Actually there are some Ansel Adams photogs still out there. At Mountain View, CA Art and Wine festival earlier this month, a photographer had awesome and beautiful photographs (and they weren't cheap) of various nature shots including nighttime exposures. He uses film, yes that material where you press the button on the camera and hear various mechanical noises. But no idea if it is good or not until film is developed. Then continuing on in a dark room expose these negatives on to paper which immerse into different trays (develop, stop, fix). I forgot his name but I was impressed. He does the same thing Ansel does. Hike long distances packing camera equipment, food and water. Wait for the right conditions to take the shot. Then once back at the darkroom to see how it turns out. I asked what is it like when the pic is great (as opposed to the several not-so-good), "it feels good."
It was interesting when he explained to people his photographs are not digital and they are not photoshopped. For many film photography is very mysterious.
I had many pics, still do, on Flickr along with descriptor paragraph but when they re-arranged the site with lots more scripting or whatever it may be, it became disorganized and sssssssoooooooo lllllllllooooonnnnnngggggg to view. Actually I better archive those images and descriptors before the site gets "myspaced."
I'm still using my XP and Win98, I bought a Win7 laptop couple years ago and hearing all about Win8, I sure glad I got Win7. I know some people that when Vista came out, they immediately abandoned their XP but saved their files (which most were no good under Vista). Then Win7 came out, they did the same thing again (which I don't blame them for doing so). But they also abandoned Win7 for 8 and suffered problems. Win7 is fine and can do everything (these people are not developers, mostly use Office and surf the web). I don't get it, why do some people do that? I can somewhat understand about getting a new car that has various gadgets to impress the chicks. But a computer?
It seems very wealthy have become very good at gaming the system. Watching the PBS program "The Roosevelts" it mentioned of the time when very wealthy controlled almost all commerce and markets. Then there was everyone else that got "Morganized" with lower wages and grueling work hours with almost no chance to get ahead, i.e. whatever earnings made had to be spent at company store. Teddy Roosevelt broke this trend with "big government" and these guys JP Morgan, Rockefeller, etc. said TR doesn't have that power in the Constitution. But TR said Constitution was for the people. But nowadays we see growing wealth inequality and favoritism like "corporations are people too" and this trend of going back to what it used to be in late 1800s is not a good sign. Though all the Ayn Rands say, "too bad" but do consider US doesn't have industrial base like it used to.
It will be interesting to see how all things line up after we know the details and backroom discussions. Earlier aerospace vehicles looked vastly superior but never went anywhere. While lots of conspiracy theories, it was later documented Howard Hughes with innovative and creative designs (and also a celebrity engineer) did not have industrial capacity to build aircraft in quantity. I'm certain B36 was chosen over the B49 flying wing because USAF needed range and payload the Flying Wing could not deliver. Then there was the issue of having to pay taxes on used XB49s so all the Flying Wings were destroyed. Though unmanned Dragon has flown and manned Dragon seems just around the corner, does SpaceX have capacity to make spaceships in quantity? But maybe there really isn't a need for large quantities of manned spacecraft? Or maybe it's just backroom deals. Almost all of us don't really know as virtually all information is third hand or presentations by key people but they really don't give us all the juicy facts.
shooting a laser is easier than shooting a bullet. Laser goes speed of light (obviously) but a bullet needs to be targeted, has considerable travel time, good chance of missing, etc. Scary thing is a high power laser can quickly cover a wide area, blind large numbers of people without considering if they are enemy troops (including conscripts dumped in the field by an emperor) or protesters against government practices.
I was thinking some private group or company snags an asteroid says, "alright if you want me, come and get me. In the meantime, neeeyaa, neeeyaa, neeeyaa!"
I'm somewhat confused. Each ATSC channel is a fixed 6 MHz wide spectrum. They can either do one HD channel or four SD channels (I think but I cannot find solid technical info on TV broadcast except very general info that is aggregates of what everyone else posted, or very esoteric technical specific). I can get MPEG2 is high bandwidth and not that great compared to H264 but MPEG2 continues on because that's the way it is (like DVDs).
I was talking with someone who gave additional reason to cut cord from Comcast is HD from OTA is far superior than on cable which is highly compressed to transmit all those channels down the coax.
