Yeah, but...when I wave my sell phone near my speakers it makes a horrible noise. You're not telling me that's not really powerful radiation are you? Surely it must do something bad to me.
FTA: "Since the advent of cellular phones, researchers have pondered whether a connection exists between cell phone usage"
Ummm, no they haven't. The underlying physics has been known for at least a hundred years and the appropriate experiments to confirm the theory were done to every thinking person's satisfaction long before cellphones even existed.
Anybody who thinks cell phones might cause cancer has no right to call themselves a "researcher". They're in it for the grant money, book sales and daytime TV appearances.
For the short-attention-spanners: a) Cellphone radiation is made of exactly the same stuff as light. b) Visible light is about a million times more energetic (i.e. dangerous) than cellphone radiation. c) Visible light doesn't harm anybody (none of these 'researchers' seem worried about visible light, do they?) d) Physics predicts that ultra violet light is where the cancer problem begins. e) Simple observation confirms point (c) and (d)*
[*] Hence sun creams. Which are made by scientists.
I can understand getting the latest one of your old one breaks and there's not much price difference. What we're talking about here is mass buying, sight unseen and throwing the old one (still perfectly good) in the trash.
How does a hard to remove back improve ergonomics?
My Samsung Android has a removable battery and there's no screws or anything. There's is is a half-inch-long gap between front/back at the bottom, barely wide enough to get your fingernail into. You insert something in the slot, twist, the back pops off.
I've seen others where the back slides downwards if you press it just right. When it's closed there's no gap anywhere.
In short, the whole "ergonomics" thing is bullshit... and you've swallowed it as gospel simply because Apple has repeated it enough times. Go back to your flock of sheeple.
"No child left behind" just drags everybody down to the lowest common denominator.
One of the problems with the USA is that everybody is constantly being told they're amazing. Sometimes a kid needs to be told "you're never going to be a professional singer/dancer/whatever, try something else..."
You don't need more books, you need better teachers.
How you attract good teachers to schools full of self-entitled bratz and/or gang-bangers is another matter. It has to be one of the most unrewarding jobs ever. Some things can't be paid for with money.
Do you have a rock for us to go to? How will we travel there? Where will we live? What will we eat? How many people do you think we can afford to send?
We're a log way from being able to get off this rock. The world will probably go titsup before we do, asteroid or no asteroid.
What I still don't understand is how when the original "climategate" broke, nobody seemed interested in finding the hackers/source.
And now we know who it was they still aren't locked up. If it was an ordinary person doing this there would be an Interpol arrest warrant out and massive punishments. I guess Murdoch has enough embarrassing photos in his collection to prevent this.
The problem is that these people grow up to be politicians and policy makers. They wreck the economy and go to war based on their beliefs then expect the people who learned enough in school to get a proper job to pay the bills for the cleanup.
So... yes. It matters. Religion is NOT a harmless hobby like collecting stamps or arguing Ford vs. Chevy over a beer. Atheists do need to be active/militant against it.
Oh yeah, people are known for having long PINs with a good mix of upper/lower case and symbols.
Not.
Salt? The whole point of salt is that it's known by the attacker. It's there to make sure that two identical files don't encrypt to the same cyphertext. It simply doesn't apply here.
There's not much you can do in this situation apart from asking the user to type in his email password 100 times a day. That would get old really quickly, I can't imagine many people would do it.
Meanwhile, listening environments haven't changed substantially since the first confluence of the walkman
What's changed is the proportion of people who listen on headphones while moving. Back then is was the exception, now it's the norm.
Also the expectations...when everything was uncompressed then you accepted the way music sounded on the car radio. When everything else is compressed and your song isn't then the marketing guys have a problem.
It's also to do with feature creep. Compressed music has become the norm so the ignorant masses think that's just the way it sounds.
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Compared to all the other radio waves out there? Meh.
Lucky for us that cellphones don't emit UV-B then...
Bananas are far more dangerous than cellphones, they emit ionizing radiation.
Yeah, but...when I wave my sell phone near my speakers it makes a horrible noise. You're not telling me that's not really powerful radiation are you? Surely it must do something bad to me.
FTA: "Since the advent of cellular phones, researchers have pondered whether a connection exists between cell phone usage"
Ummm, no they haven't. The underlying physics has been known for at least a hundred years and the appropriate experiments to confirm the theory were done to every thinking person's satisfaction long before cellphones even existed.
Anybody who thinks cell phones might cause cancer has no right to call themselves a "researcher". They're in it for the grant money, book sales and daytime TV appearances.
