April fool I reckon!

I'm guessing that this is the true article for the day.

Paris agrees with me.

You see, people won't believe this as it's April 1st. In future, please post shocking stories like this on other days of the year.

I bet the tin foil hat brigade forget it's april fools day and use it as more ammunition to make the existance of the electromagnetic spectrum illegal. Arguably if it wasn't an april fools day, would the world miss a sociology teacher? (one of my housemates did sociology at uni, had a 2 hour week and claimed it wasn't a dos subject, now is putting all those good sociological skills to use by working at the checkouts in tescos)

http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-05-27--the-truth-about-wireless-devices.html

Try something a little more believable.

My coat just burst into flames!

Superb!

Just bloody gutted the url gives away the damned joke when I forward it to my Indy reading technophobe 'mates',

Bon

(Flame, for the exploding head)

"In the interests of good taste the Reg has refrained from linking to the vid."

As if!!!

Wow! What a scoop for El Reg to have been first to press with this story. I am surprised that the mainstream media have not mentioned this at all - today of all days.

Paris cos she probably would have swallowed this - along with all the other things she has swallowed.

The URL is a bit of a giveaway isn't it?

On reading this story I immediately switched off my wireless router. I'm sending this message by stealing bandwidth from a neighbour. I just hope you get the message before the end of 1st April :)

You could have at least made it half way believable. Who's this going to fool?

Everyone knows it's txtspek that mks teachrs head expld.

The Reg is now The Onion. Thanks Lewis for making my day...

... graphic, if disturbing, evidence. In the interests of good taste the Reg has refrained from linking to the vid. Also, it has been taken down.

...

I got the joke ... the reg refrained from something for reasons of good taste?

Ok, so where is the link?

hahaha

Can I be the first to call ... FAKE!!!!11!!one

...are two words I wouldn't use to describe this clumsy April Fool attempt. My personal favourite of the day so far is http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13713/14737/dynamo-keyboard-april-fool-iwoot.phtml

"(one of my housemates did sociology at uni, had a 2 hour week and claimed it wasn't a dos subject"

They still do dos in Unis? Education cut-back are getting worse.

(Paris, because we can)

I reckon it's all down to that chip that's recently been uncovered:

http://www.londonlx.com/thechip.html

Maybe that's why they hadn't released information about it before if it caused people's heads to explode

And for another April Fool - it's my birthday!

(Oh, actually that's true. Damn. 34 today, happy birthday to me, celebrate another year's futile existence in the software industry, etc...)

While laughing at luddites and technofreaks is fun there is still a nagging question. Based on personal experience I get much better sleep if there are fewer 2.4GHz emitters around.

I have done some unintentional blind testing on that myself on a few occasions by buggering up the cronjobs and the scripts that turn the 802.11 and Bluetooth on and off. I also know a few other people who have very similar observations.

Ive just taken a sledge hammer to my wireless router. I'm now in a Wi-Fi Cold-spot.

It's all down to focussed microwave radiation.

The phones were acting as an antenna that drew in and focussed the radiation from the school's industrial strength microwave oven (anyone having tried microwave popcorn in one will know that the bag catches fire in a minute or two).

The nature of the phone signals mean that the microwave radiation is reverse-phased which defeats the normal shielding.

The focussed radiation then rapidly boils the fluids in the brain resulting in the usual 'egg in a microwave' situation.

who had to whitness such a traumtizing spectical.

The fact that one of the children thought it was 'Cool' shows how desensitized they have become from playing constant violent video games.

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!!!

If banning everything saves one innocent life then I will happily stick my head in a microwave.

brainspatter, not brainsplatter!

There is no way to upload to YouTube "in real time", they don't have H.263 support.

Simon

Maybe he was trying to burn out the RFID chip in his head?

"They still do dos in Unis? Education cut-back are getting worse"

yes they do but the uni should be upgrading to state of the art OS/2 Warp next year.

Check this out:

http://www.johnandchris.screaming.net/

Well?

for El Reg.

April Fools Gags - Must Try Harder!

Even She'd spot that one!

Ahhhh, the classics

"Reportedly, the headgear used a downward-oriented parabolic dish made from thin metallic sheeting"

Nice, like it :)

"It just blew up, man" - was this kid using words like 'daddy-o' and 'square' too?

anyone fancy emailing it to the boys on discoverys mythbusters show to see if theyll replicat it in glorious 6000fps slow motion ;)

AC

Wasn't the scene from "Scanners" the cult head-exploding moment?

OK, Reg

That's at least two April fool jokes and counting.

