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Originally Posted by pshrynk
@DawnFalcon: The thing about eink readers is that they are essentially in an "off" state if you aren't changing pages. So you are in compliance and won't go to jail for having it in the condition you have stated, because you are in compliance.
I can't speak to any other reasons you might have to go to jail, though.  |
I think the idea of a felony for not following the instructions of the flight crew is bogus, however, that is currently the law. If they wanted to press the issue, you could be charged, and would be responsible to then show to the prosecutor/court you followed the instructions. I think this law has been abused more than it has helped, but that is the current state. I am hoping the tide is changing on this one.
Some of them are in effect off, however, this is not an accurate blanket statement.
It is possible to actually have the system off and a page displayed with e-ink, but I don't think most of the readers do that, I think most go into a deep sleep (not quite off), and some go to a lower power but not sleep state.
So again, you are asking the rule makers to trust users to actually know the state of their device and they will know if it is off, almost off, or still active. BTW, most even in a deep sleep state, memory clocks will be active (lowest power state would be DDR in self refresh mode and the system powered down).
I think that is good info on the Europe cell phone, I think the discussion has been take-off/landing so that follows the same type of rules.
I have heard in the past, that in the US the restriction on in air cell usage was to restrict the overload to the towers, where a single phone would be seen by way too many cells. I think that is outdated with current tech though, so I imagine the rule for in flight usage is now down to the momentum to change the rule more than anything.
--Carl