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FCC Publishes "White Spaces" Rules
Stellian writes "The Federal Communications Commission adopted a Second Report and Order that establishes rules to allow new, sophisticated wireless devices to operate in broadcast television spectrum on a secondary basis at locations where that spectrum is open. It's the first time we have access to clear specifications for these devices, dubbed TVBDs — 'TV band devices' by the FCC. The published guidelines allow manufactures to create protocols and build compatible devices, which could be available in 18 Months, according to Larry Page. The full PDF text of this Second R&O is published on the FCC site."
Drink, puke, pass out
I fucking do it everynite
I wake up in a pool of piss
Can't control my bladder or my alcohol appetite
Sleeping in my piss
Waking up all wet
And when it's time to take a shit
It's bloody fucking red
BURMA SHAVE!
"One possible implementation that has piqued manufacturers' interests involves a device that detects wavelengths of light, transmits those signals across a large distance, and rebuilds the image at a remote receiver for viewing by the user."
Am I the only one canceling my cable rather than buy into the BS being fed to me? "It's so much better than your broadcast signal that BY LAW you will be forced to buy into it or give up your existing service." Joy!
Is this like a "free speech zone" or "no smoking in the office, in the bar, on your porch, in your car with a child, 20 feet from operable windows, on the beach, etc." for white people?
The photograph told the story.
It was simple enough. A small handwritten sign that had no doubt been quickly and effortlessly designed in a single moment in the locker room after the game. Rob Limo's sweaty jock-strap was hung with the utmost care slightly above and to the right of CmdTaco's heavily-disfigured face. The heavy ink scribbled on the front stated not a word, but a number - 400. 400 times Rob Limo had ejaculated sperm in Malda's waiting mouth.
400 times. The picture really was worth a thousand words. That and Kathleen Fent's face when she heard the horrifying news: her husband is a homo.
But, there are more than just facts to this story. There's the emotional side, the side not caught in the picture showing only the smiling, disfigured face of Malda, after Kathleen cut his face with a broken glass ashtray.
There's the overjoyed ESR, who once said that many wins only means he's getting old. Too old to keep his shit in from taking RMS's cock in too far...too many times. 400 times.
ESR is far from old by college head coaching/cock sucking standards, but he is extremely successful by any measuring dip-stick.
The photograph told the story, but the single teardrop that escaped and ran down the veteran coach's left cheek filled in the emotion. And - some would say - sperm from Limo's man-meat.
He didn't have to say a word. The teardrop said it all.
When ESR sat down for his usual postgame radio interview with Stallman, Athletics Radio Network play-by-play broadcaster Casey Hogan, he had no idea what was to come. Then Malda came and his life became and unending man-brothel of heathen delight. ESR would never be the same.
University presidents and system admins don't just go around giving out pats on the back and congratulations for minor accomplishments.
This was big. As big as Stallman's meat-sword.
As the congratulatory statements played out, Malda, who calls himself blessed to have the opportunity to coach the game, was overwhelmed. And he cried like a little girl.
And for a moment, just a moment, he allowed himself to enjoy some much deserved satisfaction.
On the road, it's just the old cuckolded coach and his most faithful supporters. The fans making the road trip three hours away over the break are the ones who bleed purple and white (mostly hot, yellowish white cum).
Determination to get the job done, whatever the cost. Determination to be successful by doing the right things, off the court as well as on it.
While the only thing remaining to have evaded the coach thus far in his illustrious career is a national title, he is determined to fix that, too.
Because when ESR is determined, and can finally get off the booze long enough to get it up, there is nothing that can stop him.
The picture spreads the news of 400 AIDs-virus spewing cums.
But it was the teardrop that said it all.
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
... reading that just gave me a geekgasm ...
---- "Logoff! That cookie shit makes me nervous!" - A. Soprano
I clicked all three links and cannot find the passage you quote. Many of the words in that quote don't even appear in any of the three links. Can you be more specific?
There are NO rules in Amerika. Furthermore, why isn't U.S.A. on the live piracy map given the bailout of the U.S.A.?
Cordially,
Kilgore Trout
So, TVBD's (whitespace devices) can operate on channels 21-51, except 37.
So, wireless mics get 19 channels, minus TV presence. (37 is for radioastronomy)
Unless it's two fixed-location devices talking to each other, then TVBD's can operate on 2, and 5-20. In markets with PLMRS, two channels will be reserved for wireless mics.
Um 2-4? Minus TV?
