I guess this is why Qantas never crashed.
Life today is so filled with menace! If youâre not terrified of everything then you just arenât a serious person. Some day somebody might say, âI told you so.â
And the captain was okay with Boingo and Gogo, even though their rates are threatening to your wallet?
Next up: a network named âThis Is Not A Detonation Deviceâ.
easy solution: just open a network called âair marshalâ or âbomb squadâ and everyone on bord is safe - a cyber threat can only be fought by more cyber!
Fuck my world. Iâm going to go sleep for a week and see if it gets better. Talk with you all later.
Donât worry, They are keeping tabs on that guy as I can see there is a âFBI Surveillance Vanâ nearby.
Iâve had a hotspot on my Android phone named âBomb detonator 42â for 3 yearsâŚ
It more because their native country has very little weather or terrain. Our QNH hardly ever changes. Rain is comparatively rare. International flights are almost all long haul, so the dangerous parts of the flight (landing and take off) occupy only a a mall part of the time in the air.
But I still reckon Qantas lost 20% of a 747 flying between Japan and the Philippines a few years ago. That exploding gas tank could easily have put a hole in the center fuel tank. Luck has been in their side.
Thatâs so very Australian. I have to say, if wifi networks & smartphones were a thing when I was 19, I probably would have named mine something similar.
My hotspot âtotally not a bombâ should be fine then
but the nearby WLAN âitâs a trapâ has a much better signal quality
Iâd love to know the internal monologue of the person responsible, assuming it wasnât entirely accidental.
Iâm guessing it whipsawed between âgoddammit Iâm going to miss my connectionâ and âoh shit Iâm going to get arrestedâ before ending up on âI bet Iâm probably a hero, better check the internets to see how itâs playing out.â
(Hi there, fella!)
The genuine risk that arises from the ambient âzOMG Terrorists!!!â is when The Authorities(sometimes even with an overbroad, vague, badly worded law to back them up); start with the âyour absurdly harmless whatever is, despite its harmlessness, a âhoax deviceâ or similar class of nefarious and illegal thing, as proven by the fact that someone freaked out about it. It doesnât matter whether or not that was a foolish overreaction by a hysterical moron, if it scared somebody, itâs a terrorist device.â line of inquiry and sometimes prosecution.
See the Boston Mooninite Terror, the MIT kid nefariously possessing LEDs at an airport, the middle schooler who possessed a disassembled clock with exposed circuit boards while muslin, etc.
Thatâs where things go from âthis is just sillyâ to âactually dangerousâ courtesy of our own allegedly-security-forces.
Doing maths is also not allowed.
I couldnât worry about that one, since detonatorsâ 1-41 were so ineffective that they didnât make the news.
Then again, hijacking jokes have been off-limits much longer than the current theatrics. I can remember the topic at least discussed back in the 70s, when hijacking was all the rage. In fact, it was so frequent at one point, journalists invented the word âskyjacking,â because journalists are adorable.
In the 70âs it was usually Cubans that came here and decided that Cuban socialism wasnât such a bad deal in comparison and wanted to go back.
O.M.G., that was both funny and horrifying. This is the biggest argument as to why students need to have exposure to higher level math.
