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Mitchell Springer

The Precautionary Principle - A Realistic Solution to Cell Phone Radiation? - 0 views

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  • Cell Phone
  • those who frequently use cell phones on a certain side of their head are 50% more likely than non-cell-phone-users to develop a tumor in the salivary gland on that side of the head.
    • Mitchell Springer
      Mitchell Springer on 17 Nov 09
       
      people are frequently on their cell phones for many reasons and most of the time they have the cell phone on a specific side of their head without the knowledge of the radition coming from the cell phone can be harmful to their body
  • the precautionary principle suggests practices such as using a wired headset instead of a Bluetooth earpiece, and enabling the speaker function rather than holding the phone to your ear. In addition, rather than storing the cell phone in your pocket, keep the phone away from your body between calls. Paramount to the precautionary principle is to limit the use of cell phones whenever possible. Make fewer calls and make shorter ones. Choose a cell phone with low-radiation and limit children's cell phone usage, since their brain cells may be more sensitive to the effects of cell phone radiation.
    • Mitchell Springer
      Mitchell Springer on 17 Nov 09
       
      suggested solutions are that wired headset to be used over bluetooth earpiece, placing the phone on speaker when in a call, keep the phone away form the body in between calls, give childreen cell phone that emitt low-radiation and limit their cell phone usage since their brain cells are more senstitive to the radiation effects at a young age
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  • Cell phones and other hand held devices are rapidly becoming a part of our culture. Cell phones are everywhere. They are used by 87 percent of Americans and over 4 billion people worldwide. Students in high school and now even grade school children are using cell phones to talk to each other, and text messaging has become a social norm. We are addicted to cell phones.
    • Mitchell Springer
      Mitchell Springer on 17 Nov 09
       
      introducing cell phones to younger children can create a risk factor on their health in the future. since they would want to be more so engaged with the cell phone now that they obtain one, the radiation will spill out faster onto them and it may have a greater effect on the body than to an older person
  • New technologies are emerging to shield the electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted from cell phones and other electronic devices. Certain chips can be attached to cell phones and earpieces to counteract the EMR, and special paint coated on your walls can limit EMR from adjacent apartments seeping into yours. These shields may help you if you stay behind them. Those who like to roam can wear special headbands, clothing, hats, gloves, and pendants designed to protect the wearer against radiofrequencies and EMR
    • Mitchell Springer
      Mitchell Springer on 17 Nov 09
       
      cell phone accessories can be used to help prevent the EMR (elecrtomagnetic radiation) from being emitted from the cell phone onto the users body
  • Mitchell Springer on 17 Nov 09
     
    i claim this article in the name of the father, the holy ghost, the mitchell and the springer
  • Mitchell Springer on 17 Nov 09
     
    Research for Criterion D--evaluate the solution
helen g

SentinelSource.com | Archives | Wireless safety questioned - 0 views

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shared by helen g on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • — the level of radiation your cell phone sends sizzling toward your skull.
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      It's really not that most people don't know this, they just put it to the side, being that they think its really not that big of a deal. Cell phones have become such a huge neccesity in peoples lives that they ignore the health risks it may cause.
  • In issuing its rankings, the Environmental Working Group — a nonprofit advocacy group concerned mostly with health problems it associates with pollution — injects itself into a scientific controversy that has simmered for years without consensus.
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      Does this meant that cell phones can cause pollution? If so I think many people including myself are unaware of this fact.
  • behavior problems in children.
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      What do they mean by behavior problems?
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  • Yet the debate goes on. One recent study in Great Britain found “no evidence that the risk of developing pituitary tumors is associated with cellular phone use.” A Swedish study published this summer did find a correlation between cell phone and cordless phone use and tumors. Yet a third piece of recent research failed to connect tumors to cell phones but said that conclusion is less convincing “because the observation period has been too short.”
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      The media doesn't want to ultimately say that there is a correlation between cell phones and brain tumors, because they will then be accountable to an extent for sales dropping in cell phones.
  • Use of a Bluetooth device — those blinking blue devices worn on the ear that connect wirelessly to a nearby cell phone — could raise or lower radiation exposure, depending on the circumstances.
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      How would it decrease the radiation? A bluetooth is still an electronic device and peope actually stick it in their ear
  • helen g on 15 Sep 09
     
    This article is about the health problems some people associate with cell phones and what different people think about these risks.
Jaymee C

Solar start-up squeezes more juice from silicon cells | Green Tech - CNET News - 0 views

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  • says it can produce a very efficient solar cell from silicon which will be in the market in two years.
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      Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
       
