MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security

Ant writes "MacNN reports that the thin design of Apple's MacBook Air is causing some confusion for the technically ignorant, according to one blogger who says that the ultra-portable caused him to miss his flight. When going through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport security checkpoint, blogger Michael Nygard was held up as security staff gathered around his MacBook Air, trying to make sense of the slender laptop/notebook. One of the less technically knowledgeable staff points out the lack of standard features as cause for alarm..."

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Re:slashvertisement

[stjobe]

"Baah! Do not question authority! Baah! Obey any rule, no matter how stupid it seems! Baah! It's a rule, it must be followed without question! Baah! Baah!"

... And the sheep moved quietly on to the slaughterhouse floor, never questioning why.

Re:They can't track them all...

[frehe]

If you ever play MS Flight Simulator, you start to realize just how many airports there are in the US. Many of the small ones are uncontrolled, often without a tower and maybe just a single building. There's no way the feds can watch them all. Even some of the larger municipal airports will be lucky to have a dedicated fed at them, because it turns out there is one in just about every city of 30,000 or more, and even many smaller cities (though of course you aren't going to find 737 service to them). I see the government's indoctrination plan to turn all citizens into socialist sheeple is working. Around here, we local hard working and God fearing folks decided to round up all the local paranoid-schizophrenic sniper wannabes, form them into a local airport protection militia, give them permission to use deadly force as necessary based on their judgement, and tell them that we trust them (and their beloved sniper rifles) fully to protect us from any terrorists/UN troops/space aliens/French people, that try to infiltrate our local community in order to fluoridate our drinking water and children's ice cream. So far the plan has worked perfectly, despite several attempts by the terrorists/UN troops/space aliens/French people to infiltrate our community disguised as regular innocent people. No sirree, you thought you were oh-so-clever to disguise yourself and your comrades as a normal 'Murrican family with kids, but Bubba and Cletus aren't fooled that easily!