http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/143089-fcc-cracks-down-on-cell-phone-a-gps-jamming-devices

and more here
http://www.google.com/search?q=fcc+cell+phone+jammer+letter
http://www.google.com/search?q=fcc+gps+phone+jammer+letter

So if you're a theater owner or office manager and think one of these at $50 is a good bargain, think about $10,000 and two years in jail instead.

Right, just because there are absolutely no other chipsets that work with Sandy Bridge CPUs doesn't mean you can't go off and build your own at home!

Probably Jeri Ellsworth has made one out of some bits of an old wok and a satellite dish already.

We don't need to beat the Russians into space anymore. It's not 1957. We need as much interest and capability in engineering, technology, and math as we do in science.

When I helped run the local elementary school science fair, I encouraged engineering projects. I find it depressing the number of kids who do dull, boring projects and get good marks because they followed the scientific method. Those kids are ones who will be turned off to all science and engineering related fields.

A kid who builds a radio or does a math proof is just as deserving, if not more.

And the coast guard has been saying this for a year too: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=loranMain

The Coast Guard strongly urges mariners currently using LORAN-C for navigation to shift to a GPS navigation system and become familiar with its operation as soon as possible. Mariners will not be able to rely upon LORAN-C for navigation as of Feb. 8, 2010.

Or use RFC1149 updated with wicker packets.

Buying on eBay, if done occasionally would be allowed. (The so called "pizza rule.")
Selling would be allowed only if ham gear and occasionally, and not if it's your job.
It's unlikely to be done on HF (but nobody really knows what the Pactor-3 users are doing that they ought to be doing with commercial SailMail).
But over microwave links it could and does happen often, since several of the 802.11 2.4 GHz channels overlap with ham bands.

There's an interesting project, probably most closely related to this topic, at http://hsmm-mesh.org/ using Linksys routers and OSS mesh software.

The number of US amateur radio operators has been growing consistently since 2007. In fact, except for a period of a few years at the start of the web era, it's grown consistently since its inception.

A lot of nerdy people got into ham radio in the early 1990's because they wanted to do packet radio, which came from Aloha Net, the same project in the 1960's that begat packet networks and eventually TCP/IP and friends. When those folks moved over to the wired internet, and let their ham licenses lapse, the ham population declined. But in the past few years it's been growing again, partially due to crossover from DIY/MAKE people interested in everything from bouncing microwave signals off the moon to building their own radios out of a handful of transistors to GPS tracking with Arduino shields and RF transmitters.

Here's a graph:

http://wa5znu.org/2011/01/ham-census/2005-2010-chart.png

Leigh/WA5ZNU

No, it only took a few years to prove him right on the things he was right about. They're still working on the things he was wrong about.

Maybe the paper is a troll, like Mobile phone radiation linked to people jumping to conclusions.

OK, bring up Emacs. Now tell me how it works. (Or Vi, if that's your preference.)

Yes, it's pretty much downhill from the G1 as far as keyboards go. Only the Epic has 5-rows and the Evo Shift is presumably called that because you have to press the shift key to get numbers.

There's been a trend toward 4-row keyboards in the Android devices that even have them. The G1 had 5-rows of keys, so numbers are OK and you can type []{}`|.
But the G2 is 4 rows and there's not even a soft key for backquote.

At least on the Hiptop you got a real control key, not a control prefix.

Maybe Nokia will see the light and support Android, or maybe Cyanogen will do the port.