Airplane

In light of the recent plane crash in Pakistan, reports suggest that it will take 6-7 months to decode the black box. The company that made the black box surely knows how to decrypt their encryption, so why would it take so long? Also, assuming the encyrption is super-complicated, what sensitive data would warrant such encryption? Is it just voice recordings, or something more?

Edit: I really appreciate the responses. Not only does it answer my queries but also expands on a lot of questions I hadn't even thought to ask.

I fly a good amount, and especially now as airlines barely offer peanuts to their passengers anymore, I prefer to bring my own food onto the airplane. For years now, I love grabbing to-go food from any of my favorite local restaurants, lugging it through security and waiting to eat the meal on the airplane. Usually I get a simple sandwich, but some of the other items i've enjoyed at 30,000 ft include Thai, Mexican, Persian of course, salads, hoagies, In-n-Out burgers and most recently Greek food.

My girlfriend that recently accompanied me while traveling while I had a Greek gyro, and said I was a total A-hole for bringing any kind of smelly food into an enclosed space, especially when others around me don't have the option of eating it. My argument is that the lack of options at the airport and the exceptionally high price of any food or beverage at the airport should encourage everyone to pack a meal for themselves for their journey.

So let's see if my girlfriends right or not....

Basically every airline has said that they won't book middle seats to allow for social distancing--but there's a major caveat (edit: that wasn't disclosed in the email(s) announcing the new middle seat policies). They reserve the right to book middle seats if the plane is full enough to require it. Which is realistically the only time people end up in middle seats anyway. So plenty of travelers think they're going to be distanced and then show up at their flight shocked to be seated two inches away from another person. And to top it all off, there are some reports that the mask rules are loosely enforced. I'm wondering if this would count as false advertising or unfair/deceptive practices or something else entirely. The one thing I'm stuck on is there aren't really tangible, measurable damages.

(Not planning to try to organize a class action lawsuit or anything--just curious because this seems so shady.)

EDIT: Various airlines promoted the middle seat guarantee through emai

A really tangible way to make yourself less prone to distractions is putting your phone on airplane mode. At least it works for me.

I never really thought about it- I always have my phone on “do not disturb” these days because it helps me not feel attached. But I notice when I am doing my spiritual practices I still get very distracted by a phone or a notification that I happen to see if I am already in the distraction zone.

Yesterday, I decided to put it on airplane mode so no one- not even me- could disrupt what I was doing. I was writing and reading and doing a meditation and shadow workshop and I would have a thought at some point, go to my phone to look up the thing that came to mind, and I physically couldn’t. My airplane mode wouldn’t allow it! So I put down my phone and carried on.

This happened a few times until I got the point- oh, I physically can’t look things up right now.

The process was kind of similar of when I deleted social media. I kept looking for the app to

This did happen before covid

Okay so I was on this plane sitting in my specially booked window seat and the flight was due to depart very soon. All of a sudden this extremely tired looking mother and her screaming toddle walk up to my row. “This is gonna be a GREAT flight” I thought sarcastically. When the mother got to my row she looked across and saw me sitting at the window seat. EM: “ Oh hey I didn’t realize someone would be sitting here, say do you mind letting my child sit there he really likes the window seat.” Now normally I wouldn’t have done it but the mother looked really exhausted and I was willing to do anything to shut the child up. Around 1 hour into the flight I got out my iPad and started watching some skateboarding videos I had downloaded. As soon as the mother saw it she said “ Please would you turn that off, I don’t want my son to become on of those skating rebels”. Now as a skater I was used to people thinking every one of us was a law breaking druggie but, I had

Neeeeeeeeeeeooowwwwwwwwwww.

Just heard from neighbors. They saw this thing flying near the Leon Springs area. Alex Jones makes money off rubes and simpletons.

They will be using "technology" to track protestors movements tonight. This means using traffic cams, bridge cams, as well as tracking your phones. Be safe out there.

Just saw a merorite!! It was low on the horizon, like an airplane coming in for a landing but north of the typical landing pattern. It flashed bright green going East to West!

A very low flying aircraft has been doing multiple loops over Kanata (around 2pm)

Edit: it was actually a CC-177 Globemaster, thanks to u/Kohaku_Kitai