Speaking of technical, it was only recently you can easily find actual frequencies used by TV stations (needed if you are using UHF wireless mics). After the DTV transition, I could not find actual frequencies used which drove me nuts because those that say it is same as NTSC are wrong (well yes and no, digital channel is same freq as NTSC channel, but stations go by virtual channel which many are different). Get the freq here, http://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/... put CA for state to show all broadcast TV stations in Calif.
for this diatribe, here's the data of these two stations from FCC site (freq from old school NTSC channel):
both stations are Full(DT) in Los Angeles
Call Sign KLCS
Virtual Ch 58
Digital Ch 41 [632-638 MHz]
Licensee LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
> Is it a coincidence that the Shuttle's cargo bay was a perfect fit for US spy satellites?
No, it isn't, and everyone with a clue (a class which does not include you) knows it, so salaciously implying it was some kind of a secret
yes and no. In late '60s and early '70s NASA specified width of cargo bay be 15 ft as anything smaller will make space station modules too cramped for people. USAF wanted cargo bay 60 ft long for their satellites, otherwise NASA would have it shorter (making design for orbiter easier). Shuttles were being planned and scheduled to be launched from Vandenberg in later 1980s. Lots of work done on SLC-6 and long landing strip, and Enterprise was used for configuration checks at SLC-6. Missions were planned but Challenger accident put a stop to all that (and military had to scramble to get Titan back on line to launch their sats).
Which means most independent observers have long concluded the Castros like the embargo
I read someplace else Cuba can easily do business with other countries but their guvmint is pretty screwed up that other countries don't want to do business with.
Someone commented in IEEE Spectrum we have all these STEM programs that pushes people from high school through college and into the real world like World War One soldiers into the trenches. What is lacking are experienced people in the work environment to share their experience, but these newbies have to fend for themselves while learning the trade (and pay off huge debt).
We need more privately funded research, like we had in the days of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC.
It was a different country that had Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. Same reason why it is so difficult if not impossible to send people to the moon and back because this is not the same country as it was before.
However, I wonder what kind of research Google is doing? We see the self driving cars but is there some other stuff they are doing but not talking about? After all, they can easily hire a bunch of really young superbright PhD types, give them a facility and a few billion dollars, turn them loose on whatever.
speaking of old phones, I had a Motorola flip phone (with GTE Wireless label). Though it was big but great for driving because buttons were large, I can use tacit feel when dialing so I don't have to take my eyes off the road. It had no text messaging but since it was pure analog, I can have a full fidelity conversation (and it was loud, perfect to accommodate road noise) and both me and other person can clearly hear each other. Nowadays you text because voice quality is terrible.
But another issue is in this world of high demand like more hours at work, more tasks to do, more IT kinds of things (and I'm not talking about watching corny vids on youtube), etc. Now traffic is become brutal at least here in Silicon Valley. It is painfully slow and damn going 1 mph for such a long time, it's difficult to not get on the 'net and take care of some tasks. But have to be careful and not impulse drive when traffic goes from 1 to 15 mph, and then bump the curve, take out a parking meter in front of a traffic cop.
I used to drive an Acura, 1996 model, but when I had to get another car I never considered Acuras because windows are much smaller. I drove a 2012 model, it was terrible with small windows, zillion blindspots. I guess add type of person that drives Acuras but getting back to all new cars where they have airbags in the window frames which further reduces visibility.
4. phones.: I get it, in gridlock it seems pleasant to text someone but speaking from experience its nothing short of stupid. Ive personally watched as an inattentive driver, at impulse speed, slowly mount a curb in their ford excursion and proceed to deacpitate a parking meter in plain view of a traffic cop.
did you pull out your phone and take a video of this event and post on youtube?
interesting document, thanks for link. heh, come to this thread about payment systems getting hacked and veer off into counterfeit money. I don't shop Home Depot often, last time was there bought electrical supplies and paid cash (with real money of course). I'd hate if I used my CC and then get up the next day and read about Home Depot.
repeat the process to authorize accepting $50s or $100s.
yes, give a $100 bill at any store and they will spend some time examining it. Except in Las Vegas, that gets as much attention as a quarter (unless things have changed in past 10 years). I read leading counterfeit bills are $10. $100 attract attention, $1 not worth time counterfeiting, but the $10 bill is good candidate because Treasury Dept is always changing the colors so nobody really keeps track on what an authentic bill looks like.
But how does a suspected counterfeit feels like? the real bills are special material that is hard to duplicate.
