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Electronics & Planes Don't Mix?
dirtydamo writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is running an interesting story on the old debate on whether electronic devices cause problems on planes. It appears pilots are pretty much accustomed to handling weird problems with equipment, which they attribute to passengers' portable devices. More research is needed to determine whether or not this is the actual problem, but the article certainly makes me a little uneasy about modern air travel."
Anyone with a laptop=possible terrorist, subject to immense scrutiny and background check.
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70 virgins? Why don't they just enroll in college?
You get virgins, alcohol, [b]and[/b] meth.
Weren't folks on that plane using cellphones with no apparent problem? And I've seen DVD players for rent in airports as well.
Forget about screening for bombs - it's even scarier to think that you can bring down an airliner with a Game Boy.
When you're not looking, this sig is in Latin.
Ahh yes, modern air travel, don't trust it.
A co-worker was using a wireless keyboard for his PDA, and was told by the flight attendant to not use it during flight. It was infrared, not RF. He tried to explain this to her, but she didn't get it, which is understandable, most non-geeks wouldn't. Solution: tape a piece of wire to it, and to his PDA, while in flight. :-)
Well, let me put it this way; do you want to spend several hours in a plane with a possible nudge to some direction or go through several hours of terror as yuppies break down and explode in front of you because they can't read their bloody email, can't act interesting by talking on their mobile nor can they look up contact they'll never meet on their PDAs. Well?
Hate me!
...and look forward to his 70 virgins that Allah[0] will be handing over...
Actually, it's 72. That's 72 more than most programmers get in a lifetime.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Quick show of hands: Who else read this as the first element of the Allah array?
I think that there are easier ways of accomplishing that... after all, you are only talking about isolating electronics, not preventing superman from peering into the cockpit and seeing what color underwear the pilot wears...
Or perhaps the 72 virgins will BE programmers...
Perhaps most worrying of all, the devices often cause autopilot malfunctions, which have resulted in planes climbing, oscillating, or disengaging from the autopilot system altogether.
As a pilot, I love this statement. God forbid they would have to disengage the autopilot and actually FLY the airplane! What is becoming of this world anyway?
I prepose we wire up Cowboy Neal with all the cybernetics the Slashdot crew was talking about back on Slashdot radio years ago then use him as the test subject.
That is presumming the robotic legs don't put him over the weight limit.
I don't actually exist.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of UID 0.
So long, and thanks for all the Phish
Bow to Allah, for he is r00t!
thinkgeek needs to print that on a t-shirt...
Newscaster: "Fortunately, Dennis, flight 242 was struck in just the right place, giving a pleasing massage-like sensation to all aboard, and making the plane arrive in SFO a half-hour ahead of schedule. I'm Leslie Griffith. Back to you in the studio."
Christianity is a 3 element array making up a single entity.
God[0] - YHVH, God, Father, whatever
God[1] - Holy Spirit
God[2] - Jesus
and for catholics:
God[3] - Mother Mary
That isn't blasphemous. I'm sure a similar case could be made for the Allah array.
Most city busses have more room and are usually more comfortable than the vast majority of aircraft.
So are most closets.
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To avoid the Aryan heresy, you should really have
God[0] - God, YHVH, Allah, whatever
God[1] - Father - pointer to God[0]
God[2] - Holy spirit - pointer to God[0]
God[3] - Jesus - pointer to God[0]
That way it's a bit less blasphemous. To keep the inquisitors happy, you'd probably be better off inheriting Father, Son and Holy Spirit from an abstract GOD base class.
With all properties strictly read-only I suspect. And whatever happens, don't ask awkward questions about the ctor() on the GOD class...
TomV
"I was promised I would spend eternity in Paradise, being fed honeyed cakes by 67 virgins in a tree-lined garden, if only I would fly the airplane into one of the Twin Towers," said Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, between attempts to vomit up the wasps, hornets, and live coals infesting his stomach. "But instead, I am fed the boiling feces of traitors by malicious, laughing Ifrit. Is this to be my reward for destroying the enemies of my faith?"
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
If I remember it correctly, any Islamic that dies in the presence of swine will result in them going straight to hell. If that is the case, put a pig on each airplane. That would keep the terrorists of the planes.
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what's blasphemous though is your use of a capital letter at the start of a variable name! ;-)
if (!signature) { throw std::runtime_error("No sig!"); }