Yeah, my initial reaction was to be aghast that we've sunk to the point where being a meanie was a felony. It's terrible that this poor girl felt she had no option but to kill herself and the other girls are hideous human beings that deserve to shunned and ostracized by society -- but those things are best left up to society as a whole and not the criminal system. As much as all of these stories anger us, we have to remember that being "really really mad at how shitty someone is" is not enough justification to just dump over principals and common sense.
Additionally, if leaving a shitty comment on Facebook is "felony stalking", then what was it when that girl got my address from whois and showed up at my door, one night? What about that mental guy, years ago, who registered my name as a domain and started posting vile shit (even using my own whois information for his whois on it)? At some point, we have to just accept that many human beings are worthless heaps of shit and that when you are exposed to some one or two billion of them at once (the internet), you will inevitably run into them?
What's the resolution, in this case? The students at the school should shun her. The teachers should stop coddling her and accepting her behavior at school (teachers and school administrations are notoriously permissive of verbal and even physical harassment of students by other students, even right in front of their faces). Other parents should forbid their children from playing with her. Most importantly, her own parents should yank the internet and cell phone and everything else away from her and ground her for six or twelve months. You know, be parents.
It's not even that uncommon. Modern mailstores employ single-message-copy, so that if a message is delivered to 800 people on the same mailstore, there's actually only *one* "physical" copy of it on the drive.
I guess I remain unclear as to what it is doing that is useful? A huge torrent of data is only difficult to sift through if you have no idea what you're looking for. Additionally, let's split the different (2gb to 117gb) and say 58gb of data per day for 13 days. That's 754gb, which is only $28 worth of storage at full retail prices and probably not even $14 at their bulk prices. Since they're spending *our* money, that's a trivial amount. It's not even worth factoring into anything, for them.
Where is the 3.5mm jack? I don't believe the PS3 controllers have one and the PS4 does not (according to images online). The images I've seen of the PS4 controller show that it has a weird wide jack, that looks like some sort of proprietary 8pin or something.
The XBox 360 has a 3.5mm jack on the controller, for headsets to plug into. The PS3 did not. The PS4 is coming with a headset, but I don't think we know anything about it. However, looking at the PS4 controller, there appears to be some sort of wide proprietary jack in the same spot. Presumably, the PS4 headset has a proprietary connection type that will connect to the proprietary jack on the PS4 controller. In which case, the proprietary cheap default PS4 headset would be an option (and nothing else, since it's probably proprietary and your other headsets wouldn't work with it).
But how does the headset they're including in the console work, if it isn't USB or bluetooth? (Note that the PS3 controllers didn't have an audio jack on the controller, I'm pretty sure, so there's a good chance the PS4 won't, either).
They have to be really careful about this, because they didn't include headsets with the PS3 and as a result, few people use headsets on the PS3 even eight years later. It's often like a wasteland and it gives the PS3 a certain community-less atmosphere that pushes a lot of people away. If they fuck up pushing communication options early on, they could repeat it all over again.
The 360 controller has a 3.5mm audio jack facing the user between the handles. It's where you plug headsets into, like the one that comes with the 360 console. I presume it would handle any headset that didn't have to be powered (ie, require an amp). I don't believe the PS3 controller has a jack, but if the PS4 controller does, that would probably be the audio solution until they get USB/bluetooth working.
However, I don't have a clue if the PS4 will have this.
Both are shitty solutions. When we have games that are putting out high quality 5.1 and 7.1 audio streams and sometimes even PCM, why in the fuck would they limit people to only listening to them over bluetooth or USB, which are notoriously shit for audio quality?!
Unfortunately, that doesn't fly here, because they're in a race to launch against Microsoft and they already suffered a bit of defeat the last eight years, because they launched late and their competition ate their lunch. Besides, Microsoft already demonstrated that it doesn't matter. Your hardware can literally burn itself out with an eventual failure rate of 100% (100% of launch 360s were guaranteed to eventually red-ring) and people will just give you another $500 and buy another one.
$250 for a headset is nothing, really. A good pair of headphones can easily run you $500 (that's considered mid-tier). A passable head*set* will run you $300-$500 and it isn't that such a headset is really good, so much as . . . it's about your only option. There are just very few options with headsets and you usually end up paying a lot more for the combination headphone/mic than you would for a high quality headphone and mic, separately.
