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Of relevance to the ongoing debate on the health impacts of cell phones. First published on July 10, 2019
A landmark Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the City of Berkeley's cell phone right to know ordinance rejecting industries argument that the ordinance violates the first amendment. The Berkeley ordinance requires retailers to inform consumers that cell phones emit radiation and that "if you carry or use your phone in a pants or shirt pocket or tucked into a bra when the phone is ON and connected to a wireless network, you may exceed the federal guidelines for exposure to RF radiation." In upholding this decision, the panel concluded that the public health issues at hand were "substantial" and that the "text of the Berkeley notice was literally true," and "uncontroversial."
Further, the panel determined that the Berkeley ordinance did not constitute preemption.
"Far from conflicting with federal law and policy, the Berkeley ordinance complemented and enforced it."
The panel held that Berkeley's required disclosure simply alerted consumers to the safety disclosures that the Federal Communications Commission required, and directed consumers to federally compelled instructions in their user manuals providing specific information about how to avoid excessive exposure.
Industry is expected to appeal for a full court en banc review, but this reviewing "panel concluded that CTIA had little likelihood of success based on conflict preemption."
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 28 2019, @11:45PM (6 children)
Straight to the face when holding it to your head. Also a funny fact, companies in the industry make human head-shaped dummy loads specifically for the purpose of determining the energy absorption pattern into the human head.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @11:50PM (1 child)
1W of what?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 29 2019, @03:37AM
Juice
(Score: 4, Funny) by Snotnose on Friday November 29 2019, @01:10AM (3 children)
Yeah, no. The dummy heads are to see how well both the speaker and the microphone works under various conditions.
Then again, a day or two ago someone called me a 20 year Qualcomm fanboi, so I guess my experience counts less than common tropes.
/ in 20 years there was 1 requirement I really wanted to test
// base stations had to survive x number of shotgun blasts from y feet
/// Granted, I'm software and that's more a hardware thing. But damn, I sure wanted to get paid for shooting shotguns at things
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 29 2019, @01:33AM
You are wrong, wrong, wrong. Or perhaps we're discussing different vendors and applications.
Besides, if shit it the fan and comms had to be disabled hypothetically in the game of minecraft, people trying to take it out wouldn't use shotguns, they'd use rifles and attack the antennae rather than the ground electronics. Protective radomes for consumer cheapshit have a dielectric constant of 3 or less, with the lesser the better. Generally speaking, the lesser, the weaker but the more efficient in passing power transmission.
High-power applications that you won't see on the streets can afford to use more exotic plastics with properties that will not allow birdshot or rifle bullets to pass.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 29 2019, @05:21AM (1 child)
If you are talking about my comment, I was just reminding the crowd of this comment: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=21827&page=1&cid=575409#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
Not intended as a slight.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Snotnose on Saturday November 30 2019, @12:31AM
Didn't take it as a slight, just surprised anyone cared enough to keep track of my postings.
For the record, I've never worked harder, for more hours, for so long, as I did for Qualcomm. The pay was good, but the stock options, heh, I lucked out. Management not only gave me aggressive deadlines, they knew I was learning new stuff meeting those deadlines and gave me time to learn it. Plus the training. Took a 2 day class on how to interview. A 4 day class on CDMA. A 5 day class on how to be a manager. Those are the ones I remember. When I took a class they adjusted my schedule so I wasn't spending 8 hours in class, then 8 hours working.
They also had a library where I could check out books, and if a book I wanted to read wasn't in stock I could request it. Books I remember checking out include Schnier's Applied Cryptography (I asked for that one, they bought it and let me read it for a month), classic books on white box/black box/ grey box testing, and Rayleigh scattering (I wrote a bunch of code that had to deal with it)
From what I understand that Qualcomm doesn't exist anymore. Paul Jacobs killed the Epic Christmas parties and the great family oriented summer picnics. I don't know anyone that works there any more, most of my co-workers bailed before Steve Mellenkompf (sp?) took over.
I worked with Steve when, it turns out, he was a new hire (only in integration meetings. I was representing one Globalstar subsystem, he was representing another). Great guy, nice guy, smart as fuck. Surprised any of my co-workers actually got to be CEO of a huge company like QC, but not surprised Steve got there.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.