{"id":24854,"date":"2011-12-26T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T17:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/kindles-on-a-plane.html"},"modified":"2011-12-26T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T19:30:55","slug":"kindles-on-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/kindles-on-a-plane.html","title":{"rendered":"Kindles on a Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read every single reason why not allowing Kindles on during take-off and landing (passengers paying attention, missiles in an accident, not being able to easily distinguish between harmless Kindles and deadly other devices, etc.), and I <i>still<\/i> resent it. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/12\/26\/report-kindle-produces-nearly.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter'>Report: Kindle produces nearly no electrical interference. FAA: &quot;LALALALALA&quot; &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read every single reason why not allowing Kindles on during take-off and landing (passengers paying attention, missiles in an accident, not being able to easily distinguish between harmless Kindles and deadly other devices, etc.), and I still resent it. #ddtb Embedded Link Report: Kindle produces nearly no electrical interference. FAA: &quot;LALALALALA&quot; &#8211; Boing Boing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,65,26],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-my-mobile-pda","category-travel","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24882,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/kindles-on-a-plane-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":24854,"position":0},"title":"Kindles on a Plane! (Part 2)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Dec-11 7:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Shavers? They allow electric shavers to be operating during takeoff and landing, but not Kindles? All. FAA. Credibility. Blown. #ddtbReshared post from +Wil WheatonRemember when I got pissed that I had to turn my Kindle off for takeoff and landing, because the reasons are constantly changing and aren't based on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39427,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/kindles-on-a-plane-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":24854,"position":1},"title":"Kindles on a Plane!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Oct-13 8:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"The FAA will allow the use of electronics at all times during a flight -- though they'll still restrict the use of cellular\/data signals while the door is closed.So you can keep reading your ebook (or play solitaire, or whatever) during take-off and landing, once airlines certify their fleet is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22854,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/the-new-kindles-look-pretty-spiffy.html","url_meta":{"origin":24854,"position":2},"title":"The new Kindles look pretty spiffy","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Sep-11 11:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I've bought too many Kindles of late to justify running out and buying a new one (sigh). \u00a0But a few thoughts on the flurry of Kindles coming out. Kindle: The newest \"traditional\" Kindle is lighter, thinner, faster, and has no physical keyboard. $80 Kindle Touch: Same form factor as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/new-kindle-family.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/new-kindle-family.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/new-kindle-family.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41767,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/an-increment-of-kindles.html","url_meta":{"origin":24854,"position":3},"title":"An Increment of Kindles","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 20-Apr-14 12:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Why, yes, I dropped my Kindle, \"Number 5 Is Alive,\" on the ground last night. And, yes, something in it broke so that it didn't work any more. And, yes, I have to replace it. And, of course, the replacement won't arrive until I'm on my business trip.Fortunately, I bought\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/patrick-mcgoohan-as-number-65B15D.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":133500,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/laptops-and-tablets-and-kindles-will-keep-flying-in-from-europe-for-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":24854,"position":4},"title":"Laptops and Tablets and Kindles will keep flying in from Europe &#8230; for now","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-May-17 10:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently the airlines seriously balked at blocking any electronic device bigger than a cell phone from being carried onto planes from Europe to the US. The EU wasn't very happy, either, about all this discussion going on without anyone cluing them in on the specific nature of the threat (even\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45361,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/18\/oh-look-a-new-kindle-is-announced.html","url_meta":{"origin":24854,"position":5},"title":"Oh, look! A new Kindle is announced!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Sep-14 10:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"The good news is, Amazon continues to support the Kindle line -- in this case, something a scosh smaller and lighter but with a better screen, etc.The bad news is, I don't have any rational reason for replacing my current Paperwhite with one of the new Voyages.Though given my track\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}