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So is having to listen to music other people play in public places, either with their cell phones or in their cars, having to listen to loud (telephone) conversations, etc..
Why don't you ban alcohol? Why don't you fine someone who hasn't showered?
I find it disgusting when you eat meat, I find it annoying and disgusting when people go hunting, I find it disgusting when women dress like sluts, and so on...
You people just want to ban something for the sake of banning something because you want it your way and that's the right way.

Wow...

And what a doozy... nothing says... WAIT, STOP, CANCER RISK!

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A 2008 University of Utah analysis looked at nine studies -- including some Herberman cites -- with thousands of brain tumor patients and concludes "we found no overall increased risk of brain tumors among cellular phone users. The potential elevated risk of brain tumors after long-term cellular phone use awaits confirmation by future studies."

Studies last year in France and Norway concluded the same thing.

"If there is a risk from these products -- and at this point we do not know that there is -- it is probably very small," the Food and Drug Administration says on an agency Web site.

Still, Herberman cites a "growing body of literature linking long-term cell phone use to possible adverse health effects including cancer."

"Although the evidence is still controversial, I am convinced that there are sufficient data to warrant issuing an advisory to share some precautionary advice on cell phone use," he wrote in his memo.

A driving force behind the memo was Devra Lee Davis, the director of the university's center for environmental oncology.

"The question is do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain," she said in an interview from her cell phone while using the hands-free speaker phone as recommended. "I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."

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Here's the quote I love:

"I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."

Whooo, brill!

-AI

Or someone decides to ignore silly public paranoia and starts building breeder reactors or higher density reactors that 'burn' more than ~10% of the fissile material in their fuel.

Or with breeder reactors you basically have unlimited fuel. They're more complex to design perhaps but are certainly a solution to your claimed "problem".

Also - you probably read a few of the same articles i did about there not being enough fissile uranium around. The catch is it assumes a fixed (and rather low) cost as the ceiling. Once you increase that it becomes a non-issue even without breeder reactors. And before you compare tripling the price of uranium fuel to oil at $140 a barrel - the fuel cost for a nuclear plant is a rather small % of it's operating cost. It's not like they burn a trainload of uranium every few days like a coal plant.

I don't know the details of McCain's "backing" but if it results in more ecconomical and plentiful nuclear plants i'm all for it.

Nuclear is the best option. Equating it with perpetual motion shows YOUR ignorance. Hate makes you stupid.

The awesome bar is pretty fucking annoying to say the least. In the last 8-10 years when I've been surfing I've been typing the first part of the domain I wanted to visit and the auto complete would show it. So if I wanted to go to slashdot I just type s and arrow down and slashdot would be the first link since its my most visited site with S in the beginning. If I wanted to go to sinfest I'd go si and arrow down - this behavior has to change with FF3, now the browser will popup the most visited site with S in it - and that isn't necessarily slashdot.

Yes this might be a nifty feature for some, but seriously, please stop changing interface behavior! Windows does it all the time and it is driving hordes of supporters nuts. Keep it consistent and let people with special needs enable it - or at least do it the WinZip way; ask the user what he or she wants! (FF3 is default browser with hardy heiron - thats why I'm actually using it, downgrading a package usually leads to nightmares and I just want an OS that isn't in the way of my work - All other OS I got is running FF 2 and is staying that way till I figure out how to make FF3 behave like FF2)

Toonol writes "I've put together a prototype of a small device, and am considering manufacturing and selling it in moderate quantities (hundreds, maybe thousands). It's currently constructed out of parts purchased at Radio Shack, but can anyone point me toward a better wholesale source for resistors, switches, LEDs, and so on? This will be an inexpensive device, certainly under twenty dollars, so every penny saved is important. Another concern I have is regulation... if I am selling a handmade electronic device on eBay, or on my own web site, is there a chance of running afoul of the FCC or similar agencies? Any other general advice would be appreciated, since I'm sure many Slashdot readers have gone through this process."

ddrichardson writes "Following an earlier story, BBC's Ashley Highfield has changed his mind on the number of Linux users accessing the BBC's website. It would appear to be more like 36,600 and 97,600. Interestingly, he hasn't changed position:

We'll try and get a more accurate picture: over 30 thousand Linux users is a not insubstantial number, but we do have to keep this in context with the vast majority of users who use either Windows or Macs to access bbc.co.uk.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html