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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by cialowicz on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:48AM (#16097954)
This is pretty click-baity. The planes are obviously used as commuting shuttles so government employees can live somewhat normal lives while still working in far-off research facilities.

    > It's likely that JANET is simply how government employees commute to their top secret jobs every day.
    > But it's sure fun to imagine what else could be going on.
What else could be going on?
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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by zodPod on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:02PM (#16098066)
It could be some sort of party bus that is used to get people to every $0.25 taco stand around the US. You join at the beginning of the year and every day you go to a different taco stand. JANET could stand for Jaunt Amazingly to Nibble Effectively on Tacos.

No, you're right. The article is absolutely clickbaity and provides no real service.

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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by jjp on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:58PM (#16098474)
All the writer had to do was a bit of googling and they would have had so much more to say [1], but then they would probably have missed the quota of articles they had to write.

[1] https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-only-airline-with-non-stop-...

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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by mnw21cam on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:29AM (#16097801)
Another web site that claims I have an ad blocker, and won't let me see the article. I don't have an ad blocker, so I can't switch it off for you, and even if I could, I wouldn't.
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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by zodPod on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:04PM (#16098086)
I'm with the other guy I run like 5 different ad blockers plus have my headers file configured to block most ads and this site didn't say anything. It's strange that someone who doesn't even have one could've gotten flagged. It's almost like these stupid sites that try to block people who use blockers should just stfu if they're programmed so poorly they get false positives.

I'm with the other guy as well, you didn't miss anything. The article is garbage. It basically says "Woah! There's a plane that flies around and no one knows what it does or where it goes! It's probably nothing but it's fun (and gets clicks to our website) to make up conspiracies! Weird, huh?!"

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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by trendia on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:38PM (#16098737)
I use uMatrix. Sometimes I get an error like "Your adblocker has caused this site to crash. Disable your adblocker".

When this happens, I just disable all javascript on the page, and the page loads fine -- no error, no alert, just the content. In fact, the page loads faster, since 95% of Javascript is not used to improve the usability of the site.

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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by mikestew on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:42AM (#16097894)
Oddly, I’m running an ad blocker on mobile Safari, and not a peep about it from the site. That’s okay, you didn’t miss much, the article is so thin that I considered flagging it.
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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by Overtonwindow on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:23AM (#16097772)
The article is a bit lacking. This particular "airline" has been around a very long time. It was tracked a lot back in the day with regards to Area 51.
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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by johannsg on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:37AM (#16097864)
Yes, and the last paragraph pretty much sums it up (spoiler alert) — It's likely that JANET is simply how government employees commute to their top secret jobs every day.
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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by SirFatty on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:37AM (#16097867)
Exactly, I thought this was the airline that flew people directly to area 51. Not sure what this has to do with Popular Mechanics!
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Re:We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Ai... by mdekkers on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:38PM (#16098342)
We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Airline

Well, sounds like they are doing a good job at their mission statement....

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