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You must be an old timer!

Only old folks think that's not simple, and I don't for the life of me know why!

Nothing could be simpler, I just *don't get* where these old folks are coming from!

Really, I don't understand why old folks don't understand these things - everything is so simple!

There is a fine line between being funny and being an ASSHOLE and you definitely are not funny.

My first computer course was at Rice University, programming PL/1 on an IBM mainframe with punch cards. I programmed COBOL and FORTRAN on VMS on a VAX at the University of Houston. I used UNIX before Torvalds ever thought of making Linux.

I used OS/2 Warp when everybody was suffering through Windows 95. I started using Linux when IBM killed off OS/2. I ran WebCT on Solaris for over 6,000 professors and students at Texas A&M University Kingsville.

And that is just stuff over 8 years ago. At Rackspace I spent 5 years supporting Managed Linux customers then 3 years in Operations supporting the engineers working on their cloud infrastructure.

I have probably forgotten more about computers than you will ever know in your entire life.

Maybe you would not have to attempt to be funny and people would actually listen to your ravings if you knew how to keep your shitty little website online: http://www.okianwarrior.com/

Just another sign that Slashdot has jumped the shark sign since only ASSHOLES like you seem to come to Slashdot these days.

LOL the worst part is that you are probably just another hipster wannabee who thinks that running a Mac makes you cool!

Mr. Pistole:

According to federal sources cited around the web, the amount of radiation is less than 1/1000 times the dosage from 3 minutes of air travel.

If these systems are as safe as you say, being scanned 100,000 times is about the amount of radiation one would get from a 4 hour flight.

It would go a long way towards convincing everyone if, as a publicity stunt, you allowed yourself to be scanned 100,000 times over a four hour period.

The equivalent dosage would be a little less than from a four hour flight, which is a risk that you regularly take as part of your official duties.

If you do this and emerge unharmed, I'm willing to concede the point. Until then, I claim that there is no evidence to warrant any claims as to the safety of airport scanners.

Rajstennaj Barrabas
Nashua, NH

The notation doesn't translate well in text, so I'm supplying a link.

Can you explain this one?

Another puzzle.

Enjoy!

I was trying to figure out whether any of the safety claims (for or against) are true.

Guess what? You can't. The press, blogosphere, and government has made such a pigs dinner of the situation that it's impossible to make heads or tails of the safety claims.

Nothing is compelling either way. We could just as well use a Ouija board to assess the safety.

Here's my analysis.

If you agree or disagree [about safety claims] and have insight, I'd like to hear it.