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Comment Re:Too much EM radiation. (Score 0) 158

The "limit" is 50 times less than what's considered the max safe level. Every single device in the market goes much lower than it.

There's no "recommended dose".

having said this, even the "max safe level" is a made up number, since the European Union acknowledges there's no evidence of health risks due to electronic devices electromagnetic radiation. It's essentially a made up number "just in case we learn in 40 years that it was a problem".

You're of course free to invent your own prevention for imaginary risks. We all do for various things. This is no different than people in méxico not eating watermelon and water together or korean law requiring timers in fans to avoid the possibility that the fan may deprive you of oxygen while you sleep.

Comment Several other aspects that help. (Score 1, Insightful) 233

US culture and Mexican culture have more in common than US and Chinese and India cultures. There is a lot of US culture influence into Mexican culture, for example TV shows and movies, Christmas stuff, etc. This means that Mexican workers and managers are more likely to understand American's way of work than people from China and India. Both countries also have almost the same timezones, so there is a big overlap in working hours. This facilitates meeting hours. No more 6 AM and 8 PM meetings. If you have to go to visit the factory, you're only 2 to 6 hours away, not 20 hours o more.

Comment Not taking notes is better (Score 1) 191

One of my college professors made us to put away notebooks and everything. He said: "Don't distract yourself by taking notes, play attention, focus on understanding, EVERYTHING you're seeing on the black(white)board is on your textbook." It really worked well. The class subject was: "Electricity and Magnetism"
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Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste 344

separsons writes "A group of French scientists are developing a nuclear reactor that burns up actinides — highly radioactive uranium isotopes. They estimate that 'the volume of high-level nuclear waste produced by all of France’s 58 reactors over the past 40 years could fit in one Olympic-size swimming pool.' And they're not the only ones trying to eliminate atomic waste: Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin are working on a fusion-fission reactor. The reactor destroys waste by firing streams of neutrons at it, reducing atomic waste by up to 99 percent!"

Comment Re:Compiler fault. (Score 1) 393

My OS classes kicked back from the past right into my mind... Even as root or it equivalent on any other OS. I think the "right" and polite behavior for root is: "You may kill any process, but you should not be able to modify the content of any process or thread that it is not your own or that you directly spawned". Because this is actually what happens with this exploit. You insert code into the cache, that when executed it does something like jumping into some other code that does the nasty stuff. Right?

Comment Re:Compiler fault. (Score 1) 393

Answering myself. If the cache is altered, the CPU should rise a flag saying something has happen. I am not sure how the cache works, but I imagine the cache is a table with the address of the value it has cached in one side, and the actual value on the other. If this is the case, who to blame depends if the compiler has any control over the cache, if the cache is hardwired. Or both!

Comment Re:Cisco gear just isn't that good. (Score 1) 195

I think the reason for some of the most expensive hardware being difficult to use, is only an excuse to charge a lot for training and certification. The real difference between a $50 router and a $9000 router is basically expansion capability for special modules, CPU power to apply thousands of rules to filter packets and of course $8950.

If you are just going to route packets from network A to network B based on the IP address, both routers will perform just fine.

Another example are some workstation computers that justify their price by building their case of thicker metal plate just to make them heavier. You wouldn't expect expensive work stations to be light and small as the cheap ones although they have the same internal components and OS. Wouldn't you?

Comment Re:Now spy on your friends! (Score 0) 897

And how do you know this isn't the case already?

I haven't seen that conspiracy theory yet (which just shows I'm not as good searching for things as I'd like to know) but it'd be a funny thing if google suddenly turned out to be a government ruse to have people willingly provide the information they can't get from them directly.

Especially since people assume Mail and/or IM is private or, at least, ephimerous (sp?).

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