Some years ago couple teenagers had access to a color copy machine. They copied and printed lots of "money," went to Vegas and had a great time. They buy something trivial when cashier is really busy with long lines of people, give them a "$20" and receive legit change. But their luck ran out couple days later when a cashier took the money, "wait, this feels like regular paper." These days ***never*** copy money in a copy machine, a former Xerox tech told me. If it detects money, it will brick itself and only some guy from Xerox Japan can unlock the copy machine.
Another consideration is potential damage to underground water resources, if that gets polluted, all of us are toast. You can live without gas, but cannot live without water.
Reminds me a discussion about difficulty remodeling The Pentagon that was built in 1941. "It took them 18 months to build, and it takes us 18 years to remodel" quoted a building contractor working on upgrading Pentagon walls, floors, etc. One major obstacle are so many cables strung throughout the complex. Cables from 1940s to 2000, many undocumented, which really slows down construction. There may be some old cable with that paper type insulation, may not look important but for all you know it may be the single hotline for Joint Chiefs of Staff to NORAD commander.
Some years ago there was an article about some town in India or China where utility poles had jumbled masses of cables, mayor was fed up of these horrible mess so visible downtown and not able to find who owns these to clean them up. So he ordered city crews to tear them all down which put the whole town into the 6th century and population screaming.
I was in the military and we could not operate all willy-nilly.
I heard NTIA runs a "tight ship" and very diligent on coordination and authorization, unlike FCC which is mostly a political organization which doesn't stop sellers from offering things like 10watt 1.2GHz video transmitters that operate in the 950 to 1200 MHz aeronautical navigation (transponders) band. I was talking with a presenter at IWCE some years ago who has worked with both NTIA and FCC, he said compared to FCC the NTIA is horribly bureaucratic.
I was told it was illegal. Whether that was just FCC strong-arming or not, I don't know.
back in 1990s (I heard various versions, too lazy to spend time trying figure out the real story, but here goes) when easily modified scanners can pick up cellphone calls, someone picked up a conversation of Newt Gingrich and someone else. He recorded the conversation and sent tape to a reporter. Shortly after a congressman introduced legislation that would make receiving any freq except broadcast illegal. Obviously that law was not implemented (I think result is scanners had to be designed so they could not easily be modified). Usenet forums were screaming at the time about this, one was "it's that liberal from Los Angeles who wrote this stupid law" which someone pointed out that LA suffix behind name is for Louisiana and congressman is a republican.
The last mile... yes that's what holds me back. I hear all this great stuff about Netflix, youtube vids, Hulu, etc. but at times may be fast but spotty. I was talking with someone describing how they watch fantastic movies, shows, etc. on their highspeed internet. I didn't get the details but way she described it is something that can impress most techies (I think her and her husband are IT specialists so they know how to game the system). Generally I don't pay much attention to all this whizbang high speed internet stuff, like tech systems for helicopters, I'm not in those leagues.
It is likely that the military doesn't need deniability. Many FCC rules don't apply to the military.
military, like other federal agencies are "licensed" and freq coordinated by the NTIA and there databases are not publicly available like FCC general menu reports. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/Gener...
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Actually there are some Ansel Adams photogs still out there. At Mountain View, CA Art and Wine festival earlier this month, a photographer had awesome and beautiful photographs (and they weren't cheap) of various nature shots including nighttime exposures. He uses film, yes that material where you press the button on the camera and hear various mechanical noises. But no idea if it is good or not until film is developed. Then continuing on in a dark room expose these negatives on to paper which immerse into different trays (develop, stop, fix). I forgot his name but I was impressed. He does the same thing Ansel does. Hike long distances packing camera equipment, food and water. Wait for the right conditions to take the shot. Then once back at the darkroom to see how it turns out. I asked what is it like when the pic is great (as opposed to the several not-so-good), "it feels good."
It was interesting when he explained to people his photographs are not digital and they are not photoshopped. For many film photography is very mysterious.
I had many pics, still do, on Flickr along with descriptor paragraph but when they re-arranged the site with lots more scripting or whatever it may be, it became disorganized and sssssssoooooooo lllllllllooooonnnnnngggggg to view. Actually I better archive those images and descriptors before the site gets "myspaced."
