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In this issue:
* Oh, What a Lovely Standards War
* Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition
* Microsoft Finally To Patch 17-Year-Old Bug
* Red Hat Exchange Is Dead
* New Rules May Raise Cost of Buying Gadgets Online
* Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It
* The New National Health Plan Is Texting
* UK's Anti-File-Sharing Bill Could "Breach Human Rights"
* Authors' Amazon Awareness
* Tritium Leak At Vermont Nuclear Plant Grows
* Internet Nominated For 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
* USPTO To Review Controversial VoIP Patent
* Game Devs Migrating Toward iPhone, Away From Wii
* EU Committee Says No To Bank Data Sharing
* Web App Scanners Miss Half of Vulnerabilities
* Apple's Change of Heart On Flash
* Studies Find Harm From Cellular and Wi-Fi Signals
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| Oh, What a Lovely Standards War |
| from the enhance-enhance-compress dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday February 05, @19:06 (Media) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/2345210/Oh-What-a-Lovely-Standards-War |
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ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "You know something big must be afoot when
people start to get worked up over video compression standards.
Basically, the issue is [0]whether the current de facto standard, H.264,
will continue to dominate this field, and if not, what might take over."
Related, reader [1]eihab writes "Nuanti, a company that develops Web
browsing technologies, has produced a high-performance [2]Ogg Theora
decoder for Microsoft's Silverlight browser plugin. Nuanti's Highgate
Media Suite will enable support for standards-based HTML5 video streaming
with Theora in browsers that have Silverlight. It works entirely without
requiring the users to install any additional software."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/05/2345210
Links:
0. http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2775&blogid=14
1. https://slashdot.org/~eihab
2. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/02/nuanti-brings-html5-and-ogg-theora-video-to-silverlight.ars
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| Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition |
| from the hope-your-connection's-up dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday February 05, @20:23 (Google) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0113229/Google-Docs-Replaces-OpenOffice-In-Ubuntu|
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uneuser writes "Digitizor reports that the Ubuntu developers have dropped
OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE)
10.04 and [0]replaced it with Google Docs. Documents in Ubuntu Netbook
Edition will now be opened in Google Docs by default."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/0113229
Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/
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| Microsoft Finally To Patch 17-Year-Old Bug |
| from the not-quite-barely-legal dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday February 05, @22:09 (Bug) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0158248/Microsoft-Finally-To-Patch-17-Year-Old-Bug|
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eldavojohn writes "Microsoft is due for a very large patch this month, in
which five critical holes (that render Windows hijackable by an intruder)
are due to be fixed, in addition to twenty other problems. The biggest
change addresses [0]a 17-year-old bug dating back to the days of DOS,
discovered in January by their BFF Google. The patch [1]should roll out
February 9th."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/0158248
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8499859.stm
1. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-feb.mspx
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| Red Hat Exchange Is Dead |
| from the milk-for-free dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday February 06, @01:20 (Linux Business) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/058253/Red-Hat-Exchange-Is-Dead |
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darthcamaro writes "In 2007, Red Hat launched the Red Hat Exchange (RHX)
��� an appstore, if you will, of open source partner applications sold from
a Red Hat website. Sounds like a good idea, right? While an appstore
works well for Apple, turns out that [0]an appstore for open source (from
a Linux vendor) isn't such a good idea. 'When we came out with RHX we
were hoping for more ambitious adoption but we've learned that selling
third-party applications via a marketplace is challenging,' Mike Evans,
Red Hat's vice president of corporate development said. 'When you've got
marketplaces that offer buyers the choice of buying in the marketplace or
directly from the vendor themselves, which is what our marketplace was,
there isn't a real efficient marketplace.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/058253
Links:
0. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6975/1/
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| New Rules May Raise Cost of Buying Gadgets Online |
| from the in-their-infinite-wisdom dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday February 06, @04:33 (Businesses) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0545220/New-Rules-May-Raise-Cost-of-Buying-Gadgets-|
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ericatcw writes "Buying your next laptop or smartphone online could
suddenly get a lot more expensive if a little-known US Department of
Transportation proposal to tighten rules around the shipment of small,
Lithium-Ion battery-powered devices by air goes through, [0]says an
industry group opposing the move. The changes, designed primarily to
reduce the [1]risk from Lithium-Ion batteries, would also forbid air
travelers from carrying spare alkaline or NiMH batteries in their
checked-in luggage, according to the head of the Portable Rechargeable
Battery Association. The proposal is under review until March 12. It
[2]can be viewed and commented upon by members of the public."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/0545220
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9153078/Proposed_battery_restrictions_could_crimp_e_commerce_air_travel?taxonomyId=70&pageNumber=1
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/24/2158244/Making-Safer-Lithium-Ion-Batteries
2. http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#documentDetail?R=0900006480a75fb2
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| Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It |
| from the you-must-become-the-frozen-water dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday February 06, @05:30 (Science) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0718206/Israeli-Scientists-Freeze-Water-By-Warm|
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ccktech writes "As [0]reported by NPR [1]and Chemistry world, the journal
Science has a [2]paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor
Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full
paper] of Israel's [3]Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to
freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has
