#-----Original Message-----
#From: Christian J van den Bosch [mailto:cjb at linux.ie]
#Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 08:00
#To: ilug at linux.ie
#Subject: Re: [ILUG] [OT] - Bandwidth provider...
#
#
#Call me paranoid, but...
#
#Wireless is all very well, but I wouldn't be happy using something
#working at 2.4 - 2.5 GHz (given that 2.45GHz (resonant frequency of
#water molecules) is the frequency that manufacturers of microwave ovens
#go to great lengths to shield _into_ their devices). I'm led to believe
#that as the working frequency of a radio device approaches 2.45GHz, the
#severity of potential side effects (all the ones you hear about with
#mobile phones) increase exponentially for a given signal strength.
#
#And for some reason, 2.4 - 2.5 GHz devices are licence
#exempt... hmmm...
#
Yeah, because nobody in their right mind would willingly pay a
'Microwave Oven License'.
btw does anybody use bash's history completion, such as
$ man !!
(the double exclamation marks are intentional)
Ken
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