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Quoted in the New York Times:
“I really do not understand why anybody would want to go anywhere,” Bill Threlkeld wrote. “Stay home. Read a book. Tend your garden. Make love. Drink wine. But most of all — stay home.”

Suits me. I'm dreading the flights to my brother-in-law's wedding in September. Not because I'm afraid of flying. I'm sulky that I can't take my water bottle on a 4+ hour flight, and probably should forego the iPod as well. I'd much rather spend my vacation sitting on the deck here with a cold Chardonnay, in fact.

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Gadgets on planes

[metageek.livejournal.com]

The iPod thing (and other electronics) is just plain dumb. You can turn those on and see that they work.

No good. This latest plot supposedly was going to use cellphones to set off the explosives. If that's true, then any wireless device could have been used—and there's no way to demonstrate that your device doesn't have any wireless capabilities.

The whole "show that it works" tactic was always dumb anyway; most laptops, for example, have room to fit a non-functioning blob of something. Say, a PCMCIA card made of plastique.

Re: Gadgets on planes

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Obviously they need to put more effort into better scanning techniques. People are not going to want to give up their computers, for example. (And I don't trust the baggage handlers to treat it with any sort of care ...)

Re: Gadgets on planes

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

They'll treat it carefully -- they'll give it a new loving home, even!

Re: Gadgets on planes

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Gosh, that's not exactly what I had in mind, somehow ...