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please ensure your seat backs and tray tables are in the upright and locked

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position and turn off any handheld electronic

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devices wait a minute what I mean I

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understand why I had to check my paintball gun but is my tiny little

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iPhone really going to bring down a Boeing 787 does it really matter if I'm

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watching the an excellent recent Techquickie episode about fax machines as

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the plane rolls down the tarmac

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well to answer this question we need a little bit of History the United States

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Federal Communication Commission or FCC

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you know the same group of folks at the center of every debate over net

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neutrality banned phone calls on planes

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way back in 1991 when the privileged few that had

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cell phones were carrying around things that looked like

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this this rule was passed over concerns

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that the radio waves emitted from a cell phone could interfere with more

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important radio Transmissions such as Communications between air traffic

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control and Pilots so that your plane can avoid you know little obstacles like

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thunderstorms mountains and other planes

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later on as other types of devices like

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portable audio and video players became more widespread there was further

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concerned that even devices that didn't transmit data over the air could

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interfere with critical airplane Electronics like Positioning Systems and

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to be very clear this was more than the

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type of idle paranoia that you'd find at a typical PTA meeting in fact one

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passenger's handheld DVD player caused an instrument in a cockpit to indicate

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the plane was pointed in the wrong direction in an incident back in

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1999 with that said modern Aviation

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Electronics or avionics resist interference far better

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than they used to and on top of that there's never been any definitive

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evidence linking portable consumer electronics to an actual crash so in

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response to this reality the Federal Aviation Administration relaxed their

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rules about exactly when passengers could use their Gadgets in 2013 and

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since then US flights have been allowed Electronics use throughout the flight

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even below 10,000 ft which was previously banned because takeoff and

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Landing are the most dangerous segments of flight when lots of things need to

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happen with Precision in a particular order for safe departure and arrival but

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the new rule only allows the use of non-transmitting devices so while you

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can use an iPad to watch a movie that you've saved to its local storage you

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can forget about a voice call on a cellular network hence the famous

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airplane mode that stops all transmissions to and from the

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device but why I mean we're living in

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the age of inflight Wi-Fi for crying out loud which you can learn more about here

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and the FCC has even allocated specific

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frequencies to Cellular Connections to reduce the risk of interference with

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flight why are we still told not to make

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a quick call while waiting on an overpriced cocktail from the flight

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attendant well the answer may be as

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simple as the powers that be being fine

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with the rule as it is in April 2017 the

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chairman of the FCC actually rejected a

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proposal to allow cell phone calls on flights because he this is a quote

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valued a moment of quiet at 30,000 ft

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with the press release not saying a single word about actual safety and in

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Europe passengers are allowed to use their cellular data it's just calls that

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are banned to avoid annoying other passengers and I guess there are also

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those who further speculate that this could be a case of government Regulators

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cozying up to companies who want to charge people for inflight communication

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Services we're not going to get too deep into how true that may or may not be but

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now that I think about it with the way I get nickel and dimed by the airlines

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these days it wouldn't surprise me that much if that were

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true although with that said it wouldn't surprise me that much to see a credit

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card reader on the lavatory door at some point so speaking of getting nickel and

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dimed Synergy doesn't do that Synergy is a software download that solves the

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problem of having two keyboards and two mice on your desk at the same time

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forget that stuff just install Synergy on all your computers and share one

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Mouse and one keyboard between two or more so you'll no longer confuse CH

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which one goes with which they offer a basic and a pro option with a one-time

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payment for Lifetime access features include things like clipboard sharing

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between computers dragging and dropping files between computers the ability to

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set up hotkeys and even the ability to share your peripherals between different

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operating systems seriously you can have like a Windows a Mac and a Linux PC and

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you just move your mouse across them it's like freaking magic so if you want

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to try out Synergy and save some money check out the link in the video

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description now so thanks for watching

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