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> You see, to quote William Shakespeare's "Hamlet":

>"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Sorry, but a can’t help but think from your wordsalad here that you understand barely more about regulatory aspects of radio bandwidth use than Shakespeare did... I can’t even work out where to start to guide you down a path where your “Understanding of both Law and Radio” might start to intersect with reality in 2021 society. So I’m not even going to try.

One hint I will throw you about SDR - use the keyword “RTL SDR”, you’ll find many simple and amazing projects using USB tv tuner sticks available for ~$10 repurposed as Software Defined Radio receivers. These days they are used for everything from global flight tracking like Flightradar24 up to some amazing things like passive radar tracking planes via reflections from powerful radio station transmitters.



Did I not say "I don't mean to offend you by saying that" in my message?

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Two Questions:

1) What is the first principle of Law? Why does it exist?

2) What is the first principle of Radio? How does it exist?

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Also, I might suggest that labeling others, while highly effective at shutting down debate (this technique is used by TV news anchors -- label opponents, then offer a quick quip as to what the majority in society would disagree with most with the label previously given, then feel good about having done so), is also equal-and-oppositely highly damaging to one's own continuing education, the education which, if it were continued with an open mind and without such actions -- would make a person highly (and I mean highly) effective over time, such that whatever they would seek in life, they would an uncannily high probability to attain...

That is the function of angles and possibilities, angles and possibilities not explored, angles and possibilities which are shut off if/when someone tries to shut down "opponents", by whatever methods (labeling, smears, painting them with a broad brush, etc., etc.)

But, for the sake of not provoking a debate, you want me to say that "I'm an idiot"?

Fine, "I'm an idiot."

You want me to say that I understand barely more about regulatory aspects of radio bandwidth use than Shakespeare did?

Fine, "I understand barely more about regulatory aspects of radio bandwidth use than Shakespeare did."

But here's the thing.

You see, I can say those things because I'm not afraid of the repercussions of saying those things (there are none for me. <g>)

I don't believe them for an instant, however.

Two Questions:

1) What is the first principle of Law? Why does it exist?

2) What is the first principle of Radio? How does it exist?


Addendum:

Everything that the FCC (and its counterparts in foreign countries) regulate -- are waves that are Hertzian in nature.

These types of waves follow the Inverse-square Law:(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law), that is, they drop off inversely proportional to the square of distance.

It's a good thing that they do, too, because otherwise everyone's radio transmitter of whatever type (cell phone, garage door opener, TV remote, Wi-Fi, etc.), would interfere with everyone else's -- and this doesn't happen.

Nature, via the Inverse-square Law -- prevents this for the most part...

But, while Hertzian waves are used by most of the devices we know and love, in Physics, there are also Non-Hertzian waves (scalar, transverse, longitudinal, etc.).

These require special equipment and engineering to both create and detect (compare to Gravitational Waves, LIGO, etc.), and they might be highly directional in nature (that is, if you're not in a very tight path, you cannot detect them, but that's a good thing, because it also means that they don't interfere with all of the radio devices that we know and love!)

You see, there is nothing in Physics that (with the right engineering) that prevents the transmission or reception of information on non-Hertzian waves, on any number of mediums.

Sunlight, the earth's magnetic field, radiation from space, and many other mediums -- could in theory be used to send and receive information... even Gravity itself could be, in theory, if it is a wave, and if it were properly understood...

Also, Quantum Communication -- the idea that you take a crystal (or some other medium), and split it in half, and (again, with the right engineering) now can communicate over large distances without an apparent medium between them -- this idea is Non-Hertzian in nature.

ESP, if it exists -- is Non-Hertzian in nature.

Non-Hertzian communications are the future (basically it's Star Trek technology).

Hertzian (which the FCC and its counterparts in foreign countries regulate and can regulate) is the present-day -- and the past.

In other words, a prediction: In the future -- there will be a disruption of Internet scale in Communications -- when Non-Hertzian communications technologies become dominant...

Also, with respect to Law -- the root of all Law (all human Law) is human agreement -- which is also the root of all man-made contracts.

Congress (or any other governing body) cannot change Natural Law -- that is, no act of human agreement will change the nature of Gravity, nor any of the Laws (pure laws, natural laws) that govern the physical universe...

Or perhaps as Star Trek's Scotty would so eloquently say:

"Ye cannot change the laws of physics!" <g>




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