This assumes that the names assigned to WiFi access points have any relationship to reality.

Do you get your coffee from the Urban Coffee Lounge or the Starbucks before going to Juanita Beach Park, there in Kirkland, WA?

Nope, no relation to reality whatsoever.

" The important question is only whether Oracle's claimed copyright is real/valid."

Getting your villains confused?

It would also require notching out the TDWR frequencies, instead of allowing them to be used with DFS. I suppose someone could create a fuse controlled radio chip which could be used worldwide, and fuses blown during manufacturing to limit the hardware as required, but somehow I don't think the market is big enough for that to happen anytime soon.

U-NNI (5 GHz) bands aren't just "a," they're also "n" and the only option for "ac." Want to run open source on an 802.11ac AP, better get one quick.

Yep. And the summary completely misses the part which is likely to upset most /. users:

Accordingly, we are adopting the proposal in the NPRM that manufacturers must take steps to prevent unauthorized software changes to their equipment in all of the U-NII bands

That may effectively put an end to all the Linux based APs (DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, etc.)

They contributed at least as much. And, a few backbone providers. This guy was just a single hop, they contribute many.

" you can take them to court and give them an expensive lesson in copyright law and the DMCA law."

Sure, expensive for both parties.

Reading is fundamental.

Because the two academic authors merely designed the research and wrote the paper, they would not seem to have been involved, then, in obtaining either data or informed consent.

- idem (original all caps emphasis removed to avoid /. lameness filter)

What's your email address? Because, I want to send you an email with a giant disclosure at the end which says you owe me $1 million if you read the email.

So, your point is that you can't point to any foreign laws which have been violated, either.

Cites, please? Because I have one which counters that claim.

Importantly -- and contrary to the apparent beliefs of some commentators -- not all HSR is subject to the federal regulations, including IRB review. By the terms of the regulations themselves, HSR is subject to IRB review only when it is conducted or funded by any of several federal departments and agencies (so-called Common Rule agencies), or when it will form the basis of an FDA marketing application. HSR conducted and funded solely by entities like Facebook is not subject to federal research regulations...

- Everything you need to know about Facebook's manipulative experiment

Want to elaborate? Like with some facts and not just a blanket dismissal?

It's been done using a PIN photo-diode. I make no claim that it could be done with a 20 year old consumer camcorder, but there were pro cameras with 1/20,000 shutter speeds available. Whether that applied on a frame or pixel basis, I don't know, so I'm not willing to dismiss the possibility out of hand, as you do. It's believable to me that there were commercially available cameras capable of doing it.

You'd be likely to notice that yourself if it were significant, without getting a letter from the ISP.

An NTSC video camera records ~480 scan lines every 1/30 second. So, a full scan line would represent about 1 bit at 14400 bps. If you recorded a de-focused LED, so it was recorded full frame, you'd get the bits if the sensor were fast enough (i.e. didn't integrate over the time between scans). If rx/tx were different colors, you could probably get both at once. It should be relatively easy to decode, but you'd be missing some bits during vertical retrace.