I'm still using my XP and Win98, I bought a Win7 laptop couple years ago and hearing all about Win8, I sure glad I got Win7. I know some people that when Vista came out, they immediately abandoned their XP but saved their files (which most were no good under Vista). Then Win7 came out, they did the same thing again (which I don't blame them for doing so). But they also abandoned Win7 for 8 and suffered problems. Win7 is fine and can do everything (these people are not developers, mostly use Office and surf the web). I don't get it, why do some people do that? I can somewhat understand about getting a new car that has various gadgets to impress the chicks. But a computer?
It seems very wealthy have become very good at gaming the system. Watching the PBS program "The Roosevelts" it mentioned of the time when very wealthy controlled almost all commerce and markets. Then there was everyone else that got "Morganized" with lower wages and grueling work hours with almost no chance to get ahead, i.e. whatever earnings made had to be spent at company store. Teddy Roosevelt broke this trend with "big government" and these guys JP Morgan, Rockefeller, etc. said TR doesn't have that power in the Constitution. But TR said Constitution was for the people. But nowadays we see growing wealth inequality and favoritism like "corporations are people too" and this trend of going back to what it used to be in late 1800s is not a good sign. Though all the Ayn Rands say, "too bad" but do consider US doesn't have industrial base like it used to.
It will be interesting to see how all things line up after we know the details and backroom discussions. Earlier aerospace vehicles looked vastly superior but never went anywhere. While lots of conspiracy theories, it was later documented Howard Hughes with innovative and creative designs (and also a celebrity engineer) did not have industrial capacity to build aircraft in quantity. I'm certain B36 was chosen over the B49 flying wing because USAF needed range and payload the Flying Wing could not deliver. Then there was the issue of having to pay taxes on used XB49s so all the Flying Wings were destroyed. Though unmanned Dragon has flown and manned Dragon seems just around the corner, does SpaceX have capacity to make spaceships in quantity? But maybe there really isn't a need for large quantities of manned spacecraft? Or maybe it's just backroom deals. Almost all of us don't really know as virtually all information is third hand or presentations by key people but they really don't give us all the juicy facts.
shooting a laser is easier than shooting a bullet. Laser goes speed of light (obviously) but a bullet needs to be targeted, has considerable travel time, good chance of missing, etc. Scary thing is a high power laser can quickly cover a wide area, blind large numbers of people without considering if they are enemy troops (including conscripts dumped in the field by an emperor) or protesters against government practices.
I was thinking some private group or company snags an asteroid says, "alright if you want me, come and get me. In the meantime, neeeyaa, neeeyaa, neeeyaa!"
I'm somewhat confused. Each ATSC channel is a fixed 6 MHz wide spectrum. They can either do one HD channel or four SD channels (I think but I cannot find solid technical info on TV broadcast except very general info that is aggregates of what everyone else posted, or very esoteric technical specific). I can get MPEG2 is high bandwidth and not that great compared to H264 but MPEG2 continues on because that's the way it is (like DVDs).
I was talking with someone who gave additional reason to cut cord from Comcast is HD from OTA is far superior than on cable which is highly compressed to transmit all those channels down the coax.
Speaking of technical, it was only recently you can easily find actual frequencies used by TV stations (needed if you are using UHF wireless mics). After the DTV transition, I could not find actual frequencies used which drove me nuts because those that say it is same as NTSC are wrong (well yes and no, digital channel is same freq as NTSC channel, but stations go by virtual channel which many are different). Get the freq here,
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/... put CA for state to show all broadcast TV stations in Calif.
for this diatribe, here's the data of these two stations from FCC site (freq from old school NTSC channel):
both stations are Full(DT) in Los Angeles Call Sign KLCS
Virtual Ch 58
Digital Ch 41 [632-638 MHz]
Licensee LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Call Sign KCET
Virtual Ch 28
Digital Ch 28 [554-560 MHz]
Licensee KCETLINK
Oh well, for you all RF types (yes, there is a low power NTSC station on analog ch 6),
Call Sign, Virtual Ch, Full/Low Power, Digital Ch, Licensee
KABC-TV 7 Full(DT) 7 ABC HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
KCAL-TV 9 Full(DT) 9 LOS ANGELES TELEVISION STATION KCAL LLC
KCBS-TV 2 Full(DT) 43 CBS BROADCASTING INC.
KCET 28 Full(DT) 28 KCETLINK
KCOP-TV 13 Full(DT) 13 FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC.
