the death of Te Horo pupil Ethan Wyman from a brain tumour was a tragedy for his family, friends and school mates, but that to blame it on wi-fi is wrong.
Mr Griffin notes there is no evidence anywhere in peer-reviewed literature to suggest wi-fi signals pose an elevated risk of developing brain cancers.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
You'd think that as a "scientist" Mr. Peter Griffin would have heard of the Stark-Einstein of photochemical equivalence, which tells you why WiFi is harmless. It was only one of the most studied pieces of science of the 20th century. Simply saying "we have no evidence" is a bit feeble.
Anything with potassium in it is radioactive.
"Naturally occurring potassium is composed of three isotopes, one of which, 40K, is radioactive. Traces (0.012%) of this isotope is found in all potassium making it the most common radioactive element in the human body and in many biological materials, as well as in common building materials such as concrete."
(Wikipedia)
Gee, I hope the "parents" never find out. This is real radioactivity, not the wussy WiFi sort.
OTOH a banana panic would lower the price of one of my favorite fruits, so .... maybe somebody should warn them - they might be feeding their kids cancer-causing bananas right now in their ignorance!
Speaking as a parent, a pamphlet called "Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wi-Fi in Schools" implies that there were schools with *UNSAFE* WiFi.
If WiFi can be unsafe, I don't want it in my school. My snowflake deserves a cancer-free life.
Are any bugs truly "random"? I always thought computers were deterministic machines.
OK, maybe process scheduling bugs are fairly random...the point is that the headline makes it sound like bugs just happen all by themselves.
RTFA
Did you mean RTF S .
The Ministry of Education is run by people who publish "guidelines for the safe use of Wi-Fi in schools" so what do you expect?
You think that's bad? I just ate a banana...
You expect us to believe a page on the Internet?
Sure, but first you have to invent the Star Trek replicator and holodeck. At a price that everybody can afford.
People actually still use Facebook and Twitter? Facebook's problems are well know, and Twitter is too wordy.
Facebook is its own worst enemy.
Their mule-headed instance that *everybody* sees *everything* doesn't work when teens have parents on there.
Unfortunately researcher is almost right. I have a teenage relative that only uses instagram and snapchat. She has a Facebook profile but that's only because myself and other "older" relatives use Facebook.
Would you post your stuff to anything that has your parents and "older" relatives on it?
Houston, I think we found the problem....
First, I am an engineer./quote>
Is that the nerd equivalent of "Speaking as a mother, ...."
How does being the owner of something entitle you to someone else being required to provide the means to destroy it?
That's what "ownership" means. You get to control it.
Nope.
If you write an article for a newspaper you can 'own' that article, sure.
That doesn't mean the publisher is obliged to hunt down all the newspapers they sold just because you regret writing it.
Learn your lesson: Never type real information into a website. Name, rank, number. That's it.