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[0] https://www.errorinstruments.com/a-51153210/new-synthe-noise...
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The medical intercom jack is often in the middle of the cabin (on equipped aircraft). Flight attendants can plug in an aviation headset with a very, very long cord, and the pilots patch it into one of the radios in the cockpit. This allows the flight attendants to talk to a doctor on the ground while they're physically next to a passenger's seat.
> Flight attendants can plug in an aviation headset with a very, very long cord... This allows the flight attendants to talk to a doctor on the ground while they're physically next to a passenger's seat. That is pretty damn cool.
We're a little more professional and we actually test stuff properly these days, so maybe it isn't that.
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A new social media marketing strategy?
Marketing? "Come fly our planes and experience the PA ghost?" I feel like that would only target a very small percentage of potential customers.
https://mediashower.com/blog/how-clowns-did-the-heavy-liftin...
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Why not the alien soul crystals that enable flight trying to break free?
I'm glad you brought that up because (no joke) nobody can actually explain how aerodynamic lift works, much less how a plane can fly upside down: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...
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Reminds me of when a security researcher discovered that, in addition to some serious security flaws, certain Siemens PLCs had monkeys hidden in their firmware: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/08/serio... According to the researcher who found it, "they didn’t think it was very funny.” I love easter eggs myself—classic Apple software in particular had a lot of these, and I really miss finding them—…
I looked up the story behind the "Bluets and Granola Bars" easter egg. Apparently, the System Error Handler, part of the boot ROM, used to display a popup that said "Welcome to Macintosh" at startup, before the operating system loaded. However, in System 7.6, this was replaced by a new splash screen with the Mac OS logo, and the old "Welcome to Macintosh" message in the system resource file was replaced with the Gran…
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I've flown American six times in the last ten days, and four of the flights had chaos with the entertainment system. No groans or heavy breathing on the PA, but flight attendants had to "reboot the system" once or twice every flight.
I once captured the Linux boot screen of a United Boeing 737 infotainment system. Apparently I still got that photo. OCRed text for lols: video capture buffer0 40b37460 video capture buffer1 40a8dd60 wideo_capture buffer2 409e4610 geode_: gamma black+csccorrection VAL2: Registered "NSC Geode V4LZ UBI driver" as char device B1, 224 VAL2: Registered "NSC Geode V4L2 Capture driver" as char device 81, geode_v: Unknown st…
Also elsewhere in the boot, you might notice they tend to be 80486 CPU emulation boards from Cyrix. They're not fast at all, but for what they do, they don't need to be.
Also, if you took video instead of a pic, there are a few interesting IP addresses might scroll by as the media program gets initialized.
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I've flown American six times in the last ten days, and four of the flights had chaos with the entertainment system. No groans or heavy breathing on the PA, but flight attendants had to "reboot the system" once or twice every flight.
They might be doing that out of caution just to keep it from being exploited. Sounds like something management or the Flight Crew might decide is a band aid if one tries it and it works then everybody starts doing it. Knee jerk reaction but sounds like they’re stumped.
I've seen it often, and somewhere on an old PeeCee buried in the darkest areas of my home office, I have a video of the whole sequence.
They should be able to run these sounds through the same software to see if it properly emulates a throat and mouth or not.
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Plugging in a Bluetooth transmitter into a user-accessible port and using the system as intended is "hacking" now? Sure, passengers weren't intended to use that port, but from a system perspective the system is being used as intended with no interference or exploitation. I'm not sure this system can even be "hacked" short of disassembling parts of the plane and tapping into the communications wiring.
Legally speaking in the US “hack” generally means using any computer system you weren’t given access to. So yes this is legally a hack in the way it’s used by the media, it’s also a hack of in the normal since of the word regardless.
Law enforcement use phrases like "unlawful access to a protected system" and whatnot.