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 Friday, July 12, 2002
started 7/12/2002; 1:05:14 AM - last post 7/13/2002; 10:33:50 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, July 12, 2002 
7/12/2002; 5:05:14 AM (reads: 7033, responses: 3)
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We all have his love. Let's send some back. 
| | Marek was drugged and said he hopes it's not cancer. His dad died last September of stomache cancer. Marek didn't like his dad. The doctor asked Marek what his father died of. Marek said cancer. The doctor asked where. I said Poland. You can count on me to be funny. Especially when I'm scared. |
| | For those of you who don't know, Marek is the most lovable blogger on the whole fucking 'sphere. A sweet, irreverent and very funny man. Also as full of life and love as they come — and Marek has come through a lot. |
| | You get a hint of it from this post last February about his friend Chris Gueffroy, the last person killed trying to get over the Berlin wall. Marek made it, Chris didn't. You have to look pretty hard (as I just did) to find Marek's story about himself, but it's worth the effort. Here it is. |
| | Some characters are born, others are made. Marek Jastrzebski is both. |
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| | Following up on yesterday's post about wi-fi on airplanes, readers are telling me two things: 1) laptop-lugging business customers are such a core market for the airlines that a ban on laptops is pretty much inconceivable, regardless of security concerns (and there are real ones that informed paranoids will be glad to tell you); and 2) the technology to provide Internet access is already there, thanks to Boeing's Connexion. |
| | [Later...] On the other hand, there is interesting reading to be had under "Passenger Electronic Devices" at this URL here. |
| | Also, Bubba makes some good points about why cell phone companies don't want you talking from planes. A broadcast engineer once put it to me this way: "When you're eight miles above fifty cells, you yank too many chains at the same time." |
| | And I just got an email from another reader who suggests metalizing airplane windows (presumably this would leave the windows clear). In effect this would turn cabins into Faraday cages, and protect exterior antennas from unwelcome passenger-generated interference. |
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Peter Kovacs - Transmitters in Planes
7/12/2002; 11:09:32 AM (reads: 621, responses: 1)
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I might be (and probably am) wrong, but I thought the justification of outlawing transmitters in planes is that the EM radiation has the potential to induce currents in nearby coiled wires. Since so much of the wiring in a plane exists possibly only inches away from a cell-phone using passenger, its just not a risk the airline is willing to take.
Bubba's idea does have some merit, but if that were true, wouldn't you see some airlines screwing cell-phone companies and allowing the convenience of using cellphones in their planes?
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Bubba - Re: Transmitters in Planes
7/12/2002; 8:38:18 PM (reads: 798, responses: 0)
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Then how do they get away with letting you use the phone on the plane for 3 bucks a minute (and why do they charge so much anyway?)? It's obviously wireless. My main point is that the ship to shore wouldn't sink a cruise boat, and I doubt it would crash any planes.
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marek j - from Marek
7/14/2002; 2:33:50 AM (reads: 744, responses: 0)
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Doc, Thanks. That was beautiful. I got to straighten something here. I didn't know Chris Gueffory, he was my age of course and the unfortunate shooting happened when he and his other buddy tried to escape from East Berlin. On that night I was still in Poland, Warsaw trying to scheme my way out. When the shooting happened it shook my pretty bad. I think this was the day I decided that I will definitely get out to the West or to America or New Zealand or wherever. So I just wanted to let you know that I adopted Chris as sort of a blood brother because he had the courage to be so unreasonable as to want to be free even if it ment getting killed. Whenever I get scared I think of Chris Gueffroy. Nothing can touch me now. Some people have Jesus Christ. I prefer Chris Gueffroy, he is less popular and noone has started a war over him yet.
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