San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Radiation Warnings 258
Lord Ender writes "Poor phone reception may soon be a selling point in San Francisco. A city ordinance was just approved which requires those selling phones to indicate the 'specific absorption rate' (SAR) caused by the radio transmitters in the phones. Cell phone industry groups opposed the law. The FCC already requires phones sold in the US to have SAR levels below 1.6 W/kg, though adverse health effects from such levels of radio exposure have never been conclusively demonstrated."
important psa (Score:5, Funny)
WARNING: The Sun is radioactive! Avoid using it to make phone calls. -- San Francisco.
OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
Re: important psa (Score:5, Funny)
WARNING: The Sun is radioactive! Avoid using it to make phone calls.
Or at least avoid holding it against your ear for prolonged periods.
Re:Medical Radiation the New Demon (Score:5, Funny)
What are you complaining about? I went the dentist and then the urologist a few years ago, and then attempted to drive over the Williamsburg bridge. Six ATF guys pulled me over because their radiation detector went off... I don't want to remember the rest of it.
Californians piss me off (Score:4, Funny)
Did anybody tell them that when the wind blows East to West that dust from the Trinity site settles in the fog?
Re:iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Phone companies would stand to lose a lot (Score:3, Funny)
shouldn't be too hard to get a group of long term radio and cell phone users together
Be careful about stopping by the local HAM club and doing a health survey. Long-term radio use seems to cause geekery, pudginess, beer cravings, and a tendency to use linux.
Re:Medical Radiation the New Demon (Score:1, Funny)
I guess they could just cut you open and have a look around instead.
Re:Medical Radiation the New Demon (Score:3, Funny)
A man can handle 100 X-Rays a year, and should have to.
Re: important psa (Score:3, Funny)
Holding the sun to your ear will not cause cancer. I guarantee it.
Re:important psa (Score:3, Funny)
My understanding is that it has gotten into most of our lakes and rivers, and even in our drinking water.
Fun with the Dentist (Score:2, Funny)
As soon as you hear the xray machine go on, yell "Owww!"
They love jokes like that!
Re:This is an implant ..... (Score:3, Funny)
Have you had an implant? My dentist is telling me to get one (have a missing tooth) and the estimate is between $4000 and $5000. That seems a bit outrageous to me. Just wondering if you (or anybody else) has data to compare.
I told my dentist I'll get an implant in Mexico and he just laughed at me.
Re:Medical Radiation the New Demon (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Science Deniers (Score:3, Funny)