My 05 Sonata isn't like that. It has the factory alarm... if you use the fob, you must use the fob to disarm, otherwise you will set it off and it will kill the ignition. You have to let it calm down and then pull a couple of fuses to get it to start.

If you can't wait 15 minutes to reach 10k feet, then you have bigger issues. Nobody said you couldn't use your stuff after 10k. So, your argument is invalid.

Second off, It's not just YOUR device that will bring down the plane. A combination of everyone's devices, of varying quality and quantity, in such a small area, that could cause a problem.

Want to fund it? Didn't think so? Here's the deal, there are millions of devices in the world, each a little different. While your iPad may be perfectly fine, iPawd the original authentic chinese knockoff might not.... or Rev A of the board is fine, but Rev B puts out massive interference.

It's simply uneconomical and a huge task to test everything. So, instead, for ten minutes taking off or landing, you can't play angry birds. Perfect solution.

that's why when you know what you buy -- I have never seen ground beef just called "Beef". it's called "73/27, 80/20, 90/10" to make sure people know EXACTLY what they are getting. Plus, nobody here is complaining about a 1-2% difference, the OP is talking about a 20-30% difference

Where they perchance prior Agents for Geek Squad?

Considering Milwaukee took 45 minutes for a guy walking around an apartment complex shooting off a pistol... I completely understand where you're coming from.

Brookfield Spa anyone? You should have seen how quickly they had Brown Deer locked down after they found out where the guy was from.

The difference here is that Weird Al is selling his satirical works. He profits off of them. If Weird Al decided to remake a song and release it as a freebie... I could *possibly* see him not paying and claiming it as a satirical work. I'm sure he'd just pay it anyway as a courtesy and not have to deal with the courts too when he pisses the wrong person off.

I doubt that the baby made any money for the family. There lies the major fundamental difference.

Considering hundreds of thousands of cars make it through an iPASS system in Illinois... the delay wouldn't be so bad.

Let's put it this way, iPass reads the transponder, checks the balance, and then flashes a light notifying you of the result in less than a second. The speed limit through those lanes are normally 15 mph but can get as high as 35 and they still read perfectly. The open road tolling doesn't notify you via light but there are plenty of stations still out there that have the light.

The system has to be designed intelligently.... it can be done!

then in that case, we need more details. Where.... What's the population? How big is the department? What is their budget? What are they looking to accomplish?

Sorry, but the statement of "When it comes up to a hotspot".... reads to me as "Whenever we can find someones unsecured wifi for our taxi or my car" versus actual EM duties.

Well, way back when it was a parameter called ACCLOC, which determined the priority of traffic. Cellular networks has "Wireless Priority" http://wps.ncs.gov/carriers.html to ensure that emergency services rise above the noise.

While ambitious, this is the wrong path to go down. Great for hobbyists, but is NOT what emergency services needs. Emergency services needs reliability. If your department can't afford a few mobile broadband units, you should seriously look into throwing a couple more raffles or asking for more money from the city/county/township/state.

They put those gates up because they want to be able to shut the highway down when some FIB decides that 90 was a great speed and rolls his lexus eight times over and causes a semi to jack knife and roll.

In my neck of the woods, the only thing that's automatic about these gates are the lights. You still have to dispatch an officer to the gate to crank it down. Once its down, the officer can relieve himself to do other tasks if the closure is going to be long-term. The alternative is to keep an expensive officer posted at every on-ramp to prevent people from getting on the highway compounding the issue.

Most overrides I've seen nowadays have a visible feedback showing that it's activated. Additionally, they have been activating to all-directions-all-red so that the emergency vehicles may just go in the opposite lane to get around. So, other than snarling traffic for a bit, nothing major.

Hooray! We're all doomed... DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED.

Wait, what does the WiDOT have that's SCADA that would end the world? I think the worst that would happen is that the times on the billboards above 41 would be wrong... or warn us of zombies ahead.

oh, so like the Bank of eBay.... PayPal?