You are right. Therefore, we have physicists looking at the problem. Don't trust (medical) doctors with Maxwell's equations, people.

EMF emitting body? The plastic cover on most phones isn't the "emitting body"; the antenna is buried inside there somewhere. Breathe easily, and stay away from pickles (as someone pointed out).

Must be Zombie Schrödinger...

Don't you mean, 11?

You, sir, are correct. Einstein was asked which physics theories he thought would stand the test of time, and he listed thermodynamics and general relativity, because they are so general. I'm with Einstein on this one. Oh, and IAAP, by the way.

Fixed that for you! Now there's your source of headache.

About trolls: the norwegian TV channel nrk has a webpage called nrk beta (nrkbeta.no). They write about gadgets, cameras, IT, and generally News for Nerds. For some unfathomable reason, I have never seen a single troll post in any of their discussions. I would love to know why, but I suppose I never will.

Could be, but you are assuming that all the other stuff was intact after the tsunami: generators, pumps, cooling systems for the generators, etc. I'm guessing they were not, since they've had such huge issues getting water circulating after the tsunami.

Did any brits drag Sony in court over this due to the PS3? It sounds like they should?

That's typical, isn't it? Please hack on it, but don't blame us if you fuck up, because it's your fault. Give us your results if you are successful, because that's cheaper than doing it ourselves. Love and kisses, Sony.

How does installing new software on a pc/phone/whatever void warranty? Oh, that's right, it doesn't if you're buying from a sensible company.

Oh yes, STDs can hurt a lot! Fortunately, there is a solution: One up the bum, and you won't be a mum! (NSFW)

I do agree that the Mac UI is mostly sensible. I rather like it, being a mac user and all. But I do know people who did not enjoy changing win->mac. From my perspective, this was because they refused to change their mindset, and tried to make the mac behave like windows - futile, of course. But who's to say? Some people find XFCE more confusing compared to windows XP than they do windows 7 - I can't imagine why, the only difference is that the start menu is not named the start menu. I guess people's brains are different somehow.

I agree. I think Opera had this 10 years ago or something. Seriously.

I agree. You can write them as products with the Heaviside unit step function: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function

In Norway we have a system which is (or sounds) similar: digipost. It was launched this year. So far, I haven't seen or heard of a single "digital letter" sent with it. Annoyingly, it doesn't work in FF4 on the mac because no PDF-in-browser plugin is working (yet). At least, no non-adobe plugin. Because, of course, they implemented this using PDF viewing in-browser. So, you have to download PDFs just to have a peek. Stupid. Oh, and it costs money to send letters, and private persons can't - only Big Companies (whatever that means?).

Did the TomTom device ask for permission to "share your velocity information with local police?"