FCC Wants Proposals To Manage White Space Database

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 2, 2009 @02:09PM from the piece-of-your-mind dept.

kdawson writes "A year after voting unanimously to open 'white space' frequencies for unlicensed use, the FCC has now issued a public notice seeking database proposals (PDF). Howard Feld explains in his blog posting: 'At last! We can get moving on this again, and hopefully move forward on the most promising "disruptive" technology currently in the hopper. And move we are, in a very peculiar fashion. Rather than resolve the outstanding questions about how the database provider will collect money, operate the database, or whether the database will be exclusive or non-exclusive, the Public Notice asks would-be database managers to submit proposals that would cover these issues. ... I label this approach "good, but weird."'"

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TSA by DaMattster · 2009-12-02 15:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I would also like the EFF to hit the TSA with a lawsuit over their SecureFlight Data Program. The official propaganda has it that this is for traveller convenience. I have an allergy to bullshit and I've got a feeling its more for tracking and ease of data mining for TSA investigators. It ain't got nuthin' to do with traveller convenience - it is all about the convenience for the TSA.