rather blind and short sighted view of this issue
when the actions of a few to allow the situation where other users can disregard the regulations and put hundreds of lives at stake the actions of the few need to be curtained for the safety of all , hardly what i would call anything but logical , to just allow
Carte blanche code monkeys to openly disregard these regulations and standards smells more like anarchy to me
pete y testing, Not short sighted view at all. Rather the opposite. I am not for a world where we put our trust in a gov't that controls our every move, breath and thought. I am perfectly capable to think on my own thank you.
Furthermore, I am not advocating that anyone be allowed to disregard the regulations (stop putting words into peoples' mouth), rather, that anyone that is doing so be judged and then disciplined accordingly. The argument that those 'few' who don't follow the rules
are the reason for the oppressive new rules is a fallacy in logic and one that is used over and over by those in power who are most likely to benefit from it too.
My stance, anarchy? No, that is what your post smells like to me. You may have 100% faith in a select few to control the millions and billions. I don't and never will (history proves me right every time).
There is no blatant disregard for regulations or standards where appropriate, in my stance on this matter. But there is a questioning of why this is suddenly needed, now.
As a simple example, after June 2016 when these new regulations come into effect (and from a few days ago for anyone that downloaded and installed the crippled firmware made available), where are all those hundreds of lives that were put at risk? (That the new regulations will prevent in the future)?
Yes, like you or anyone else, I haven't seen them either. That is one simple proof that these new regulations are arbitrary at best and sinister at worst (with the monetization angle leaning towards the latter).
Even if an example can be shown here to the contrary, what does most of the rest of the world have to do with what is happening in the USA?
As a thinking person who prefers to go through life without blinders on, I don't see how the points above can be ignored or spun to be positives for further regulation and control for the few in power at any given point in time.
There are speed limits on the road. Is that harming regular drivers?
Regulations are just as much about protecting yourself than anyone else. Ask HAM operators about what could happen when some operators would start boosting their signals to ridiculous levels, for instance.
This whole regulation thing has already been debated to death last year in another thread.
Last year, we didn't know the details of how things would be implemented and therefore, I held my comments. Now, we do.
Sane speed limits are not harming regular drivers, agreed.
But this is akin to showing that everyone travelling at a quarter to half of today's speed limits saves fuel (true), results in fewer fatal accidents (true) and results in much less cost to insurance companies for repairs and lawsuits for insurance claims (true).
What is ignored by the (true) facts above is that the same speeds for the past fifty or a hundred years didn't get more dangerous. A few (very bad) drivers did. Changing the speed limit for all won't solve the main problem of making the roads more safe. The same idiotic drivers that risk lives (theirs and others) will not change one iota.
What will change though? The ability of the gov't to force more bs down citizens throats for 'the good of all' because they are slowly being conditioned and controlled more and more.
This is exactly what is happening with WiFi regulations today, imo.
I find it not just hard, but impossible, to believe that what was working yesterday can't continue to work tomorrow. Is someone using equipment beyond legal use? Charge them that do so. But don't change the definition of what is legal in one part of the world and then impose those changes in draconian ways (the whole world over).
