News and notes from around the interweb:
- Why the wifi doesn’t work on overbooked Southwest flights:
Yeah, we had to rope down Passenger #144 to the hood like a Christmas tree (hence the inoperable WiFi). Our apologies! -Kayla
— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) October 19, 2023
- “For the eighth month in a row, DOT did not include complaint data in its report, citing a continued “high volume of air travel service complaints against airlines and ticket agents.” Since the data is bad we aren’t sharing it, how very China of them.
- More award routes pricing for less than expected with Avianca LifeMiles
- Facial recognition expanding at airports and we’re not discussing enough all the reasons this is bad (NYT)
- Hertz is looking for a Director of Media Affairs remote work, pays $140,000, but requires 3+ years of bail bonds experience.
- Amtrak business class passengers no longer get complimentary lounge access in Chicago access policies and prices vary tremendously across Amtrak lounges.
- Amtrak just… is not very good.
Amtrak departed Penn with the boarding doors open. Lol
byu/jimgeosmail innycrail
Gary – I realize you likely have a NY Times subscription and may not notice but the story above (which sounds interesting) on facial recognition is behind a firewall and can’t be read 🙁
@RetiredGambler – sorry, try this: https://archive.ph/iYoQn
@Gary – thanks that works!
Why do people write and complain about airplane wifi and food. Do you travel for those or for transporation?
There are choices. If they promised Wi-Fi and food, that would’ve factored into the decision. If then not provide or executed badly, I’d say it’s fair to complain about it.
Facial recognition technology feeds off fear/insecurity and will in its own ways generate more and more fear and even insecurity too over time.
It’s possible to take images of people on the street or at an event and then run them against against photos elsewhere to try to match the faces to names. And it’s not a capability limited to just law enforcement and other government agencies, so the public really should anticipate problems from both security services’ use of this kind of capability but also from civilian use of such capability.
While your cute face online may get you fans and opportunities, it can also be exploited by miscreants.