The problem is that $250 for headsets for consoles is that you're getting a $50 headphone with a $5 mic attached and the other $195 goes toward the branding and gimmicky "I got's me a RAZR bruh!" bullshit.
Ideally, both consoles would open up to non-proprietary options and you could have a single high end set of headphones and a microphone that you already use on your stereo system, PC, podcasting, etc... *and* use it on your consoles. Instead of having to pay through the nose for a headset just for the console that is really only marginally better than the $15 ear-mount proprietary bullshit that you can get for each console. $250 for a proprietary peripheral for one single $400 console is absurd, though.
The problem with all of this proprietary bullshit is that even if you're willing to spend the money, there is no option. There is only "spend nothing and get shitty solutions" and "spend a lot and get shitty solutions". Already have a $500 set of HD650s or AGK 712s for your headset and a sweet separated mic for communication? Sorry, can't use that on your consoles! Nope, instead, you have to spend $400 for our shitty TurtleBeach or Razr branded pieces of shit that will work only on this one console and don't have the sound or mic quality to justify the investment. This is where both consoles fail and one of them could make a really solid mark for themselves by bucking the trend and just allowing bluetooth isn't a solution; unless you give no shits for quality or battery life and want wireless).
If you go to The Verge and look at their "coverage" of this by Nilay, it comes across as a massive advertisement, too. It's a long glowing article and then the video accompanying it has the author in many locations all shot beautifully on high quality cameras with great lighting, including two places that are clearly in the offices of the company, where they throw a couple softball "here's where you read the part of the script about how awesome you and your company are" pieces. The whole thing came across from beginning to end like a giant paid-for puff piece. Just like when you watch your local news and they're doing some "big story" that is really just a promotion for some show or movie that the network affiliate is involved in.
The only places it wavered at all was at the very last few seconds of the five or six FIVE MINUTE video and then somewhere later in the *comment* section where the author mentions to a reader that Amazon has a nice fire alarm for $31.
Of course, there are no questions raised in the comments about it seeming like a giant ball-sucking advertisement, because VOX doesn't put up with that shit and deletes anything questioning VOX Media properties fucking swiftly.
Of course, maybe it's not a paid-for piece . . . in which case -- jesus christ, what is with the long suck-up article and video? You'd think it was Nest Inc talking about a Nest Inc product in Nest Inc Magazine.
I like that you got marked down as "flamebait" for pointing out that this has nothing to do with the bullshit hyperbolic idiocy of "glimpsing right into the mind of the Creator of our universe". As so many have already said over the years, it was a completely mistake to apply that name to this and if they'd considered how it might be interpreted by the average moron who believes in alien abductions and angels, they would have named it more wisely.
If you can win the Peace Prize without having done anything whatsoever (and then being a warmongering fascist), then you should be able to win any of the other prizes pre-emptively.
Do you expect anything more from the same entity that spent tens of millions of dollars to put together some Drupal websites for "data dashboards for american's to observe our transparent government" that were always unimpressive, usually half broken, and could have been put together by a high school student for a few hundred bucks or a few free pizzas?
Slashdot was never the political water cooler. The only such events that were really covered were world-shattering events (usually US-centric, obviously), like 9/11. The internet is littered with places you can go discuss why $[not_my_party] suck balls and why $[my_part] are saviors of the world.
These articles have become more common, about a variety of topics, because of pure Slashdot click-bait desperation. The same thing that is driving the re-design of the site into something mirroring Buzzfeed and other link-bait driven quick-feed sites.
A lot of shit fucking matters, but that doesn't make it reasonable to discuss on Slashdot. People come to Slashdot for selectivity. If they wanted everything under the sun, they'd go dick around on reddit.
I could do without the "nerd view on every subject", now that most of my fellow Slashdot nerds seem to have turned 50 years old and turned into their dads. It can often times be difficult to tell, these days, if you're reading Slashdot or commenters on an article that Drudge has linked to. There's more biased, ridiculous, political, bullshit rhetoric and name-calling here than there are on most shitty CBS articles, where people just sit around spewing racist bullshit and calling each other libtards and republithugs all day and coming together around the agreement that atheists should be killed so they can meet their maker.
The commentary on Slashdot used to be fairly compelling, but in the last few years, it has come to sound more like sitting around the table with my blue collar neighbors who think Obama is the antichrist, Saddam attacked the WTC, and people need to give up their freedoms so we can be safe from terrorists. Slashdot was the place you went for tech, even if it was political tech issues (ie, encryption, privacy, etc). Now it's the place you go to so you can hear old people piss and moan about $[opposing_political_party] and spew talking points from MSNBC and FNC.
