Re: Blocking Gmail ads
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:02:25PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:58:33 -0500
> "Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso" <jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> You may believe so, but not everyone agrees. IANAL, but the
> above referenced Madwifi page justifies the need for the binary,
> closed source HAL by claiming that:
>
> <Quote>
>
> At least the USA Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires that
> any manufactured products have a mechanism for limiting transmission
> power and frequencies, and that these mechanisms are not easily
> modifiable by the consumer.
>
> </Quote>
Why didn't they do it in hardware? Why have the hardware be
software-configurable to go outside of the design spec then limit the
access to the software?
Doug.
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