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FCC Looks To Offer Consumers More Wireless Choice
An anonymous reader writes "The FCC is butting heads with wireless phone companies over 'wiggle room' the government organization wishes to allow consumers. Along with the move to the auction system, the government is removing restrictions on pieces of the wireless spectrum, which will allow a freedom of choice not usually seen with wireless communication devices. 'In the past, when the F.C.C. auctioned spectrum for cellular service, it allowed the winners to determine the equipment and applications that would run on their networks. That created the current status quo, in which a vast majority of American consumers buy a handset from a wireless service provider. The open-access rules, which will apply to about one-third of the spectrum being sold at the auction, represent a significant departure from past practice. They require the winners to let consumers use any tested, safe and compatible device or application on its network. Entrepreneurs could sell handsets with capabilities that are unavailable -- or unavailable at affordable prices -- from current carriers.'"
And this is despite im no woman - should make you understand how appreciative i am
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The Dragon see, with seven mantles red,Wielding two swords and crownèd with two crowns;Great-grandchild of the faithless Turk, with Koran!Behind him hordes of that accursèd breed, ... While pondering o'er this council for to-day,
That they may devastate the whole wide earth,As locusts pestilent lay waste the fields!
Had not the Rock of France its onrush curbed,Arabia's flood had surely deluged all!
Osman - infernal dream - was monarch crown'd;The pale moon wedded, she his apple fair;From whom sprang Orkan, Europe's evil guest;And now Byzantium's realm is nothing moreThan the youthful Theodora's dowry -
The star of destiny hangs darkly over her.Now Paleologos bids Murat in,To bury in one grave both Greeks and Serbs.Their own ends sought both Brankovitch and Gerluka -
Meet recompense Mohammed gave to Gerluka!
From out far Asia where they have their nest,
This Devil's brood doth gulp the nations up;
Each day a nation, as night-owl takes bird:
Murat takes Serbia, and Bosnia Bayazed;
Murat Epirus, and Mohammed Greece;
Then the two Selims Africa and Cyprus -
Each takes something till nothing is there left!
Dreadful the deeds that happen day by day;
Too small is this wide world for Hell's great maw,
Which, though feeding ever, never knows repletion!
Yanko doth fight for Vladislaus dead;
But why fight on when fighting gives not aid?
Brave heart Obilitch beats in Skenderbeg,
And yet he pines in pitiless exile. -
But what can I! What helper is me nigh?
We have but few strong arms; our strength is small;
We are as wisps of straw tossed on the wind;
As orphan'd sad, forsaken of the world,
I see my people sleep a deadly sleep,
No parent's hand to wipe away my tears;
God's Heaven is shut above my head,
Giving no answer to my cries and prayers.
This world is now become a hell,
And men but demons in disguise.
Oh, dark, dark Day! oh, outlook ever black!
My fearing folk held ever underfoot!
Sure I have seen thy woe and all thine ill,
Yet 'gainst the worst I now must set my will!
When deadly wound is given in the head,
The quivering frame doth painfully expire.
Plague of mankind! May God make end of thee!
Is half a world so small, to thee so small -
A half-world filled with horror of thy deeds -
That pois'nous stenches from thy demon soul
Thou now must bring to spue upon our rock?
Is it small offering - of Serbia the whole,
From Danube river to the deep blue sea?
Thy seat thou hast, all wickedly to ride;
Thy blood-stained sceptre is thy boast and pride,
From sacred altar thou insultest God,
And where was outrag'd Cross dost rear a Mosque! -
Our very shades and relics would'st defile,
Those relics which to shelter men have brought,
And screen'd amid to eternal hills,
Dear shrines reminding of our heroes' deeds?
These all have been o'erwhelmed in blood,
A hundred times in thine, ten times ten in ours!
The work of that accursed monarch see -
He whom the devil teaches all things bad! -
"This Montenegro, which I cannot tame,
"By means or fair or foul shall own my name:
"With it, on this wise must the method be."
Thus spake the Devil's Sent One; the began
Sweets of false faith to proffer unto man.
The curse of God be on this brood unclean!
What is the aim of Islam's creed 'mongst us?
How will ye 'scape from our ancestors' curse?
However dare 'fore Milosh to appear,
Or how before each other Serbian knight,
Whose names shall last while ever sun hath light?
Hot horror burns within my soul:
Shall brother brother ever thus war down;
Shall not such strife so bloody and so long
Destroy the very seed within the womb!
O cursèd day! - may God blot out thy light -
That thou didst bring me forth upon the world!
Last year a hundred times I curs'd the hour
Those Turks did fail to make an end of me,
Lest I should falsify my people's hope.
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1: It's the FCC that smacks you around, not the telcos. Every single electronic device that communicates in a licensed spectrum -- that is, every useful spectrum beyond about 50 feet -- has to go through a battery of FCC tests. If you hack your device so it doesn't perform as intended, the FCC is the one who knocks down your door and throws the book at you.
2: The DMCA is a copyright law. It has nothing at all whatsoever to do with patents.
3: The DMCA itself is no worse than the "a flimsy lock is still a legal lock" law your local state/town/dirt road has.