Does OSS Make The FCC Irrelevant?

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 18, 2005 @06:19AM from the not-irrelevant-if-uncle-sam-doesn't-want-it-to-be dept.

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.'"

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First Prime Factorization Post by 2*2*3*75011 · 2005-10-18 06:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Factorization of the 1920s:

1920 = 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*3*5
1921 = 17*113
1922 = 2*31*31
1923 = 3*641
1924 = 2*2*13*37
1925 = 5*5*7*11
1926 = 2*3*3*107
1927 = 41*47
1928 = 2*2*2*241
1929 = 3*643