different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the
surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface
causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged
surface. By putting water on the [4]pyroelectric material [5]Lithium
Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change
when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then
freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed
to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/0718206
Links:
0. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123376191
1. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/February/04021002.asp
2. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5966/672
3. http://www.weizmann.ac.il/
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroelectric
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_tantalate
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| The New National Health Plan Is Texting |
| from the how-is-babby-formed dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday February 06, @07:48 (Medicine) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0623208/The-New-National-Health-Plan-Is-Texting|
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theodp writes "With a [0]gushing press release, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra
announced the launch of [1]Text4baby, 'an unprecedented mobile health
[2]public-private partnership' designed to promote maternal and child
health. Expectant women are instructed to [3]'Enter the date of the first
day of your last menstrual period' to start receiving 'timely and expert
health information through SMS text messages' until their child reaches
the age of 12 months (limited to 3 free messages/week). The White House
Blog has more information on the '[4]historic collaboration between
industry, the health community and government.' Separately, the White
House announced plans to [5]spend $3,000 on 'Game-Changing' Solutions to
Childhood Obesity. Once again, [6]Dilbert proves to be scarily prescient."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/0623208
Links:
0. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-chief-technology-officer-announces-unprecedented-public-private-partnership-text4baby-83539462.html
1. http://www.text4baby.com/
2. http://text4baby.org/partner.html
3. http://text4baby.org/register.html
4. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/04/new-mothers-get-digital-helper-right-their-phones
5. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/04/seeking-game-changing-solutions-childhood-obesity
6. http://www.ginside.com/content/2007/03/dilbert-google-heatlh-plan.jpg
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| UK's Anti-File-Sharing Bill Could "Breach Human Rights" |
| from the once-more-unto-the-breach dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 06, @08:59 (Government) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1316234/UKs-Anti-File-Sharing-Bill-Could-Breach-Hum|
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Grumbleduke writes "The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights
has recently reported on the controversial Digital Economy Bill, which
seeks to restrict the connections of anyone accused of infringing
copyright using the Internet. According to the BBC, the committee noted
the lack of details in the Bill as it stands, asking for 'further
information' from the government on several issues. They also raised
concerns that some [0]punishments under the bill could be 'applied in a
disproportionate manner' and said that the powers the bill granted to the
Secretary of State (i.e. Lord Mandelson) were 'overly broad.' These echo
the [1]concerns raised in recent months by the Open Rights Group, a
consortium of web companies including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and eBay,
as well as the UK's Pirate Party. The Bill is currently being scrutinized
by the House of Lords, and if it passes there, will likely be forced
through the Commons quickly, despite the opposition from the public,
industry and members of parliament. The [2]committee's full report can be
found on the parliament website."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/1316234
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8500876.stm
1. http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/deb-first-look
2. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200910/jtselect/jtrights/44/4402.htm
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| Authors' Amazon Awareness |
| from the big-fish-in-a-shrinking-pond dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 06, @10:07 (Books) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1435225/Authors-Amazon-Awareness |
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Geoffrey.landis writes "Many book lovers were surprised this week when
Amazon.com [0]removed books from the publisher Macmillan from the shelves
([1]later restored), including such popular imprints as St. Martin's,
Henry Holt, and the science fiction publisher Tor. But readers shouldn't
have been surprised, according to the Author's Guild. The Author's Guild
[2]lists a history of earlier instances where Amazon stopped listing a
publisher's books in order to pressure them to accept terms, dating back
to early in 2008, when Amazon removed the 'buy' buttons for works from
the British publisher Bloomsbury, representing such authors as William
Boyd, Khaled Hosseini, and J.K. Rowling. In response, the Author's Guild
has set up a service called [3]Who Moved My Buy Button to alert authors
when their books are removed from Amazon's lists." Amazon's actions have
generated ill-will on the parts of many authors, who ��� being authors ���
are only too happy to explain their viewpoints at length. Two such
examples are Tobias Buckell's breakdown of why Amazon [4]isn't the
righteous defender of low-prices they claim to be and Charlie Stross's
[5]round-up of the situation.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/1435225
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/1341235/Amazon-Pulls-Book-Publishers-Listings-Ebook-Wars-Underway
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1351229/Amazon-Surrenders-To-Macmillan-On-eBook-Pricing
2. http://whomovedmybuybutton.com/aboutus.php
3. http://whomovedmybuybutton.com/
4. http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2010/01/31/why-my-books-are-no-longer-for-sale-via-amazon/
5. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/amazonfail-round-up.html
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| Tritium Leak At Vermont Nuclear Plant Grows |
| from the time-to-step-up-your-broccoli-consumption dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 06, @11:17 (Earth) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/156236/Tritium-Leak-At-Vermont-Nuclear-Plant-Grows|
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mdsolar writes "The [0]tritium leak into ground water at Vermont Yankee
[1]has now tested at 775,000 picocuries per liter, 37 times higher than
the federal drinking water standard. 'Despite the much higher reading, an
NRC spokeswoman said Thursday there was nothing to fear. "There's not
currently, nor is there likely to be, an impact on public health or
safety or the environment," the NRC's Diane Screnci said in an interview.
