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Comment Re:Using 2,4Ghz in wireless network is not harmful (Score 1) 294

You want facts? Here are facts for you. I don't make any guarantees that you understand those facts.

http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/05_radiowaves.html
http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/01_intro.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_wave

2412Mhz has the wave length of 124mm according to this calculator (http://www.onlineconversion.com/frequency_wavelength.htm). The size of human DNA molecule is far smaller then this. The wavelength of 2,4Ghz and 5Ghz is therefore too big to have any effect on DNA in living animals.

Comment Using 2,4Ghz in wireless network is not harmful (Score 1) 294

This is not complex, at 2412Mhz (start of 2,4Ghz wlan) does not harm you at the transmission levels used in wireless network. The transmission power is around 100mW, based on the law of square that signal fades quickly when the distance is more then 100 meters. Just if there is nothing blocking the signal. If anything is blocking the signal it fades faster and more quickly. At 5180Mhz (start of 5Ghz wlan band) the signal goes even shorter distance at the same power.

The idea that people can get sick or even cancer from normal radio bands (2Mhz to 60Ghz) is just ridiculous. It is nothing more then a chance that this boy got the brain cancer. It has nothing to do with wireless networks, mobile phones or television transmission masts (they broadcast in the 230 to 800Mhz range). Mobile phones are in the range of 700Mhz to 2100Mhz (LTE/GSM/3G). Depending on country and location.

For the sake of discussion I have simplified use of frequency band used in mobile phones and 5Ghz wireless network.

Comment Got nothing, make shit up instead (Score 1) 698

So NSA got nothing to show for it dragnet surveillance. Instead they just start making shit up in propaganda news that they spread with big U.S media companies. The reality is that such attack would never have worked and the people in China knows this already.

China also doesn't need to do this. All they need to do to ruin U.S economic is to stop exporting cheap stuff (among other things) to the U.S. In less then 8 months U.S would be on it's knees in terms of economic performance. Since it is already junk and is not improving thanks to the idiot bible ass-holes who know nothing of economics or facts.

Comment Re:Good (Score 5, Informative) 249

They say on the front page that they are experiencing unexpected and sharp increase in volumes of orders. That means they are delaying all shipping for 48 business hours. Since working hours are around 8 hours normally, this means 6 days delay at least on shipping when people order from this website. But that is something they should not do, since it is unlikely they are going to get what they did order.

They are also faking reviews and other such things. Claim and information on the fake reviews can be found in the comment on the site I am linking to.

Details: http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.kleargear.com

Comment Re:Greed! (Score 1) 281

And deny they do. In fact, they are so paranoid about this that is on edge of schizophrenia. It is often not the author of the lyrics who own the copyright. It's the company since most of this is for hire. There are exceptions, but they are rare and not so common.

The lyrics are also often under 'exclusive rights' for some time, often for up to 5 years (sometimes shorter and sometimes longer). I have been reading about this since I was checking for publishing on short stories that follows similar model in terms of copyright and exclusive rights.

Comment Re:Oil loses, coal wins (Score 1) 264

While this is in part true. The advances in solar sells for home might change this in the long run. While not everyone might be able to set-up solar sells many people might and that is going to lower the power demand. This has not happened yet for many reasons at the moment. But progress and advancements might change that.

Comment Re:The oil lobby (Score 1) 264

About nr 1: I don't know about this batteries. As there are sometimes flaws in them and for that same flaw they often burn mobile phones, laptops and such things. Batteries are improving with time, but it is going to take several more years until something new appears.

In regarding nr 2: While this is extremely difficult to trace due to shell within a shell holdings (and sometimes shell within a double shell in a tax haven) this is happening. As the oil industry did destroy the public transport in the U.S at the start of the 20th century. That is easy to look up.

Her is an interesting news report on what is taking place in big oil. It is all power and corruption.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/07/16/the-worlds-25-biggest-oil-companies/ (Warning! Has audio advertisement!)

Here is how big oil got Tesla cars banned in Texas by using side routes that they do have and are not afraid to use.

http://elitedaily.com/news/technology/big-oil-state-texas-bans-the-sale-of-teslas-electric-cars/
http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2013/09/10/why-tesla-lost-the-fight-to-sell-cars-in-texas/

Comment Re:It's all a sham (Score 1) 145

The real issue is that terrorist networks tend not to use any sort of mobile or internet communication today. Some idiots do, but as the horrible Boston bombing did prove this surveillance did not change anything (dragnets never do). It is also fact that warnings that were issued got ignored by the FBI and NSA. I am not sure if any explanation for why that has has been given today.

This surveillance is excused by the "global war on terror(ism)". While the reality is that it is being used by governments around the world to spy on the population. All laws in the EU/EEA (not sure about Switzerland) have been adjusted so surveillance data is at minimal kept for 6 to 12 months.

What does the public about this. It's easy, nothing, it just yawns and moves on to whatever is popular today and tomorrow.

Comment Yellow journalism (Score 1) 548

The Kernel is a yellow journalist paper in my view. There style and coverage is nothing else, they are not to inform. They are just out there to gain publicity and clearly some income, they don't run any advertisement and have no income from the looks of it and don't seem to be an subscription magazine either.

I wrote a longer article here on this, http://www.jonfr.com/?p=8058

Disclaimer: That is my website.

Comment Re:And Putin continues (Score 1) 192

I see that russian part of slashdot has modpoints (I got mod down to troll for this fact). The fact is the fact.

This is not a question of when, since it has already happened. Now they are banning and making enemy out of homosexual people (both men and women). This is just the first step. Next step is to create some big foreign enemy, so far Putin has not yet done that since he is not ready. His military is not yet ready for such actions. In the meantime he is going to continue to increase his power in Russia and in the end cancel out already weak democracy in Russia.

He started on that the day he got into office and he is not going to stop until he gets what he wants. What Putin wants is a Stalin era power with him in control. We already know what Stalin did to the russian people and now Putin is going to do the same in due time if he is not stopped by powers inside Russia (if he has not already crushed them. As I think is most likely the case already).

I do not know how long this is going to take for Putin to implement. But my best guess is less then 20 years from now, depending on factors and what he can do in Russia and what the global reaction is going to be when the time comes.

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