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Wireless Internet Launched on Lufthansa FRA - IAD
JpMaxMan writes "On flight LH 418 from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, DC, Lufthansa AG began on Wednesday a three-month trial for a new
onboard wireless broadband service
that allows travelers to connect to the Internet some 10,000 meters in the sky."
I wonder how much this costs, and I'm assumming its satalite so does that affect pings for online gaming? Fragging from 10,000feet..........
does this mean i can finally join the solo mile high club?
I always enjoy surfing the net while high.
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!
The RIAA and MPAA, building upon their already close relationship with law enforcement agencies, are lobbying to give armed air marshalls the power to shoot on sight anyone caught engaging in "terrorist activities" such as file sharing and unauthorised humming.
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Ticket: $200
Cab to the airport: $12
Drinks at then lounge: $30
Watching porn @ 600mph feet all wasted: $PRICELESS
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It will be interesting to see how different countried react to this availability onboard - many countried are VERY paranoid about RF gear operating on an airliner due to fear of interferance with the onboard systems...
:)
The article forgot to mention the thousand miles or so of Cat5e running out of the end of the plane.
My blog
from 10, KM high in the sky (in no man's territory), and be never convicted for it..... Next time i am travling on lufthansa, i am taking my 1 million email address CD with me.
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
Now we will see bums in their lear jets
warflying in close formation to the airliners
just to get the free internet access.
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As a pilot, and an American, I just have to ask one question:
What the hell is a meter?
Moderate drunk! It's more fun that way!
Eventually someone will take their webserver along on the plane and then posts a Slashdot article about it. What happens when we slashdot an airplane?
Jason
ProfQuotes
You cant even talk about Bombs in an airport, now we're gonna have dorks on planes yelling about their FPS game, "Score, i just got the rocket launcher!!". As if the skymarshals dont have their work cut out for them, now they have to sperate gamers from terrorists.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Don't forget the repeaters with parachutes.
Eventually the Internet will become an essential service in any business that's open to the public: malls, airports, schools, bus stops... just like drinking fountains, walkways, and bathrooms.
My god, I must have fallen into some sort of trans-dimensional rift; I'M BACK IN 1997!
/me runs off to buy stock
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
Just imagine the possiblities for all the apple users.. load up ichat and look for Rendezvous contacts on the same flight! Maybe you could hook up with a female type you never would have talked to before.
magnanomous.
(For all you German challenged people out there, it reads: 'New device found. Device: Airbus A310. Start automatic configuration?')
b.
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"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."
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Noone else has seemed to say this yet, and you all knew it was coming
First war dialing
then war driving
now war flying!
I think wired would be more practical, but wireless does have it's advantages, I just hate the damned dongles (drools @ powerbook). How do they control who can use it? Do they give out a different WEP key or whatever?