It's not dead. Actually, there are more hams today in the US than at any time in history.
But if you want to kill it, making it just like the internet might be a good way.
A lot of us don't consider swear words useful traffic. Just annoying immaturity. And we can send any useful traffic that we don't want to hide. Stuff you want to hide belongs on the ample resources already provided for that.
As it happens, you can authenticate using encryption and have digital signatures within the current rules. You just can't use encryption to obscure the message.
We really like that it's not like the internet.
How can we tell that an encrypted message is an emergency communications drill, or anything else?
Don Rolph, the filer, wasn't even aware of HSMM-MESH before I introduced him to it yesterday. So, he missed a whole lot of implications that he's only discovering this morning.
Hi Nimbius,
Actually, your ham license does not grant you "rights to the airwaves". It grants you the right to operate within a shared resource which is held for the public interest.
One problem with allowing encryption is that it would allow you to usurp that shared resource for a private communication to which nobody but your in-group is admitted. How would you like it if you were locked off of the air by other folks doing it?
Good luck with your upgrade. It might be a good time to read Part 97, especially the justification for the Amateur service right at the start.
Thanks
Bruce Perens K6BP (Extra Class license, back when there was a 20 WPM code test, thank goodness you won't have to take one)
The solar ship only works if there is enough sun shine.
Want more people in CS, and engineering? Provide good jobs for those people. Stop offshoring like mad. Stop giving the few remaining jobs to lower paid visa workers.
There is a reason, a very good reason, that students are avoiding IT studies.
What was the problem with unloading Symphony on consulting support based upon LibreOffice? Given that this is a business they want to be rid of, I would expect they would not need to bolt proprietary stuff on to it any longer.
Regarding MariaDB support, I think you're correct that they're treating it as a competitor. This wasn't really the case for MySQL. IBM provided a supported version of MySQL.
IBM is most visible around Apache OpenOffice. What they are doing around MySQL v. MariaDB is tacit support through inaction. They didn't turn to supporting MariaDB or another MySQL version when Oracle de-supported MySQL on IBM platforms. They did something similar during Oracle v. Google - they chose just that time to abandon the Harmony project and commit to Oracle's JDK.
Your memory of IBM differs from my own.
I can't say I've had that much to do with them. HP, on the other hand, I could rant about for a while...
If they own the copyright, they are free to relicense a piece of data
Sorry to be pedantic, but replace "a piece of data" with "a work of authorship". If there isn't the creative work of a human being involved, it's not copyrightable. And then we get to this:
17 CFR 102(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
And that means that even when the hand of man is involved, a lot of things are still not copyrightable.
The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department.