FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access 298
Aidtopia writes "FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is proposing auctioning off an unused part of the 25 MHz spectrum on the condition that the winner provide free wireless Internet access. The proposal sets coverage targets that ramp up to 95% of the population within 10 years. The catch: the provider must filter out obscene content." I wonder what definition of "obscene" the FCC would like to use.
Misspelled (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun (Score:4, Funny)
Only way to be sure
Leave it to the Republicans (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun (Score:4, Funny)
Aaaaaaaaaand, cue Peter Griffin's 'Freakin FCC' song!
They will clean up all your talking in a menace such as this
They will make you take a tinkle when you want to take a p*ss
And they'll make you call fellatio a trouser-friendly kiss
It's the plain situation!
There's no negiotiation!
With the fellows at the freakin FCC!
They're as stuffy as the stuffiest of the special interest groups...
Make a joke about your bowels and they order in the troops
Any baby with a brain could tell them everybody poops!
Take a tip, take a lesson!
You'll never win by messin'
With the fellas at the freakin' FCC
And if you find yourself with some you sexy thing
You're gonna have to do her with your ding-a-ling
Cause you can't say penis!
So they sent this little warning they're prepared to do the worst
And they stuck it in your mailbox hoping you could be co-erced
I can think of quite another place they should have stuck it first!
They may just be neurotic
Or possible psychotic
They're the fellas at the freakin FCC!
Oblig. Family Guy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Possible power grab? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I wouldn't mind this! (Score:5, Funny)
Defined. (Score:5, Funny)
No defense against ASCII Art! (Score:5, Funny)
Bowlderized? (Score:3, Funny)
No need for a filter (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Possible power grab? (Score:4, Funny)
note: regular Fox, not Fox News.
I wonder what definition of "obscene" the FCC.. (Score:1, Funny)
Err, hasn't obsene already been defined as "more than three fingers"???
Re:Obscenity has a clear meaning (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun (Score:3, Funny)
Hopefully the new rules will only allow content to be viewed that has sex as the major theme, because sex brings joy to the world. Among those primates whose primary social activity is sex (for example), there is very little social aggression. Sex and marijuana should be promoted by the new FCC regulations. Religion (which causes War, aggression, hallucinations and delusional thinking) will obviously be banned.
Finally the FCC is thinking progressively and will ban all these noted obscenities from the Internet.
Re:Wrong Wrong Wrong (Score:4, Funny)
G.
Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot needs a say what? mod option.
Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun (Score:5, Funny)
Only the first eight words are used, the last two are used as out-of-bound signaling.
Data is sent three bits at a time, each bit-pattern denoted by one of the remaining eight words as described in the table below:
000 word1
001 word2
010 word3
011 word4
100 word5
101 word6
110 word7
111 word8
As long as there are any bits flowing, _any_ bit can be transmitted.
Re:Obscenity has a clear meaning (Score:4, Funny)