Godwins Law states:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

The link below is to the Wikipedia entry.  It reads a bit like an essay on Bistromathics.

Godwin’s Law

I’ve posted about WiMax before, and how the bandwidth that is being set aside for this technology is the same bandwidth the entertainment industry uses. While I’m not happy about the possibility of losing space for wireless mics and other devices we need to have, Intel has announced that it will start to build WiMax hardware. The tricky part is the licencing of the bandwidth from the FCC to operate the equipment.The telcos are upset because they stand to lose a lot of money, unless they get in the game.
Below is a link to I, Cringley’s column on PBS where he talks about this situation. It is an interesting read, but the thought of WiMax everywhere makes me wince for the future of wireless as we know it.

What if Wal-Mart got in the WiMax Business?

This is kind of an old article from Mix Magazine, but I thought I’d mention it again. I guess I started thinking about this radio after a conversation I had regarding radio receivers and overloading, or de-sensing.  There is so much RF energy flying around these days, that cheap receivers are becoming less effective.  I guess this is monumentally important when it comes to wireless microphone receivers.

Tivoli Audio Model One

Kill Your Radio

I tell my step-son that he has to turn his homework in on time, beacuse thats what is expected in real life. I guess I’m wrong. In 1998 congress decided it needed to be better informed about this thing called the internet, and commissioned a study. 7 years later, the 283 page report has a firm grasp of the obvious. Although not wrong, it’s hardly ground breaking, or contains any speculative insight. At the bargain price of only $1million, which actually is cheap for the federal government, I guess you get what you pay for. CNN.com – Internet study finished — after 7 years.
( UPDATE: 5/30/2005 CNN no longer has the story posted.  So heres a new link to the law that comissioned the report, H.R.3332 and here’s another link to the final report made by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) entitled Signposts in Cyberspace)