      Area of Impact: Buisness and Employment. This is because something is being advertised.
  • The Lexington, Mass.-based company on Monday plans to disclose the details of its Self-Aligned Cell (SAC) architecture, a set of technologies it has developed to convert 18 percent of sunlight to electricity with polysilicon, the most common solar cell material.
    • Jaymee C
      Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
       
      this may be good for the enviroment in the sense that there could be less batteries to be disposed of.
  • silicon solar cells
    • Jaymee C
      Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
       
      IT system= cell phones
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  • But the efficiency rating for the majority of commercially available silicon solar cells is in the 15 percent range. Panels using cells made from alternative materials, such as a combination of copper, indium, gallium, and selenide (CIGS), are lower efficiency--about 9 percent or 10 percent--but are cheaper to produce.
    • Jaymee C
      Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
       
      Social and Ethical Issuse: Reliablitiy. this is because if a product isn't efficient how can we trust it to be reliable?
  • Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
     
    This about the production of a silicon cell phone.
T Graham

Are cell phones safe? Researchers still uncertain | Signal Strength - CNET News - 0 views

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shared by T Graham on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The question over whether cell phones pose a health risk has been debated for years, and researchers say the final answer could still be years away.
  • The Interphone study, which began over a decade ago involving 13 countries and has been funded in part by the wireless industry, was supposed to settle the dispute. But the report's publication has been delayed as researchers disagree over how to interpret the data.
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 16 Sep 09
       
      If the data is that unclear, that means that effects are different for different people.
  • indicates that children absorb twice as much radiation from cell phones as adults do, mostly because their faces and heads are much smaller.
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 16 Sep 09
       
      This ia big health risk because children are pobably the most common users of cell phones.
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  • The question becomes how can you accept the epidemiologic research, if it's not plausible from a biological standpoint?"
  • There are 3 to 4 billion people using this technology throughout the world, so it's an important question to answer."
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 16 Sep 09
       
      With this many people using this technology wouldn't it be harder to slow the problem down, because it would be too hard to keep track of al the users.
  • What is really needed is for the wireless industry to provide detailed usage information."
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 16 Sep 09
       
      The wireless networks would not cooperate with this because they could lose money.
  • T Graham on 16 Sep 09
     
    Leading scientists gathering in Washington, D.C., this week say more research is needed to once-and-for-all determine whether cell phones pose major health risks. Read this blog post by Marguerite Reardon on Signal Strength.
Arafat Chowdhury

How Cell Phones Affect the School Environment - 0 views

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      Arafat Chowdhury on 16 Sep 09
       
      I agree that cell phones are disruptive and distractive and schools should try to strictly enforce the use of them in schools.
  • Arafat Chowdhury on 16 Sep 09
     
    When mobile cell phones were first released, they were only really used by the wealthy business man; the phones were so large that it was near impossible to carry them around.
sarah d

Technologies - Cell-phone college classes face hurdles - 0 views

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  • campus technology officials expect most college course material soon will be accessible on mobile devices
    • sarah d
      sarah d on 15 Sep 09
       
      This relates to teh area of impact, education. If courses can be taken via cell phones, education will be very different.
  • courses via cell phone
    • sarah d
      sarah d on 15 Sep 09
       
      This phrase tells us that cell phones are the IT system being discussed in this article.
Madeline Brownstone

The results are in... and you're going to be fine - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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  • George Whitesides, a Harvard University chemist who coauthored a paper in the journal Analytical Chemistry this month in which the simple camera phone turns diagnostic tool. "The problem, particularly in the developing world and at rural clinics in the United States, is you don't have enough people - you can't have a trained doctor travel 200 miles to do a simple test."
    • Madeline Brownstone
      Madeline Brownstone on 07 Oct 09
       
      look this article up
  • Madeline Brownstone on 07 Oct 09
     
    good article for cell phones in health
  • Madeline Brownstone on 07 Oct 09
     
    good article for cell phones in health
Madeline Brownstone

SOME SOFTWARE CAN TURN MOBILE DEVICES INTO TOOLS OF ESPIONAGE, HARASSMENT | Media & Tel... - 0 views

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    "Sneaky people and technology can turn your cell phone against you. Cell phone spyware makes it easy for someone to eavesdrop on your conversations, intercept text messages and identify your location. And you may never know it's happening, experts say."
Arafat Chowdhury

The Phone Beckons - Got Game? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      Arafat Chowdhury on 15 Sep 09
       
      Its interesting how a person can get addicted to a phone through games on the phone especially who is inexperienced with games.
  • Arafat Chowdhury on 15 Sep 09
     
    This about the cell phone black berry where it affects people and get them even addicted to it through a game.
Kim T

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Is that cellphone kosher? - 1 views

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  • Kim T on 23 Sep 10
     
    The Haredi community limits their access and use of the phone and internet to protect themselves. However, this causes a separation between those who have different views on what extent the limitation should be put up to.
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  • Kim T on 23 Sep 10
     
