Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV

pinqkandi writes "CNN is a running a story on an Oregon college student's flat-screen Toshiba TV which was releasing the 121.5 MHz international distress signal. He was unaware of the issue until local police, search and rescue, and civil air patrol members showed up at his apartment's door. Apparently the signal was strong enough to be picked up by satellite and then routed to the Air Force Rescue Center in Virginia. Quite impressive - luckily Toshiba is offering him a free replacement."

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omg

[Anonymous Coward]

fristy posty

Slashdotted

[amigoro]

Aaaargh ./ed. Google Cache here

Re:Slashdotted

[Anonymous Coward]

ROTFL!

That was some funny shit :)

Thanks!

Flat Screen TV

[ets960]

Funny that this topic came up. Free Flat Screen I wonder if he got it there?

Re:One of those smart TVs

[Anonymous Coward]

I think this guy's TV really bought the farm when it heard that John Kerry has "increasingly embraced religion" during his campaign run.
I wonder what else he's going to say to get elected? I guess we'll see the big flip-flop in a few days when another extremely liberal fringe group claims that they're offended by his religious remarks.

Universal response

[Stochio]

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Re:Seriously

[Anonymous Coward]

if everyone did this moderation thing, we could overthrow the slashdot moderation system.

you are calling names

[Anonymous Coward]

Your post says "parent is troll" and calls the poster of the parent post "a pinhead".

Oh, but now you aren't calling names you say.

Do you even pay attention to what you say?

Look, $10K is peanuts. I have an oscilloscope that costs that on my desk. If you can't afford it, rent it from rentelco. If you can't afford to rent it, charge more for your product. If that won't work either, then we'll just have to do without your product.

It simply doesn't make sense to allow companes to not pass the regs. What would be the point of the regs then?

Re:Actually

[Jonah Hex]

You've got to be joking, Fox are the idiots who are responsible for the legal view that there is no law preventing News Broadcasters from deliberately distorting the news it broadcasts! From the Judge's decision: We agree with WTVT that the FCC's policy against the intentional falsification of the news - which the FCC has called its "news distortion policy" - does not qualify as the required "law, rule, or regulation" under section 448.102.

Check out the other side of the story at thier website, I'm not telling you it's all the gospel truth but since we all have to believe in something (if only the shared fantasy we call reality) I choose, evaluate, hypothesize, ponder, discard, repair, and repeat that Fox fucking sucks.

Here you will find behind-the-scenes details about how a large share of America's milk supply has quietly become adulterated with the effects of a synthetic hormone (bovine growth hormone, or BGH) secretly injected into cows ... and how pressure from the hormone maker Monsanto led Fox TV to fire two of its award-winning reporters and sweep under the rug much of what they discovered but were never allowed to broadcast.

After a five-week trial and six hours of deliberation which ended August 18, 2000, a Florida state court jury unanimously determined that Fox "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH." In that decision, the jury also found that Jane's threat to blow the whistle on Fox's misconduct to the FCC was the sole reason for the termination... and the jury awarded $425,000 in damages which makes her eligible to apply for reimbursement for all court costs, expenses and legal fees.

Fox appealed and prevailed February 14, 2003 when an appeals court issued a ruling reversing the jury, accepting a defense argument that had been rejected by three other judges on at least six separate occasions. CLICK HERE for more details on latest ruling. CLICK HERE to view how Fox13 reported the ruling.

The whistle-blowing journalists, twice refused Fox offers of big-money deals to keep quiet about what they knew, filed their landmark lawsuit April 2, 1998 and survived three Fox efforts to have their case summarily dismissed. It is the first time journalists have used a whistleblower law to seek a legal remedy for being fired by for refusing to distort the news. Steve and Jane are now considering an appeal to the Florida state Supreme Court.

Jonah Hex

Re:Actually

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck you troll.