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Open Spectrum: Free the Airwaves
akb writes: "Most of the RF spectrum in use is licensed for exclusive use. What do we get? Inefficient use through spectrum hoarding, political finagling to abuse the regulatory system to gain competitive advantage and access to the airwaves for only a few players. A good article over at CNET picks up on the example of 802.11b in using spread spectrum technology and unlicensed bands and proposes that model be applied to the rest of the spectrum. For the hardcore check out NYU law professor Yochai Benkler's writings, particularly this article (pdf) and Durga Satapathy's papers for the tech end of things."
Didn't you read the article at *all*? Your point was addressed and refuted.
Apparently spread spectrum technologies deal with this problem.
Tell me something, do you get paid to somehow tie every comment on every article to terrorist/terrorism?
Not that I would deny you your right to spout forth shit that you obviously don't even believe yourself. I'm sure there are plenty of moderators just lining up waiting for you to suck their cocks. Hope you enjoy your cum-bath.
Bite my yammer.
Do you really understand emissions? Do you realize that the Earth emits along most bands? Do you understand that each human emission wipes out the Earth emission?
Now, imagine a world in which all oceanography and meteorology is useless because we can no longer take radiance measurements because some sexless geek wants to spew porn to all of his hard up loser friends. Do you want to give up weather forecasting, hurricane warnings, ocean current studies, sea ice melting predictions, etc. for your porn?