Comment Re:NZ pacifist warrior culture (Score 1) 338
And up until 2006 the S.A.S. were in Afghanistan, and rumoured to have done over the border trips into Iraq
NZ occupies Iran?????
Comment Why so negative? (Score 1) 280
Submission + - How bad can wifi be?
An anonymous reader writes: Last night in the UK, the BBC broadcast an alarmist Panorama news programme that suggested wireless networking might be damaging our health. Their evidence? Well, they admitted there wasn't any, but they made liberal use of the word "radiation" (to most ordinary people, radiation=nuclear), along with scary graphics of pulsating wifi base stations (!). They rounded-up a handful of worried scientists, but ignored the majority of those who believe wifi is perfectly harmless. Some quotes from the BBC News website companion piece: "The radiation Wi-Fi emits is similar to that from mobile phone masts ... children's skulls are thinner and still forming and tests have shown they absorb more radiation than adults". What's the science here? Can skulls really "absorb" EM radiation? The wifi signal is in the same part of the EM spectrum as cellphones but it's not "similar" to mobile phone masts, is it? Isn't a phone mast several hundred/thousand times stronger? Wasn't safety considered when they drew up the 802.11 specs?
Submission + - A Mighty Number Falls
space_in_your_face writes: Mathematicians and number buffs have their records. And today, an international team has broken a long-standing one in an impressive feat of calculation. On March 6, computer clusters from three institutions — the EPFL, the University of Bonn and NTT in Japan — reached the end of eleven months of strenuous calculation, churning out the prime factors of a well-known, hard-to-factor number that is a whopping 307 digits long.
