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Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick 574

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @10:14AM from the bad-waves dept.

OrangeMonkey11 writes "A Santa Fe man who claims to suffer from 'electromagnetic sensitivities' has sued his neighbor after she refused to stop using wireless devices. 59-year-old Arthur Firstenberg claims his sensitivity can be set off by cellphones, routers and other electronic devices. From the article: 'Firstenberg, 59, wanted Raphaela Monribot to limit her use of the devices. "I asked her to work with me," he said. "Basically, she refused." So he sued Monribot in state district court, seeking $530,000 in damages and an injunction to force her to turn off the electronics. "Being the target of this lawsuit has affected me very adversely," Monribot said Friday in response to e-mailed questions. "I feel as if my life and liberty are under attack for no valid reason, and it has forced me to have to defend my very basic human rights."'"

Comment Re:Correct User Access (Score 1) 932

by glassdragon on Thursday November 12, 2009 @02:04PM (#30075796) Attached to: Easing the Job of Family Tech Support?

I'll have to agree with this as I was in the same situation of trying to fix the parents machine every few months. The last time I fixed it I locked it down tight. After a while of using the machine at a strict user level they finally started to listen to the advice I was giving them. I slowly started giving them access as they proved that they could handle it. One other thing that I decided to do was to get them to stop using Outlook and switch to Gmail. That way they weren't downloading all the viruses directly to the machine (their friends' machines were really bad off so I implemented a strict filter to weed out all of the forwards). I haven't had a problem with their machine since, other than configuring a new all-in-one printer on their print-server/router combo.

Lit Window Library 0.3 released 29

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 18, 2004 @07:57AM from the try-out-new-things dept.

hajokirchhoff writes "The first public release of The Lit Window Library (for C++) is now available at from LitWindow itself. The goal of The Lit Window Library is to speed up C++ GUI coding by a factor of 10. It greatly reduces the amount of work needed to code user interface requirements. This is not just another "better widgets" library. The library introduces two new, different concepts to UI coding: a data abstraction layer (reflections) and rule-based programming."

Microsoft Forces wxWindows To Rename 91

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 21, 2004 @11:15AM from the next-stop-is-mr-andersen dept.

Peter Millerchip writes "Apparently Microsoft have forced wxWindows, the popular cross-platform C++ GUI library, to change its name to wxWidgets over the UK trademark of the seemingly generic word 'Windows.' Hot on the heels of the MikeRoweSoft.com incident, you have to wonder if their overactive legal team will be targetting double glazing manufacturers next?"

New Perl GUI 9

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 18, 2001 @09:20AM from the perlicious dept.

nealbutler writes: "This is up on perl.com, and I suppose a lot of people have seen it, but I think it's cool enough to warrant an article! wxWindows, the free C++ Crossplatform GUI framework is now available for perl! I've wxPython, and it rocks, so Tk/Perl's days may now be numbered...My main development platform is (unfortunately...) Win32, and Tk/Perl doesn't have half as much Win32 stuff as wxWindows does (e.g. accessing proper windows dialog boxes, etc.)."

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