Jamfish?
Having driven the Cod to near extinction... may we have some JAM fish, please?
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The Commission was already rebuked by the D.C. Court of Appeals for selectively editing technical information used in the BPL Rulemaking.
http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200804/06-1343-1112979.pdf
excerpt:
"...there is no APA precedent allowing an agency to cherry-pick a study on which
it has chosen to rely in part. "
A smell of manure does not always mean someone is growing roses.
This horse may have looked good, but it carried a handicap; two Commissioners, three Congressmen, and a CFO.
Cellular providers aren't public agencies; they are private firms who profit FROM the public. This focus has us losing service in storms, floods, fires and hurricanes because backup power (note: there often IS backup power for a time) and preventive maintenance are costs, not profit. In days of yore, the FCC required telco's to support a defined grade of service to insure calls weren't dropped and dial tone was provided. The cost of doing so, however, is not incosiderable, including basements full of wet-cell batteries with toxic electrolytes generating explosive hydrogen.
It may not have escaped notice that the FCC now only rarely imposes on those it regulates. It is responding to the Will of Congress, some members of which once proposed abolishing the FCC and letting a market-free-for all accomplish the ends regulation (in their view) was meant to serve. Congressmen in turn were responding to complaints from regulated firms that the FCC was imposing costs they should not have to pay. It appears the outgoing White House supported this argument at every agency it ran.
Not that cellular firms are alone. One recalls reports New Orleans police had to break into stores and grab battery-powered FRS (US version of PMR446) radios when their own systems failed. No one could have made a profit on a radio system 100 percent reliable under such circumstances. Engineers have already pointed out they could have done better, but the accountants are in charge.
In the 1990's, Tandy/Radio Shack produced a small computer meant to handle all sorts of household tasks, including, yes, meal planning. With a mere 23 watt power supply and an energy efficient monitor, one was expected to leave it in sleep mode so that a mere tap of a key could bring up that delicious strawberry pasta recipe Mom had so thoughtfully e-mailed.
The Commission's approving widepread use of spectrum temporarily or locally unoccupied has probably halted TV broadcast expansion in the United States. One need not expect FCC assistance in relief from interference; just look at its cheerleader attitude to BPL (PLT).
If you can hear RF noise from your own television on a SW radio, so can detector vans.
To reduce RF from any receiver, one might try these measures, where applicable, legal and safe:
1) Shield the receiver with a metal cabinet wires from which are either shielded (and shields properly connected to the cabinet) and/or filtered so only power and audio can get in and out of the box.
2) Use a filtered, shielded mains power cord. if you can still hear RF noise, add a mains plug powerline filter.
3) Put an RF preamplifier on, with an attenuator at the television connector. This reduces RF that may get to the antenna and be radiated. A high-pass filter just ahead of the preamplifier is a good idea as the amplifier is susceptible to overload.
4) Use headphones. It does no good to be RF quiet if anyone prowling around can tell you're cheating the government. Crystal earphones emit no magnetic fields, but sound terrible -- and one's ear canal gets sore.
The author is not liable for anything that happens as a result of trying these things. Do not work on electrical equipment unless properly qualified.
One might consider whether the cost of evading detection might not be less than paying the fee.
>>the court forbid the economics student at the University of Tennessee from using the internet except to check email and do class work.<<
Back to in-person, cash and paper cheque shopping then. Conceivably, no ATM's or automatic deposit, either; go to the bank, go directly to the bank, do not pass GO...
One glaring weakness is that the system will broadcast that "secure" data to nearby radio receivers; the backhaul is just our old friend PLC. Along with that, nearby transmitters will disrupt, reset or shut down the system.
But using coax or twisted pair to lamp info hubs sounds so "ethernet."
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Hardly! But methanol IS a nerve poison. Here's a snippet and a link to the Canadian government site it comes from:
In one study, symptoms of blurred vision, headaches, dizziness, nausea and skin problems were reported in teachers aides exposed to duplicating fluid containing 99% methanol (Frederick et al., 1984). Individual aides worked as little as 1 hr/day for 1 day a week to 8 hrs/day for 5 days/wk. The workers’ total exposure duration was not mentioned. A dose-response relationship was observed between the self-reported amount...
http://oehha.ca.gov/air/chronic_rels/pdf/67561.pdf
The radio part is the problem. One you put critical information over the air it becomes vulnerable to interception. If intercepted, it becomes vulnerable to decoding or decryption. Most governments forbid attempts to do either -- except when they do it.
In the United States it is a felony to attempt to recover information even from unsecured radio signals whose modulation parameters have been withheld to prevent it. Saudi Arabia used to (maybe still does) forbid unlicensed private ownership of single-sideband receivers. Governments can also require receiver licenses and restrict the frequencies they are allowed to tune.
But for security, radio -- and by inference, RFID -- is like writing on the wall of the nearest public WC!
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>The Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported that a mobile phone is now essential "to adequately participate in society" - so while some people don't want to actively join in, it's a concern that so many people aren't able to.<
Logically, then, those who refuse to go cellular are committing an Anti-Social act.
Isn't the fine the same as paying for a cellular 'phone? Without getting one?
There's a specified procedure for loss of radio communications. The pilot flies a radio-out pattern and the tower signals him with a red or green light. In this case, the pilot could have flown the pattern wheels up, gotten a green light, done a low pass to show the tower his wheel were up, gotten a red light, gone around and lowered the wheels, and on the green light after wheels were confirmed down, landed normally.
I may be off on the details; I was in avionics for 15 years but I'm not a pilot.
Comcast may well escape FCC regulation this time,if not next. Even the Commission can't impose sanctions for violating a non-existent Rule, and (as yet) there's no rule imposing Net Neutrality. We'd know! The Administrative Procedures Act requires a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, a period of public Comment, Reply Comments, and formal adoption of a Rule. Anyone remember seeing this?
US regulatory agencies do get slaps on the wrist from time to time for "arbitrary and capricious" decisions; look at the recent decision against the FCC at the District of Columbia Court of Appeals:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/04/25/10064/?nc=1
IMO, the FCC isn't the palce to look; the Federal Trade Commission might have something to say!
Plasma, alas, is notorious for high power consumption, with its high voltage pixels, and for radio interference; each pixel is an electrical discharge point that produces wideband noise. Of course, if you've already got PLT you might never hear it.
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