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- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [IP] more on Maybe cell phones and electronic devices are a risk to planes Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:31:32 -0500 From: Bob Frankston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: 'Dewayne Hendricks' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I couldn't resist send a note to Spectrum: - - - - I'm amazed that the report doesn't cite the aircraft designers for incompetence. If aircraft is so vulnerable to even the weakest signals in an RF-laden world then they are too dangerous to fly. Is a PDA more dangerous than megawatt transmitters on the ground as plans are coming in for a landing? The devices cited are part of our basic technical infrastructure. The effort to find reasons to blame them for problems seems to have a moralistic agenda. If there are problems then they must be addressed by those most at risks - the aircraft. Why are they so vulnerable? If they are then we should ground the complete fleet until they are able to operate in today's world. - - - - Long ago Dewayne Hendricks commented that if planes were so vulnerable then they should be fixed. Why so much attention to what I consider moral threats rather than real threats that do exist? - -----Original Message----- From: Dave Farber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 09:17 To: [email protected] Subject: [IP] more on Maybe cell phones and electronic devices are a risk to planes Study is in the March issue of IEEE Spectrum. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar06/3069 - ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEC13Bh0VyAToQeqERAptcAJ4i2BYgUpvgeI9rlYS+CfHJjcjTQQCfTzJ3 ie8zUlfu9vNL84KhdSCpmjo= =7tdP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
