Re: Blocking Gmail ads

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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@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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