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I think this might be part of the issue though - I saw another article about this plan that said people often _don't_ try to contribute because their welfare benefits are subject t…

I find this amusing because I'm generally suspicious of sites that don't include some form of reference to wherever the information was retrieved - perhaps a habit from when I did …

I think that's his point - he doesn't want a license to protect this, at the end he even explicitly states in spite of this he won't change his process - he just wishes people woul…

I actually was thinking that the graceful degrade was how it was implemented initially and was about to write it off until I got to that part. Interesting. At this point I still do…

I've seen some of the enforcement actions - on a first offense they often just give you a stern warning unless it's clear you were doing it willfully and maliciously (interfering w…

I've actually said a few times I think it's a bad ruling - I'm just not practically impacted by it :). That said though I think being alarmist about it does not help the cause - it…

Yeah - it sucks and this FCC rules is concerning, but not as concerning as I initially thought it was. Don't get me wrong - I think this is a stupid rule, but I just don't think it…

I actually completely agree with you on this - what they're proposing is going to stifle a lot of wireless hacking and will be overall harmful to try to avoid what is probably alre…

Good call - similar to how you load firmware for Wifi using a blob a lot of the time. But for a lot of advocates of this they still might not be okay with this as they don't want a…

I agree - but this rules doesn't apply to anything except SDR and modular systems that are also consumer devices - which are not most consumer devices. That said - I am not condoni…

I still think it's kind of alarmist, but I can see your point of view as well. My goal was not to be better than their explanations, but only to summarize why I think they're being…

Agreed - they're more concerned about transmission, which is part of why they have more strict requirements around scanners to try a lot harder to avoid this.

Depends on the licensing/certification of the device - for consumer equipment (particularly scanners) it's required, for certain experimental and test equipment it is not. EDIT: I …

But the FCC regulates a great deal of equipment, and this is only targeting a very specific subset of that equipment - not all of it. I was initially pretty concerned as I'm a Ham …

I disagree - saying they might ban operating systems, with no context, leaves out the fact they're only talking about modular radio systems or software defined radio systems. Edit:…

This is because this is entirely intended for software defined radio and modular radio - around which the entire point is the RF component does not contain as much signal processin…

As I recall, they got around this by not being FCC licensed - in other words, HackRF is classified as a kit/developer component, and is not legal to operate unless you hold an inde…

This is already done in scanners to prevent scanning cellular frequencies as required by FCC regs.

You can make it difficult and very hard in practice through antenna and component design in the case of small internal radios - in radios with external antennas it becomes a great …

This title is kind of click-bait - they aren't prohibiting operating systems, they _might_ be prohibiting installation of operating systems that are not approved on certain types o…

I've heard various things about how this software is written, but in short generally there should be failsafes. I don't know where you live - but I know where I live at least a bud…

My favorite gem from that link is this quote (Linus signs a post where he apologizes for flaming Tanenbaum) 'Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds' Oh how hopeful…

As long as it isn't actually getting worse I would agree. If it gets worse, you should get help (in your case as well :P).

It's weird like that. It's like at first the thoughts move wonderfully, like you're in the flow you get programming, but all the time. Then they move faster, and faster, and faster…

You may have a less severe variant of bipolar disorder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothymia . If it doesn't impact your life though, it isn't a pathology, it's probably fine…