She had maintained previously that the Environmental Protection Agency
drinking water safety limit of 20,000 picocuries per liter had an
abundance of caution built into it. ... The National Academy of Sciences
said in 2005 that any exposure to ionizing radiation from an isotope like
tritium elevates the risk of cancer, though it also said with small
exposures, the risk would be low. ' At what level should the NRC [2]shut
down the troubled plant?"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/156236
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/01/11/2054237/Another-Crumbling-Reactor-Springs-a-Tritium-Leak
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403593.html
2. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9DLEQ200.htm
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| Internet Nominated For 2010 Nobel Peace Prize |
| from the i-don't-know-where-to-send-the-fruit-basket dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 06, @12:25 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/161202/Internet-Nominated-For-2010-Nobel-Peace-Pri|
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An anonymous reader writes "It's official. The Internet, which has
virtually revolutionized world communication, has been [0]nominated for
the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. 'Organizers said signatories to its petition
backing the nomination include 2003 peace laureate and exiled Iranian
activist Shirin Ebadi ��� which would make it a legitimate entry.' The
nomination was [1]proposed by the Italian edition of Wired magazine for
promoting 'dialogue, debate and consensus through communication' as well
as democracy."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/161202
Links:
0. http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2010/02/02/internet_among_nobel_peace_prize_nominees/
1. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/internet-for-peace-nobel/
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| USPTO To Review Controversial VoIP Patent |
| from the can-you-hear-me-now dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 06, @13:34 (Communications) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/172226/USPTO-To-Review-Controversial-VoIP-Patent |
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alphadogg writes "The US Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review
a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is [0]claimed to cover much of
the technology underlying VoIP. The patent, held by a small company
called C2 Communications Technologies, is one of 10 that the Electronic
Frontier Foundation has been trying to strike down for several years
through its [1]Patent Busting Project. On Friday, the patent office
granted the EFF's request for a re-examination. The digital
civil-liberties organization argued that another applicant had submitted
basically some of the same technology to the patent office before C2 did.
[2]Patent No. 6,243,373, 'Method and apparatus for implementing a
computer network/Internet telephone system,' is credited to David L.
Turock as inventor and is owned by C2, previously called Acceris
Communications Technologies."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/172226
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020610-patent-office-to-review-voip.html
1. http://w2.eff.org/patent/
2. http://www.google.com/patents?id=JcQIAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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| Game Devs Migrating Toward iPhone, Away From Wii |
| from the paper-toss-2-the-revenge dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 06, @13:59 (Wii (Games)) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1735237/Game-Devs-Migrating-Toward-iPhone-Away-Fr|
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A new report by Game Developer Research reveals that the number of
developers working on games for the iPhone continues to rise, roughly
doubling in number from last year. At the same time, the amount of
[0]work done on games for Nintendo's Wii dropped significantly: "Just
over 70 percent of developers said they were developing at least one game
for PC or Mac (including browser and social games), rising slightly from
last year; 41 percent reported working on console games. Within that
latter group, Xbox 360 was the most popular system with 69 percent of
console developers targeting it, followed by 61 percent for PlayStation
3. While those console figures stayed within a few percent of last year's
results, the change in Wii adoption was much more significant: reported
developer support for the system dropped from 42 percent to 30 percent of
console developers, supporting numerous publishers' claims of a recent
softening of the Wii market."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/1735237
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| EU Committee Says No To Bank Data Sharing |
| from the over-here-we-still-have-privacy dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday February 06, @14:46 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1836221/EU-Committee-Says-No-To-Bank-Data-Sharing |
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krupert writes to let us know that the civil liberties committee of the
European Parliament has [0]voted to revoke the data-sharing arrangement
by which US intelligence agencies have access to EU banking data via the
SWIFT system. The US has threatened to withhold cooperation on terrorist
intelligence if the bank data deal now in place is canceled, which it
will be next week if the full European Parliament votes in line with the
