CosmicHound - Slashdot User

Comment Re:But does it run Linux? (Score 1) 444

by CosmicHound on Friday December 12, 2008 @10:40AM (#26089927) Attached to: Google Chrome Is Out of Beta

A stop button would be nice but no need for the status bar. If you hover over a link you still get the target displayed at the bottom of the screen, it's just appears over the text rather than having a space reserved for it all the time. The screen layout is why I love Chrome, it's particularly great for laptops.

How Bad Can Wi-fi Be? 434

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @09:38AM from the good-thing-we-have-real-experts-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sunday 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', 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?"

Judge Orders Deleted Emails Turned Over 600

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 17, 2006 @12:33PM from the that-is-a-lot-of-mash-letters dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "In a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, a subpoena sent to Google orders the turnover of the complete contents of a Gmail account, including deleted e-mail messages. The Judge has granted the subpoena and orders that all e-mail messages, including deleted messages, be divulged. Google's privacy policy says deleted e-mail messages 'may remain in our offline backup systems' in perpetuity. It does not guarantee that backups are ever deleted. So much for the Delete Forever button."

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