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Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling?
Editorgirl35 writes "Here's an interesting story on DesignNews.com
With last week's announcement that the British government thwarted an alleged terrorist attack planned for flights from the U.K. to the U.S., news that travelers are required to check their laptops as baggage on some flights has raised a new level of panic as they try to figure out the best way to protect their laptops."
would it be a terrorist attack?
Unless, of course, your flight is delayed.
This sig is Y2K compliant.
Only nudists will be allowed to fly!
"Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash." Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A. Heinlein
"Jenn... Uhh Mam, please remove your bra for further security inspection. Yes, you can stand over there next to the.. Uhh.. X-ray camera."
Full Tilt
I recall reading about a guy who put all of his gear in a strap-locked Coleman cooler labeled with stickers saying "Orangutan Fecal Samples." Problem solved.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Yeah, why take it? Just have your assistant send you an internet. It make take a while for it to get through the tubes, but it is safer than giving up your laptop.
"In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
C4? That's a lot of work. I just use a Dell.
has anyone already made the obligatory dell laptop joke?
. o O ( TwO hEaDs ArE mOrE tHaN oNe... )
Terrorists being Muslims is just the current fad. In the '80s, the terrorists were communist revolutionaries.
Furthermore, the terrorists aren't idiots. All an Arabic terrorist would have to do to get around such a ban would be to wear jeans, work on their accent, use hair dye to lighten their hair a bit, and make out that they've been to a tanning salon.
"Software is too expensive to build cheaply"
,i."Atlanta on the return trip from a music tour to Europe. We had to check larger instruments (including my saxophone)" And one time, coming back from band camp, my trumpet smelled really funny....
Why yes, I *AM* new here. Why?
Dell and Sony have been doing the same thing.
Is this some new, more appealing take on Schrodinger's Cat?
Schrodinger's Pussy ?
'' Pretty funny about the primary concern being vibration. My company had a person check their laptop on a flight a few years back, and SURPRISE it never appeared at the other end of the flight. ''
One eBay Powerseller with more than twelve thousand happy customers was the wife of a Heathrow baggage handler.
Took them 2 1/2 years to find out.