[118707] in Cypherpunks
Re: [Fwd: [Spooks] spooky-ibook?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Oct 6 03:40:09 1999
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 09:00:30 -0700
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: Sunder <sunder@sunder.net>
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Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 09:52 AM 10/05/1999 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
>On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Steve Schear wrote:
>> This BS. The 2400 MHz band in question is designated worldwide (including
>> France) as an ISM (Industrial Scientific and Medical) band. This is where
>> microwave ovens operate, because this is where the major polar resonance of
>> the water molecule is located.
>
>So you are saying that networking on the iBook "really cooks".
What's scary is that the 900 MHz and even the 2.4GHz frequencies
are no longer some high-speed carrier that you modulate a signal onto.
They're pretty close to the operating frequency of the computer :-)
Sure, most new Pentia are 450MHz, but that means that only one or two
revs down the road you'll be able to pull a 900MHz signal right off the bus.
Actually, with 32-bit busses, 900MHz really only requires 30 MHz CPUs,
so it's been possible for a decade, but now you've got to make sure
the computer doesn't act like a radio _without_ adding hardware...
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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