Who the hell would accept a digital image of a boarding pass?
Err, everyone, on every flight I've taken in the last few years (which admittedly isn't many). A QR code in an email sent to my phone is my boarding pass. A scanner reads it, presumably displays my details to the security guy, and he checks my ID.
I could make a fake one so easily and just imitate the app.
Off you go then.
It's not like someone scrawled "Boerd!ng Pars" on the back of an envelope with a crayon.
Didn't they check that everyone had their seatbelts on, their seats in an upright position, their belongings stowed in the overhead locker and had switched off all electronic devices?
The number of passengers with tickets is usually higher.
They don't compare the count to the number of tickets. They compare it to the number of people known to be getting on the flight, presumably these days from the number who've been scanned through security (in my airside days it was the number that had checked in at the desk, since this was before online check-in).
Then what was it doing in the 5 seconds between the canopy opening (and ejecting the rock, according to the poster above) and the time it zipped past the skydiver?
More likely he laid has parachute on the ground for packing and accidentally picked up a rock without noticing and it was ejected when he pulled the chord.
Which then defied gravity by matching speed with him as he slowed for more than 5 seconds before dropping past?
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What about power+home, if you have a physical Home button?
Bennett again.
Funny, that's what I was thinking. With appropriate trailing punctuation.
Because nothing says "Burning Man" like stringent adherence to an authoritarian algorithm.
Who the hell would accept a digital image of a boarding pass?
Err, everyone, on every flight I've taken in the last few years (which admittedly isn't many). A QR code in an email sent to my phone is my boarding pass. A scanner reads it, presumably displays my details to the security guy, and he checks my ID.
I could make a fake one so easily and just imitate the app.
Off you go then.
It's not like someone scrawled "Boerd!ng Pars" on the back of an envelope with a crayon.
Mod parent up. Go on, you know you want to.
Well, if there's any post in this discussion that deserves +5 Informative, yours was it.
several socks come out of his nose
He should see a doctor. Sounds like he's got pica.
Spoiler alert: they don't do the count until everyone's sitting down.
Pfft, that's the stupid way. You count the number of legs and divide by two!
Didn't they check that everyone had their seatbelts on, their seats in an upright position, their belongings stowed in the overhead locker and had switched off all electronic devices?
They count the number of passengers who got on.
The number of passengers with tickets is usually higher.
They don't compare the count to the number of tickets. They compare it to the number of people known to be getting on the flight, presumably these days from the number who've been scanned through security (in my airside days it was the number that had checked in at the desk, since this was before online check-in).
Board near the end of the boarding time and take a free center seat near the back -unless then plane is 100% full, you're golden.
Except for the annoying habbit flight attendants have of counting the number of passengers.
What was it doing in the 5 seconds between his chute opening and the moment the rock goes by?
Then what was it doing in the 5 seconds between the canopy opening (and ejecting the rock, according to the poster above) and the time it zipped past the skydiver?
More likely he laid has parachute on the ground for packing and accidentally picked up a rock without noticing and it was ejected when he pulled the chord.
Which then defied gravity by matching speed with him as he slowed for more than 5 seconds before dropping past?
If they trusted the article when it said:
It rock zooms by at about :20 in this video:
Then they were looking at another skydiver. The rock actually goes by at about 0:16s
In the main view, or the upper left picture? How many seconds in?
My Linux boxes with SSDs boot in 6 seconds.
BitZtream has spoken. You, sir, are a liar!
you magically booted in less time than it takes for the kernel to scan for hardware?
I believe that over you magically knowing that there's a fundamental limit on how quickly everybody's kernels scan for hardware.
Or, alternatively, yes.
Or consider one of these if an antenna offends you so much.
Breaking news! Some people use Linux but have a need for something that's only ostensibly available for Windows!
Ted Koppel is a robot.
People will think time's running backwards.
Or it uses a pair of cylindrical pyramids
Known in scientific circles as "cones."
I do apologise. I meant, of course, "or wut?"
Slow down, science boy. Can I haz more lolcats, or what?