Re: [Bloat] ESR's comment popped up on slashdot

[Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com>]

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Perhaps redundant asserts() with explicit documentation would help.

A communication channel with the FAA and wardriving airports would also
help....

Thanks,
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:18 AM, David Collier-Brown <davec-b@rogers.com>
wrote:

> Solandri wrote, at
> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8141531&cid=50686089
>
> So based on a few vague comments, I managed to track down what the issue
> is since neither this nor the previous/. article nor the sites opposed to
> it (who seem to want to portray it as a Big Evil Government conspiracy to
> take away your freedom) delve into it.
>
> Several airports use Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Doppler_Weather_Radar> [
> wikipedia.org] for high-resolution maps of storms, rainfall, and most
> importantly (for airports) microbursts
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst>[wikipedia.org]. TDWR operates
> at frequencies from 5.60 - 5.64 GHz. That's smack dab in the middle of the
>  5 GHz band used by 802.11a, n, and ac
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels#5.C2.A0GHz_.28802.11a.2Fh.2Fj.2Fn.2Fac.29.5B16.5D>
> [wikipedia.org]. You'll notice use of those specific frequencies
> (channels 120, 124, 128) are prohibited in the U.S. and Canada for this
> reason.
>
> Based on that, it sounds like the issue is that you can buy a 5 GHz device
> off the shelf, then hack the firmware to re-enable those frequencies. And
> the FCC is proposing this action because people have been doing exactly
> that and the FCC has received reports from the airports of such
> interference on those frequencies.
>
>
> If this is correct, it argues for various of our proposals and opens up
> some new questions...
> - is it a vendor that's scewed it up?
> - was there a bad DD-WRT athe solution is enforcement...  anyone
> t any time?
>
>
> --dave
>
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