Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 13:00:35 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Kris Kirby <kris@hiwaay.net> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000509125916.5152C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005080533590.62306-100000@barricuda.bsd.nws.net>
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: > > BTW, you do realize that in many cases "off" for your cell phone > > doesn't really mean off, right? :) > > I have strong objections to small transcievers (what cell phones > actually are) that operate close to my body and don't let me know when > they are transmitting. When you're talking on it, you know it's > transmitting, but I'm talking about just about every other time when > you've got it on your belt or clipped to your side. I know they aren't > high power, but we don't know long term effects (actually, we do; we just > don't know the thresholds for triggering cancer, etc.). > Well, maybe we do. Just read the other day that the british are planning to make warning signs compulsory on mobile phones... > I'm not thrilled at the aspect of a radio close to my head either. You can > feel a radio after it's been transmitting for a while and think: > "Something close to the amount of heat generated by this radio has been > sent out over the ether and I was standing right in front of it." Yes, to > cook your noodle you'd need a couple hundred watts but still, it's energy. > > ----- > Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > <kris@nospam.hiwaay.net> | > ------------------------------------------------------- > "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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