I bet he's off to finally build a beowulf cluster...

New devices that will use a new form of radiation perhaps? Radio will not be changing anytime soon. And the airlines and manufacturers can then start working with the knowledge gained to mitigate the problem if there is one. If not, the world is better for the knowledge gained.

Are you sure you should be reading this site? I'm responding to this on my tablet while taking a dump, what's the difference? (Ok I'm not, but it wouldn't be the first time...)

I have no reasonable response to that, it is true.

There's a difference between "society" paying for things, and the airline industry performing due diligence. It isn't the airline industry's business or responsibility to cure cancer or worry about auto safety. It is, however, exactly their business to ensure flight safety, especially for any circumstances that they know will happen thousands of times daily . If something may cause a problem on a flight, especially when there is "anecdotal evidence" for it, they have to know, if only as a responsibility to their shareholders. Plane goes down, they get sued, no matter the cause short of being shot down.

It's not the mild inconvenience that's the problem, it's the people that either forget or refuse to turn theirs off. Out of the 75 people I mentioned per flight, 1 in 75 is a fair (and again, I think, conservative) guess at how many will forget or refuse. That's 1 per flight, 28,000 times a day.

Come to think of it, isn't that anecdotal evidence in itself that there is likely no problem?

Seriously? The number that a casual Google search shows is about 28,000 commercial flights a day. Multiply that by a conservative 75 people a flight and you get at least 2,100,000 people taking a flight per day, just in the US . You think that doesn't warrant an all-out investigation to resolve the questions involved in a methodical and scientific manner, regardless of the cost?

Perhaps the airlines are more interested in monetizing the use of said devices and the studies would possibly show something different than they might want. I have a hard time believing the major airplane vendors have not already done extensive lab and real-world testing on this, at their lawyers insistence.

They are the Tacoma Narrows bridge of the IT security world now. They will be the textbook case example of the generations of students, with the entire repertoire of what not to do every step of the way, especially the one about not pissing-off a malevolent, anonymous mass.

It isn't always the regular staff that are against moving up from IE6. I have a situation where one business we work with is still on IE6, and the IT staff are the ones against changing it. They have the "If it seems to work don't fix it" mentality about it, and trying to convince them that it is the source of a problem is like banging my head against a wall...

That is questionable. I believe the original case that determined that was overturned on appeal.

The CCRA and the various other artists groups maintain that the levy is solely for format shifting. This personally blows me away that they would claim this, and expect a person to buy a copy for each device you want to use the media on.

If only that were the case. In reality, we will get screwed by the conservatives who will either 1. Implement ACTA, saying they have no choice, or 2. Come up with another terrible set of laws, complete with DMCA style anti-circumvention, and probably little or no fair use, saying it's based on their consultations with Canadians. This new law (or ACTA implementation) will of course negate all previous laws.

I gotta call bullshit on this one. As stated earlier, it's specifically his job to know this. He is writing a law that he knows will erode personal rights of privacy, and also knows the backlash that is possible. If he is not fully aware that he has "enhanced" the story, then he has no business writing the law in the first place.

Conservative christians are doing just fine at reinforcing that stereotype by themselves. Oklahoma-Morality-Proclamation-blames-gays-porn-abortion-for-economic-woe

I know, but he was a disgruntled employee with inside access, and didn't have to go through normal security, so I'm didn't count that.

I knew I should have tossed in a disclaimer for that one.

The last flight hijacked that originated in the US before 9/11 was in 1976. What does that say about how they were doing their before 9/11? As we found out, it says absolutely nothing.

Or you volunteer, and be the one to get the placebo.

Not foolproof, but see this: Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved.

I would think that the new pictures would be some of the most closely scrutinized in history. A lot of people on both sides would want to authenticate or discredit them.

No, because if NASA does it, we would then need to wait for another nation to land people there to see if the equipment is made of foam and plywood.