You sound like one of those people who comment on CBS articles linked from Drudge's website.
Anyway, eighteen months ago was merely staging for taking action, today. Have we all forgotten the five year plan (okay, so it has taken longer than that) for seven middle eastern countries that General Clark discussed a few years ago? Additionally, have we all forgotten that the real purpose of all of this is oil and oil/pipeline related corporate interests in these regions? It's no secret and it's no conspiracy. President Obama has stated this in recent speeches, including one before the United Nations?
"We will ensure the free flow of energy from the region to the world. Although America is steadily reducing our own dependence on imported oil, the world still depends upon the region’s energy supply, and a severe disruption could destabilize the entire global economy."
This has been and continues to be about ensuring both the flow of energy and the *control* of energy. Nothing about the statement above has anything to do with the well-being of Syrian citizens or peace or anything else. It is an imperialistic statement that they have energy and are pipelines for energy (Syria's primary benefit, since they don't have a lot of actual oil, themselves) and that we must maintain and control the flow of energy. Fuck the sovereignty of a nation. And, frankly, fuck any suggested "peace-keeping" intentions. Those are pretty things we trot out to the media to convince the American people that our intentions are righteous, when they're really the wrapping paper we couch our true intentions in.
Before we start buying this bullshit, let's remember the Gulf war and the whole "oh noes, this poor little girl testified before the UN about how evil Iraqi's are unplugging incubators and throwing babies into piles in the hallways of hospitals to die!". You know, the little girl that turned out to be the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador? The daughter that was coached and prepped on the acting gig as part of a war-justification-propaganda by the fucking despicable Hill & Knowlton for the war in the whole incubator bullshit was the turning point for the American public to get behind the military action?
And then, twenty years later, we're falling for that shit all over again when we're fed propaganda like "the Libyan soldiers are being given viagra so they can maintain erections so they can rape women and children in a terror spree against their own citizens!" or "Syrian soldiers are giving citizens tittie-twisters and really rough noogies!". I mean, come on -- can we not smell that bullshit a mile away? Are we really going to let ourselves be drummed into another bullshit series of military actions -- actions we were warned of by General Clark long ago and for purposes which our own president has laid out clearly at least twice in public speeches -- like this?
The only thing worse than those "bleeding heart bullshitters" are the braindead "yeah, we gunna get us in some fightin' billy joe bob! hurrah murrica!" types who will buy fucking anything, as long as we're convinced that we're the good guys and we're doing what we do purely because "we're the good guys". Sure, we want to believe we're the good guys. We even used to *be* the good guys. But now we're just the guys being fed bullshit and giving our permission for our government to act despicably.
Pull out my comment in another decade and tell me if I was wrong about how there is no honor in our (government's) intentions and actions here.
Don't worry, next month we'll start seeing controversial and divisive posts about religion and abortion. The month after that, we'll start seeing Buzzfeed-style "articles" and list-link-bait. The month after that, it'll be nothing but Ford-Sponsored Ford-Related Advert-Articles. You won't be able to tell Slashdot from Engadget, BoingBoing, or Buzzfeed.
The important part is that we continue to provide weapons, funding, and training to a lot of little rebel groups in critical places around the world, so that they and their enemies can both ultimately point the finger at the US for any failures they might encounter, which will ensure a plentiful and diverse population of future terrorists acting against the US and allow us to legitimately continue to scare-monger out own population into accepting all draconian measures that only fifteen years ago would have been unfathomable.
Play it safe by trusting 300 passengers to use the "honor system" and not turn their devices on? You seriously think they'd ever take that risk? Of course not. Therefore, they have known this is not a problem even in the slimmest of chances for as long as you have been allowed to board *at all* with such devices.
Anyone with even a smidgen of critical thinking skills has known the obvious for many years. If ipads, cellphones, laptops and other devices posed a threat of any manner in any possible operation mode whatsoever, you would be forced to render them unto the flight attended at the gate, before getting anywhere near the plane. If someone using their phone or having their ipad in the wrong wifi mode intentionally or unintentionally posed even the most remote of risks, they would not leave the fate of the airplane to the honor system agreement with 300 passengers on the damn airplane.