    This article meets the requirements for ITGS because it mentions the three strands related to the ITGS triangle. The social and ethical significance includes the digital divide and equality of access, policies, people and machines and digital citizenship. In this article, members of the Haredi community in parts of Israel were restrained to usages of the internet and cellphones. There are a few people who do use what we consider all the normal features of the internet and cellphone but many others use "kosher" cellphones that do not allow texting, internet usage or even calling numbers that are of non-kosher cellphones. For those who use the government's internet, they have to follow the policies set up by the government's filtered internet service provider and are unable to go on many websites. Because of their limited access as well as for many youths who are given restrictions, they are on one end of the digital divide. Once they may actually have control to use the internet freely as some people may choose to do in their area, they will have to learn self control and stay within the boundaries of digital citizenship because they were not familiar to the use of IT growing up. Furthermore, the use of internet raises concern in the Haredic community and some members look down on others for using it because the internet may interfere or give them "unsafe" images against their religion, therefore relating to people and machines. All these are related to the interference for those who do business online and need access to certain websites and the government's censorship on the internet.
  • Jialin C on 23 Sep 10
     
    It really makes me wonder about the things that people do because of their devotion to God and religion. However, people who need it for business should be able to surf the net without having the "urge" to do anything else but do research. Filter or no filter, it's up the person to make those smart decisions and not look up anything inappropiate other than what their top priorities are for even going online. Even if filters are installed, some people who are a whiz at computers could easily use proxies or unblock any material they want. But it's all up to the person and how strong their values and beliefs are.
  • Daniell S on 23 Sep 10
     
    Dear Kim, All I have to say about this article is...WOW. I think that this article is very interesting . I didn't know that in order to sign up a child for school you would have to have a certain cell phone number in order to call the school or for the school to call you. The school also requires a certain cell phone. I think this is a little extreme to allow your child just attend the school. I also find it a little crazy to constrict the internet as well. If a child has a school assignment based on something not found in that service package, they would have to go to very far lengths to do the assignment.
  • Michael M on 23 Sep 10
     
    Wow this is amazing. I have never heard of such a thing, and it intrigues me that there is such a thing as phone's influenced by RELIGION. It's new and strange to me because I can't believe a religion would take it as far as making phones with such restrictions. It intrigues me though, and it makes me very curious as to how the restrictions so many things have on childrens lives will affect them. Will they grow up like any other child or will they come out different and strange?
  • Saida K on 23 Sep 10
     
    Wow, this is simply the most fascinating article I have ever read. It's interesting how the Haredi community isolates themselves from the use of technology. But of course, as times modernize, it's important to be in contact for safety reasons. This kosher cellphone is quite unique, only for the kosher stamp found in foods as well, because it's basically a smaller cellphone version of the ones that first came out. But this community surprisingly reminds me of the Amish, how they choose not to use any technology, the only difference being that Amish don't use electricity at all, where the people of the Haredi community do. But I don't think it's easy living without technology these days, now that everything is going to involve technology in the future. Like the Shift Happens Video: Did You Know 3.0 "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist...using technologies that haven't been invented...in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet."
  • nicholas n on 24 Sep 10
     
    This is a very interesting article, I am still shock how religion still influences some people today. It is even more shocking because in the article that I picked, the situation was exactly opposite. People and governments were demanding equality of access. I am shocked at this people are voluntarily limiting themselves from the rest of the world. I wonder in this ever evolving digital age will these traditions last for much longer?
  • Elisavet M on 24 Sep 10
     
    This article exemplifies the impact that technological integration has had on the preservation of traditional customs and morality from the Jewish perspective. Interestingly technology in this case also defines a person for the strength of his or her religious commitment, for example: if one does not have a "kosher phone", then he is not to be admitted into Jewish society because he is ultimately characterized as being immodest and immoral. Restraining one's self from the magnetism of the internet and the dangers it also possesses is illustrated once one takes certain measures to signify the act of taking a stand to secure the sacredness of religion and customs. But once I began thinking about this concept, I started to change my mind gradually. I believe that yes, technology is a potential threat to one's "beliefs", but it only becomes a problem once the user allows such practices to get out of hand. We come back to the same idea: technology has become a label, something that defines us superficially in the minds of others. Just because one may not have a kosher phone, does not have to mean that that person is sending inappropriate texts to another cell phone user. Our bond of trust and reliability upon others is destroyed once we enter the position of forming inconclusive judgements based on the type of technology used and the limitations it draws.
Michael M

Video of purported PlayStation Phone hits Web | The Digital Home - CNET News - 0 views

