It doesn't say they got arrested, but apparently the person in question didn't turn off the Bluetooth device when asked to. Ignoring or disobeying the instructions of flight attendants is a federal offense.

There were movies but they weren't very good.

From the 1700s, Magic lanterns had moving parts, and there were magic lantern shows.

The Phenakistoscope was a kind of simple movie, and was projected on a stage by the mid 1800s.

The Zoopraxiscope was used with a projector from 1880 in public lectures. It is of interest because it used actual photographs.

The Kinetoscope was a little later, by 1892.

If your company relies on "oral tradition" to maintain documentation, then your company may not survive with or without AI.

"Oral tradition" is the engineering process of knowledge being lost. That is to say it's not engineering.

Maybe he should have made a backup earlier.

True, although if someone was stupid enough to do such a thing, because people are dumb, me included, tracking the device should have been easy.

This sounds like someone made minute, non-revolutionary advances on standard de-salination and described it as if they were the first person to invent evaporative desalination. People have been doing sun powered desalination for thousands of years.

At small scales.

At large scales, desalination plants use reverse osmosis, which pretty much inherently creates a brine that is released back into the environment. You're not "moving the salt" to any useful industrial process, since it's still rather dilute.

At best, some of those plants use solar power to drive the RO process. But we'd much rather have the electricity to power other things, so a process that uses a non-semiconducting metal surface to perform solar-powered evaporative distillation, without a need to dispose of a brine, and without relying upon solar-electric generation and conversion, is a bigger deal than you make it out to be.

Yep, and I understand why they turned around, but it shouldn't have been hard to determine the root cause of the issue.

Do I think planes should have radio sniffing equipment? Yes, absolutely. The idiotic name of the speaker, and the passenger dumb enough to take it on board, are guilty, that's without argument. However, that being true, it's not difficult to figure out what's broadcasting, and all the annoyance could have been avoided, and that's really a bigger issue.

If you can't, fair enough, I didn't know that.

All caps yelling and name calling tells me all I need to know about you.

The name is irrelevant, granted, no one should call a BT device "BOMB" on an airplane. You can capture the packets, and determine what the device is, which would quickly resolve the concern. The real issue, as I see it, why didn't they do that before overreacting? They could have determined the BT device, found where it is, and determined why it was called "BOMB", then deal with it.

In 2026, are planes not equipped to determine wireless devices? It would seem nearly essential to capture the air traffic in the plane, if an accident was to happen, shouldn't you know what was going on in terms of possible radio frequency interference?

> Open source does need to embrace AI coding otherwise it will become irrelevant

No, I don't think so. A well-crafted program that works is so rare that if you can make one, it will stand out. One does not need AI to do so.

It's like photography. We've got all these tools in photography to remove noise that use machine learning and...one thing I've noticed is that the frequency of beautiful photos hasn't gone up, at all. Just the frequency of average, mediocre photos with less noise.

One does not need AI to reach the heights of something truly useful.

They've said they'd never do another GTA London because you can't find good weapons like you can find anywhere in the US. Also, I think they figured out that satirizing American culture is more widely accessible worldwide than British culture.

It might be a wonderful film. But relating to what I said, I'm not going to see it.

The critic/fans I follow. were liking Mandalorian 1 Didn't like the book of Boba Fett, and were mixed on Ahsoka, a number said it was walking, walking, walking, and thought Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka was okay except that the fight scenes seemed too choreographed and slow. I know a lot of Fans were looking forward to Ahsoka were looking forward to that adaptation, since there wouldn't be sex or race swapping, Which when a person knows the story, it would be admittedly annoying to have, say Stephen Colbert cast as Ahsoka.

If fans ruin any thing that is actually good, perhaps the SW and Trek universes should go away. And don't forget Tolkien's army of fans, some who have dedicated their academic lives to the study of his writings. Some people say the Tolkien scholar who quit on the Amazon LOTR prequel, saying that they were not respecting the material was toxic.

Andor seems to be an exception, but Acolyte was actually a decent idea, and Last Jedi was probably the only hope the franchise had of moving forward.

I've noted in here that I could have written a good SW version of "The Acolyte" using the premise of lesbian space witches. What was provided was pretty dull stuff.

I will note that you apparently believe that fans of SW and ST want to have something they loved torn down and destroyed. I think that is odd.

Wrath of Kahn has some things that a lot of modern movies don't have. A good story line, the main characters are aging, but that process is incorporated into the story line, not put there to "subvert expectations". By the time WoK came out, a lot of the 60's fans were going through a bit go aging on their own. It had a conflict, a historical one to boot, as the aging enemies fought one another, Kahn with his incredible intelligence, Kirk with his experience.

And here is something most people overlook. Lighting and sound. Even back in the original ST, they understood lighting. In some of the new stuff, they appear to be stuck in dramatic mode.

Audio - this is a problem with movies in general today. Sound effects way too intense. Foley artists appear to rule the studio. And the dynamic range thing, they are intent at having a conversation almost at the threshold of hearing, followed by an incredibly loud sound. I cannot watch movies with sound in the evening after my wife has gone to bed. I have to put on closed captioning.