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Yeah, my initial reaction was to be aghast that we've sunk to the point where being a meanie was a felony. It's terrible that this poor girl felt she had no option but to kill herself and the other girls are hideous human beings that deserve to shunned and ostracized by society -- but those things are best left up to society as a whole and not the criminal system. As much as all of these stories anger us, we have to remember that being "really really mad at how shitty someone is" is not enough justification to just dump over principals and common sense.
Additionally, if leaving a shitty comment on Facebook is "felony stalking", then what was it when that girl got my address from whois and showed up at my door, one night? What about that mental guy, years ago, who registered my name as a domain and started posting vile shit (even using my own whois information for his whois on it)? At some point, we have to just accept that many human beings are worthless heaps of shit and that when you are exposed to some one or two billion of them at once (the internet), you will inevitably run into them?
What's the resolution, in this case? The students at the school should shun her. The teachers should stop coddling her and accepting her behavior at school (teachers and school administrations are notoriously permissive of verbal and even physical harassment of students by other students, even right in front of their faces). Other parents should forbid their children from playing with her. Most importantly, her own parents should yank the internet and cell phone and everything else away from her and ground her for six or twelve months. You know, be parents.
It's not even that uncommon. Modern mailstores employ single-message-copy, so that if a message is delivered to 800 people on the same mailstore, there's actually only *one* "physical" copy of it on the drive.
I guess I remain unclear as to what it is doing that is useful? A huge torrent of data is only difficult to sift through if you have no idea what you're looking for. Additionally, let's split the different (2gb to 117gb) and say 58gb of data per day for 13 days. That's 754gb, which is only $28 worth of storage at full retail prices and probably not even $14 at their bulk prices. Since they're spending *our* money, that's a trivial amount. It's not even worth factoring into anything, for them.
Where is the 3.5mm jack? I don't believe the PS3 controllers have one and the PS4 does not (according to images online). The images I've seen of the PS4 controller show that it has a weird wide jack, that looks like some sort of proprietary 8pin or something.
The XBox 360 has a 3.5mm jack on the controller, for headsets to plug into. The PS3 did not. The PS4 is coming with a headset, but I don't think we know anything about it. However, looking at the PS4 controller, there appears to be some sort of wide proprietary jack in the same spot. Presumably, the PS4 headset has a proprietary connection type that will connect to the proprietary jack on the PS4 controller. In which case, the proprietary cheap default PS4 headset would be an option (and nothing else, since it's probably proprietary and your other headsets wouldn't work with it).
Hurrah nickle and diming people!
But how does the headset they're including in the console work, if it isn't USB or bluetooth? (Note that the PS3 controllers didn't have an audio jack on the controller, I'm pretty sure, so there's a good chance the PS4 won't, either).
They have to be really careful about this, because they didn't include headsets with the PS3 and as a result, few people use headsets on the PS3 even eight years later. It's often like a wasteland and it gives the PS3 a certain community-less atmosphere that pushes a lot of people away. If they fuck up pushing communication options early on, they could repeat it all over again.
The 360 controller has a 3.5mm audio jack facing the user between the handles. It's where you plug headsets into, like the one that comes with the 360 console. I presume it would handle any headset that didn't have to be powered (ie, require an amp). I don't believe the PS3 controller has a jack, but if the PS4 controller does, that would probably be the audio solution until they get USB/bluetooth working.
However, I don't have a clue if the PS4 will have this.
*Console headsets*, yes.
Both are shitty solutions. When we have games that are putting out high quality 5.1 and 7.1 audio streams and sometimes even PCM, why in the fuck would they limit people to only listening to them over bluetooth or USB, which are notoriously shit for audio quality?!
Unfortunately, that doesn't fly here, because they're in a race to launch against Microsoft and they already suffered a bit of defeat the last eight years, because they launched late and their competition ate their lunch. Besides, Microsoft already demonstrated that it doesn't matter. Your hardware can literally burn itself out with an eventual failure rate of 100% (100% of launch 360s were guaranteed to eventually red-ring) and people will just give you another $500 and buy another one.
Exactly. Unless the new PS4 controllers have an audio jack just like the 360 controllers did?
$250 for a headset is nothing, really. A good pair of headphones can easily run you $500 (that's considered mid-tier). A passable head*set* will run you $300-$500 and it isn't that such a headset is really good, so much as . . . it's about your only option. There are just very few options with headsets and you usually end up paying a lot more for the combination headphone/mic than you would for a high quality headphone and mic, separately.
