On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Also use of computer in planes is discouraged and prohibited during landfall > and takeoff, as it interfer with the onboard radio equipement ... This is a fiction perpetrated by flight attendants because many of them are too dumb to tell the difference between electronic devices that may generate significant EMF at 108MHz or a little above and ones that don't. Hint: if it's got an FCC sticker on it, it's okay. The FCC is so ubelievably anal about radio transmissions, nothing they license could come close to interfering with a receiver even 10 feet away. But the airlines don't expect flight attendants to comprehend such things and don't have to, since their passengers don't raise enough fuss to get the policy changed. As portable computing devices become ever more ubiquitous, this may change. -- G. Branden Robinson | The only way to get rid of a temptation Debian GNU/Linux | is to yield to it. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Oscar Wilde cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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