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Re:Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:40PM (#18744069)
I would appreciate you pointing me to comprehensive articles that have a null result ("n" greater than 100 would be good)
Re:Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:39PM (#18744065)
The last section of the article is a systemic analysis of articles that did not find any effect and analysis as to why.
Re:Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:35PM (#18744045)
the second group of papers mentioned in the article was commented on as follows:

"Laudisi et al. (2012) used a different exposure system, that of Ardoino et al. (2005) where the vast majority of the exposure is produced from reflections off a long cylindrical surface in a TEM cell, where the curvature of the cylinder will also produce a largely non-polarized EMF and different reverberation paths and consequent destructive interference, may both be expected to occur. Consequently the predicted low biological activity of EMFs produced by the Wu et al. (2009) system may be expected to also occur from this TEM exposure system Ardoino et al. (2005). It is not possible to study biological effects of EMFs from Wi-Fi, cell phones or any other important exposures using such exposure systems because of the polarization changes they produce from the original polarized EMFs and because of destructive interference."

Re:Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:33PM (#18744039)
my apologies I did not see the previous post - I wanted to review what this article suggests is correct and incorrect Wi-Fi testing.

This article states that many previous studies tested: (from the article)

It uses a large chamber surrounded by 1 mm aluminum mesh wire mesh to provide reflections of the EMFs. The chamber in which animals are exposed on a platform at its center, is also surrounded by antennae in all 6 directions (up, down, all four horizontal directions) such that each antenna is broadcasting with one polarization is opposed (at 180°) by another broadcasting with the 180° opposite polarization, as well as by four other antennae, broadcasting with 90° different polarization in each of the four possible directions. This produces a field that is more like a non-polarized EMF rather than the usual polarized artificial EMF"

is this a fair test of modulated polarized Wi-Fi?

Re:Why Design Thinking Works on Sunday December 16, 2018 @08:31PM (#18696334)
my understanding (without research) was that one of the founders of IDEO created the concept so they could broaden their client pool from traditional design to finance / business consulting.

https://trydesignlab.com/blog/great-design-thinking-tim-brow...

Re:Why Design Thinking Works on Sunday December 16, 2018 @07:20PM (#18696093)
Ultimately, and in addition to many existing "innovation" or "time and motion" tools, Design thinking is in-depth analysis of the customer and desperately hoping that somehow a "new idea" comes out of it. Roll in billions of consultancy dollars.

Nothing at all to do with a professional design process however.

Re:Why Design Thinking Works on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:58PM (#18695779)
Might work, otherwise just a word pitch on past "business improvement" protocols and snake oil
It was not intended to be pedantry, though you are within your rights to see it as such. If you don't perceive a central bank with an interest in legitimizing a field of human endeavor for it's own interests as wrong. As other articles have noted, there are many other fields that may be more deserving of a prize. Given the economic damage that the recipients of the prize have caused, can we really say that it advances human knowledge in any other way than identifying what is wrong?

That is a very different impact than the majority of the other awards.

(edited typos)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Memorial_Prize_l...

It was not established by Mr. Nobel, the name was taken. The family does not acknowledge it. To me this is disrespectful to the man who set up the prize in his name.

Re:Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money? on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:48PM (#10120202)
One issue not being discussed is the revolving cost of having products out in the market and the cost of the next production run.

if your orders double from 20K units to 40K, your costs will roughly double, usually meaning that any profit made on the 20K is re-invested to make the 40K - usually plus additional capital.

So long as your production quantities double, you will not actually "have" any money (unless your FOB cost is north of four times sell price). Many companies cannot "realise" profit until orders stabilise.

My thoughts would be: 1) sponsor the private schooling of an orphan or disadvantaged child - if they get the grades you pay direct for the school and materials. (this system exists for most orphanages in most 2nd and 3rd world countries but you can start at home.)

2) International work camps for peace - fully volunteer organization and you get to see another country in a real way and do good work while doing so.

Both are 100% - 100% direct.

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