Shutting down your gadgets at takeoff and landing: good idea

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Gutenberg
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Shutting down your gadgets at takeoff and landing: good idea

Post by Gutenberg » Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:06 pm

Shutting down your gadgets at takeoff and landing: not such a bad idea

Bowing to pressure from travelers, the FAA has decided to "revisit" the de facto ban on the use of gadgets during take-off and landing. Depending on the outcome of this re-examination of the rules, the future may well allow us to remain glued to our screens for an extra fifteen minutes at each end of a flight. But is this really a future we should be welcoming?
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... anding.ars

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