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Unlimited Airwaves
Dan Gillmor has an article concerning the notion of scarcity of the airwaves, which has long been a testament of faith at the FCC. Recent advances in technology may render that testament false.
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Quick, someone post asciipr0n or good troll fiction to entertain those of us that could give a shit about US law and encryption crap that /. is trying to sell!
All your radio base are no longer belong to us
I'll finally be able to have my own television station and rebroadcast 'Thundar the Barbarian' 24 hours a day! Oh, Joy!
MAINE (AP) - A skull and other human bones were found in a park early Wednesday and police are trying to determine whether they are the remains of Stephen King, the 54-year-old former author who disappeared more than a week ago.
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"The possibility exists that it's a male based on some preliminary work," Terrance W. Gainer, Maine's state police trooper, said in a telephone interview from Rock Creek Park. "They have been here for about the length of time since the disappearance."
Gainer said he has no idea whether the remains are those of King, but said the park has been an area police have searched extensively for King's body. The former horror/fiction writer disappeared May 12, 2002. Truly and american icon.
I made this recipe and it was delicious! If that post doesn't deserve (+5, Tasty), I don't know what does.
Imagine if we had cars that could pass through each other and through people without any resistance. I would be the end of traffic jams!
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
The fact remains that even if his phrasing was 'ackward' like the article you linked to suggests, it certainly does give one insight into what the average DC congresscritter thinks about himself.
Not very smart. Now when you flame someone on slashdot, they can look you up and harass you. Remember your call sign is the same as posting your name and address. Be more careful next time.
There will always be limits, but with low powered transmissions, packet switching retransmissions, etc. you can increase the level of em usage remarkably. I'm not sure of the details of what he's arguing (slashdot is largely down right now, so navigation is difficult), but spread-spectrum mainly buys you higher noise immunity at any given power level. It's the packet switching transmission and reduced power levels at each transmitting station that up the throughput.
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OTOH, this might have its downside, too. It everything goes wireless then the amount of exposure to em radiation at numerous wavelengths will increase. This is bound to have effects, if nothing more than raising the temperature. It might, however, have substantially worse effects, even if those are hard to forsee. This kind of thing should be tested in small areas at first, and again for each increase in power concentration or spectrum coverage. I suspect that at least an entire town would need to be used as a guinea pig here, since we don't even know what effect we are looking for. Possibilities that occur to me are:
1) Increased level of cancer
2) Increased mould growth
3) Increased food spoilage
4) Increased glaucoma (i.e. opacity of the vitreous humor)
5) Faster proliferation of weeds
6) Increased pregnancy rate
7) Decreased pregnancy rate
8)
And I've though of reasonable mechanisms for all of the mentioned effects. (Of course, there's a big difference between a reasonable mechanism and a probably effect.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.