The Gogo network may be cellular, but their network is designed to hit a target flying 500 miles per hour at 39,000 feet. Plus, the base station on the aircraft concentrates the traffic, which means there's one air-to-ground link per plane, rather than per handset as would be the case of someone using an unauthorized cell phone inflight today.

It's also not true that all the existing inflight data links are cellular. Southwest uses Row 44, which provides a satellite based solution. JetBlue is planning to launch, if it hasn't already, a satellite-based system with ViaSat.

There are other, older, slower options for inflight data access that are satellite based, but we're talking about dialup speeds here.

Correct, Hawaii does not observe DST. The state is so far south that the length of the day does not very as much during the year as it does in other parts of the US.

And virtually nobody has secure communication between email providers. So there's a good chance that at some point along the line, your email is being transmitted across the Internet in the clear. Secure IMAP/POP/SMTP is good for protecting your authentication credentials (password), but if you want to protect the contents of your email, you need an end-to-end solution like PGP or S/MIME.

Microsoft didn't come up with the idea of a WYSIWYG text editor. I don't know who was first, but I know Apple's MacWrite in 1984 only had one view of the document, and it was like what Word calls "Print Layout".

Kansas City didn't exactly work as a hub for a smaller airline either.

...and the computer it was in cost $10,000.00.

Or, you can use Safari. I have both an iPad 3 and an iPhone, and find that site-specific apps are far less necessary on the iPad, since the screen is big enough that most sites work reasonably well. As to whether that is the case with Flickr site specifically, I'm not sure.

Fight this, no doubt. But if it happens, I'm not sure that companies like Google and Facebook moving out of state would be enough. Since the proposal appears to (based on the summary) apply to California customers, they'd actually have to stop doing business with residents of the state. Seeing as California tends to be the leader on these things, it's probably in their long term interest just to set up the systems necessary to comply.

Not unusual for Concorde, which would float up during transatlantic cruise starting around 45,000 feet up to its service ceiling of 60,000 feet. But most other civilian airliners top out in the low 40,000s; I think a few bizjets may get a bit higher:

• 757: 42,000
• 737NG: 41,000
• A320: 39,000
• A330: 41,100

AT&T still uses Yahoo to handle their email. att.net email addresses use Yahoo servers. The webmail interface is a rebranded version of Yahoo webmail. I was able to combine it with my already existing Yahoo account (though I never used that email address for anything either), so both the yahoo.com and att.net addresses I have point to the same inbox, and I can interchangeably use my Yahoo or att.net ID to log in to various Yahoo services.

Interestingly, when I lived in an area where Qwest (now CenturyLink) was the local telco and I had their DSL service, it was cobranded with MSN. So the email address i got from them was msn.com, not qwest.net. And there's a funny thing about MSN; when you leave, you can keep the email address as it's really just a Hotmail (or whatever they want to call it these days) address with a different domain. So I still have (and still don't really use) that msn.com email address. This is not just for the DSL customers either; I had a relative I helped switch from MSN dialup to what was then SBC (now AT&T) DSL, and they were able to keep their msn.com email address as well.

If you don't want to do the fingerprint scanning thing, you're going to the wrong Disney park. Disneyland in California doesn't have them.

I think you're trying too hard. All you have to do is replace the site with a Flash applet. Or for extra awesomeness, use Java instead. Now the only functional hyperlinks will be to the main page that loads the applet, which will load their content cover page, and all article content is accessed there, within the applet. Plus since the content won't be searchable, the won't have to worry about Google and friends providing links directly to their site.

Or they can just do what brain-dead mobile site developers do and redirect all incoming links that don't have a referrer of their own site back to the home page.

I haven't heard this reason before, and if you think about it, dedicated freighters don't have passenger windows at all for light to escape through.

One explanation that I have heard is that having the shades open provides better situational awareness during the critical landing and takeoff phases of fight. Suppose the port side engine catches fire. With the shades open, people will see this and the flight attendants will know to direct passengers to evacuate using the starboard side exits only.

Your airplane contained a microcell and wifi base station. This reduces the transmitter power concerns because the mobile unit is able to reduce power because it's close to the base station. It also resolves the problem of a phone being present in many ground cells at once, since the mobile unit instead connects to the aircraft-based cell.

The most popular provider of inflight wifi in the US is Gogo, which uses a ground-based network of CDMA transmitters to link the aircraft's wifi base station with the Internet.

The article doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. They acknowledge the 5GB cap on current plans, then assume that same throttling cap will apply to the new plan as well. Then they state that because you can't tether, it's virtually impossible to hit 5GB anyway.