All I can say to LightSquared is... (sarcasm on) "Right...." (off)
This company is *done* unless they can find a way to lower their required power or move their spectrum away from GPS. They are fighting for their very existence and it's getting down to the wire so they are saying *anything* in an attempt to keep things going. The test was rigged eh? Guess physics did you in guys, no need to rig the test.
Had you asked an RF engineer you could have saved yourself a pile of cash trying to fight this issue. If the FAA didn't do this idea in because it would make Airborne navigation using GPS unreliable (and thus end the practice), the DOD's arguments should win the day. Further, the FACT that the consumer use of GPS would surely be impacted (if not totally disabled) for miles around their transmitters regardless of what they do should nail the coffin shut.
I guess, to be fair, with the FCC buying tickets to the Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) circus, the chance that they'd buy into this sideshow was worth a try. However, the game is over guys.
I think they just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and wisely decided to let go of the cookie. I'm guessing that their corporate lawyer types who are dealing with the lawsuits recommended this happen ASAP and management is following their lawyers'' advice. The question now is will all the crumbs laying around lead to them being punished or just sent to bed without dinner.
Sure you can...Unless the BIOS is password protected and configured not to boot from removeable media, just boot Linux from CD or some thumb drive and the disk is yours, without having the tracking software start. Assuming that they didn't encrypt the drive you could even look at the files on the disk and possibly remove the tracking software. Even if the BIOS is password protected there is usually a way to reset the settings without that much work.
This sounds wasteful, but over long distances, would be less wasteful than the voltage drop due to heat.
What you mean is power loss not voltage drop.
Modern transmission systems do have power losses around 7%. I don't think there is any system that converts electricity into fuel, pipe the fuel someplace, then convert it back that is going to come near 7%. And why one would do away with the stability and fault tolerance you buy when using a "grid" of transmission lines and generating assets is beyond me.
No.. Westinghouse was right, despite what Edison thought.
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All I can say to LightSquared is ... (sarcasm on) "Right...." (off)
This company is *done* unless they can find a way to lower their required power or move their spectrum away from GPS. They are fighting for their very existence and it's getting down to the wire so they are saying *anything* in an attempt to keep things going. The test was rigged eh? Guess physics did you in guys, no need to rig the test.
Had you asked an RF engineer you could have saved yourself a pile of cash trying to fight this issue. If the FAA didn't do this idea in because it would make Airborne navigation using GPS unreliable (and thus end the practice), the DOD's arguments should win the day. Further, the FACT that the consumer use of GPS would surely be impacted (if not totally disabled) for miles around their transmitters regardless of what they do should nail the coffin shut.
I guess, to be fair, with the FCC buying tickets to the Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) circus, the chance that they'd buy into this sideshow was worth a try. However, the game is over guys.
I think they just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and wisely decided to let go of the cookie. I'm guessing that their corporate lawyer types who are dealing with the lawsuits recommended this happen ASAP and management is following their lawyers'' advice. The question now is will all the crumbs laying around lead to them being punished or just sent to bed without dinner.
Sure you can...Unless the BIOS is password protected and configured not to boot from removeable media, just boot Linux from CD or some thumb drive and the disk is yours, without having the tracking software start. Assuming that they didn't encrypt the drive you could even look at the files on the disk and possibly remove the tracking software. Even if the BIOS is password protected there is usually a way to reset the settings without that much work.
This sounds wasteful, but over long distances, would be less wasteful than the voltage drop due to heat.
What you mean is power loss not voltage drop.
Modern transmission systems do have power losses around 7%. I don't think there is any system that converts electricity into fuel, pipe the fuel someplace, then convert it back that is going to come near 7%. And why one would do away with the stability and fault tolerance you buy when using a "grid" of transmission lines and generating assets is beyond me.
No.. Westinghouse was right, despite what Edison thought.