The problem is that $250 for headsets for consoles is that you're getting a $50 headphone with a $5 mic attached and the other $195 goes toward the branding and gimmicky "I got's me a RAZR bruh!" bullshit.
Ideally, both consoles would open up to non-proprietary options and you could have a single high end set of headphones and a microphone that you already use on your stereo system, PC, podcasting, etc ... *and* use it on your consoles. Instead of having to pay through the nose for a headset just for the console that is really only marginally better than the $15 ear-mount proprietary bullshit that you can get for each console. $250 for a proprietary peripheral for one single $400 console is absurd, though.
The problem with all of this proprietary bullshit is that even if you're willing to spend the money, there is no option. There is only "spend nothing and get shitty solutions" and "spend a lot and get shitty solutions". Already have a $500 set of HD650s or AGK 712s for your headset and a sweet separated mic for communication? Sorry, can't use that on your consoles! Nope, instead, you have to spend $400 for our shitty TurtleBeach or Razr branded pieces of shit that will work only on this one console and don't have the sound or mic quality to justify the investment. This is where both consoles fail and one of them could make a really solid mark for themselves by bucking the trend and just allowing bluetooth isn't a solution; unless you give no shits for quality or battery life and want wireless).
But they won't.
If you go to The Verge and look at their "coverage" of this by Nilay, it comes across as a massive advertisement, too. It's a long glowing article and then the video accompanying it has the author in many locations all shot beautifully on high quality cameras with great lighting, including two places that are clearly in the offices of the company, where they throw a couple softball "here's where you read the part of the script about how awesome you and your company are" pieces. The whole thing came across from beginning to end like a giant paid-for puff piece. Just like when you watch your local news and they're doing some "big story" that is really just a promotion for some show or movie that the network affiliate is involved in.
The only places it wavered at all was at the very last few seconds of the five or six FIVE MINUTE video and then somewhere later in the *comment* section where the author mentions to a reader that Amazon has a nice fire alarm for $31.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/8/4790896/nest-protect-smoke-detector
Of course, there are no questions raised in the comments about it seeming like a giant ball-sucking advertisement, because VOX doesn't put up with that shit and deletes anything questioning VOX Media properties fucking swiftly.
Of course, maybe it's not a paid-for piece . . . in which case -- jesus christ, what is with the long suck-up article and video? You'd think it was Nest Inc talking about a Nest Inc product in Nest Inc Magazine.
I like that you got marked down as "flamebait" for pointing out that this has nothing to do with the bullshit hyperbolic idiocy of "glimpsing right into the mind of the Creator of our universe". As so many have already said over the years, it was a completely mistake to apply that name to this and if they'd considered how it might be interpreted by the average moron who believes in alien abductions and angels, they would have named it more wisely.
If you can win the Peace Prize without having done anything whatsoever (and then being a warmongering fascist), then you should be able to win any of the other prizes pre-emptively.
Do you expect anything more from the same entity that spent tens of millions of dollars to put together some Drupal websites for "data dashboards for american's to observe our transparent government" that were always unimpressive, usually half broken, and could have been put together by a high school student for a few hundred bucks or a few free pizzas?
Slashdot was never the political water cooler. The only such events that were really covered were world-shattering events (usually US-centric, obviously), like 9/11. The internet is littered with places you can go discuss why $[not_my_party] suck balls and why $[my_part] are saviors of the world.
These articles have become more common, about a variety of topics, because of pure Slashdot click-bait desperation. The same thing that is driving the re-design of the site into something mirroring Buzzfeed and other link-bait driven quick-feed sites.
So we're going to start getting articles about maintaining prostate health and how to pay-down your mortgage, too?
A lot of shit fucking matters, but that doesn't make it reasonable to discuss on Slashdot. People come to Slashdot for selectivity. If they wanted everything under the sun, they'd go dick around on reddit.
I could do without the "nerd view on every subject", now that most of my fellow Slashdot nerds seem to have turned 50 years old and turned into their dads. It can often times be difficult to tell, these days, if you're reading Slashdot or commenters on an article that Drudge has linked to. There's more biased, ridiculous, political, bullshit rhetoric and name-calling here than there are on most shitty CBS articles, where people just sit around spewing racist bullshit and calling each other libtards and republithugs all day and coming together around the agreement that atheists should be killed so they can meet their maker.
