[175109] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wifi blocking [was Re: Marriott wifi blocking]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 9 10:16:19 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <54364002.1010102@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 10:11:34 -0400
To: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On Oct 9, 2014, at 03:57, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net> wrote:
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> On 10/9/2014 02:40, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>>> What where the laws and practices in the Olde Days of over-the-air
>>> TV when somebody in a small town installed a translator to repeat
>>> Big-Cities-TV-Station into a small town?
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>> The translator had to be operated by a holder of an FCC license for
>> that translator.
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>> Operator and Owner are not necessarily linked in any way shape or
>> form, though they usually were one and the same.
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> Was the translator operator obligated to carry everything from the source s=
tation, or could they turn the translator off if they wanted to?
I honestly don't know what the license terms were. I am also not aware of an=
y circumstances where that issue was at all likely to come up.=20
Owen
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> The unique Characteristics of System Administrators:
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> The fact that they are infallible; and,
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> The fact that they learn from their mistakes.
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> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
