Christopher Brian Colohan schrieb:

7. Surveilance cams. Each tray table has a built in webcam which
lets passengers videoconference from the comfort of their own chair!
From the flight deck pilots can also turn on any camera they please to
check out suspicious passengers, or to relieve boredom. This data is
also interleved on an uplink to ATC so they can keep an eye on the
sky.

you meant the DHS.

but maybe one can vote the "chick of the flight"?

6. More efficient multicast. What if a passenger is downloading a
GPS firmware update, and the flight deck is downloading the same
update at the same time? You wouldn't want to transmit those bits
twice -- if they share a common network multicast can be used to
improve performance.

multicast ... my ass. you mean they start useful and working multicast
first on planes (before they do so IRL)?

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