Radi-0-head - Slashdot User

Comment Active jamming is illegal in the US (Score 3, Informative) 785

by Radi-0-head on Friday July 31, 2009 @03:40PM (#28900691) Attached to: School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones

First off - yes, this is very illegal which is why you don't see the use of active jamming equipment in the US. If they want to instead build a Faraday cage around the entire campus, this would be the "legal" - though prohibitively expensive - way of getting around the issue.

If in fact they attempt this, and staff or a student have a bona-fide medical emergency and are unable to summon emergency services, this district will then be tasked for paying for a home nurse to wipe the drool off of said victim's face for the rest of their lives.

You would think those who work in education would, you know, educate themselves on the relevant laws and ramifications of actions... nahhh, this is the US public school system we're talking about here.

Comment Old news (Score 1) 227

by Radi-0-head on Friday February 06, 2009 @09:31PM (#26760539) Attached to: Privacy Group Calls Google Latitude a Real 'Danger'

Yawn, Loopt has been doing this forever.

Comment Municipal-run Internet... yeah right (Score 1) 149

by Radi-0-head on Saturday November 22, 2008 @01:02PM (#25858367) Attached to: Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video

My city can't even fix a fucking pothole in less than a month, and somehow this place expects a bureaucratically-heavy municipal government to be able to provide reliable Internet service?

I bet all the traffic runs through the police station for "analysis" anyway. Scary.

The First Paper-Based Transistors 177

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @04:52PM from the bend-me-shape-me dept.

Roland Piquepaille found news of research out of Portugal that has resulted in the first paper-based transistors (the original article is less informative than Roland's blog). More precisely, they've made the first field effect transistors (FET) with a paper interstrate layer. According to the research team, such transistors offer the same level of performance as 'state-of-the-art, oxide-based thin film transistors produced on glass or crystalline silicon substrates.' Possible applications include disposable electronics devices, such as paper displays, smart labels, bio-applications or RFID tags. The research will be published in IEEE Electron Device Letters in September.

U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders 658

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @12:21PM from the got-a-few-things-to-get-off-of-his-chest dept.

sleeplesseye writes "In a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of the band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce mandatory French-style service disconnections to end music downloading, and has urged governments to force ISPs to adopt such policies. McGuinness criticized Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' pay-what-you-want business model, saying that 'the majority of downloads were through illegal P2P download services like BitTorrent and LimeWire'. He also accused ISPs, telcos, device makers, and numerous specifically named companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building 'multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it', and of being 'makers of burglary kits' who have made 'a thieves' charter' to steal money from the music industry. The full text of his speech has been posted on U2's website."

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