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Submission + - Hezbollah Pagers Explode Across Lebanom (nytimes.com)

Submitted by dbialac
dbialac writes: Hundereds of pagers were targeted in Lebanon, injuring many Hezboah members and the Iranian diplomat. Updates from the NY Times:

Large numbers of âoewireless devicesâ simultaneously exploded across Lebanon in an apparently coordinated attack that caused hundreds of injuries, Lebanese health officials said on Tuesday, a day after Israeli leaders warned that they were considering stepping up their military campaign against Hezbollah.

A Lebanese intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, said that the blasts occurred after pagers belonging to Hezbollah members exploded across the country. Lebanonâ(TM)s health minister, Firass Abiad, said that hundreds of people had been injured in the blasts but that the authorities were still working to gather an exact figure.

Submission + - Pagers explode injuring thousands (reuters.com)

Submitted by Smonster
Smonster writes: More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.

The wave of explosions lasted around an hour after the initial detonations, which took place about 3:45 p.m. local time (1345 GMT). It was not immediately clear how the devices were detonated.

Large numbers of “wireless devices” simultaneously exploded across Lebanon in an apparently coordinated attack that caused hundreds of injuries, Lebanese health officials said on Tuesday, a day after Israeli leaders warned that they were considering stepping up their military campaign against Hezbollah.
In other footage, an explosion appeared to knock out someone standing at a fruit stand at a market area. Lebanon’s crisis operations center, which is run by the health ministry, asked all medical workers to head to their respective hospitals to help cope with the massive numbers of wounded coming in for urgent care. It said health care workers should not use pagers.
The Lebanese Red Cross said more than 50 ambulances and 300 emergency medical staff were dispatched to help in the evacuation of victims.

The Lebanese Red Cross said in a statement that 80 ambulances were responding to “multiple bombings” in southern and eastern Lebanon, as well as in Beirut, the capital, and Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces Directorate asked people to clear the roads so people could be rushed to hospitals.

The blasts appeared to be the latest salvo in an 11-month conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that began last October, after Hezbollah began firing into Israeli territory in solidarity with its ally, Hamas. The conflict has largely remained contained to exchanges of missiles and rockets, but for months, leaders on either side have warned that it could expand into a war involving ground forces.

Comment Re:Free Occupied Palestine. (Score 1, Troll) 89

This article has nothing to do with what you are talking about, the rule for you is if it is anti Israel, you will support it, plain and simple. I'd have to hear more from you to see if you are an antisemite, but your callous disregard of the term lets me form some initial opinion. This website is about tech. Stick to it, Stop with the anti Israel agitation.

Comment FUD and Hogwash I Declare! (Score 2, Interesting) 386

by mateo650 (#32706726) Attached to: 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children

When you watch a 3D movie, your eyes are focusing just fine, they are focusing on the screen.

The human visual system conditions that are present in the movie theater are different that real life, since when you are focusing on the screen your eyes are verging in on objects that are not located in what is called the Zero Paralax Position, (ZPS) which is essentially the screen plane.

There is a zone of confort where the decoupling of vergence and focus is ok and there will not be any side effects.

This is achieved by not having too much stuff in negative paralax (in front of) or positive paralax (outside of) the screen.

Kid's human visual system is very adept. Filmakers are careful especially with kids movies to not have a lot of separation in the 3D especially since children's eyes are not as far apart as adults.

Finally most of these studies are old Japanese studies that were performed on old hardware and the results aren't really viable.

I've successfully decoupled my vergence and focus and you can too.

Also if you want to hear more about strabismus and 3-D look up "Stereo Sue" who actually had surgery to regain her strabismus and now is an avid 3-D fan.

This sounds like FUD to me

Comment In-Three 2D to 3D conversions are very well done (Score 1) 532

by mateo650 (#31518134) Attached to: The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam

The conversions done by In-Three which include G-Force and Alice and Wonderland are done by hundreds of people, frame by frame, and are very well done.

There is no difference between the amount of light lost using 3 cent polarized glasses or more expensive ones. While lighting is an issue for 3D movie releases that doesn't make 3D movies a scam.

The market has spoken 3D is the future. 3D is coming to the home in a massive way.

Automated real-time 2D to 3D is not acceptable qualityat all yet Alice and Wonderland and the upcoming Titanic are a completely different story.

I would be that this guy that wanted to rip his glasses off probably already wears corrective lenses every day (usually the case with these types)

Recall there were those that said that movies with sound and color were a fad.

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