[Bloat] ESR's comment popped up on slashdot

[David Collier-Brown]

[offtopic] And this kind of thing drives my paranoid friends *batty*.

--dave
I suspect none of them ever worked in a large enough organization
that it had lots of inertia...  which I've seen in a five-person team (;-))

On 08/10/15 03:36 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> The *only* report of interference with radars I have been able to find
> is a vaguely worded complaint in a 2011 document, where 40 reports of
> interference were found, 25 at one airport in Puerto Rico.
>
> The FCC has utterly failed to provide proof for it's argument, thus far.
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote:
>> David Collier-Brown <davec-b at rogers.com> wrote:
>>      >     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.
>>
>> I too would like like know more about these reports.
>> (would be funny if in fact it was screwed up *vendor* firmware?)
>>
>> --
>> ]               Never tell me the odds!                 | ipv6 mesh networks [
>> ]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works        | network architect  [
>> ]     mcr at sandelman.ca  http://www.sandelman.ca/        |   ruby on rails    [
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