Except that TVBD's will be allowed to operate without geo-sensing, so they won't have any idea that they're in a PLMRS market.
So, 2? Hello? Is this thing on?
These TVBD's have been shown to interfere with TV at 40mW, and we're talking about devices that operate at 100mW? So the lesson here kids is that you should never bother buying an FCC license. You should just buy the people that make the rules. I can't wait for devices that allow for cheap (free would be better) internet everywhere, but this is not the FCC doing its job. Verizon and AT&T must feel like suckers for pouring money into Auction 73. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect -- along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice -- "house negroes."
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.
The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.
Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.
"America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always," the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.
He said Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.
"Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them," he said.
Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was "facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see."
He said Obama's victory showed Americans acknowledged that President George W. Bush's policies were a failure and that the result was an "admission of defeat in Iraq."
But Obama's professions of support for Israel during the election campaign "confirmed to the Ummah (Islamic world) that you have chosen a stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims," al-Zawahri said.
The database will be established and administered by a third party, or parties, to be selected through a public notice process to solicit interested parties.
1. Such a database can't be operated at no (or low) cost.
The locations where wireless microphones are used, such as entertainment venues and for sporting events, can be registered in the database and will be protected as for other services.
2. Registering such devices will most propable cost money to keep up with the expenses needed for operating the database.
3. To save money people won't register their devices.
4. ???
5. Pro...erm... Interference.
What is the FCC doing specifying how I indent my code? That's the job of the GCC, isn't it?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Next: the RIAA suing me for a song that was downloaded by my neighbor on a channel that just happened to be next to the one my TV was tuned to.
Sure.. the feds can let go of that white space... but the black space... noooooooOOOOoo .. the black space isn't safe to let go from the government.. it unsafe and just not natural. Everybody rise up - LETS FREE THE BLACK SPACE!! DOWN WITH THE FCC!!
Don't ask. I blame the 8 cans of Guinness.
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I know something about this. I am one of the vanishingly small number of people who have set up an ATSC transmitter other than under FCC part 70 rules.
The sad reality is that 85% of people get their TV from cable or satellite, meaning that TVBDs will have zero impact on them (the cable and satellite companies either get their feeds over fiber or will have no trouble hunting down any source of interference that keeps the head-end from getting a signal, given their budget as compared to the average homeowner).
One of the big time losers in the switch to digital broadcasting are mobile/portable receivers. I have an Insignia 7" LCD ATSC TV, and unless you plug it into a proper TV antenna mounted on top of a building, it's digital tuner is deaf as a post. Insignia stopped making them, probably because as portable devices, they're practically useless. And that's not Insignia's fault. It's simply the nature of the cliff effect. Portable receivers used to get by because they could display a less-than-perfect signal. But digital receivers get perfect reception or none at all. Mobile reception is out because the Doppler effect and dynamic multipath can totally wreck 8VSB reception.
So what's left are people either too cheap or too poor for cable or satellite, or who (like me) are RF hobbyists.
How low does that 15% figure have to go before it's simply cheaper for the government to subsidize lifeline access rates for the poor and auction the rest of the broadcast TV bands off? For how much longer is the public interest better served by broadcast TV rather than, oh I don't know, how about really, really high speed mobile IP (the sort of thing you can get when you set aside a 300 MHz band for the purpose)?
TVBDs that cause interference will be impossible for the average broadcast TV viewer to diagnose. Their receiver will simply go blue-screen. In the past, there were visual clues in the picture condition to diagnose reception problems. But with the switch to digital, it would take a spectrum analyzer to do the same job. The fact that the FCC would countenance such a situation speaks volumes about how important they perceive broadcast television to be.
Can anyone make a rough estimate of the range these fixed devices will be able to achieve with the power specified, particularly for wireless networking... I'd love to finally get access to broadband without a several second round trip (satellites are far away and wave's don't like to break the speed limit)
Satellite and cable make far more sense for TV. I have no problem with re-allocating spectrum to better and higher density uses.
Without broadcast TV, how can we use Fox news to market our political party to the least educated, poorest part of society!? We are talking like millions of votes here, man! Get a hold of yourself!
Oh, shi-
This has screwed many in the live event industry because many of our wireless mics are now unable to be used. Everything from concerts, to hotels, production companies, theme parks, bars, clubs, are going to suffer.
Here is some discussion by my fellow audio engineers on the subject:
http://srforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/t/39317/2112/
http://srforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/t/39317/2112/
http://srforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/t/39629/2112/
Libertas in infinitum