I did my MS thesis on wideband spectrum sensing (just about everything under 2.2 GHz). Turns out the spectrum isn't actually overcrowded, it's underutilized, especially over 500 MHz. Look at some papers by the Shared Spectrum Company www.sharedspectrum.com/. This is common misperception and it's the result of FCC policies (that they're working on changing). The underlying problem is that institutions that have spectrum allocated for them now actually need it, just not most of time.

If the TSA is choosing the lab then this isn't going to accomplish anything

You can get better accuracy by remaining stationary and averaging you location.

Which I was I bought my phone outright, it's an N900 though.

They should use ITAR as a model. Though the A stands for Arms, it covers a lot more than firearms from my experience.

Watch PBS!

Pun Intended

What's to stop you from removing the system logger you don't like and installing whatever you want?? See: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9

You can write a script to SSH to each machine, copy whatever you need then wipe it. Wiping the machine remotely is the problem, there's a good article from Linux Journal by Kyle Rankin that describes a good way to do this. It's pretty recent (maybe two months ago), I haven't been able to find it on their website.

I don't hate my IT department, I hate RHEL5. (They have good reasons for not upgrading to RHEL6 yet)

You don't need graphics on a server, just use ssh

Receiver complexity and cost.

Really?

mg/cm^3 are the dumbest units, why not g/m^3?

The article doesn't mention anything regarding how this would actually work. There's no infrastructure and just because you don't need a license to operate in the 2.4 GHz ISM band doesn't mean you can just do whatever the hell you want, there are still rules.