[mdlug] OT - IR jamming

[Robert Meier]

Aaron,

> The statement that a device *MUST* accept interference did
> not come about by forgetting to exclude it.
> It's an act of commission...which means someone TOOK AN ACTION to include
> that specification within federal law.

I disagree.

See 47 CFR 15.5, cited earlier in this thread.
The "Class C warning stickers"  omit the "that may be caused by
[authorized users of the frequency]".

Intended use of Part 15 radiators must yield to authorized
users of the radio spectrum, just as off-road-vehicle drivers
may not block public roads, and when intersecting a public road
from off-road must yield right of way to the drivers on the road,
but are not prohibitted from driving off-road (where otherwise allowed)
nor prohibitted (where otherwise allowed) from driving on the public road.



> When I was in Baghdad, we had equipment which takes practical
> advantage of these sorts of mandated weakness in electronic
> devices (these same requirements are in place in practically
> all countries where modern electronic devices are manufactured),
> so the same thing applies to electronics in Iraq as what you
> buy here in the States.

Much of the world has no recognized legal rights of the individual.
Much less has right of free speech, free press, or peaceable assembly.
I do not recognize the absence of such legal rights elsewhere as
the vacation of those rights in the United States.
Promoting rights of the individual and rule of law,
opposing violent suppression of same,
are among the reported reasons we are involved in Iraq.



The right of free speech, free press, the right
to peaceably assemble, and their enforcement,
the authority of the individual to listen, to observe,
and to communicate (when not infringing the rights
of others), has been demonstrated to be necessary to
keep a "good" state from reacting to its fear,
by becoming the tyranny that it would oppose.

IIRC, US civil servants (including the president)
annually take an oath "to defend the Constitution
of the United States against all enemies domestic
and foreign".



Armed bank robbers are notorious for speeding and ignoring driving laws.
A mandated kill-switch on automobiles is unlikely to
stop armed bank robbers, but very likely to benefit carjackers.
Murderers are not likely to observe "government-mandated
weakness" in their IEDs.
I hope our soldiers protection equipment does not depend
on any assumed compliance of IEDs with laws of government,
as I fear this would put our soldiers unnecessarily in harms way.
I hope our soldiers protection equipment does depend,
in this matter, on the laws of physics (mandated by God, not government)
of electromagnetic radiation with which IEDs must comply,
and compliance with which is not onerous to the honest citizen.

Concerned,
-- 
Bob

  "The liberties of our country are worth defending at all hazards. We have
   received them from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with
   toil, treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting infamy on the
   present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be
   wrested from us...or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and
   designing men."
	     -- Samuel Adams, 1771.