The most traumatic thing most of Slashdot has experienced is having their parents turn off their internet connection, come on, all we're going to get is comments about alcohol or how we're becoming a drug-obsessed culture.
Experience something *really* traumatic or know someone who has, and you'll see the benefit of research like this.
From the IEEE's Spectrum magazine last year, they actually measured RF signals on flights and reported on the results. No smoking gun where an accident was caused by a cell phone, but still interesting nonetheless (and no ads!).
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar06/3069
Must've been humming the tunes in her head - either that or she was talking on the phone while the radio was playing in the background, that's transmission of copyrighted material over a digital medium, string her up!
All the argument used to defend Google could also have been used to defend companies that helped facilitate the slave trade.
"Honoring a sovereign nation" - Check "Every culture has different values" - Check "Working within the law to make some money" - Check
And with the argument of, "We will be nice to the slaves, and since other companies would undoubtedly step in and be cruel to them - we are justified in our assistance," we complete the similarities.
Money rules all - there's nothing new under the sun.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of slow-writing middle aged women suddenly cried out in terror.
The most traumatic thing most of Slashdot has experienced is having their parents turn off their internet connection, come on, all we're going to get is comments about alcohol or how we're becoming a drug-obsessed culture. Experience something *really* traumatic or know someone who has, and you'll see the benefit of research like this.
From the IEEE's Spectrum magazine last year, they actually measured RF signals on flights and reported on the results. No smoking gun where an accident was caused by a cell phone, but still interesting nonetheless (and no ads!). http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar06/3069
Must've been humming the tunes in her head - either that or she was talking on the phone while the radio was playing in the background, that's transmission of copyrighted material over a digital medium, string her up!
And the RIAA executive thought he was just having another wet dream!
All the argument used to defend Google could also have been used to defend companies that helped facilitate the slave trade.
"Honoring a sovereign nation" - Check
"Every culture has different values" - Check
"Working within the law to make some money" - Check
And with the argument of, "We will be nice to the slaves, and since other companies would undoubtedly step in and be cruel to them - we are justified in our assistance," we complete the similarities.
Money rules all - there's nothing new under the sun.