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Re: Regulate In-Flight Movies & TV Content?

James Gattuso — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:50:14 -0000

Interesting. It does make me wonder if anyone will now argue that the FCC's jurisdiction should entend to U.S. airways as well as U.S. airwaves. :)

Re: Regulate In-Flight Movies & TV Content?

lippard — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:53:22 -0000

There is a growing number of airlines that have individual screens for each traveler, with a nice selection of films including unedited R-rated movies--JetBlue, Virgin Atlantic, and Air New Zealand all offer a TiVo-like interface for watching films. The description at the beginning of your post says that Delta's intent was to only offer "Rome" through such a system.

I'd hate to see Morality in Media's actions cause airlines to only offer censored versions of films through the personal systems.

Re: Regulate In-Flight Movies & TV Content?

Steve_R — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:17:36 -0000

Oops wrong post, I meant the Lost Laptop Follies, Part 6: DOE Missing 1,400 Laptops post. My apologies.

Re: Regulate In-Flight Movies & TV Content?

Steve_R — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:11:30 -0000

Sigh, here we go again, private industry also has problems with security that are just as egregious as the governments lapses.

ComputerWorld wrote: "August 16, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Loss of confidential data -- including intellectual property, business documents, customer data and employee records -- is a pervasive problem among U.S. companies, according to a survey released yesterday by Ponemon Institute LLC and Vontu Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of data loss prevention products." ... "Eighty-one percent of companies surveyed reported the loss of one or more laptops containing sensitive information during the past 12 months, according to the survey, which queried nearly 500 information security professionals."

ComputerWorld wrote: "May 18, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- A CD containing personal information about thousands of Alcatel-Lucent SA employees and their dependents has been lost or stolen, the company said on Thursday.

The disk contains the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and salary information for U.S. employees who worked for Lucent prior to its merger with Alcatel SA, as well as Lucent retirees and dependents of both groups, the company said."

Ferris Research writes: "There have recently been some well-publicized cases of employees losing their laptops, where of course the laptops weren’t encrypted. For example the recent theft of a laptop from UC Berkley that compromised the personal information of nearly 100,000 almuni � or two laptops stolen from a medical group that contained information on nearly twice that many patients."