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		x1798DE on July 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Hacking airplane headphones So you're thinking something like this? Author: <fiddles with headphone jack> Author: <fiddles with headphone jack some more> Author: "Hey, can I borrow some tweezers? I think this headphone jack is busted and I want to adjust these headphones so they'll work." Seat Passenger: "No problem." Author: <starts stripping the wires from his headphones> Seat Passenger (thinking): "Stay cool, Phillip, this guy is clearly a terrorist..." Author: <plugs in headphones> Author: "Hey, it works! Thanks, bud!" Seat Passenger (thinking): "Where is that god damned air marshall. Oh god, what am I going to do?!"

toomanybeersies on July 19, 2016 | [–]

Given that a man was taken off a flight for doing Algebra, I set a low bar for how paranoid some passengers are.

megablast on July 19, 2016 | | [–]

Depends what colour you are really.

Hydraulix989 on July 19, 2016 | [–]

Never underestimate the depths of people's stupidity.

ma2rten on July 19, 2016 | | [–]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/iv...

Hydraulix989 on July 19, 2016 | | [–]

^ It's amusing watching the upvotes and downvotes on this comment oscillate sinusoidally centered around 7.

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