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FCC White Space Rules Favor Tech Industry
holy_calamity writes "The FCC has come to a decision on the rules governing devices that make use of the unlicensed wireless spectrum between TV stations, with commissioner Genachowski trumpeting a new era of 'super Wi-Fi.' Most crucially, the FCC dropped the requirement that devices sense TV and wireless microphone signals. Instead, they can geolocate and use an online database to learn which white spaces are available in their area. That makes tech firms happy because it provides a software-centric alternative to developing complex new sensing hardware."
Hell didn't freeze over, Americans just voted in a competent party. 8 years of GOP rule makes you forget how government is supposed to be.
The only things the Teabaggers are championing is racism and the GOP. Those hicks would not know a free market if it bit them in the ass.
What they seem to want is no regulation, that is not a free market in anyway.
the problem is the baggers do not fall under the category of "sensible" and really do want the absence of government regulation, at least until such deregulation bites them in the ass then it's the government that was incompetant for not doing more to prevent it.
see the gulf oil spill for an example of this. Drill Baby Drill
Snowden and Manning are heroes.