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I feel somewhat vindicated for using an earphone with my cell phone for the past 5 years. I had heard of research that there was a relationship between cell phone use and eye cancer. It seemed that all of the MSM media was focused on cell phones causing brain tumors. The eye cancer is the one that caught my attention. At any rate use an earphone if you use cell phones…

Prolonged use of mobile phones can lead to permanent eye damage including cataracts, scientists believe.

Medical researchers have found that microwave radiation of the type emitted by mobile phones causes eye tissue to “bubble” – a precursor to the formation of cataracts – and can also interfere with the ability to focus.

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How lame is this?? Like the pay for service doesn’t use the same frequency and thereby has the same “unacceptable potential risk”??

Boston’s Logan International Airport is attempting to pull the plug on Continental Airlines’ free Wi-Fi node, which competes with the airport’s $7.95-a-day pay service.

In an escalating series of threatening letters sent over the last few weeks, airport officials have pledged to “take all necessary steps to have the (Wi-Fi) antenna removed” from Continental’s frequent flyer lounge. Continental’s free service poses an “unacceptable potential risk” to communications gear used by the state police and the Transportation Security Administration, the letters claim.

What Is Transferring is a easy-to-use packet sniffer for Windows 2000/XP. It is able to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data in Text mode (for HTML page, email, etc.) or in Hex/Ascii mode (for ZIP, JPEG, GIF, etc.). With this software, you can check:

A complete reference for new Linux users
who wish to set up and administer their own Linux home computer, workstation and/or their home or small office network. The answers are meant to be simple, with just sufficient detail, and always supported with a readily usable example. The work is still in progress, but we hope the Guide can be helpful already.

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Technology being developed at MIT promises to pave the way for the next generation of wireless networks, saving consumers hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 20 years.

For its next generation of space vehicles, NASA has decided to abandon the design principles that went into the aging space shuttle, agency officials and private experts say.

He is now a knight of the realm and respected elder statesman of pop but to Scotland Yard’s finest 36 years ago, Mick Jagger was a drug-addled miscreant who represented the “dregs of society“.