KEDD-LD - Low (LD) 50 VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC
KFLA-LD - Low (LD) 8 ROY WILLIAM MAYHUGH
KHIZ-LD - Low (LD) 2 JEFF CHANG
KHTV-CD - Low (DC) 27 VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC
KIIO-LD - Low (LD) 10 BAGRAT SARGSYAN
KLCS 58 Full(DT) 41 LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
KMEX-DT 34 Full(DT) 34 KMEX LICENSE PARTNERSHIP, G.P.
KMRZ-LD - Low (LD) 22 VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC
KNBC 4 Full(DT) 36 NBC TELEMUNDO LICENSE LLC
KNET-CD - Low (DC) 25 NRJ TV III CA LICENSE CO., LLC
KNLA-CD - Low (DC) 50 NRJ TV III CA LICENSE CO., LLC
KSFV-CD - Low (DC) 22 VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC
KSFV-LP 6 Low (TX) Analog Ch 6 VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC
KSMV-LD - Low (LD) 23 KJLA, LLC
KTBV-LD - Low (LD) 12 EICB-TV WEST, LLC
KTLA 5 Full(DT) 31 KTLA, LLC
KTTV 11 Full(DT) 11 FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC.
KVHD-LD - Low (LD) 40 NEW YORK SPECTRUM HOLDING COMPANY, LLC
KWHY-TV 22 Full(DT) 42 KWHY-22 BROADCASTING, LLC
> Is it a coincidence that the Shuttle's cargo bay was a perfect fit for US spy satellites?
No, it isn't, and everyone with a clue (a class which does not include you) knows it, so salaciously implying it was some kind of a secret
yes and no. In late '60s and early '70s NASA specified width of cargo bay be 15 ft as anything smaller will make space station modules too cramped for people. USAF wanted cargo bay 60 ft long for their satellites, otherwise NASA would have it shorter (making design for orbiter easier). Shuttles were being planned and scheduled to be launched from Vandenberg in later 1980s. Lots of work done on SLC-6 and long landing strip, and Enterprise was used for configuration checks at SLC-6. Missions were planned but Challenger accident put a stop to all that (and military had to scramble to get Titan back on line to launch their sats).
Which means most independent observers have long concluded the Castros like the embargo
I read someplace else Cuba can easily do business with other countries but their guvmint is pretty screwed up that other countries don't want to do business with.
from purchasing manufactured items (that used to be done here in US).
Someone commented in IEEE Spectrum we have all these STEM programs that pushes people from high school through college and into the real world like World War One soldiers into the trenches. What is lacking are experienced people in the work environment to share their experience, but these newbies have to fend for themselves while learning the trade (and pay off huge debt).
We need more privately funded research, like we had in the days of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC.
It was a different country that had Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. Same reason why it is so difficult if not impossible to send people to the moon and back because this is not the same country as it was before.
However, I wonder what kind of research Google is doing? We see the self driving cars but is there some other stuff they are doing but not talking about? After all, they can easily hire a bunch of really young superbright PhD types, give them a facility and a few billion dollars, turn them loose on whatever.
speaking of old phones, I had a Motorola flip phone (with GTE Wireless label). Though it was big but great for driving because buttons were large, I can use tacit feel when dialing so I don't have to take my eyes off the road. It had no text messaging but since it was pure analog, I can have a full fidelity conversation (and it was loud, perfect to accommodate road noise) and both me and other person can clearly hear each other. Nowadays you text because voice quality is terrible.
But another issue is in this world of high demand like more hours at work, more tasks to do, more IT kinds of things (and I'm not talking about watching corny vids on youtube), etc. Now traffic is become brutal at least here in Silicon Valley. It is painfully slow and damn going 1 mph for such a long time, it's difficult to not get on the 'net and take care of some tasks. But have to be careful and not impulse drive when traffic goes from 1 to 15 mph, and then bump the curve, take out a parking meter in front of a traffic cop.
Acura and Audi drivers are the worst.
I used to drive an Acura, 1996 model, but when I had to get another car I never considered Acuras because windows are much smaller. I drove a 2012 model, it was terrible with small windows, zillion blindspots. I guess add type of person that drives Acuras but getting back to all new cars where they have airbags in the window frames which further reduces visibility.