The commentary on Slashdot used to be fairly compelling, but in the last few years, it has come to sound more like sitting around the table with my blue collar neighbors who think Obama is the antichrist, Saddam attacked the WTC, and people need to give up their freedoms so we can be safe from terrorists. Slashdot was the place you went for tech, even if it was political tech issues (ie, encryption, privacy, etc). Now it's the place you go to so you can hear old people piss and moan about $[opposing_political_party] and spew talking points from MSNBC and FNC.
You sound like one of those people who comment on CBS articles linked from Drudge's website.
Anyway, eighteen months ago was merely staging for taking action, today. Have we all forgotten the five year plan (okay, so it has taken longer than that) for seven middle eastern countries that General Clark discussed a few years ago? Additionally, have we all forgotten that the real purpose of all of this is oil and oil/pipeline related corporate interests in these regions? It's no secret and it's no conspiracy. President Obama has stated this in recent speeches, including one before the United Nations?
"We will ensure the free flow of energy from the region to the world. Although America is steadily reducing our own dependence on imported oil, the world still depends upon the region’s energy supply, and a severe disruption could destabilize the entire global economy."
This has been and continues to be about ensuring both the flow of energy and the *control* of energy. Nothing about the statement above has anything to do with the well-being of Syrian citizens or peace or anything else. It is an imperialistic statement that they have energy and are pipelines for energy (Syria's primary benefit, since they don't have a lot of actual oil, themselves) and that we must maintain and control the flow of energy. Fuck the sovereignty of a nation. And, frankly, fuck any suggested "peace-keeping" intentions. Those are pretty things we trot out to the media to convince the American people that our intentions are righteous, when they're really the wrapping paper we couch our true intentions in.
Before we start buying this bullshit, let's remember the Gulf war and the whole "oh noes, this poor little girl testified before the UN about how evil Iraqi's are unplugging incubators and throwing babies into piles in the hallways of hospitals to die!". You know, the little girl that turned out to be the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador? The daughter that was coached and prepped on the acting gig as part of a war-justification-propaganda by the fucking despicable Hill & Knowlton for the war in the whole incubator bullshit was the turning point for the American public to get behind the military action?
And then, twenty years later, we're falling for that shit all over again when we're fed propaganda like "the Libyan soldiers are being given viagra so they can maintain erections so they can rape women and children in a terror spree against their own citizens!" or "Syrian soldiers are giving citizens tittie-twisters and really rough noogies!". I mean, come on -- can we not smell that bullshit a mile away? Are we really going to let ourselves be drummed into another bullshit series of military actions -- actions we were warned of by General Clark long ago and for purposes which our own president has laid out clearly at least twice in public speeches -- like this?
The only thing worse than those "bleeding heart bullshitters" are the braindead "yeah, we gunna get us in some fightin' billy joe bob! hurrah murrica!" types who will buy fucking anything, as long as we're convinced that we're the good guys and we're doing what we do purely because "we're the good guys". Sure, we want to believe we're the good guys. We even used to *be* the good guys. But now we're just the guys being fed bullshit and giving our permission for our government to act despicably.
Pull out my comment in another decade and tell me if I was wrong about how there is no honor in our (government's) intentions and actions here.
Don't worry, next month we'll start seeing controversial and divisive posts about religion and abortion. The month after that, we'll start seeing Buzzfeed-style "articles" and list-link-bait. The month after that, it'll be nothing but Ford-Sponsored Ford-Related Advert-Articles. You won't be able to tell Slashdot from Engadget, BoingBoing, or Buzzfeed.
The important part is that we continue to provide weapons, funding, and training to a lot of little rebel groups in critical places around the world, so that they and their enemies can both ultimately point the finger at the US for any failures they might encounter, which will ensure a plentiful and diverse population of future terrorists acting against the US and allow us to legitimately continue to scare-monger out own population into accepting all draconian measures that only fifteen years ago would have been unfathomable.
Play it safe by trusting 300 passengers to use the "honor system" and not turn their devices on? You seriously think they'd ever take that risk? Of course not. Therefore, they have known this is not a problem even in the slimmest of chances for as long as you have been allowed to board *at all* with such devices.
Anyone with even a smidgen of critical thinking skills has known the obvious for many years. If ipads, cellphones, laptops and other devices posed a threat of any manner in any possible operation mode whatsoever, you would be forced to render them unto the flight attended at the gate, before getting anywhere near the plane. If someone using their phone or having their ipad in the wrong wifi mode intentionally or unintentionally posed even the most remote of risks, they would not leave the fate of the airplane to the honor system agreement with 300 passengers on the damn airplane.