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Old Jul 5, 2005 | 5:15 am
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Originally Posted by flyclub
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Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised if the power of transmission from such computers is not far off mobile phones - both use the microwave region of the EMSpectrum after all. I'm sure they also emit at a high power when looking for a router to obtain a DHCP IP address intitally in a similar way to cellulars registering on a network.
I'd imagine they were quite a bit different - the coverage of a wireless network will be significantly smaller than a Mobile Base station.

Anyway -

I think Nylon clothing should be banned (Especially track suits!), these can generate and store quite a high amount of electricity!

Several thousand volts jumping from some Chavs burburry tacksuit could jump through the IFE remote and potentially damage my Film Viewing.
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