I think part of the problem is that analog has shifted of the mainstream for hobbyists. Let's face it, a lot of best engineers start as kids and kids today are not getting into HAM radio all that much but instead are working with Arduinos. It is sad.

I like the idea that Humans developed time travel and went back in time and set up the universe so that humans are the only intelligent species in the galaxy and made time travel impossible. But lets face it. Humans have only been a technological species for around 130 or so years depending on where you draw the line. You could have a lot of civilisations that never develop past victorian levels of technology. Or we just have not been interesting enough for long enough.

" Also unlike Florida, it would have been not nearly so far from the Houston command center."
Cape Canaveral pre-dates NASA in Houston. You see mission control was in Florida for Mercury and Gemini and was moved because... LBJ had some buddies that would make a lot of money if Mission control was moved to Houston. The Eastern Test Range which is what NASA uses for the Cape was already set up and working long before Houston Control.
It is also not as far south as you can get in the lower 48, that would have been Key West and their was a navy base their but logistics would have been terrible.

It does not have to be A or B.
A police officer on the job in pubic has no expectation of privacy just as you do not have any expectation of privacy at a bar. "Outside of the restroom that is".
A person on a phone call does have an expectation of privacy.

sigh...
I said Asimov invented the term Robotics not Robot.

Wow people on Slashdot just can not read....
The play RUR is where the word Robot comes from.
Robotics was a term invented by Asimov.

"But if you want to talk about the guy who invented Robots "!="Really the man that invented the term robotics"

Yes I have heard of RUR but just can not find a copy, been looking decades on and off. Asimov invented the term robotics. Different thing. I did not mention RUR since it involved killer robots.

No they could have said that this was a private conversation and is nobody's business. Just as Slashdot should not post stories about it.
The discussion should be on privacy IMHO. People get bent over someone wearing Google glass in a public bar but they are not jumping up and down over the broadcast and people making judgement and commentary on a private phone conversation?
Really?

Really the man that invented the term robotics did not fall into the trap.
BTW the movie of I Robot in no way qualifies as a work of Asimov. It in now way reflects his books.

", this is like making a very top tier points/condensor/magneto system for a car's engine... while the world has moved on to common rail EFI."
  point, condenser and magneto are part of the ignition system. Common rail EFI is fuel injection.
Kind of like saying "it is like making really good magnetic core memory... while the rest of the world has moved on to LCD monitors."

You fail in your car analogy. BTW light aircraft, and lawn mowers still often use magnetos.

The rest of your comment is good and informative but since you blew the car analogy you suck as human being.

Hummm.... So because someone says something in private that people do not like......
Yea just see how well that works out when you apply it everyone. You make a joke about any group in private and the people in your condo find out and tell you that you have to sell your condo right now and are banned for life.

That is just it. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE PUBLISHED THIS CALL! It is not anyone's business.

Actually I am not a libertarian in any way shape of form. What I am saying is that for anyone to publish a private conversation like this or for any organisation to use it is unethical.
It had nothing to do with actual business of the game. It had nothing to do with any laws being broken. It was an old man telling his young ex? girlfriend that he did not like the kind of people that she was bringing to his games "using his tickets" I bet. Frankly I find her disturbing and him rather pathetic. My guess is most of what we are seeing are the effects of illness and old age but that is just my opinion.
This was a completely private matter and has zero impact on the public but it all in public was being used to make him sell his team and to ban him. People also need to understand the term forfeit. He has to give up his team. He was not required to forfeit without compensation. You act as if the only value in the team is the cash value.
I have no idea why you think I am a libertarian. I think most libertarians are clueless. Just as clueless as Tea Party members, or Democrats that are sure that they are smarter than all Republicans, or Republicans that are sure that they are morally superior to all Democrats.

My moral outrage is over everyone elses sense of entitlement to comment on, debate, publicize, and base punishment on what was a completely private matter that frankly was nobody's business.

And was the league harmed?
Also do you think that any owner can pass that rule if you looked at all their private conversations?

Ethics on Slashdot? No one questions that someone was banned for life and was forced to forfeit his property because of something he said in a private conversation that was recorded and published without his permission.

If you are not outraged by this then please do not bother ever complaining about privacy.

Remember racism is not illegal. Discrimination based on race in the workplace is.

BTW I do not like racism at all but this is just too weird for words.

I said Sigint not Comint. The communications part is of Iridium is just a cover. Those radios and antennas can pick up signals other than those from Iridium phones like radars.