Re: Amtrak bedrooms

Merritt Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RJ) wrote:
> 
> > If you have an old enough tv set (one that tunes all the way up to
> > channel 82(?) on the UHF dial), you can commit a felony in your own home
> > by playing with the upper channels until you hear an analog cell phone
> > conversation fragment.
> 
> Only if you do it with intent to violate the law (whether you know the law
> or not).

I could be wrong, but based on what I read at the time of the law's
passage I believe the law is in fact written so that inadvertent
interception is illegal.  One of the many reasons the law is silly in
addition to being anti-freedom.

> Anyway, "old" TV sets don't tune to channel 82, but they do tune to 
> channel 1.  <grin>  (some of us are older than you young whippersnappers)

Point taken.