Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 05:43:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Kris Kirby <kris@hiwaay.net> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: 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.4.10.10005080533590.62306-100000@barricuda.bsd.nws.net> In-Reply-To: <3915D868.5301CCAD@gorean.org>
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> 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.). 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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