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Wireless Computing and Airplanes?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-that-suck dept.

Echemus writes "The Register has an article speculating whether the fact more and more devices have WiFi/GSM facilities built in will cause Airlines to ban all computing equipment and its like from the cabin. Airlines are ultra-paranoid about cell phones, but is that paranoia justified?"

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  1. games.slashdot.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMFG have you seen the Halo 2 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first one then the music kicks in and and the chief comes out and gets a gun the earf is on fire and chief is like fuck this im jumping and HE JUMPS PUT OF TEH SPACESHIP with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying ai lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special MICROSOFT xbox disk that comes with EB games store.

  2. Early Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Early Post Representin Hacker Prime, MAus, Phlip, Set, and all the rest in Posse185/229/and BB.

  3. Passenger-less airplanes? by jkrise · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With the amount of paranoia already in place, even the few die-hard passengers will stay home. As if SARS wasn't enuff to scare them off in the first place.

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    If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
  4. Re:not sure if they know about WiFi yet by yatest5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    On Air Canada and Air Transat I had my TiBook with me. Both times I 'accendently' had the airport card on for a bit before noticing my battery life was not as long as I would like. But they didn't ask, nor care about the laptop.

    That would be super cool to have a little WC3 tourny over WiFi on the long flight across the Atlantic though.. hmmm.

    It's such a pity this didn't cause your plane to fall out of the sky.

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    • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
  5. Re:No I dont fly commercial by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
    What part of "CONGRESS" you don't understand?