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At least for JetBlue. I didn't feel like googling any further to prove your stupid ass wrong.

It's under the Flammable Items Prohibited.
 
Now go ahead and defend your derp by say prohibited isn't "illegal". You know what he meant.

"Every flight goes to or from New York."

Really? I must have missed something when I was told that JetBlue flies nonstop from Long Beach to several cities in the US. Or that Jetblue flies out of the Oakland nonstop to several major cities other than NYC, like Boston and DC. Or that Jetblue flies nonstop from Burbank to Las Vegas, and Burbank to Orlando.

I didn't realize all these flights somehow stop in NYC.

http://www.jetblue.com/travelinfo/routemap.asp

More accurately, Jetblue is a point-to-point airline.

Jed Blue gives free wifi access in certain airports, specificity JFK and I think Long Beach.

Before Harris sold it to JetBlue, they developed LiveTV, a system to bring DirecTV to airliners in-flight. The receiver includes a phased array antenna that scans in elevation while sitting on a gimble that allows the beam to be scanned in azimuth.

Phased arrays use lots of power, but that's because each antenna element in the array requires its own amplifier(s) and phase shifter (or time delay unit). Fortunately, those amplifiers cam be much smaller than the monolithic amplifier required to drive a dish (since the signals from each amplifier in the array are summed together).

Given the assumptions you were working with, the fact that your number happened to be right was purely accidental.

Ever been on an airplane? There's more than one window per row. Elsewhere on jetBlue's site we see that "JetBlue's A320 aircraft have a single-class configuration of 162 seats..." A four hundred seat aircraft is the 747.

Quoting:

JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration.

The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible.

Note that JetBlue has a privacy policy on their website that includes this statement:

The financial and personal information collected on this site is not shared with any third parties, and is protected by secure servers.

Now, there are about 350 days in a year, so that makes 3 500 000 flights per year.

So yeah, order of magnitude, 5 million flights is probably 1 or 2 years' worth of data.

Now, there are about 350 days in a year, so that makes 3 500 000 flights per year.

So yeah, order of magnitude, 5 million flights is probably 1 or 2 years' worth of data.

Digital beamforming != Software Defined Radio.
Electronically Steered Phased Array != discrimination between two frequency-adjacent or -overlapping signals.

Remember- for digital beamforming you're not looking at a single signal at whatever the CW frequency is, you're looking at (# elements) signals: one from each of the antenna elements in the array. That means that for a 64-element array 1 MHz AM array (neglecting the fact that it would be HUGE!) would have only 7 instructions per RF cycle (per antenna element). Is that a useful number? (I don't know; I've never done DSP programming.)

Nobody wants a ESPA at those low frequencies; it's been at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies that people have wanted them: Live TV for instance. Comm on the move(search for Harris) for another.

Institute a flat rate tax. The rich will continue to get richer and the poor will continue to fall. Hardly seems like an ideal world...

The rich and their fat cat accountants use every loop-hole and exemption to pay as little tax as possible. Institute a flat tax and remove all loop holes and deductions and the rich will likely pay more taxes than they do now.

Get rid of those Canadian's pesky social health care idea

The current wait in the ER is bad enough, I would hate to be put on a waiting list for every proceedure I wanted to have done.

is because of socialist controls and government bail outs

Or rather, in spite of...

Pure capitalism would mean there wouldn't be any airlines in bussiness from America right now.

Yeah, without the major airlines, there are no alternatives.

Pure capitalism would be when Johnny gets sick and mom can't pay, johnny dies.

Because without the government, we all become heartless bastards who don't give a damn about our neighbors. Just like without religion and the fear of eternal damnation, we all would turn into homocidal maniacs.

Pure capitalism would not have government funded schools or utilities, and we all know how well deregulation has worked....

Half-asses deregulation will always be a failure.

DBS satellites only work with a fixed station? I think you need to do a little more research. JetBlue has DirecTv on their airplanes. You can also buy DBS antennas for RVs that track the sat as you drive.