John Oram wrote: > Day Brown has often approached FCC 802.1 regulations on this list with > a "badges, we don't need no stinkin badges" attitude ...
The FCC is not yet global. for one. For two, 802 is useless in many rural areas with steep and/or forested terrain. for three, the FCC dont really give a rats rectal orifice what we do out here so long as we dont walk on LEO and emergency services. Increasingly people are abandoning the standard broadcast bands for satellite and cable, and because the population is so low, the broadcasters dont care either, not that we'd havta walk on them either. There is plenty of bandwidth that the FCC reserved for future licensing, which now will never be sold, but which unused bandwith could be used. > Hmm, wonder how well that would go down if he ever really set up a > system and went on the air? Nobody would care what I do. They aint gonna send agents all the way out here to confiscate a hundred bucks worth of equipment. More to the point, is what my neighbors and others who live in these fringe areas are going to do. Part of what is going on on the net is planned obsolescence. Part of it is to sell software to deal with spam, viruses, and bloated webpages, and hardware with ever larger bandwidth and higher speed. You dont need all that crap to read messages. We could setup a *DOS* based, user owned, wireless network which would maintain the viability of DOS.
