Actually, they ban mobile phones so they can charge you an arm and a leg to use the in-flight phone system. Although, I don't see them much anymore. I think only Delta and American Airlines still have them.
Bacically its to do with the handoff of a mobile phone from one cell to another and if you are in a plane, the cellphone can see multiple cells and the multiple conitinuous handovers it causes sends the cell network into a tizzy. There is also the problem of reducing the chanel reuse, which is at the heart of a cell networks's ability to handle millions of cellphones.
You ever try getting a signal from a cell tower at 36,000 feet up? If you do end up connecting to a tower, you're moving so fast that by the time you do end up getting a signal, you're out of range. (Last flight I was on, my phone's GPS had me at around 37,000 ft up and traveling around 300mph.) Yes, GPS still works because you're using satellites.
The only thing leaving your cell phone on in an airplane does is drain the battery while it tries to find a cell tower.
So...they're charging for something that used to be free...without adding any benefit.
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Something like half the games in the tournament take place during work hours across the country. Most of us don't have televisions at our desks, in our cubicles, wherever. Watching at work is kind of the whole point
I usually don't disagree on here, but you answered your concern in your post. Umm, the added benefit would be the fact that we can now watch the game at our desk at work.
You forget about us?? All we lost was a few million dollars of perisable foods.
"The outage caused significant losses to restaurants and grocery stores, which were forced to discard quantities of spoiled food; perishable food losses at grocery stores, eating establishments and households were estimated at $12 million to $18 million."
There were no deaths in the "millions" reported. No world ending events. Hell during the 11 hours we didn't have power, I was still on the internet chatting with my buddies on the east coast on my laptop for 3 of those hours while my UPS kept my router and cable modem powered up.
Also, for the AC that posted this:
"Mike the power grid isn't on the "public internet". It's a private network, but the PC that was compromised is on that network. A hacker can attack a network without having direct access to that network through a variety of exploits in web browsers, PDF files, etc..."
ANY computers that have ANYTHING to do with the power grid shouldn't even be able to receive email or browse the web. They're used to control the grid...Not surf the net. If you can get email on a terminal that controls the power grid, THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM!!!
All I need is a USB cable and I can transfer files via USB to my Android. I'm just glad my phone uses a "normal" USB cable and not one of those "dongle" types that ONLY work on 1 thing...I'm looking at you Apple!!!
Oh, and as an added bonus, I get to charge my phone while I'm transferring files!
Just like your online presence on social networks, don't have anything on your phone you wouldn't want the world to see.
If your phone is locked with a password, I wonder if that counts as not able to be "searched" similar to if you get pulled over by a cop and he asks you to get out of your car. If you do, lock the door. He can't legally ask you to unlock it without a search warrant.
We just need to get rid of all the stupid users. Social Engineering is still the easiest way of hacking into a system. No matter what the sysadmins and IT Security folks do, we can't patch human stupidity.
So all those free-to-play games that sell in game items (advantages) should fall under this also, not just Facebook and Zynga. I love how the patent trolls are coming out of the woodwork as Facebook is going public.
I have to aggre with AC's point of view. Apt business model...I'll sue ya.
I'd have to agree. If I post a home video of my vacation and it just HAPPENS to have some music playing in the background, how long do you think it'll stay up before Sony/BMG/Mafiaa take it down.
This is no different than that. As posted later in this thread, this is why you see all the blurred logos on all the reality TV (crap shows imho). They don't want to pay the license fee to display the logos.
On a side note, If I want to watch reality TV, I'll just look out my window. I can enjoy the view, and I don't have to deal with all the blurred logos!!
Sometimes I wonder what our internet would look like if all we had was propriety software from Novell or Microsoft (or whomever)
If the internet was running on Microsoft software, it would be crashing every few days. Also, every time something was changed or updated, we'd have to reboot the WHOLE internet.
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You ever try getting a signal from a cell tower at 36,000 feet up? If you do end up connecting to a tower, you're moving so fast that by the time you do end up getting a signal, you're out of range. (Last flight I was on, my phone's GPS had me at around 37,000 ft up and traveling around 300mph.) Yes, GPS still works because you're using satellites.
The only thing leaving your cell phone on in an airplane does is drain the battery while it tries to find a cell tower.
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I usually don't disagree on here, but you answered your concern in your post. Umm, the added benefit would be the fact that we can now watch the game at our desk at work.
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This is going to be a good one!!
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Should read "You can't patch stupid."
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And what about us in the Southwest last year???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Southwest_blackout
You forget about us?? All we lost was a few million dollars of perisable foods.
"The outage caused significant losses to restaurants and grocery stores, which were forced to discard quantities of spoiled food; perishable food losses at grocery stores, eating establishments and households were estimated at $12 million to $18 million."
There were no deaths in the "millions" reported. No world ending events. Hell during the 11 hours we didn't have power, I was still on the internet chatting with my buddies on the east coast on my laptop for 3 of those hours while my UPS kept my router and cable modem powered up.
Also, for the AC that posted this:
"Mike the power grid isn't on the "public internet". It's a private network, but the PC that was compromised is on that network. A hacker can attack a network without having direct access to that network through a variety of exploits in web browsers, PDF files, etc..."
ANY computers that have ANYTHING to do with the power grid shouldn't even be able to receive email or browse the web. They're used to control the grid...Not surf the net. If you can get email on a terminal that controls the power grid, THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM!!!
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Oh, and as an added bonus, I get to charge my phone while I'm transferring files!
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Moral of the story...
If your phone is locked with a password, I wonder if that counts as not able to be "searched" similar to if you get pulled over by a cop and he asks you to get out of your car. If you do, lock the door. He can't legally ask you to unlock it without a search warrant.
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I have to aggre with AC's point of view. Apt business model...I'll sue ya.
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They changed their name to ICANT
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Re: Typical legislation sequence
1. Pass draconian law to censor the Internet.
2. Promise to study what to do about the Internet.
3. ...
4. profit!!!
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This is no different than that. As posted later in this thread, this is why you see all the blurred logos on all the reality TV (crap shows imho). They don't want to pay the license fee to display the logos.
On a side note, If I want to watch reality TV, I'll just look out my window. I can enjoy the view, and I don't have to deal with all the blurred logos!!
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If the internet was running on Microsoft software, it would be crashing every few days. Also, every time something was changed or updated, we'd have to reboot the WHOLE internet.
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