"For a British company to be selling a piece of technology that is useless when it's meant to be saving lives is abhorrent, " Lou McGrath, chief executive of the charity, Mines Advisory Group, told Newsnight.

BBC: Export ban for useless 'bomb detector'

That also means it's pretty useless if you only want to schlep one bag around, so it looks like we're stuck with the Bucket Dance for now -- hey TSA, would pockets on the sides be such a threat to our nation's security?

ENGADGET: Skooba makes with the pictures of TSA-friendly bags (update: not really)

Sure, part of the bill will pave the way for some of the freed up spectrum to get earmarked for emergency services to use, but it's not like failing to render everyone's analog box completely useless is really going to endanger public safety.

ENGADGET: High-tech CEOs want their DTV and they want it now

We were left holding a useless piece of paper, and it's difficult to enforce a contract there.

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As things stand, the U.S. data are next to useless, since it takes several minutes to have other secret signals extracted prior to reaching Japanese forces, according to defense analyst Okabe.

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But the U.S. is currently delaying data several minutes, as it separates out other secret signals, rendering them next to useless.

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