Part of the problem is that consumer electronics are designed to meet modern standards to reduce or tolerate emissions.
Many aircraft in service are 15 to 20 years old or atleast designed and built to standards that old.
In the current economic climate for airlines, upgradeing fleets to meet modern standards, let alone to eliminate future risk is just not viable in direct cost or the cost of having aircraft grounded for long periods.
As I understand it crudely speaking a UWB transmitter is based on a spark gap.
That being the case have United and NASA just proved that planse can be serioulsy put at risk by somone making sparks with say a coin across the terminals of a 9v battery?
If that were true then almost any battery operated device or plane system could be abused to put the plane at risk.
On that basis take me to xxxx or i'll repeatedly plug in and unplug my headphones will be a credible hijack threat.
This decision must be because they have lots of firm evidence that all the other religions are based on fact, after all how can "Jedi" be a real religion the film came out after the book.
Everyone knows that you make your sacred text THEN you do the movies. Duh!
Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network. The data collected will be actively maintained and distributed from our network operations site.
Nice, but many networks would need to do this to make it really worthwhile, afterall RIAA no doubt have many other targets they can choose before they need to to go to informationwave.
Here in the UK there are already powers in place to allow phone records to be obtained and several cases of the police using information on what phone was in what cell to trace people.
Can't remember who, but a UK advertiser actually produced adverts which were aired fast and you had to video, then play back a, "page" at a time i.e. fram by frame. About to hit google to find out who....
There is a real difference in ads from country to country.
For example here in the UK we very rarely go for direct comparison / competition knocking ads. We do however go for humor and "mini soap" ads which are often so good/engaging/funny that they get grabbed and emailed around and become part of the culture.
The current must get is a Chameleon phone which sings "Come a Chameleon" (I think) By Boy George, featured in a BT advert.
We even get direct mail, email, SMS advertising adverts! "The new XXXX advert will air tonight at..." particulalry with the mini soap style ads mentioned in this thread.
Perphaps this style of Adsomething US advertisers need to do more of so that people will get caught up by the ads? (NOTE : Not learn how to do ads like this...they know how!)
If you can sucessfuly turn more adverts into Memes then the feature users might demand is a Forward advert to friends list button not a fast forward advert button.
Take a look at Tango (All flash site, great wacky brand integration, you need to work through the site to get to the adverts - great stuff diving suits and electromagnets.... water beds and porcipines.
When visiting the US (Prior to 9/11) I had often been surprised by the limited depth of coverage and lack of context on news channels. (I'll be interested to see how this has changed.)
It seemed typical to get, "A tidal wave wiped out half the villages along the coast of XXX today." Cut to pictures for 2 seconds.,"In local news a man was rescued when his car...." 2 minute slot, interviews etc etc.
Perhaps the editorial / financial (Advertising revenue) judgement is that people are more interested in local news.
However with a country the size of the US, reporting "local news" can sometimes be the equivalent in the UK of national news.
However good or bad local broadcast media, the net offers us all options, we can now listen to view, read news feeds form across the globe (Assuming no local censorship!) it can be a real eye opener to re read the same news form the other side.
That's how the net, Sat TV etc.can make a difference, but it requires us to make the effort not to rely on just one source.
Hopefully, people are trying to head off some of >the grief that our European and Asian neighbors >have had to deal with.
Er what grief?
As far as I know not a single mobile virus has struck.
There was a virus (Spanish?)which infiltrated email systems (Outlook) and sent email to a SMS gateway (email to text message gateway.) and hence caused spam messages to appear on phones, but no phone to phone transmission. (.NET on my phone...no thanks.)
Oh and we have one mobile system we can use across our whole continent and several others!
I think that is the sort of "grief" you need in the USA.
If so when you get the usual connectivity problems you'll get:
You are in for a crappy day, as I have not been able to get on line for 4 hours so have no idea what your schedule is, could not order your braekfast and could not re arrange your flights as requested...have a nice day.
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Seriously, did anyone else get the impression from this that we are going to be flying nude without carry-on bags of any sort in the near future?
Hmm so long as they install condom machines in the toilets that should be pretty low risk all round....
Part of the problem is that consumer electronics are designed to meet modern standards to reduce or tolerate emissions.
Many aircraft in service are 15 to 20 years old or atleast designed and built to standards that old.
In the current economic climate for airlines, upgradeing fleets to meet modern standards, let alone to eliminate future risk is just not viable in direct cost or the cost of having aircraft grounded for long periods.
As I understand it crudely speaking a UWB transmitter is based on a spark gap.
That being the case have United and NASA just proved that planse can be serioulsy put at risk by somone making sparks with say a coin across the terminals of a 9v battery?
