Subject: Flying Aircraft with Laptops
From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 12/27/07, 19:55
To: pundit@instapundit.com

COULD AN UNTRAINED PERSON LAND A JETLINER IN AN EMERGENCY? I could, but only if I could plug in a keyboard and mouse, and run Flight Simulator . . . .

Based on several viewings of Independence Day, this doesn't sound improbable. It was apparently simple enough to hook up a Macintosh laptop to an alien spacecraft in order to give its mothership a virus even way back in the mid-90s. If only the aliens had been using Linux, like I do, they would have been fine.