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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 BsAtHome on Saturday December 24 2016, @09:50AM
Face, say hello to Palm. Palm, say hello to Face. I am expecting that at some time people will get flogged again. Justice of the mob; what could possibly go wrong.
There are no people left with humour, apparently. Maybe we should just wait until all those anxiety-infested near-humans die out of heart attacks and high blood pressure. The remaining part may be more inclined to take it easy and present themselves with a smile on their face.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @09:57AM
We want them all mopped up within OUR lifetimes afterall, and ideally while we are still young enough to enjoy the trouble free world that would beget.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by theluggage on Saturday December 24 2016, @11:47AM
Well, part of the fear is that if the crew did just laugh it off and there was a minor fire, their employers, the courts and the media would show even less of a sense of humour.
"Inquest culture" is a huge part of the problem. Anybody who does make the wrong call will be faced with a room full of lawyers getting paid more in an hour than they get paid in a day taking days to pick over the original split-second decision with 20:20 hindsight and a strong incentive to find a scapegoat. The media will, of course, egg on this process.
Anybody seen the mass media report any accurate stats as to the odds of a GN7 going foom vs any other smartphone?
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Saturday December 24 2016, @07:46PM
You underline the premise of the parent post; there is no humour left. When you are fucked if you do and fucked if you don't, then it is time to doubt the system because it no longer allows for flexibility.
There is a difference between inciting X and venting a bad joke. I an not saying that yelling "fire" in a busy room is a responsible or acceptable thing to do. However, bad taste is being misclassified as harmful. When we start to judge based on taste, then we all have lost. The role of the media is often a shameful display and they are complicit in the judgemental treatment of taste. The media's function is not to judge but to present the facts in a sober and balanced way. But, that does not seem to pay the big cars of the owners.
Still, if we accept the status quo, then we will find ourselves in a world we do not want to live in for very long. Silent acceptance or ignorance is a form of self censorship. That is why the title of the post is "fear is powerful".
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:01PM
...Introducing the new Samsung Hot Palm 10!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:45PM
It's all the millennials they hire in TSA and as pilots. Damned millennials are fuck ups.