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Does OSS Make The FCC Irrelevant?
JordanL writes "Daniel Fisher over at Forbes.com wonders whether or not OSS makes the FCC irrelevant. From the article: 'The agency might have made sense in the 1920s, Moglen says, when it was formed to assign specific frequencies to broadcasters so they wouldnt try to drown each other out by cranking up the transmitter power. But a new generation of intelligent radios, combined with equally clever computer networks, is making it possible for anybody to use the airwaves without interfering with anybody else.'"
Yeah, I mean, if we didn't have the FCC, who would fine TV stations for showing bare asses and hot cheerleaders during football games?
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OSS also makes banks, rainy days, and the patriarchy irrelevant!
It's just like how communism has made government irrelevant in the workers' pardises of Cuba and North Korea!
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"...GNU Radio is developing a new generation of radios and TV receivers that use software for just about everything except the antenna and the power source. The FCC can prohibit manufacturers from selling radios that transmit on illegal frequencies, but it would have trouble shutting down a Web site distributing software that does the same thing."
Look dude, I just got a brand GNU radio!
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Letting people blast away at 200mw is bad enough, imagine the mess that'll ensue if you do that with higher power transmitters.
High Power Transmitters. adj.
1) Enough RF to cook your eyeballs while they are still inside your head.
2) Enough RF to make you smell like a cooked thanksgiving turkey.
Synonyms: Multi-Megawatt Transmitters. Gigawatt Transmitters.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
Walk down the center line of an Interstate and see if the cops don't bother you.
Your analogy is seriously screwed.
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