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That's because Morpheus links users to other users in a big game of telephone, much as Gnutella-based software like BearShare does. The difference is that anyone can grab the Gnutella code and produce their own conflicting versions of it (think too many cooks). But Morpheus has been honed to perfection by MusicCity's tech wizard, Darrell Smith. "We've been nurturing our network," he says. An advantage of that: as of September, Morpheus will do one-stop searching on the Gnutella network as well...
Furthermore, the professor continued to enforce his policy of refusing to allow students to pass on questions on Tuesday, despite the fact that his students’ minds were no doubt distant from the statute code...
...Back at the FAA, workers were filing into the building, and reports were flooding in. Contacting experienced aviation sources did nothing to clear up the chaos. And there were no explicit reports from the airplanes themselves that they had been hijacked. (The system has certain codes that are a simple roll of the dial in a cockpit - a pilot would merely enter a 4 digit emergency code; and there is a specific one for a hijacking). Things were moving rapidly, and at 10:21, Garvey ordered the diversion of all international flights to the U.S. The FAA called NavCanada...
...speak, and each blip representing a plane on that all-important radar is accompanied by a 'data block', which includes the abbreviated name of the airline (AA for American Airlines, UA for United Airlines, for example,) the flight number, the altitude of the plane, and a unique, 4-digit code each flight receives...
...safely landed each of their aircraft at one of the company's eight hub airports. International flights, which were clearly getting low on fuel, apparently started dialing their transponders to indicate to Canadian controllers that there were emergencies on board. Some apparently even dialed in the 'hijack' code, and for a few frantic minutes the airspace near Alaska was peppered with "hijacked" planes. The FAA immediately called NavCanda and asked what was happening. The Canadians opened the system back up, but implemented rigid security procedures including keeping passengers on aircraft for hours...