From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 9 4: 1:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95CCC37B614; Tue, 9 May 2000 04:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA15391; Tue, 9 May 2000 13:00:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 13:00:35 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Kris Kirby Cc: Doug Barton , Mike Smith , Olaf Hoyer , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > | > ------------------------------------------------------- > "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