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Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies
Nick Bilton, Lead Technology writer for The New York Times Bits Blog, called the FAA to complain about its gadget policies on flights and got an unexpected reply. Laura J. Brown, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs, said that it might be time to change some of those policies and promised they'd take a “fresh look” at the use of personal electronics on planes. From the article: "Yes, you read that correctly. The F.A.A., which in the past has essentially said, 'No, because I said so,' is going to explore testing e-readers, tablets and certain other gadgets on planes. The last time this testing was done was 2006, long before iPads and most e-readers existed. (The bad, or good, news: The F.A.A. doesn’t yet want to include the 150 million smartphones in this revision.)"
The head of the FAA of course!
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The solution to this is to have a million terrorists board the plane.
Yup, that is exactly what it is about. The restriction on phone use in flight is to protect the cell phone towers.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
A lot of people don't realize that the plane they're flying in very possibly was designed and built before they were born.
Really? That's very interesting. I didn't know they were building jet airliners during WWII.
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