06 May 2006

Wireless On Airplanes

Check this out: Tracking Plane Flight On The Internet

Jamie Zawinski actually had a conversation with a friend who was on a flight going over the Atlantic Ocean. Each aircraft is actually assigned a /24 IP address. Be on the lookout for the recent releases of Boeing planes.

Oh, and I've opened an account on LJ, for those of you who were pestering me about it. I've already added most of you as my friends. :p

1 comment:

mangadezi said...

I work my parole/probation--we've beta tested several gps set ups for offenders, but the units are heavy and large. Why can't someone come up with smaller gps units? Some private vendors sell cellphone size units and some cellphones can give you adequate gps coverage, so why can't they make a ankle bracelet with gps technology?
I heard something about a laptop using a SIM card instead of the usual wireless setup. Heard anything along those lines?