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Next person who tries that will likely end up in jail.

Joking? You can't be jailed for naming your phone or wifi Galaxy Note 7.

Creativity knows no boundaries, especially (unfortunately?) in America's legal system.

This is true, but people don't want to hear it. Some sheeptard might flag your comment. I've had experience with restraining orders. Do people realize that you can literally be sent to court for harassment if whatever you do, X, is considered harassment by the victim? X can literally be anything, as long as the victim sees it as harassment, and is smart enough to feign (or be in) distress. If your action, X, can somehow be considered as terrorism or boy-who-cried-wolf, you can be detained by the Government. It's funny because people don't wanna hear that they "can be jailed for pretty much anything", even if it's more-or-less true. Even less so do they want to hear that their sorry asses are responsible for giving permission to the government to do this.

Just remember the video of ISIS burning two Turks to a crisp. If that's not bad enough, which it isn't (our government doesn't give a shit about those two soldiers), remember 11am September 11, 2001, when two jets destroyed our tallest creations and killed so many people. In 2001, they fucked with us on our own turf. This is the reason why you're fucked if you make an Allah Akbar joke on a plane.

Not for naming it that, but for falsely implying the existence of an explosive device on the plane.

I am puzzled by how the headline switched from holding a random smartphone in one's pocket to wilfully carrying a dangerous explosive device.

It's barred from flight by the FAA, presumably because it's known to... you know... explode...

So I guess it would count as carrying a dangerous explosive device.

Except they don't explode by definition and it is just the persistence by the media plus fear and ignorance that continues this stupidity. This Galaxy Note bullshit needs to die.

The Galaxy Note 7 will be outlived by stupidity and ignorance (not that it doesn't catch fire - you know what I mean)

I called it an explosive device because we now know that they literally explode.

I grant that basically any large lithium batter can do the same (or be induced to do the same), but this one was both common and could go off accidentally, making it a more common and therefore likely threat.

It could very well be an honest mistake. Maybe whomever named it was trying to find the network on their Note 7.

Suggesting that someone go to jail over "SSID naming convention contains Note 7" is absurd.

It's all about intent.

Except they don't "literally" explode. They catch on fire and melt, if you think that fits the definition of explode I have some fireworks that I would like to sell to you.

Explosion: A release of mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy in a sudden and often violent manner with the generation of high temperature and usually with the release of gases.

This is definitely a description of what happens to the batteries.

I think he's trying to argue that because they deflagrate instead of detonating, it's incorrect to call the process an explosion. That's the only thing I can see that makes sense, at least, incorrect and apparently disingenuous though it is in this context.

If you announce verbally on a plane you have something that can explode even if you do not you will still get arrested/jailed.

What difference does it make that you decided to do so electronically?

The scenario described is almost literally a modern interpretation of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. [0]

Speech used to incite panic or create a riot can absolutely land you jail.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

A bad decision and a scapegoat for all kinds of nonsense. Where does it end? If everyone is afraid of X and someone says X! do they lose their 1st and not pass go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM

I would suggest we start by blacklisting certain Emojis from being used in Hotspot names such as "️ ... ... ... 🇮🇷"

( image for those with clients that don't support those glyphs - http://i.imgur.com/hvz8yHY.png )

Thanks for the image.

I was actually wondering the same thing. Hoping resident lawyer types chime in to discuss whether Schenck v. United States precedent is applicable.

I was going to say you can be jailed for interfering with a flight crew (and you can), but in this case you'd probably only incur civil penalties (fines).

I can see some crazy youtuber attempting this soon.

Can we crowdfund this?

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