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Old 8th February 2003 | 13:24
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Capt H Peacock
 
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Talking Yeah!

Excellent idea! Now as one of Bin Liner’s Talebs, I can hack the control codes and fly any airliner of my choosing into whichever building I like. I could trash the White House using my lap top whilst I watch from Capitol Hill! And if the USAF shoot me down, why I’ll go get me another one. It’ll be like a real life video game and I don’t even have to get through airport security, beat the flight deck door or be shot by a sky marshall. In fact I don’t even have to be in the country!

Of course in order to get the software to do the job, we’d need quite a bit of expensive development so Microsoft would have to charge a fortune for the licensing. And then there’s the upgrades and patches. Hey, we can’t get it right first time, can we? Oops, sorry about that 767 United!

The passengers will have every confidence flying on a computer chip, people are so comfortable with airline flying these days. ’Miss Moneypenny, book me on an airline with pilots please.’

YAWN, no I think I’ll survive to draw my pension. This is one handed literature for management to read in the privacy of the executive washroom with a box of tissues.
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