A recent article on The New York Times about Electronic Devices and the FAA suggests that the infamous electronics-use prevention below 10,000' MSL may be lifted in the near future.

While it will be recommended to the FAA that passengers be allowed to read ebooks, watch videos, and listen to music on their tablet/phone/ereader, prohibitions on the use of transmitting radios will remain. This means no 3G, 4G, WiFi, WiMax, and, most importantly, WiDidIGetStuckNextToThisGuy(!?).

Vloggers rejoice! Facebook, Youtube, Flikr, Twitter, Imgur, Reddit, Liveleak, etc. will have to adjust to the majority-rules cultural swing as they see their current majority share of kute kuddly kitties videos/images replaced with videos and pictures of a wing from every seat in the plane. . . You know you've done it! Flying is still a special experience, even for those perceptibly numb to its awesomeness - and why shouldn't they be; it's a self-defense mechanism against the increasingly intrusive ring-of-fire writ of passage one must endure to step aboard a commercial aircraft. But, that's a blog for another day, on another forum, from another activist that really cares (I don't).

On this subject, I propose a poll: Have you ever ignored the flight attendant's instruction to "completely power off all portable electronics," and, if so, did you disable the wireless features of that device?