OTOH, his military source violated US laws and was well aware of what s/he was doing and should be prosecuted. Civil disobedience is not without it's risks. If we were in a real war this information leak would have resulted in a date with a firing squad.

Not if you're part of the right wing war machine. Remember Valerie Plame? Releasing the name of an undercover agent during a time of war is treason. Punishable by death. There wasn't even a tap on the shoulder for Dick Cheney.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/23/report-cheney-admits-cruc_n_153157.html

It may in fact be a ham that is legally operating in the 2.4GHz band. Hams are licensed users of this spectrum, and have priority. They could be causing the interference (if in fact they are), and if so you just have to live with it, if it can't be resolved. Hams are also protected from interference (by law) from the unlicensed users of the spectrum.

And by the way, end users increasing the power output of a WiFi transmitter is not a good idea. It can cause interference on nearby spectrum, and increased noise levels in the band, which can defeat the purpose of the increase in the first place. This is not something that should be hacked.

we have trouble with our RF gun (laser scans bar codes, then prints price labels, runs off of 802.11whatever).

Sounds like a cheap, poorly designed product. No shielding, or bypassing of stray RF. A plastic case rather than metal?

This is an obvious scam. Not practical at all.

Too bad; I learned on VM/CMS. Can't beat having your own virtual machine. Didn't have to deal with JCL and the MVS stuff. Only system I liked as much as Amiga OS. Customers loved VM, so of course the suits tried to kill it and champion MVS. Meh.

Yeah, yeah you responding to this post; get off my lawn!

HCP9010W

Wow! Take a deep breath. The OP was using sarcasm to make his point. Although I can understand your reaction, because of the flood of corporate BS, err... doublespeak, we have been subjected to for years.
Your points are valid, and we're not all dupes of the corporations and their bribed congress critters.

Perhaps it's time to press for a Bill of Responsibilities to accompany the Bill of Rights. Things like:
When the pursuit of profit conflicts with the good of the country, it will be considered treason.

I have other thoughts along this line, but I think this is enough to illustrate what I mean and what we the people need.

Flat paper speakers. Yawn. This is old news decades ago. You can do this in your living room. I did decades ago. Interleave aluminum foil and the pages of a newspaper. Your making a capacitor. Connect the separate sheets of aluminum to the final audio amplifier in a tube amplifier. One connection to ground, the other to the anode of the final amplifier tube. And yes, there be high voltage here. You now have a talking newspaper. Slashdot is supposed to be a nerd site, why are the vast majority here unaware of this?

I see many recommendations. Let me suggest the tool to use and explore the math. APL. Powerful, easy to use, and very successfully taught to high school students.
The book, 'APL; An Interactive Approach' is a good starting point. There are many others. There are free for personal use versions of APL available.
Any questions, drop by:
comp.lang.apl

Not exactly what you asked for, but read the article by experimental physicist Dr Beau Webber.

http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v233/webber.htm

Then decide for yourself. I've already made my choice.

W backed the prescription drug medicare benefit, right along with Kennedy and Clinton. That added hundreds of billions of unfunded liabilities all by itself.

And how much of that is due to making it a crime for the government to negotiate prices for the overpriced prescription drugs? I watched the vote on CSPAN, waiting HOURS to see the result. I gave up and went to bed when there was just one uncommitted vote. At that time the bill wouldn't have passed; but the Republicans didn't close the vote until they had 'persuaded' several representatives to change their vote and join the dark side. So, how much of the deficit is due to 'pork bribery'?