committee's recommendation. US intelligence agencies [1]clandestinely
tapped the SWIFT interbank clearing data from just after 9/11 until 2006,
when the secret arrangement was made public. After that, Belgium-based
SWIFT pulled their servers from the US and set up shop in Brussels, and
the US had to [2]negotiate with the EU to keep tapping the data.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/1836221
Links:
0. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5220092,00.html
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/06/24/045200/US-Secretly-Tapping-Bank-Databases
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/150234/EU-About-To-Grant-US-Unlimited-Access-To-Banking-Data
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| Web App Scanners Miss Half of Vulnerabilities |
| from the hey-we-caught-half-too dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday February 06, @15:57 (Security) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1933211/Web-App-Scanners-Miss-Half-of-Vulnerabilit|
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seek3r sends news of a recent test of six web application security
scanning products, in which the scanners [0]missed an average of 49% of
the vulnerabilities known to be on the test sites. Here is a [1]PDF of
the report. The irony is that the test pitted each scanner against the
public test files of all the scanners. This reader adds, "Is it any
wonder that being PCI compliant is meaningless from a security point of
view? You can perform a Web app scan, check the box on your PCI audit,
and still have the security posture of Swiss cheese on your Web app!"
"NTOSpider found over twice as many vulnerabilities as the average
competitor having a 94% accuracy rating, with Hailstorm having the second
best rating of 62%, but only after extensive training by an expert.
Appscan had the second best 'Point and Shoot' rating of 55% and the rest
averaged 39%."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/1933211
Links:
0. http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20100203/accuracy-and-time-costs-of-web-application-security-scanner-report/
1. http://ha.ckers.org/files/Accuracy_and_Time_Costs_of_Web_App_Scanners.pdf
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| Apple's Change of Heart On Flash |
| from the platform-with-a-capital-p dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday February 06, @17:05 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1955253/Apples-Change-of-Heart-On-Flash |
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Dotnaught writes "In a blog post, Walter Luh, co-founder of Ansca Mobile
and a former employee of both Apple and Adobe, recounts how [0]Apple once
promoted Flash on the iPhone then changed its mind because Flash didn't
provide the optimal mobile user experience. 'I think that Apple came to
the same conclusion I've come to ��� namely that Flash has its strengths,
but not when it comes to creating insanely great mobile experiences,' he
writes. Luh's piece ends with a pitch for mobile development using the
[1]Corona SDK, a Lua-based programming environment that strives to
recapture the simplicity of early versions of Flash."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/1955253
Links:
0. http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/02/flash-iphone-and-beyond/
1. http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/
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| Studies Find Harm From Cellular and Wi-Fi Signals |
| from the perennial-question dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday February 06, @18:11 (Wireless Networking) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/2238247/Studies-Find-Harm-From-Cellular-and-Wi-F|
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Over the years we've discussed the possible health risks of cellphone and
other microwave radiation: studies from [0]Israel and [1]Sweden
indicating a link between cellphone use and cancer, one from [2]England
exonerating cell towers as a cause of "microwave radiation sensitivity,"
and a recent 30-year Swedish study that found [3]no link to cancer. The
question won't go away though. Reader Artifice_Eternity writes "I've
always tended to dismiss claims of toxicity from cell phone and Wi-Fi
signals as reflecting ignorance about microwave radiation. However,
[4]this GQ article cites American and European studies going back decades
that have found some level of biological harm caused by these signals.
Why haven't they gained more attention? Quoting: 'Industry-funded studies
seem to reflect the result of corporate strong-arming. Lai reviewed 350
studies and found that about half showed bioeffects from EM radiation
emitted by cell phones. But when he took into consideration the funding
sources for those 350 studies, the results changed dramatically. Only 25
percent of the studies paid for by the industry showed effects, compared
with 75 percent of those studies that were independently funded.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/2238247
Links:
0. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/08/02/15/1724218/Cell-Phone-Use-Study-Sees-Increased-Cancer-Risk
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/06/04/02/0511256/Swedish-Study-Finds-Cell-Phone-Cancer-Risk
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/07/26/1224255/Cell-Towers-Not-Responsible-For-Illness
3. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/12/21/1614221/Legislator-Wants-Cancer-Warnings-For-Cell-Phones
4. http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gadgets/201002/warning-cell-phone-radiation?printable=true
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