An American flight was delayed due to a passenger changing the SSID of a device to "Samsung Galaxy Note 7_1097":
Lucas Wojciechowski was on Virgin America flight 358 from San Francisco to Boston and told BBC News he photographed the hotspot after noticing it when he opened his laptop. A call went out for any passenger with a Note 7 to press their call button. Mr. Wojciechowski subsequently tweeted the crew's announcements from the late night flight after the pilot warned passengers they would have to make an emergency landing.
"This isn't a joke. We're going to turn on the lights (it's 11pm) and search everyone's bag until we find it. "This is the captain speaking. Apparently the plane is going to have to get diverted and searched if nobody fesses up soon." The owner came forward confessing there was no Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on board, but they had changed the name of their SSID wireless device to 'Samsung Galaxy Note 7_1097.'
The real world is funnier than any joke.
(Score: 2) by Valkor on Saturday December 24 2016, @09:43AM
On a scale of one to fuckall nothing just how dangerous is that thing versus a fucking airplane? If a single battery pack is that dangerous then why aren't they all required to be transported in a safe container?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Saturday December 24 2016, @10:07AM
They are, over a certain size.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday December 24 2016, @08:06PM
People are very bad at estimating risk. If this were a long flight over the ocean, the care *might* be reasonable. (Still probably not.) As it is, it's a poor allocation of resources based on fear levels caused by reporting an uncommon event at a world wide level. If they reported people choking on glasses of water this widely, nobody would drink water.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.