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Why would anyone connect the entertainment systems to the flight controls? Bad design, I'd say.
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Exactly what I was thinking!
Perhaps someone accidentally connected the red wire to the blue wire? 
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Boeing issued a statement saying they do isolate the systems.
"[Boeing said] IFE systems on commercial airplanes are isolated from flight and navigation systems.
"While these systems receive position data and have communication links, the design isolates them from the other systems on airplanes performing critical and essential functions," Boeing said in a statement provided by spokesman Doug Adler."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/17/hacker-sideways-chris-roberts-fbi-united/27492409/
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He "wiggled and squeezed" the box under the seat??? From the IFE he was able to hack into the main computer system? I suppose it's possible.
Marc
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When it first published I thought he's a simple idiot - now I know he's a total mental case!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Mental cases cause mental tension to the others 
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Well at least he's a 'mental case' with a big mouth.
Imagine if he did not have a big mouth, that could be much more of a concern.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I'm a mental case. This fellow is a fool. For which there is no known treatment.
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That's a variation on the hacks at Target and other places that used the same network for the cash registers and HVAC equipment.
They hacked into the HVAC company which had low (to no) security and rode it into access to the cash registers/credit card scanners.
Being cheap to a fault.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Wasn't this in the news months ago?
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yup - and that's really sad - heck, I can remember playing 'splits' with knives when we were kids, but we never played with guns (with my cousins on various farms)
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And I think that highlights the problem. When I was a kid we were taught about risk and consequences the hard way, but today kids are overprotected by parents to the extent they never learn any risk and consequences lesions. When they turn to become teenagers and given something potentially dangerous ( cars etc) they are ignorant about spotting risks and dangers.
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While I happily agree with you in general, in this case it's pure and utter stupidity. What kind of education do you need to know at the age of 19 that a bullet that you put into a gun will fire eventually?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I feel no pleasure in, find no humor in, reading about a 19 year-old person who may die or have permanent neurological damage.
Even if the person is a budding criminal (he's in the driver's seat of a car with his mates with an unregistered, loaded, hand-gun ... near a shopping center ... doesn't exactly sound "innocent"), I wish him all the best.
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«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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I sorry to have offended you Bill - at least that's how I interpret what you've written - I find no pleasure or humour in his or his family's pain either, although I guess that's not evident by my responding 'yup' to the comment about him being a candidate for a Darwin Award - my 'yup' really indicates that its tragic 
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Hopefully he dies soon before costing taxpayers even more money for his stupidity.
Marc
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After a bullet to the temple there will only to stupid left in his brain
modified 16-May-15 22:22pm.
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I suspect there was little but stupid in there to start with.
It's possible he shot the stupid bits and will end up brighter? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I fear he probably got rid of both the bright and stupid. Just the vegetables left!
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So he'll do fine asking questions in QA then?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Plus as a bonus we can get him to answer some of the strange Q as well
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Well.. if he survives shooting himself in the temple....
He is clearly NOT an award nominee!
I mean, common, who can survive that?! 
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To quote the article:
"His three passengers all claim the teenager was playing the lethal game and it went horribly wrong when the single bullet in the gun fired on the first pull of the trigger."
Statistical probability does not play the game of 'right' or 'wrong', the moron had a 16.6% chance of shooting himself and after weighing up the probability he obviously decided that a 16.6% chance of blowing his brains out was a risk worth taking.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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