Israel launches anti-hijack pilot ID system

[raptor10]

Security Tokens for all authorized pilots... interesting

http://www.reuters.com/article/tech...21?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

 

[HH-60H]

I know I am a bit picky, but next time would you mind linking to the first page in the article?

Interesting stuff though....

 

[FLYTPAY]

I know I am a bit picky, but next time would you mind linking to the first page in the article?

This has hinge written all over it......I feel bad for the PAO who has to work for you some day

 

[raptor10]

Link has been updated... I'm running the Firefox 3 beta, and so far it's been glitchy but with lots of cool features... and I will chock that up to one of the glitches because I am infallible...

 

[A4sForever]

Link has been updated... I'm running the Firefox 3 beta, and so far it's been glitchy but with lots of cool features...

If you want airline security ... stay at the El Al flight crew layover hotels. Top security. Period.

For the rest of it --- how do you like Firefox 3 ??? I looked at a couple of reviews ... I'm not sure it's ready "for me". Does it kill Firefox 2 when you install it or can you run them side-by-side in two browser windows for comparison??? I suspect I know the answer to that one .... but:

 

[MasterBates]

I have 2 and 3 installed but I am running Linux so I have a bit more power over what installs and what does not.

Trying 3, but prefer 2. 3 Crashes in chat a lot.

 

[HH-60H]

That's a period not a decimal.

 

[A4sForever]

That's a period not a decimal.

Roger that. Reading comprehension. That's why I deleted my post. Period.

 

[HH-60H]

That's why I deleted my post.

Obviously not fast enough

 

[raptor10]

If you want airline security ... stay at the El Al flight crew layover hotels. Top security. Period.

For the rest of it --- how do you like Firefox 3 ??? I looked at a couple of reviews ... I'm not sure it's ready "for me". Does it kill Firefox 2 when you install it or can you run them side-by-side in two browser windows for comparison??? I suspect I know the answer to that one .... but:

Don't get it just yet, as although it is more stable than the firefox 2 that I was running, it has a lot of glitches such as

• Not being able to bookmark - for some reason it doesn't recognize it when you click on "bookmark this page" or use the bookmark shortcut (ironically the bookmark all tabs function works)
• Hovering annoying popup text - you've seen the popup text that appears when you hover over a link, well it persists wherever your mouse rests and it doesn't register new links
• Also a lot of my add-ons weren't supported when I first installed it, but slowly they have been made compatible (Ad-block plus was set up from the get go)

Why am I still using it? Mostly to help out the dev community, however I have found one useful tool, if you are closing out of firefox and you have a bunch of tabs open it asks if you want to save those tabs so that when you open it up again, voilà you can pick right up where you left off. It also uses a new vector drawing system for redering webpages that seems to have sped up my browsing substantially (especially with airwarriors and youtube),but it does a crappy job on some other pages (cnet.com engadget.com), but it's done this all while using about have as much memory as FF2...

 

[A4sForever]

Obviously not fast enough

Or you shoot too quick ... ???

 

[Fly Navy]

I have 2 and 3 installed but I am running Linux so I have a bit more power over what installs and what does not.

Trying 3, but prefer 2. 3 Crashes in chat a lot.

What distro? I downloaded the latest Fedora, but haven't run it yet.

 

[A4sForever]

Don't get it just yet.

O.K. ... sounds like you know what you are talking about. I will take your advice and wait. Thanks ...

 

[MasterBates]

I'm running Ubuntu 32-Bit on my 64-bit laptop. Too many problems getting Flash, etc to work on 64 bit (geared more towards servers/work computers) and since the most number crunch intensive thing I use is a spreadsheet, I don't see a difference in performance.

Version 7.10, Kernel 2.26.22-14
1GB Ram
Twin-CPU AMD 64. Clock speed escapes me.

Vista brings this thing to its knees.

I have had a mother trying to get my printer to work properly, (odd model Canon) but other than that it was working out of the box.

The only driver I had to make/compile was my AirCard for wirelless (CELL) internet.

 

[nittany03]

Vista brings this thing to its knees.

I'm torn. I really don't mind Vista, and I built a system that can handle it (E6750, GeForce 8800GTS, 2GB RAM) . . . but why does the OS need to hog so many resources?
Pretty soon we'll have Windows Whatever needing a minimum of 4 Gigs of RAM and a 6-core CPU . . . Sheesh . . .