Funny!! But maybe they're Deadheads and "Ripple" is their favorite song.

Ha ha ha ha!! That's rich. Thanks for introducing me to that law. :)

Crap! Wasn't signed-in again.

Dang! Wasn't signed in, so I don't get credit for this (my first comment it quite a while).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Pretty sure Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia University, not "Colombia" university. "Columbia" is the personification of the New World, while "Colombia" is a country in South America.

No doubt many files loaded on iPods were pirated, but many were also from CDs ripped by their owners. Back then, people actually bought CDs.

Soundtrack to "The Social Network" film.

...and I'll add: while I'm concerned, I still use a cell phone and have wi-fi at home, so I must not be *that* concerned. I do try to be sensible, however, about placement of wi-fi base stations so they're not right next to beds, for instance.

Thanks for raising these concerns.

Despite having studied physics (inverse-square law) and electrical engineering (though I wasn't the best student), I am concerned by how readily and glibly folks dismiss concerns about possible health effects of EMFs. The fact is, there's a lot we don't know about our own biology, and heating effects and ionizing radiation aren't necessarily the only possible modes by which EMFs could harm us.

This documentary, while suffering from some poor production values, presents the hypothesis of some researchers (whose CVs I have not examined) that round-the-clock EMF exposure reduces the body's natural production of melatonin, a potent anti-oxidant and regulatory hormone, since the body doesn't distinguish between visible light and RF radiation. This reduced melatonin production allegedly can lead to a reduction in the body's ability to fight cancer growth.

Time will tell but, as you say, we're performing a large-scale experiment on ourselves.

Congratulations to my college classmate, Rebecca Oppenheimer, co-author of the paper, and researcher at the American Museum of Natural History. Here's the AMNH announcement:
http://www.amnh.org/explore/ne...

I know it's very mundane, but hopefully, it'll save her some unnecessary grief down the road.

Remind her to make frequent, automated backups of her data and to periodically check those backups manually.