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  • Michael M on 11 Jan 11
     
    There is supposedly a new telephone that supports the Sony game playing experience coming out, running under the Android OS, found under the website Cnet.com. The main stakeholders here are those who look forward to a gaming telephone, so basically it can run from kids to adults that look for a phone with all this phones capabilities. This development will change the life of gamers who can now take a system that can work as a psp and a phone at the same, and also an mp3 player, picture taker, and other big upgrades to the psp, play station portable. The biggest impact is the development of a new Android phone. This phone combines game play and a cell phone all in one, and the quality of game play is much higher than all phones that have come out so far, which begs questions to be asked, will the phone, which runs under Android, have problems with battery time? Will it be able to have such good game play and be able to function as a fully functional phone, without lag time? If this phone fully functions as a gaming system and a phone, then there will definitely be success to the Android Company, and Sony as well, these two companies will thrive from the money that they will make. Since the phone functions as a computer, its processor is required to be high, especially since it will be playing video games, and the RAM must also be high. The processor and RAM, or random access memory, both define the speed and capability of this cell phone/gaming system. It all comes down to the specs and the scrutiny of the stakeholders, those who will be using this cell phone
  • Michael M on 11 Jan 11
     
    I liked my own work XD
T Graham

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  • SM, NOKIA partner for cellphone waste collection
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      This is an interesting topic because the actual cell phone providers are helping to recycle their own products. Usually it's a private group or organization.
  • promote promise of electronic recycling.
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      Promotion is the key because it educates large numbers of people, making it easier to enforce the movement. Promotion from large companies makes it eaiser to reach the stakeholders.
  • She said this activity is in support to the earlier tie up of SM Supermalls where collaboration was made with concerned institutions and entities last September 2007
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      With the large coporations and the concerned private groups joining together they will make a bigger difference. The coporations can easily pitch recycling ideas to their costumers and the organizations will provide information and ideas.
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  • "This we can say that SM is no longer just a business enterprise but is a partner in helping the environment," she added.
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      This is where business and environment fuse together, to create an extremely helpful supercause. The business is not just making money its making money and saving the environment.
  • As we use, lose, abuse, and eventually upgrade our electronic tools we are leaving behind a massive transistor-filled leftover known as e-Waste. Thousands of mobile phones and all its accessories goes along with other e-Waste
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      E-waste can affect our water, air and soil. The waste that comes from cell phones can also takes hndreds of years to completely disentegrate.
nicholas n

TOPIC: Net Neutrality-Issues of censorship or equality of access and the digital divide - 20 views

On Mohammad post I learned how the people in Iran used Twitter in the Election of the President to bring information out to the rest of the world and organize rallies within the country. This is an...

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iPhone Application Tracks Runners in the New York City Marathon - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • nicholas n on 05 Dec 10
     
    This articles shows the conventional uses of RFID, and you me personally the fears of doing using such technologies. This article tells the reader that in the latest new york city marathon, the people watching wanted to track certain runners(stakeholder). So for the race each runner placed an RFID tag (Hardware 3.1) on the shoes, and on the track (set intervals) sensors would pick up these RFID tags and record the information to each individual runner. To obtain this information one would need an Iphone and 4 dollars to pay for an app that can give you up to date information. There was an issue of reliability present from the perspectives of the cell companies(AT&T). That issue was reliability, to overcome this issue they put temporary cell tower around the track. While no major issue was sparked, I was scared of what it could potentially do. This may do into the realm of sci-fi but my own issue would be survaillence, what if one day everyone was forced to where one of these, there will be these seners at every door or entry way tracking our every move(1984-George Orwell Big brother). Maybe we will have less crime since everything is monatered, but we will lose all privacy. It may be an exaggerated case but not impossible. In reality I can see it being place in our passports, ensuring more security at our flights, but what are we losing
Madeline Brownstone

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texting mobile device business and employment

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 18 Jan 10
     
    "Virginia Tech Transportation Institute recently reported that large truck drivers increase their crash risk by 23 times when they text and drive. Merely reaching for communication device or dialing a cell phone increased the chance of a car accident or a truck collision by six times. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety says that more than 1 million auto crashes a year that happen in North American can be linked to driver inattention."
Madeline Brownstone

Study identifies strategies for dealing with bullying | Safe and Secure - CNET News - 0 views

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people & machines cyberbullying

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 13 Mar 10
     
    "Two studies released this week shed some light on the issue of bullying and, by implication, cyberbullying. One found that bullying is actually on the decline while the other determined that talking with an adult or a friend was most likely to "make things better." Both of these studies were about physical bullying, but there is a very strong link between bullying in the "real world" and cyberbullying. Though there are cases of teens using the Internet or cell phones to harass or bully people they've never met, most cyberbullying cases involve kids who know each from the real world, typically from school."
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