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From: irwin@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Bad News- Lasers replace Radar guns
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Date: 20 Jan 90 01:49:04 GMT
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/* Written 12:15 am  Jan 18, 1990 by berryh@udel.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:sci.electronics */
In article <51058@bbn.COM> jjd@BBN.COM () 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.				      ^^^
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And why not??? After all, the letters FCC stands for Federal Communications
Commission, right? If you can communicate with light (which you can),
then they could regulate it, right??

Drats, out foxed again! :-)

irwin@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Al Irwin
Univ of Illinois
Dept of Comp Sci