Certainly people do look at the source. They look at the source for Azureus. I realize this is the slashdot community (read "my favorite version of Unix rocks, Micro$oft sucks, open source is the savior of the world) and I realize I'll be modded to "never read hell" (be it troll or off topic) for saying so, but the highest priority of open system development is an application that is used almost exclusively to share (that means give and receive) goods without paying for them (some might call it stealing). slashdotters get awful high and mighty when it comes to open source and Linux, but as I was told as a child - "Actions speak louder than words".
The test done on Mythbusters applied only to a single device, the RDF (Radio Direction Finder). The RDF is an instrument used in small planes for navigation and works by being tuned in to a radio transmitter. It then tells the direction to that transmitter. These devices are used as an aid to dead reckoning. I am not a commercial pilot, but I seriously doubt that pilots in a jetliner use an RDF to find their way from airport to airport like I did in a Cessna 150. Further, the test did not even use a cell phone, but a signal source that was placed a foot or so from the instrument. Hardly a rigorous test of the "myth".
Slashdot Mirror
Certainly people do look at the source. They look at the source for Azureus. I realize this is the slashdot community (read "my favorite version of Unix rocks, Micro$oft sucks, open source is the savior of the world) and I realize I'll be modded to "never read hell" (be it troll or off topic) for saying so, but the highest priority of open system development is an application that is used almost exclusively to share (that means give and receive) goods without paying for them (some might call it stealing). slashdotters get awful high and mighty when it comes to open source and Linux, but as I was told as a child - "Actions speak louder than words".
JW
The test done on Mythbusters applied only to a single device, the RDF (Radio Direction Finder). The RDF is an instrument used in small planes for navigation and works by being tuned in to a radio transmitter. It then tells the direction to that transmitter. These devices are used as an aid to dead reckoning. I am not a commercial pilot, but I seriously doubt that pilots in a jetliner use an RDF to find their way from airport to airport like I did in a Cessna 150. Further, the test did not even use a cell phone, but a signal source that was placed a foot or so from the instrument. Hardly a rigorous test of the "myth".