"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Monday, 26 September 2016 17:04:12 UTC+1, charles wrote:
In article . com,
dennis@home wrote:
On 26/09/2016 15:37, whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 26 September 2016 15:13:07 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 26/09/2016 13:14, whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 26 September 2016 12:55:20 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 26/09/2016 10:35, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:02:11 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article m,
dennis@home wrote:
Shell scrapped their pay at the pump as they make more money
selling Costas at £3 a cup, Volvic at £1.50 a litre and a
sandwich at £3 than selling fuel.


You can buy fuel in Shell garages using your phone instead of
pay
at pump.

Whatever happened to the 'do not use your mobile phone in a
filling station', then? Do you drive off and pay later? ;-)

I know Mythbusters busted it a while back ... total bollox
nowadays
(may have been true in the past).


Mythbusters didn't test for the real reason mobiles are banned.

I suspect the biggest danger if from dropping your phone and the
battery subsequently blowing up and taking the fuel with it. Some
phones don't even need dropping!

I heard the real reason was because of the way the pumps calculated
how much petrol was pumped in that case the amount owing could be
altered by the older type mobile phones that had a higher signal
output rather than explosions. They have/had simialar concerns wuth
aircraft although that was apparently more to do with the wiring
picking up extransious mobile signals which agian just wouldn;t
happen with phones from this milenium.


Mobiles aren't banned by the companies. They are banned under law
and
it has nothing to do with affecting the pumps.

Mobiles were banned by the airlines and they are now letting people
use them to access on-board services because they get revenue from
it.
They don't affect aircraft systems as the systems are designed to
high
standards like those set by the EU.

Nothing whatsoever to do with the EU. Transmitters for passengers was
banned long before the EU existed in america. The ban existed BEFORE
mobile phones and because they couldn't predict any future problems
with mulitiple manufacuers they banned them all.

Ask a few pilots.




Who mentioned that it was the transmitters that were better? There have
been a number of improvements in EMC susceptibility along with some
rules to make it so.


That was one thing necessary to get the CE marking

wasn't the FCC a higher rating at the time,

Nope.

which was why the early Macs mac 128 and pluses and through
the quadra had such a large amount of foil inside the case.

Nothing to do with the FCC.

I really DO NOT believe it was the EEC/EC idea
to dan transmitting devices being used on plane.

Having fun thrashing that straw man ?