If that were true then almost any battery operated device or plane system could be abused to put the plane at risk.
On that basis take me to xxxx or i'll repeatedly plug in and unplug my headphones will be a credible hijack threat.
Funny - Mod up the parent to this!!
They did not have to, they chose to. Try reading the article.
This decision must be because they have lots of firm evidence that all the other religions are based on fact, after all how can "Jedi" be a real religion the film came out after the book.
Everyone knows that you make your sacred text THEN you do the movies. Duh!
This Article mentions opbjections to the previous UK trial which caused problems with Low Power (Licence Free) radio systems (ISM band etc.).
Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network. The data collected will be actively maintained and distributed from our network operations site.
Nice, but many networks would need to do this to make it really worthwhile, afterall RIAA no doubt have many other targets they can choose before they need to to go to informationwave.
Oops forgot how to spell and forgot the link to the info on the RIP bill.
No I can go to jail for forgetting may password (That's the law in the UK now!) knowing my software is supported.
Why? now if it were dildo that might be but dillo?
Nope, not laughing.
I thought that's what I had said!
Nah...
Either:
1) It's cheaper to get the open source community to do a reliabale port than try and get it done in house.
2) Getting 1000's chasing the $ and sharing info on the project gives more info on how to harden up xbox 2.
Unless of course this is just a plot to get Linux users to buy MS hardware!
it says "do not look at beam with remaining eyes..."
Here in the UK there are already powers in place to allow phone records to be obtained and several cases of the police using information on what phone was in what cell to trace people.
As far as this application is concerned the phone does power off, i.e. it stops transmitting and logging onto cells.
It is true that the power stays on for things like the real time clock etc.
Can't remember who, but a UK advertiser actually produced adverts which were aired fast and you had to video, then play back a, "page" at a time i.e. fram by frame. About to hit google to find out who....
There is a real difference in ads from country to country.
For example here in the UK we very rarely go for direct comparison / competition knocking ads. We do however go for humor and "mini soap" ads which are often so good/engaging/funny that they get grabbed and emailed around and become part of the culture.
The current must get is a Chameleon phone which sings "Come a Chameleon" (I think) By Boy George, featured in a BT advert.
We even get direct mail, email, SMS advertising adverts! "The new XXXX advert will air tonight at..." particulalry with the mini soap style ads mentioned in this thread.
Perphaps this style of Adsomething US advertisers need to do more of so that people will get caught up by the ads? (NOTE : Not learn how to do ads like this...they know how!)
If you can sucessfuly turn more adverts into Memes then the feature users might demand is a Forward advert to friends list button not a fast forward advert button.
Take a look at Tango (All flash site, great wacky brand integration, you need to work through the site to get to the adverts - great stuff diving suits and electromagnets.... water beds and porcipines.
Or
Some real classics. Guinness
It was Nescafe Gold Blend in the UK Tasters Choice elswhere: see here
An astute observation.
When visiting the US (Prior to 9/11) I had often been surprised by the limited depth of coverage and lack of context on news channels. (I'll be interested to see how this has changed.)
It seemed typical to get, "A tidal wave wiped out half the villages along the coast of XXX today." Cut to pictures for 2 seconds.,"In local news a man was rescued when his car...." 2 minute slot, interviews etc etc.
Perhaps the editorial / financial (Advertising revenue) judgement is that people are more interested in local news.
However with a country the size of the US, reporting "local news" can sometimes be the equivalent in the UK of national news.
However good or bad local broadcast media, the net offers us all options, we can now listen to view, read news feeds form across the globe (Assuming no local censorship!) it can be a real eye opener to re read the same news form the other side.
That's how the net, Sat TV etc.can make a difference, but it requires us to make the effort not to rely on just one source.
As I said, NOT mobile phone viri, just the same old email worm stuff that happens to spam mobiles:
VBS/Timo-A
VBS/San-A
Er what grief?
As far as I know not a single mobile virus has struck.
There was a virus (Spanish?)which infiltrated email systems (Outlook) and sent email to a SMS gateway (email to text message gateway.) and hence caused spam messages to appear on phones, but no phone to phone transmission. (.NET on my phone...no thanks.)
Oh and we have one mobile system we can use across our whole continent and several others!
I think that is the sort of "grief" you need in the USA.
Well i'm not sure about the base OS but the GPRS and PPP protocol stack is not Java according to this announcement.
If so when you get the usual connectivity problems you'll get:
You are in for a crappy day, as I have not been able to get on line for 4 hours so have no idea what your schedule is, could not order your braekfast and could not re arrange your flights as requested...have a nice day.