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Comdex Bans Bags From Show Floor

Posted by timothy on from the bring-large-hands dept.

ckd writes: "CNET is reporting that COMDEX organizers have a new security policy--no bags except vendor supplied plastic bags will allowed on the show floor. "While on-site, you should CARRY A PHOTO ID (DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PASSPORT) ON YOU AT ALL TIMES." They want you to leave your laptop in your hotel room, too! Oh, and no cameras at the keynotes, either. But they haven't announced that they're planning to strip search people ... yet."

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  1. It's a ploy.... by case_igl · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because all the companies exhibiting at COMDEX are so broke they can't afford to give me new t-shirts. What a clever way to save money on promo items!

    But, what am I supposed to wear for the next year!?! I guess my Penguin Computing T-shirts will have to be worn twice!

  2. Thank the dear Lord in heaven! by Wonko42 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Thank God for these restrictions!

    Now we just have to pray that nobody carries a bomb under their coat, or a gun in their pocket, or anthrax in a plastic baggie, or a Potential Enemy Neutralizer in their shirt pocket, or a pointy steel-toed boot...

    Come to think of it, I won't feel safe until everyone is naked.

    Save me, O Comdex, from the evil, evil terrorists!

    1. Re:Thank the dear Lord in heaven! by man_ls · · Score: 5, Funny

      Trust me, if the CS class at my high school is any indication, there would be (1) hot-looking female type, (10) potentially attractive to the opposite sex male types (i.e., not fat and know what a razor is), and (89) fat, unshaven, socially slightly off people.

      You really wouldn't be any safer, and probably emotionally scared.

      I like to think I'm 1/10...but still, please, keep your clothes on.

  3. Passport?? by tcc · · Score: 5, Funny
    >. "While on-site, you should CARRY A PHOTO ID (DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PASSPORT) ON YOU AT ALL TIMES."

    I use Microsoft Passport, it's a tech show afterall no?, MS passport is the Most Secure Thing available, Microsoft told us you guys do support latest technologies that big corporations shove at us, no? yeah... it's your sponsors....what? sorry, but it's in my laptop that you didn't want me to bring in at the entrance.

    Joking aside, I have one word for comdex since a few years... unorganized computer flea market... And it could be so much more, computers did take off since 5 years with the internet and all that, why did Comdex go completely the opposite direction?

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    --- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
  4. Ummm, it's not a bag, sir." by xFoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Guard: Sorry no bags!
    Me: It's not a bag it's a case.
    Guard: No laptops. No cases. No kidding.
    Me: I left the laptop at home.
    Guard: What's in the "case" then?
    Me: Stuff. You know. My camera, PDA, cell phone, GPS, DriveWallet, GameBoy, portable CD player, a MP3 player, this runs a wireless Linux server (holding up a SBC with a short antennae) which is grabbing frames from the camera on my hat.
    Guard (holding hand on head): Oh, just go. NEXT!!!

    Guard: Sorry no bags!
    Next me: It's not a bag, it's a valise.

  5. Use the Force by Pseudonymus+Bosch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now it's time for all those who wrote "Jedi knight" in their census forms to practice their "This are not the bags you're looking for".

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    GW Bu