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So what if airplanes use GPS, how many thousands of GPS devices are there crammed into a major city that don't jam each other? All those cameras, cell phones, GPS navigation systems, plain old GPSes, and all that should be unusable if their bandwidth is that small.
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03-29-2012, 11:54 AM | #93 | |
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03-29-2012, 05:59 PM | #94 | |
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03-30-2012, 05:25 AM | #95 |
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How high of a risk are you willing to subject yourself and your family members to?
1 in a million? 1 in a billion? And the issue is, there is no way to quantify the unrestricted use of any electronic device. As to how far they transmit, I may have said this before, but with the proper equipment, you can "read" a computer from quite a distance. That is why secure computing is done on specially shielded computers that meet Tempest standards. It does not take much power to transmit a long distance. As for a Faraday cage inside the aircraft, that would work. But at the expense of retrofitting every airplane. And the expense of carrying the extra weight (cost in reduced payload and additional fuel used). And while you are doing this retrofit, you have some planes where it is safe and some where it is not. That gets people VERY confused. It is just that people are so selfish and self absorbed, that they cannot be bothered to be inconvenienced at ALL. And also, everytime I have had an extended wait (beyond normal) on the ground, they have allowed cell phones and other electrronic devices. They just make you turn them off when they finally get going. |
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The last time I flew they made me turn off my hand held free cell game (those boxy things for $10 at wallyworld), but it doesn't have an off/on switch; it just times out itself. I put it away but really!?
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Technology evolve, device can emit less wave to work, plane sensors can be shielded better. On the other hand, on long flights, the plane goes up quickly, so it's not much on a pain. On shorter flights though.... |
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Calculate your personal risk by dividing 100,000,000 by whatever happens to be the sum of your current and past odometers. OTOH, every roadway death we hear about seems to involve a cell phone. |
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03-30-2012, 11:18 AM | #101 | |
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Now that said, I have no problem with them having people turn everything off, I'd just as soon not have the 30 people in front of me all trying to figure out what they have to do with their electronics in the event that you suddenly have to evacuate the plane on takeoff or landing. And I definitely don't want to reach the day when I have to listen to everyone on the plane talking on their cell phone for the entire trip. |
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03-30-2012, 12:39 PM | #102 |
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Ummmm... All receivers transmit - at least a little bit (leakage from the internal oscillators).
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Yep, you definitely blew it; because your plane crashed and you're now speaking to us from the other side. Would you do me a favor and say hi to my Aunt Agnes? She's a bit eccentric and wears long, Victorian gowns; like something out of a steampunk novel.
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I think the figures here are global, and they have:
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03-30-2012, 02:24 PM | #105 |
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Morbid question, but are airline accidents always fatal? Where are the stats for non-fatal accidents? For example, there are two schools of thought with regards to paying for a seat for your under-two child and strapping him in the car seat. One school of thought: a car seat is not going to help if the plane goes down. Other school of thought: there could be a turbulence accident, a taxiing accident, or another kind of accident where the car seat would save your child's life. But what are the stats about this?
To try to bring this a bit back on topic, I have also heard this as reasoning for why your ereader should be put away: it could be a projectile in... some kind of situation. Setting aside the fact that a pbook weighs the same or more than an ereader, what are the statistics on "projectile accidents" on a plane? eP |
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