airport estreme with Freebsd

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Sun Feb 6 20:59:19 PST 2005


On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 07:18:06PM -0700, Mauro wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-02 at 16:29 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:08:04AM -0700, Mauro wrote:
> > > I don't buy the theory about government frequencies.  This theory asks
> > > one to believe that government frequencies are not intercepted or
> > > tampered with in some fashion.  They are tampered with and can be done
> > > so easily.  Legally sold scanners enable one to listen in to all sorts
> > > of private signals.
> > 
> > One, don't top post -- it looses context.  This isn't a Mickysoft list.
> > 
> > Two isssue isn't necessarily about receiving certain frequencies as you
> > assume.  As Peter said one of the issues is the FCC doesn't want you to
> > set the TRANSMITTING POWER above a certain power.
> 
> To clarify my statement concerning ethnocentrism,
> don't assume we're all american and that the FCC dictates to
> non-americans their ideas concerning radio waves.  So on a global level,
> the excuse that the FCC doesn't approve doesn't wash.

It sure does then the company in question is a USA company.  They
certainly *ARE* under the FCC's regulatory jurisdiction.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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