If you click, don’t fly
dan tynan on Oct 13 2008 at 8:35 am | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld
I love The Register. The UK tech news weekly always has something worth a read and it’s often a total hoot. Today found three items I couldn’t resist sharing.
The first one: Apple Inc. has sent a nasty gram to The Victoria School of Business and Technology in Vancouver, Canada, warning it to stop using an apple as the school’s logo. Apparently Apple believes the VSBT apple bears an uncomfortable resemblance to Apple’s apple, even though the school’s apple is a slightly different shape and uses a dramatically different color scheme. The school’s response? Bite me. No word yet whether the company has also threatened to sue God for inserting an apple into the story of Genesis, or any one claiming to have an Adam’s apple.
Meanwhile down under, a Qantas jet plunged out of control on a flight over Western Australia, injuring 74 people (though none fatally). How is this tech news? Because Qantas is looking at laying the blame on naughty passengers using their personal electronics when they shouldn’t have been. Also: Their seat backs and tray tables were not in the upright and fully locked positions, and somebody had filled out the in-flight magazine’s crossword puzzles using a pen.
Last year, the airline tried to blame an unplanned course alteration on a passenger using a wireless mouse. According to Aussie paper The Herald Sun, Qantas has been warned twice in the last four years about problems with the elevation controls on its A330-300 Airbus models. Nah, the problem must be those laptops.
Finally, a 15-year-old high school student has been arrested for sending nude photos of herself to her friends via cell phone. That’s apparently a felony in Licking Valley, Ohio, where the girl attends school. I think just naming the place Licking Valley should get somebody arrested. Don’t you?
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This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.
