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Comment: Re:Honestly... (Score 2) 371

by Chrisq (#39099791) Attached to: Do you like your cell phone?

Sometimes voice is best, but more often people use it because they can't seem to actually formulate their question properly without going multiple rounds.

Is that from empirical ... um

Why do you say that more often people use it because they can't seem to formulate is it because of your experience ... um

Do you really think that people have difficulty formulating only once their question ... I mean properly?

Have you actually come across people who cannot formulate questions properly the first time?

Comment: Re:not quite that simple (Score 3, Insightful) 185

by Chrisq (#39099423) Attached to: LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle

The GPS makers took advantage of the lack of adjacent channels to cheap out on the filters. The GPS industry has no license relating to the spectrum in question, they are listening on it by virtue of having poor filters. If the spectrum involved was adjacent to something less important like ISM band (wifi routers etc.) or ham radio, the FCC would probably have said "by better filters you idiots, you only bought the bit you are sitting on ". But this is a case where if you screw up big enough not only to affect yourself, but everyone else, everyone else has your back. To be completely fair though, enough power would overload any filter and designing for the environment is part of it, so the FCC puts quiet things next to sensitive things, and groups loud things together to give similar dynamic range. In short, the FCC is doing their job, the GPS folks kind of didn't but not in any criminal fashion.

So if I propose a communication system that involves shouting loudly through a megaphone across the street and the environment agency shuts it down, not only could I sue them but all the house-builders who did not provide adequate sound insulation?

Comment: Not quite (Score 1) 185

by Chrisq (#39099399) Attached to: LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle

I'm going to answer your entire point just by answering your provisional driving license analogy.

If I was to apply for a provisional driving license, while stating my intention was to use it to gain a pilots license rather than a drivers license, would the DMV not be remiss to issue me one under the basis that it might happen?

No, this is not something automatically prevented by rules. A better analogy would be if you applied for a provisional license and said that you intended to study for the driving test solely by playing video games and learning the rules of the road subliminally. The DMV might have advised against it, but ultimately if you pass the test they have to issue you with a license.

Comment: Re:Birthdays (Score 1) 355

A friend of mine did that on steam. And he's pretty sorry now that for every age check he has to put in day, month and year (Steam checks it, apparently, against older replies) while I just dial an easy year (I was born on 1-1-1970, really I am) and pass every check :)

There was one site where I input 01-01-70. When I looked at my details I was 1930-something years old.

Comment: Re:It probably matters, but I don't care. (Score 4, Funny) 65

by Chrisq (#39098587) Attached to: Leaky Cellphone Nets Can Give Attackers Your Location

I'm trying to think of one thing someone could do to me armed with knowldege of my current location. Fly a drone missile into me? Fortunately I'm not that important. I'm sure it matters to some people, but I'm not going to lose any sleep.

Your wife and I use it to tell us when you're on the way back home.

If you flaunt it, expect to have it trashed.