Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Bad News- Lasers replace Radar guns
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.164315.15737@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <51058@bbn.COM> <8561@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 90 16:43:15 GMT

In article <8561@nigel.udel.EDU> berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) writes:
>>  However, since we're not talking about radio
>>waves, it would not be illegal to sell and operate a laser-device
>>jammer.
>
>Precisely.  I'd just love to see those FCC bastards try to regulate
>optical frequencies.

Sigh, for the Nth time:  interfering with the police is illegal, highly so,
no matter how you do it.  If it becomes a problem, the police will most
assuredly get themselves set up to detect such jamming and will come down
hard on people who do it.  The FCC is irrelevant.

(My sympathies lie with the speeders, actually, but claiming that you have
a God-given right to jam the police is folly approximating Canute ordering
the tide not to come in.  Remember, your opponents in this particular game
are also the folks who make the rules, and change them when they see fit.)
-- 
1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu