Anyone that's flying on Wednesday.

[Cain]

Incidentally, here is an actual security expert, talking about the TSA

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html

Bruce has a point, that it is interesting this has only become an issue since it starting being trouble for white people, but as someone who has been hammering airports for nearly 5 years now about their use of security theatre, I think I'm justified in using whatever publicity is going to get them to stop.

[Requia ☣]

What? So far I've read, the dangers of that scanner are as good as negligible? Got a link to where it says it could actually pose risk?

Negligible yes, but still more substantial than the risk of terrorism.  (multiply a 16 hundred thousands of one percent risk by 600 million travelers, you get nine or ten deaths a year, compared to roughly zero from airplane attacks).

[Cuddlefish]

This deserves some 

[Cramulus]

most erotic news EVAR

http://www.deadseriousnews.com/?p=573

This unfortunately shoots holes in my theory that the best way to counter this stuff is to get aroused by it.

[Suu]

most erotic news EVAR

http://www.deadseriousnews.com/?p=573

This unfortunately shoots holes in my theory that the best way to counter this stuff is to get aroused by it.

Damn.

[hooplala]

most erotic news EVAR

http://www.deadseriousnews.com/?p=573

This unfortunately shoots holes in my theory that the best way to counter this stuff is to get aroused by it.

Percy CUMMINGS?

I call bullshit.

[Cramulus]

ahhh you're right

it's a fake news site


I was had.


GOOD SPOT, HOOPS

[hooplala]

ahhh you're right

it's a fake news site


I was had.


GOOD SPOT, HOOPS

I was duped by two probably fake stories in the last couple weeks, to my embarrassment... I am now disbelieving everything as a matter of principle. 

In fact, I doubt Leslie Neilson is actually dead.

In the words of Ed Rooney, roll his bones on in here...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So, there wasn't really an opt-out, was there?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Heh.

I'm seeing a lot of implication in liberal circles lately that complaining about TSA screening methods means you are a Koch-backed Teabagger.

This is just like 2003, only in bizarro world, and more retarded.

There are no fucking liberals.

[hooplala]

[The Good Reverend Roger]

 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

They did that 8 or 9 years ago.  Maryland cops came clean a while back that they had been putting people on the terrorist list for protesting the war.  Not as department policy, but because the crime statistics software the feds gave them was doing this.

How did Maryland even determine who they were?

I call bullshit on the cops on this one.

[Triple Zero]

Percy CUMMINGS?

I call bullshit.

... and his partner Sergio Armani

[Triple Zero]

Negligible yes, but still more substantial than the risk of terrorism.  (multiply a 16 hundred thousands of one percent risk by 600 million travelers, you get nine or ten deaths a year, compared to roughly zero from airplane attacks).

From what I read so far is that the level of radiation is checked to be "safe enough" when the power of the radiation is spread evenly throughout the volume of the body, as would happen with normal X-rays, but because the backscatter machines radiation only penetrates a few millimetres (or centimetres) of the surface of the skin, the dosage the skin gets is an order of magnitude higher.

Additionally, there's no extra protection being made for the head and eyes, which are even more sensitive, yet you can't hide a bomb in your head or knives behind your eyeballs.

Additionally this machine has not gone through the extensive testing medical X-ray machines go through. There are many dangerous points of failure, for example if the ray gets stuck at some point, that point will get an really big amount of radiation (if you ever notice a backscatter machine that only produces half images like it stopped halfway through a scanline, opt out).