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by snom380 13y ago
It's trivially easy to show that there is a risk of interference, the question is just how big the risk is, and whether turning devices off during takeoffs and landings is worth the inconvenience. And as mentioned elsewhere there had b
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by snom380 13y ago
If it was only a PR stunt, don't you think they would have found a cuter story to tell?
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by snom380 13y ago
That's the problem though. You don't fly thousands of passengers each day and have seen several of your peers bankrupted or seriously financially wounded by a single high profile accident, so you might have a different view on the
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by snom380 13y ago
You're still welcome to get a PPL and have as many cell phones as you wish turned on while you fly. If you think anything that doesn't directly cause accidents aren't worth regulating, you don't truly appreciate why we h
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by snom380 13y ago
If you want to compare a commercial aircraft with 2-3 independent radios and electrical systems to a light aircraft, I can as well, and I'm happy to tell you that it's trivial to get a cell phone or tablet to cause annoying interf
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by snom380 13y ago
It's a matter of trade-offs of convenience vs "better safe than sorry". It's not a binary either-or decision. Just like with lithium batteries, which can still cause nasty fires. Yet they aren't banned because if th
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by snom380 13y ago
Not necessarily. Avionics fail all the time and it's pretty much impossible for pilots to pinpoint a specific incident to cell phone interference. I've had at least one incident where the pilot came in the PA and asked us twice in
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by snom380 13y ago
Agreed. And there's been a few cases of (presumably poorly shielded) laptops in the 90s causing interference, to the point where the pilot would see the effect appearing/disappearing when the passenger turned on/off the lapto
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by snom380 13y ago
This argument is false. It's a matter of reducing the possibility of interference, not eliminating it (which you can't do). Lithium batteries can and have caused in flight fires, would you start claiming that they physically can&#
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by snom380 13y ago
They want as many transmitters as possible off to reduce the _chance_ of interference. With in-flight Wifi and picocells it will be possible to have everyone connected without having lots of cell phones trying to connect to base stations fa
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by snom380 13y ago
As a private pilot I've had to turn off GSM on tablets and phones to avoid interference in the headset. I still try to keep one cell phone on in case of an emergency. There has been a few reported incidents with laptops etc causing int
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by snom380 13y ago
I didn't miss them, and I'd like you to link to the revelation that tha NSA routinely collects data stored locally on iPhones with Apples consent and involvement.
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by snom380 13y ago
The processing happens on the A7 chip, but separated from the OS. Of course, the question is whether it's possible for Apple or someone else to update the fingerprint software to give back more data than just the yes/no, or if you
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by snom380 13y ago
Given the fact that we've seen no evidence of such updates previously, and rather we've seen Apple take many steps to protect privacy and even seen NSA leaked slides detailing how they need access to PCs to read iPhone backups, I
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by snom380 13y ago
You missed the part where the fingerprint is stored so it's not even accessible to the OS and are never stored online? Oh, but I guess the NSA has a back door and will manage to collect them all without anyone noticing, right? Just lik
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by snom380 13y ago
What's special about the A380 FBW? I think you're optimistic with that 5-10 years.
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by snom380 13y ago
What this video doesn't show is the multiple redundant checks that are done, and the warning systems that sound if something is out of place (like the one that the Helios pilots misunderstood). Newer airplanes do have more human friend
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by snom380 13y ago
Some modern airplanes do have integrated electronic checklists.
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by snom380 13y ago
Which OS and hardware platform are you referring to now?
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by snom380 13y ago
As long as you keep a backup of your old app bundles on your computer (for instance using Time Machine) I don't think it's a problem to load old apps. The exception being if some of those apps require online services that are no l
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by snom380 13y ago
While I've had a very liberal view regarding drugs and certainly not bought into any campaign stories, I've also become much more respectful about their potential consequences in the past years from firsthand experience. It would
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by snom380 13y ago
Well, I think that a big part of those "functional" users are like functional alcoholics. They continue for many years to hold a job, but their daily usage causes problems for everyone around them. At least that's the story y
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by snom380 13y ago
I think the main problem is that lots of people who have heard the "try it once and get hooked" story realize that they did try it once without problems, and therefore assume that addiction won't be a problem. From once to a
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by snom380 13y ago
If you look at heroin and meth addicts, I think it's pretty easy to see that it's not only dependent on price (which for meth is quite cheap in some countries). A lot of addicts will in the long run be unable to hold a job becaus
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by snom380 13y ago
It's not so much try it once and you're hooked, but for a certain percentage of those who do try it can get hooked in the first try. For many or most others, it takes persistent use (which will often happen when the first try does
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by snom380 13y ago
I use a random 63 character WPA2 password, and my solution was to cable it initially, and then set up the WiFi password using the iPhone remote app.
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by snom380 13y ago
It looks even more inspired by the DigiSpark: http://digistump.com/products/1
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by snom380 13y ago
By itself at can't do those. If you connect it to a WiFi or Zigbee module using SPI it can, but for WiFi you'll probably want to buy a more powerful microcontroller board anyway.
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by snom380 13y ago
Those are more subtle fuck ups that the company might not notice for a long time, usually when you're eclipsed by the competition and upper management has been replaced. A better slogan might be "always make new mistakes".
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by snom380 13y ago
"Stop fucking up" quickly ends up with "stop taking risks" and "design by committee", which may be a good idea if you write avionics or banking software, but perhaps not in other markets.

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