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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..."
The best airport security policy is the cruelest. We will destroy the entire village or sector of the city of anyone who creates a terrorist act on an airplane of our country that causes a loss of live. Then forget about inspecting shoes and laptops and hearing aids and soap bottles, etc...
When the criminals realize that they will be destroying their city, their mosque, their people, themselves, by convincing young men and women to murder random others in the name of some god, then this nonsense will stop. The first few times that we have to do it, we will get called the greatest mass murderers since the Germans (oh, excuse me, the Nazis) and monsters and all those other things.
But the rest of the world isn't going to miss the people from the villages and slum sectors of the giant mega-cities from when these criminals come. And they aren't going to miss the holy men who sent them either. Despite all that they say. Yes, the first few times that they call our bluff and blow up an airplane in the name of what passes for a god in their part of the world, and we just nonchalantly nuke their sorry asses and go back to watching the Brittany show, it will be hard.
But it will pass. And it will come to be seen as simply the way that the world works in the new era where there are billions of surplus people.
And the terrorism will stop...or just fade away to a few incidents.
And we won't have to take off our shoes to board an airplane anymore.
The hardest part of this strategy is learning how to avoid being manipulated into destroying someone by one of their tribal enemies. Say that there are three countries: A, B, C. A and B have huge nuclear arsenals and C has only one little atom bomb, maybe ten kilotons. C also hates B with a passion that is historic and pathological and senseless. If C uses its one bomb on B, it gets one good sneak attack and then gets wiped out by B.
But if C uses its one bomb on A and convinces A that B did it, then A will completely destroy B and also be wiped out by B. C doesn't care what happens to A. And with both A and B reduced to ashes, C is now the king shit country and the 'peacemaker'.
But if A and B have a secret agreement that if any bomb goes off in either of their countries, then before they attack each other they are going to first completely destroy C, D, E, and all the other pissant little psychopathic peoples republics, then this plan will keep the peace because D, E, and all the rest will do whatever they can to make sure that C and all the rest of the pissants behave. This means a lot of little wars and assassinations among the pissants, but it is the price paid to avoid nuclear exchanges.
If we are going to adopt a policy of nuking pissants every time that they blow up an airliner, then we going to both have a lot of secret agreements and be willing to accept a lot of random bloodletting between the pissants.
But if it keeps the rest of the civilized world safe, well then, fine...just do it.