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Backscatter X-Rays Coming to Airports
TSMABob writes "Wired News reports that a recent, but expensive, technology of backscatter may grace airport security in the future. Nice Bombs Ya Got There is an article that explains how this technology is far superior to the metal detectors of today, pointing out that 'Richard Reid, convicted of trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives in his shoes, walked through metal detectors at Orly Airport in Paris several times before boarding the plane.'
Read More about backscatter x-rays and their ability to pick up non-metallic objects."
Yeah yeah, I know its going to be repeated at least 300 times in this story... but I just can't help myself.
/.'ing.
X-RAY VISION IS FINALLY A REALITY!!!
That is all, you may now go back to your regularly scheduled
"Engineers do the work of man, Physicists do the work of God"
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Anyone else notice her lack of nipples? Were they censored away? Or did the SCO and Amazon.com jointly patent X-Ray pr0n®?
Totally Life!
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I've been waiting for the day to come when I can just walk around naked in public...this machine, with it's ability to render the covering of clothing worthless, is a step in the right direction!
Twwwoooo weeks... twoooooooo weeeeeeks!
The first Airport Screener with a digital camera is gonna make a fortune the first time Britney Spears walks through this thing.
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Creepy image though
Four weeks, Twenty papers, that's two dollars
... imagine Natalie Portman behind a Beowulf cluster of these things!
Truly an amazing technology. How long before contraband starts getting tucked in various bodily folds and crevices, and overweight travelers have to get pulled aside for special inspection?
When fat people are naked in the airport, the terrorists will have won.
Yet another option would be to make the screeners sit naked while at work, thus making embarrassment mutual.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Girls Gone Wild - Airport style.
Mod Points: Helping you keep your opinion to yourself.
You *KNOW* it's only a matter of time before Larry Flynt or the latest celebrity pr0n site manages to get someone hired at LAX. Have someone taping the scanner line in RL, have the backscatter on a second feed, and this is all you need for verification that the backscatter pr0n is legit. Most of the more dubious websites will probably bypass the rl feed and try to pass the images off as celebs.
I'm not sure about the 3dPoseur look of the images and they don't do anything for me, but I think it'd be interesting to see what kind of person applies for this job.. Voyeurs?
The name backscatter is completely wrong.. It sounds like a Peter North film andways...
Another thing - Ever seen Spinal Tap? The airport security gate/cucumber scene comes to mind here....
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FYI: Wired says that the amount of radiation
From Scientific American:
"A close second [in the stupid-security contest] was submitted by a guy whose story starts as he is about to board a plane in San Francisco. "The polite inspector informed me that he had to check my shoes for explosives. I dutifully removed them and handed them to him. He picked them up one by one and slammed them down on the floor with full force. Apparently, as they hadn't exploded, they were not dangerous, and he handed them back to me." Perhaps it's best to look on the bright side and simply applaud any public display of the scientific method."
Table-ized A.I.
READ, dammit! It is the same radiation as sunshine. Are you afraid to go outside too?
I can see all sorts of messages one can put on their body with reflective paint for all those scanner operators to see.
Only x posts and slashdotted! Must be running their site on product "A".
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Imagine a beowolf cluster of item "B", on a "C".
Just wait till the RIAA hears about this! and/or Just wait till the MPAA sees this! and/or Just wait till the **AA hears and/or sees this!
Something SCO would do....Or Sue! Sue! call SCO
BSD is dying, only a few million users left!
Oh and MS knows security like they know open competition.
I used Mozilla once!
1. Action "D"
2. ???
3. Result "E"
MS sucks. or MSFT sucks. or Microsoft sucks. or Micro$oft sucks or Micro$loth sucks.
Linux has a far superior kitch factor.
I'm going to patent patenting. I'm going to patent the wheel, air, fire, water, item "F". Quick hide it from bezos.
I'm going to sue for violating my first post (patent|copyright).
Check my l33t signature!
Accomplishing goal L: Cost "G". Accomplishing goal M: Cost "H", for everything else there is item "I".
Something, something, something, private part [giggle like the school child you are], something, something, something.
something, other, something, Natalie Portman, something
Boochicka wowwow, something, hot grits and person "J", who may or not be Natalie Portman
Some guys widespread anus [goatse.cx]
In Soviet Russia, Item "J" does "K" to YOU!
Apple R0xx0rs!
Apple Sucks!
Kde!
Gnome!
Amigas aren't dead!
Polling:
[options a-g]
h. [unable to participate] you insensitive clod!
i. [cowboy neal poll option]
all your "L" are belong to "M"
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
OMG! My skin is going to be exposed to the same dosage of radiation that heats our solar system!
Honk if you're horny.
AHHHH! Turn the machine back on! Please!!!
Hmmm. Maybe there is a market for boner detectors. If we have to undergo scrutiny, then so do the guards.
"(beep beep) Well, it looks like ol' Bob is going to be suspended again. I bet his wife tossed his porn again so that he can't empty out before work. Sad."
Table-ized A.I.
You just ruined 25 jokes in one post.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Deep Thoughts...by Jack Handey
At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw screw you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.
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And the Angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots! The cries of the carrots!"
Got a small johnson, eh?
Is where all baggage is checked, and passengers, flight attendants, and pilots must fly entirely in the buff. Call it "bare skin" airlines. The only remaining problem would be that of beligerent naked kung-fu masters on board.
My rights don't need management.
I'm pulling this out of my ass, ...
and now we have the photos to prove it!
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
You're not a terroristic crimiminal, are you?
heres a picture of the woman in the picture without the xrays.
That X-ray machine actually made her look attractive!
"Personally I think people need to get over the whole "they will see you naked bit" whoopdedoo, I have a penis so does 49%+/-1% of the population."
Yes, but it's that other 51%+/-1% that I would have to beat off with a stick after walking through security at an airport.
"Does this X-ray make my ass look fat?"
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Security Guard: "Wow, that Commander Taco really DOES carry a roll of quarters in his front pocket!"
Air travel is fine, no x-rays, baggage checks... I would highly recomend it. Oh, you don't have a private Jet? :)
Doesn't even have to be neat surgery - it's not like they've gotta live very long
;)
Doesn't even have to be surgery...
"I'll have a Guinness, no wait, make that a Coors Light" -Grad student I work with, who shall remain anonymous...