What you need to do is find a story that is - on the surface - totally ludicrous ... and yet true! That way everyone who thinks the a real story is a April fool joke will look stupid.

...Paris, it is alleged, is not just an 'April fool' but an 'All year round fool'

I just chucked all of the wireless access point in our business.

You are guilty of using the forbidden word "mobe".

There is no excuse for this behavior.

hrmmm

as one of the tin-foil hat brigade (they do help btw..(9 out of 10 NY tramps can't be wrong))

here are some linkies that might proove were not all insane (though it helps to be to work in IT).

UK National Press this last weekend.. regarding a publication last week by Dr Vini Khurana in Austraila.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/public-health-the-hidden-menace-of-mobile-phones-396225.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-or-asbestos-802602.html

full published article here http://www.brain-surgery.us/

pity the Reg etc wont publish this comment, cos they got lots of 3G freebies for xmass from the phone industry as a backhander to keep it all quiet(whilst we all die of brain cancer) and they are partying it up in soho with paul raymonds grandaughters.(enjoy the party guys, while it lasts, you were warned)(wonder if the Macmillian Trust will get extra funding now)?

mines the scorched foil one..

Illuminatus. ;p

Must try harder next year.

There really seems to be a heavy push on the April Fools stories this year...

I have to admit I was a little downhearted when I realised that I didn't believe the story because El Reg didn't put the word 'freetard' in it.

" .. In the interests of good taste the Reg has refrained from linking to the vid. .. "

You blew it! I was totally suckered in until you gave the game away with that completely ridiculous suggestion!

"They still do dos in Unis?"

Yes, Yes they do, at least I had a module that involved using dos sometime after 2003.

@ O RLY..??

"Can I be the first to call ... FAKE!"

No. About a million commentards beast you to it. Next.

@Wayland Sothcott

"... whitness such a traumtizing spectical."

Oy! What's with the anagram of my nom-de-plume? You're making a traumatising spectacle of yourself, man ;)

PS I had such awful teachers at school that I really wanted the story to be true.

Blow Up My Principal's Head Like That.. .

This would be a lot more funny if a teacher hadn't just been hospitalised by bullying pupils. Bad form, El Reg. Show some common decency.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7324127.stm

Did you mean "beast" me to it..??

I'm stealing it anyway, even if you didn't...

Fortunately, my on-head turbine's parabolic dish is made of felt. Provides thermal and kinetic shock absorption, whilst not focusing those lethal Marconi rays!

Shouldn't that be trainspotter?

Has to be. Well, its probably more believable than most things here, but thats another matter...

"In the interests of good taste the Reg has refrained from linking to the vid."

Since when has the bounds of good taste stopped the Reg from linking to some juicy video or image?

Without pics it didn't happen?

Oh it's April 1st? I still want piccys.

between some of LP's usual bespittled ranting and an April Fool's posting.

Maybe the new A160T "SOCOM Skynet killdroid" or whatever got to him.

Many years ago, The Guardian published a story about a new automated bus control system for London. All buses were to be driverless, and controlled remotely by operators who would view the traffic through a CCTV mounted in the driver's cab, connected in real time to a video screen in the control centre. One operator in the centre would be able to control up to five buses simultaneously, tests had shown.

I was so taken in, I nearly posted it to risks@csl.sri.com

A few years later, a net-friend who was an aviation specialist published a story that the flight crew on an Airbus A320 had experienced an outage of the flight control system on approach to landing. When they tried to restart the system, it gave a message saying "PIN not recognised". Apparently, this was due to Airbus using second-hand ATM chips to build their on-board systems.

The "incident" turned up a few months later in the final year undergraduate dissertation of one of my software engineering students, quoted without irony as an example of the risks from computer systems.

A few years after that, I broadcast my own story that Airbus had subcontracted the maintenance of the flight control software on the A320 to a third-party support firm. I had just just returned from a meeting in Copenhagen, and said I had seen the story in the Danish magazine "Godaj" ("Hello" in Danish). I said that the head of the third-party support firm was Wolf Larssen (the villain of "The Sea Wolf" by Jack London) and quoted him as saying that he was not worried that the original developers of the flight control system would not give him the source code, since his employees could download the binary and de-compile it.

At least three experts in safety-critical avionics were totally taken in and expressed their concern to the discussion group on which I had broadcast the story. I was still receiving concerned enquiries 5 years later from people who had read it in the archives, and hadn't noticed the date on it.

Moral: Make the spoofs believable, but perhaps not *too* believable! :-)