@dculberson: I wouldn't doubt that it was a mid-level manager with a fetish that thought it up in the first place.

@Iron coffin doesn't swerve for pelicans: Whaaa??? **google-google-google** HA HA!! I didn't know they called him Britney! Ya, I can see it!!

@mckennar001: mmmmm....donuts.

@kibastryker: I wish I'd read this before I responded to electronbob above about the Mythbusters show. Now I actually want to see that episode.

@electronbob: Everybody seems to have missed the point that a very small problem a long ways away can cause lots of trouble with radios.

@knightvash: Mythbusters...so it's gotta be true. I love the one where they tried to disprove the American Grafitti cop car scene by duplicating it with a purpose-built high-strength modern cop car. Oh yeah. But anyway, for the cell phone thing they used a small aircraft, right? With what, less than a tenth of the…

@ninetwoeight: The 'honor system' is cheaper than engineering then buying a system to detect 'illegal' devices while *not* detecting 'legal' devices (aircraft systems, pacemakers, hearing aids, etc.)

@Dave Harris: Yeah, there's a lot of "what if" involved. I don't need to text that bad either, but by those same regards if I'm stuck in a holding pattern for and hour in a storm I wanna be listening to my Jimmy Buffett. I hope they get this shit ironed out.

@tzed: Not yet...not yet...but we can hope. ***insert fiendish laugh***

@the_other_stevejobs: So's I don't type it all again, read my reply to 'clockradio'. One cellphone, maybe, but doubtful. A hundred cell phones, probably. While some planes allow stuff now, they were designed and tested for it....but there's a lot old old stuff flying.

@tzed: But whacking moles is much more satisfying...WHACK WHACK WHACK!!! Hmmmm...what about whacking baby pigeons? Hello YouTube!!!

@clockradio: I'm comparing the effect of 200 iPads and cell phones right next to the control and navigation systems to a slight bit of corrosion in a connection 3 miles away.

Don't say "Chevy!!"

For those of you who'd rather *learn* something as opposed to bitching about something you know nothing about, I recommend you do some reading on "spurious emissions." I know, I know, "where's the fun in that?". What can I say...some people are just brainy freaks that don't want to play along.

@mytdawg: The most fitting term I've heard in a long time is "Crackberry".

@GreenN_Gold: I've been looking for a excuse to try this. You could've been my hero, but more likely (like me) didn't have any butter either.

Mike, Bennington is less like southern Vermont and more like "East New York" or "North Mass", but welcome back anyhow. Congrats on the new gig, I'm always stealing copies of Hemmings from my dad when I go to visit.

Favorite F1 Korean GP weekend quote:

@slo_z: I felt real bad for Nico tho'.

@Pessimippopotamus: They have a master plan...first the track, next comes the giant Ferris wheel.