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What to do when you're sitting next to an annoying passenger on a plane

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    Pete OHanlon
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    1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

    "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

    As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

    My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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      1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

      "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

      As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

      My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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      Simon_Whale
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      5 a big fat 5 for that

      Thanks for taking the time, now go away and grow up and return in a newer, more polite and less shouty and ignorant form. - Dalek Dave

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      • P Pete OHanlon

        1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

        "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

        As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

        My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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        Marc Clifton
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        :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That is great. Except it'll surely land you in a big load of trouble, and how do you get Internet on an airplane anyways? I mean, I fly Southwest! Marc

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        • P Pete OHanlon

          1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

          "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

          As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

          My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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          Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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          Just a black screen...

          If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

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          • P Pete OHanlon

            1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

            "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

            As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

            My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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            Joe Woodbury
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            How long will it take for the sky marshals to return your laptop? Just asking. Does life insurance include getting beaten to death by passengers for pretending your laptop is a bomb?

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            • P Pete OHanlon

              1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

              "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

              As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

              My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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              Lost User
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              :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Yup; that's a 5.

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              • P Pete OHanlon

                1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

                "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                Lost User
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                Nice! How about this: type "offended" in the address bar of FireFox, hit enter, scroll down the page Probably less likely to get you into trouble

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                • M Marc Clifton

                  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That is great. Except it'll surely land you in a big load of trouble, and how do you get Internet on an airplane anyways? I mean, I fly Southwest! Marc

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                  realJSOP
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                  You can do it if you're running Visual Studio on your laptop. Just create a project that does the same thing, and run it...

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                  • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                    Just a black screen...

                    If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

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                    Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                    It says something is Arabic, I was hoping that you can translate that for us. As it is within Flash, Google translator does not work.

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                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

                      "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                      As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                      My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                      Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                      If I have my Garmin 695 with me I can take it out and put it in simulation mode making it appear that we are actually flying way, way, off course, People believe what they see.

                      Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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                      • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                        It says something is Arabic, I was hoping that you can translate that for us. As it is within Flash, Google translator does not work.

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                        Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                        I just saw it. It doesn't say anything, just a bunch of letters thrown together to look like some Arabic/Persian/Urdu text.

                        If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That is great. Except it'll surely land you in a big load of trouble, and how do you get Internet on an airplane anyways? I mean, I fly Southwest! Marc

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                          Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                          You can do that these days through your mobile line, but you'll be paying through the nose.

                          If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

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                          • M Marc Clifton

                            :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That is great. Except it'll surely land you in a big load of trouble, and how do you get Internet on an airplane anyways? I mean, I fly Southwest! Marc

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                            Marc Clifton wrote:

                            I fly Southwest!

                            Then you're flying in the wrong direction. The internet only flows NorthEast ;P


                            I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

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                            • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                              If I have my Garmin 695 with me I can take it out and put it in simulation mode making it appear that we are actually flying way, way, off course, People believe what they see.

                              Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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                              jeron1
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                              Dear God, when those things first came out, I got one with a rental car and *somehow* I put it in simulate mode, oh was that ever fun. There was no mention of the simulation on the runtime display and for the first part of my trip it seemed pretty accurate. That is until after the first stop light, things then got ugly very quickly (way, way off course)...The wife still brings it up :(( :laugh: :(( .

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                                1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

                                "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                                As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                                Gregory Gadow
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                                This would be a nice way to end the flight early, I think.

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                                  Nice! How about this: type "offended" in the address bar of FireFox, hit enter, scroll down the page Probably less likely to get you into trouble

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                                  0x3c0
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                                  I tried what you suggested. Where can I get some bleach strong enough to get those images out of my brain and eyes?

                                  OSDev :)

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                                  • P Pete OHanlon

                                    1-Take your laptop out of your briefcase 2-Open the laptop slowly and calmly; 3-Switch it on; 4-Make sure the passenger is looking at it; 5-Get on to the internet 6-Close your eyes for a moment, open them again and look up to the sky; 7-Breathe in deeply and open this[^] site 8- and watch the expression on their face.

                                    "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                                    As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                                    My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                                    lol I think 1 minute is too much time :laugh:

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                                      Dear God, when those things first came out, I got one with a rental car and *somehow* I put it in simulate mode, oh was that ever fun. There was no mention of the simulation on the runtime display and for the first part of my trip it seemed pretty accurate. That is until after the first stop light, things then got ugly very quickly (way, way off course)...The wife still brings it up :(( :laugh: :(( .

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                                      jeron1 wrote:

                                      The wife still brings it up

                                      Man, that figures. They bitch if you don't ask for directions; they bitch if you follow directions... ;) :-D

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                                        jeron1 wrote:

                                        The wife still brings it up

                                        Man, that figures. They bitch if you don't ask for directions; they bitch if you follow directions... ;) :-D

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                                        jeron1
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                                        When I finally ended up asking for directions (and purchasing a map) I had to dodge the crack dealers walking back to the car. Ah, what a fine neighborhood it was.

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                                        • M Marc Clifton

                                          :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That is great. Except it'll surely land you in a big load of trouble, and how do you get Internet on an airplane anyways? I mean, I fly Southwest! Marc

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                                          retZ
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                                          Quite a few airlines provide internet access. I tried it on a recent Air Tran flight. Worked great plus it was free - no complaints :)

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