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Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System 322

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @12:27AM from the stress-testing dept.

rabblerouzer writes "Hugh Thompson, who was interviewed by Slashdot on the dangers of e-voting, now has a cool blog entry on how he was able to bring down the gaming/movie console on an airplane. He calls it one of the most interesting examples of a software 'abuse case' he has ever seen." Fortunately the IFE system is totally disjoint from the avionics.

Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M 557

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @04:11AM from the can-you-say-extortion dept.

evw writes "The NYTimes reports that the Turner Broadcasting System and the ad agency responsible have reached a $2M settlement with the city of Boston and state and federal agencies that treated the light boards placed around the city as an act of terrorism (as covered earlier on /.) Half of the money is to cover direct costs associated with the response. The other $1M goes to 'goodwill funds' that will be used for response training and public outreach."

Comment Re:Blame Windows (Score 1, Interesting) 286

by heletek on Friday January 13, 2006 @04:30AM (#14461824) Attached to: Computers Top BBC List of Stress Producers

No. I expect my computer to be stable, not to crash every few hours, so I don't save every 15 minutes. I do not think this is an unreasonable expectation. This is a typical windows mentality, where one expects the machine to go down at any moment. And no, I'm not flaming, I said one expects, not does.

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