Monday, April 21, 2008 - 11:56 pm
Russian Agency Demands Registration for all Wi-Fi Devices.
http://www.theotherrussia.org/2008/04/15/russian-agency-demands-registration-for -all-wi-fi-devices/
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 12:50 am
I thought we killed the Big Bear.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 12:53 am
Bearly!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 8:09 am
Of course this never would have happened if St. Nixon were still alive, right, HerrB?
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 10:04 am
In a sense, I'm inclined to say, if the Russian government wants to deal with all of the paperwork and man-hours that it would take to license all Wi-Fi devices, go for it. Wi-Fi devices contain radio transmitters, after all. Does anyone else remember that in the U.S., an FCC license was at one time required to use a CB radio?
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 1:55 pm
10-4
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 4:52 pm
...an FCC license was at one time required to use a CB radio?
I no longer have this, but before I was around my grandfather had a CB. Don't know what happened to the CB itself, but found the manual for it. Inside, was a form that had to be submitted to the FCC for a license. This completely baffled me at the time, since I thought CBs weren't licensed.
Also, why don't we just let Russia handle Russian affairs and Americans handle U.S. affairs? That should be easy enough.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 5:12 pm
The CB radio licensing was phased out in the late 1970s. One trucking history web site states that this happened in 1977.
I remember that the 1981 Radio Shack catalog proclaimed, "FCC News Flash: A license is no longer required to use a CB Radio!" By then, this was not news, but the Radio Shack marketing guys figured that it would sell more radios.