For the short-attention-spanners:
a) Cellphone radiation is made of exactly the same stuff as light.
b) Visible light is about a million times more energetic (i.e. dangerous) than cellphone radiation.
c) Visible light doesn't harm anybody (none of these 'researchers' seem worried about visible light, do they?)
d) Physics predicts that ultra violet light is where the cancer problem begins.
e) Simple observation confirms point (c) and (d)*
[*] Hence sun creams. Which are made by scientists.
I'll re-institute my boycott of Ubisoft, and nothing of value was lost.
I'm guessing their bean-counters did the math and they don't need you.
Nothing of value was lost to them either...
When you start using units like 'megawatts per hour' to describe energy, nothing else you say engineering related has any credibility.
Huh? When you're talking about electricity *storage* you have to say how long a device can supply the stated power for.
Methinks YOU'RE the one who just dashed your credibility on the rocks of /.
All perl code looks polymorphic to me. I don't ever recall seeing the same perl code twice.
Going from 3 to 5...maybe understandable.
From 4 to 5, sight unseen...not so much. It's pure one-upmanship by people who think they've got too much money.
I can understand getting the latest one of your old one breaks and there's not much price difference. What we're talking about here is mass buying, sight unseen and throwing the old one (still perfectly good) in the trash.
This seems appropriate here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple
How does a hard to remove back improve ergonomics?
My Samsung Android has a removable battery and there's no screws or anything. There's is is a half-inch-long gap between front/back at the bottom, barely wide enough to get your fingernail into. You insert something in the slot, twist, the back pops off.
I've seen others where the back slides downwards if you press it just right. When it's closed there's no gap anywhere.
In short, the whole "ergonomics" thing is bullshit ... and you've swallowed it as gospel simply because Apple has repeated it enough times. Go back to your flock of sheeple.
Schwartz offered a public "congratulations" and privately Sun notified Google they would need to license it.
You'd think the article would mention that if it were true, so: "Citation needed..."
they'll hire the cheapest person they can legally place in front of kids.
With a union they'll hire the exact same person, he'll just get paid more.
"No child left behind" just drags everybody down to the lowest common denominator.
One of the problems with the USA is that everybody is constantly being told they're amazing. Sometimes a kid needs to be told "you're never going to be a professional singer/dancer/whatever, try something else ..."
...and they certainly don't care for sitting in the average classroom day-in, day-out shouting at people who simply won't behave.
You don't need more books, you need better teachers.
How you attract good teachers to schools full of self-entitled bratz and/or gang-bangers is another matter. It has to be one of the most unrewarding jobs ever. Some things can't be paid for with money.
Do you have a rock for us to go to? How will we travel there? Where will we live? What will we eat? How many people do you think we can afford to send?
We're a log way from being able to get off this rock. The world will probably go titsup before we do, asteroid or no asteroid.
What I still don't understand is how when the original "climategate" broke, nobody seemed interested in finding the hackers/source.
And now we know who it was they still aren't locked up. If it was an ordinary person doing this there would be an Interpol arrest warrant out and massive punishments. I guess Murdoch has enough embarrassing photos in his collection to prevent this.
The problem is that these people grow up to be politicians and policy makers. They wreck the economy and go to war based on their beliefs then expect the people who learned enough in school to get a proper job to pay the bills for the cleanup.
So... yes. It matters. Religion is NOT a harmless hobby like collecting stamps or arguing Ford vs. Chevy over a beer. Atheists do need to be active/militant against it.
I take it that you don't fly very often.
Maybe you should get a phone with an 'aircraft' mode...
Oh yeah, people are known for having long PINs with a good mix of upper/lower case and symbols.
Not.
Salt? The whole point of salt is that it's known by the attacker. It's there to make sure that two identical files don't encrypt to the same cyphertext. It simply doesn't apply here.
There's not much you can do in this situation apart from asking the user to type in his email password 100 times a day. That would get old really quickly, I can't imagine many people would do it.
No, really, this is ridiculous
They're just following the Microsoft model of renaming/moving everything just when you get to know where things are and what they're called.
Microsoft spends millions of $$$ a year on usability studies so it must be the correct thing to do.
Hint: the word "now" in your statement has no meaning.
Sure it does.
If I'm reading this then:
a) I exist
b) The event happened in my recent past.
That narrows it down to within a couple of dozen years from my point of view. That makes perfect sense to me.
Meanwhile, listening environments haven't changed substantially since the first confluence of the walkman
What's changed is the proportion of people who listen on headphones while moving. Back then is was the exception, now it's the norm.
Also the expectations...when everything was uncompressed then you accepted the way music sounded on the car radio. When everything else is compressed and your song isn't then the marketing guys have a problem.
It's also to do with feature creep. Compressed music has become the norm so the ignorant masses think that's just the way it sounds.
I don't think it will. The summery seems to be saying only limiting the maximum loudness, the average loudness of a song is still up for grabs.