For many, turning gadgets like cell phones and tablets off during the takeoff and landing portions of a flight just seem silly at best, annoying at worst. Either way, people are fighting against this seemingly arbitrary rule and the FAA is starting to do something about it. However, it could take ages to actually get the rule changed.

Though the Federal Aviation Administrated is now looking into allowing gadgets during take-off and landing, flyers shouldn't get their hopes up. Because of recent complaining about the arbitrariness of the rule, largely championed by The New York Times' Nick Bilton, the FAA has been more open to changing the standard. The organization has started its own testing, and asked for public comment at the end of last month. Yet, this process will take "until the next millennium," sighed Bilton in his New York Times column this weekend. Read More