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Strategic Caution Reserve

2014-10-28 18:13:39.05134+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The terrorists have won: All you have to do is put up a WiFi SSID to cancel a flight: LA to London flight held on ground for 3 hours and then canceled when a passenger noticed an "al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork" (sic) Wifi network available on their phone.

There's some evidence on the cell phones on airplanes are a bad idea side of the balance sheet...

Among other places, via JWZ who noted the "about of an abundance of caution" line, to which user nooj replied:

I wish there wasn't such an abundance of caution. Can we ration it? Is there a U.S. Strategic Caution Reserve?

Word.

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