4. phones.: I get it, in gridlock it seems pleasant to text someone but speaking from experience its nothing short of stupid. Ive personally watched as an inattentive driver, at impulse speed, slowly mount a curb in their ford excursion and proceed to deacpitate a parking meter in plain view of a traffic cop.
did you pull out your phone and take a video of this event and post on youtube?
interesting document, thanks for link. heh, come to this thread about payment systems getting hacked and veer off into counterfeit money. I don't shop Home Depot often, last time was there bought electrical supplies and paid cash (with real money of course). I'd hate if I used my CC and then get up the next day and read about Home Depot.
repeat the process to authorize accepting $50s or $100s.
yes, give a $100 bill at any store and they will spend some time examining it. Except in Las Vegas, that gets as much attention as a quarter (unless things have changed in past 10 years). I read leading counterfeit bills are $10. $100 attract attention, $1 not worth time counterfeiting, but the $10 bill is good candidate because Treasury Dept is always changing the colors so nobody really keeps track on what an authentic bill looks like.
But how does a suspected counterfeit feels like? the real bills are special material that is hard to duplicate.
Some years ago couple teenagers had access to a color copy machine. They copied and printed lots of "money," went to Vegas and had a great time. They buy something trivial when cashier is really busy with long lines of people, give them a "$20" and receive legit change. But their luck ran out couple days later when a cashier took the money, "wait, this feels like regular paper." These days ***never*** copy money in a copy machine, a former Xerox tech told me. If it detects money, it will brick itself and only some guy from Xerox Japan can unlock the copy machine.
Another consideration is potential damage to underground water resources, if that gets polluted, all of us are toast. You can live without gas, but cannot live without water.
you mean like go where no one has gone before, like Europa?
When WWI ended, something needed to be done with the lands. Most of it worked out somewhat well.
not really. borders drawn by cartographers in Europe resulted in lots of messy stuff we've been dealing for decades.
Reminds me a discussion about difficulty remodeling The Pentagon that was built in 1941. "It took them 18 months to build, and it takes us 18 years to remodel" quoted a building contractor working on upgrading Pentagon walls, floors, etc. One major obstacle are so many cables strung throughout the complex. Cables from 1940s to 2000, many undocumented, which really slows down construction. There may be some old cable with that paper type insulation, may not look important but for all you know it may be the single hotline for Joint Chiefs of Staff to NORAD commander.
Some years ago there was an article about some town in India or China where utility poles had jumbled masses of cables, mayor was fed up of these horrible mess so visible downtown and not able to find who owns these to clean them up. So he ordered city crews to tear them all down which put the whole town into the 6th century and population screaming.
I was in the military and we could not operate all willy-nilly.
I heard NTIA runs a "tight ship" and very diligent on coordination and authorization, unlike FCC which is mostly a political organization which doesn't stop sellers from offering things like 10watt 1.2GHz video transmitters that operate in the 950 to 1200 MHz aeronautical navigation (transponders) band. I was talking with a presenter at IWCE some years ago who has worked with both NTIA and FCC, he said compared to FCC the NTIA is horribly bureaucratic.
I was told it was illegal. Whether that was just FCC strong-arming or not, I don't know.
back in 1990s (I heard various versions, too lazy to spend time trying figure out the real story, but here goes) when easily modified scanners can pick up cellphone calls, someone picked up a conversation of Newt Gingrich and someone else. He recorded the conversation and sent tape to a reporter. Shortly after a congressman introduced legislation that would make receiving any freq except broadcast illegal. Obviously that law was not implemented (I think result is scanners had to be designed so they could not easily be modified). Usenet forums were screaming at the time about this, one was "it's that liberal from Los Angeles who wrote this stupid law" which someone pointed out that LA suffix behind name is for Louisiana and congressman is a republican.
The last mile... yes that's what holds me back. I hear all this great stuff about Netflix, youtube vids, Hulu, etc. but at times may be fast but spotty. I was talking with someone describing how they watch fantastic movies, shows, etc. on their highspeed internet. I didn't get the details but way she described it is something that can impress most techies (I think her and her husband are IT specialists so they know how to game the system). Generally I don't pay much attention to all this whizbang high speed internet stuff, like tech systems for helicopters, I'm not in those leagues.
It is likely that the military doesn't need deniability. Many FCC rules don't apply to the military.
military, like other federal agencies are "licensed" and freq coordinated by the NTIA and there databases are not publicly available like FCC general menu reports. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/Gener...