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Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad
First time accepted submitter oyenamit writes "Ars Technica reported a while back that FAA is going to reconsider the ban on use of electronic gadgets during take-off and landing. If this ban is revoked, you will be free to use your gizmos for an additional 30 minutes or so. Peter Bright has an interesting take on why lifting of the ban may not be such a good idea."
I can foresee the author's arguments moving into new areas. A new Wii splash screen, for example.
"Why not take a break? IT'S THE LAW."
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how much sleep do you get in that half hour? do you manage to see the safety demonstration?
at least you'll be relaxed if there's an emergency landing.
Careful, at this rate you'll have enough points we'll have to suspend your internet license.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Forget ever being able to sleep on a plane again, with 200 cell phones ringing and people playing annoying games and 100 laptop screens lighting up the cabin, just like in a movie theater, too many people going to be selfish.
I SAID I CAN'T HEAR YOU! THE PLANE IS TAKING OFF RIGHT NOW! PLEASE SAY IT AGAIN LOUDER!
Yeah, almost as bad as the fuckwits in restaurants and theaters.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Modern commercial passenger aircraft are barely flown by the pilot anyway.
Old joke.
In the future the cockpit will have a pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is to feed the dog, and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
Basically, if it were possible to bring a plane down merely by using a cellphone, it would already have been done by now. Certain groups have an intense interest in doing just that. They haven't, so they can't. Q.E.D.
Toby Ziegler: We're flying in a Lockheed Eagle series L1011. It came off the line 20 months ago. It carries a Sim-5 Transponder tracking system. Are you telling me I can still flummox this thing with something I bought at Radio Shack? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745667/quotes?qt=qt0508645
geek. lawyer.
I hope you are not the pilot :-)
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