[opendtv] Re: Microsoft Says Malfunctioning Device Led to Failed Interference Test

"Everbody" is convinced MS is lying.

If you are proposing a test and providing the equipment to be tested, you
are responsible for what you furnish.  NOT THE TESTER.  

If you submit a defective device, after realizing that "defective" works
against you, change your story to the device was "damaged" because that
potentially implicates the employees of the tester (for your errors), and
will no doubt give those employees a better view of how you work when, if
you are lucky, there is a second round of testing.

You draw conclusions, lacking data.  I only speak of what everybody has to
deal with in the real world.

Here's a simple conjecture: MS has never issued a fully working system of
anything.  This one they rushed through and the results were worse than
usual.  I'm sorry they didn't think it was important, and that they would
get another try to fool people. Now they think that one of the largest
corporation in the U.S. is now a perfect candidate for whining.

What in the f**** does this have to do with 8-VSB?  The bloody device
couldn't detect ANY rf transmissions.  

I didn't say that they should be prosecuted, let alone for lying.  It's not
clear to me that one can be prosecuted for lying in this context, unless the
signer acknowledged 18 USC 2001 on the signature line.

However, if Microsoft were not mice, and were not lying, they would do what
any other supplicant would do before the FCC to fix this:  they would have
all their involved technical employees submit signed affidavits (under
penalty of perjury) in a petition for retesting - and they would pray; not
prey.

The fact that they didn't submit affidavits, and not only issued a mere
letter and press release, but leaked those press release to the WashPost two
days in advance of the filing with the FCC speaks volumes:  all they have to
work with are defective prototypes, lies and public relations.

The FCC staff reads the WashPost, too.  They know they were being pimped by
people who don't want the real facts to come out.  They also now know that
you cannot trust Microsoft's filings unless they are submitted under penalty
of perjury.

Good Job, Microsoft!  You not only killed the very concept of white-space
devices, you insulted FCC technical staff, and made your word less reliable
than it was previously.  Call it (another) hat trick!

John Willkie



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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Tom Barry
Enviado el: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:25 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Microsoft Says Malfunctioning Device Led to Failed
Interference Test

Gee.  So is everybody really convinced that Microsoft gave them a bad 
device without testing it first, that there was no need to use the 
already furnished backup device when the first quite obviously failed, 
that there is no politics in the FCC that might have made them somehow 
bias a test, and that M$ really should be prosecuted for lying because 
they objected to all this?

Is it really obvious that 8vsb works best and white space devices are 
innately evil and should be banished?

Am I even allowed to question such things here?

- Tom


johnwillkie wrote:
> Duh.  Microsoft is unhappy about the choice they made.  Unless they are
> alleging that the FCC damaged the device, this is a non-story.  They
should
> have made sure they first had a working device.
> 
> MS is lying about this.  
> 
> I will agree that the NAB response is over the top.  However, if you can't
> beat your adversaries when they are down, when can you do it?  There ae
> do-overs, but Leonard Kahn might have a different approach to this.  
> 
> This is about the NAB doing it's job, and MS failing at theirs.  Frankly,
I
> think MS should be prosecuted for lying.  Maybe that's why they are lying
in
> press releases and filings, and not in affadavits.
> 
> "Washington politics as usual?"  How trite.  First off, FCC isn't
politics,
> but policy.  Second, testing has nothing to do with politics and little to
> do with policy.  Third, there is nothing usual about Washington these days
> or politics.  But other that that, your throw-away line stands by itself.
> 
> John Willkie
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