Re: Blocking Gmail ads
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On 05/24/08 11:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 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?
Flexibility. If the regulations change, a firmware update gives
your product more features.
And cost. It's cheaper to manufacture a lot of one thing, than some
of this, some of that, and some of something else.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
ESPN makes baseball players better.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFIOEgJS9HxQb37XmcRAvLVAJ9qfgiAnPbmYwSypzC44ygWAgaa/wCeONED
BI4/NumYkirMgLWCC/U673k=
=WN5a
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: