For the Brazilians you might know?

All of the sudden? Wasn't the original winsock (Both Microsoft, and 3rd party) implementations a more-or-less straight port of BSD sockets to Windows 3.11? What about all of the commandline TCP/IP utilities such as ftp.exe that appeared in Windows 95?

Because parents want everybody else to nanny their children, in spite of technology being widely available to make it easier for them to police their own children's viewing.

It's like back when Marilyn Manson was so big, and was in the news everywhere. People were protesting at venues trying to get his shows canceled, using excuses such as "I don't want my children to see this filth!" Well guess what, people? If you don't want your kids to see it, then don't let them go see it! There's adults out there that do want to see such things (at least two or three :)) and adults should be free to decide for themselves and not have a bunch of lazy angsty parents pre-emptively make such decisions for them.

Not really. They're on different frequencies, but, various frequencies throughout the band is allocated to different services.

I seem to remember an old scanner trick where you could hear a dead carrier on $tuned_frequency + $IF (or maybe it was $tuned_frequncy - $IF.. I can't remember) but this was a really weak carrier that could only be heard a couple hundred feet away. Plus you would have to know all of the frequencies that all of the law enforcement agencies in the area were using. Furthermore, if the police in the area is on a trunked system, then the cops are possibly going to be sharing the same frequency pool with the water department, sanitation department, and dog catcher.

No thanks. I didn't need a nanny when I was a child and I certainly don't want or need one as an adult.

Unless it's marked "Property of the FBI, do not tamper with this device" or something, then how in the hell am I supposed to know who put it there? For all I know my crazy stalker ex girlfriend or a business adversary put it there.

The problem with that is that police radios are generally the exact same radios used by taxicabs, ambulances, construction companies, GMRS users, etc., so you'd get enough false positives to render your detector useless.

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame!

Seriously, people. This is the WORST. IDEA. EVER.

Moar like FAILinois, amirite?

AusFAILia!

Well played, Sir.

Let me guess, you also love spewing "I don't even have a TV!" all over the internet, too.

I am pro second amendment, and I say go fuck yourself. Of course I'm sure that you will use this post to say "See what I mean? Them gun owners are so stupid!" but I don't care, so go fuck yourself.

Whoever modded this as a troll is an idiot cocksmoker. You probably deserve to die in a fiery crash caused by a drunk driver.

I don't do business with them, and if I have my way about it, I will NEVER do business with them.

The entire company could die in a horrible fire for all I care, and I wouldn't shed a tear.