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Prototype EU Airplane Spy Cams Watch For Facecrime
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "You can't make stuff like this up. The EU is actually testing a prototype system of cameras in airplanes to monitor passengers' facial expressions in order to detect both terrorism and 'air rage.' The Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) project used an Airbus A380 fuselage with six wide-angle cameras to watch for people running or loitering near the cockpit door, as well as a camera in the back of every seat to watch for facecrime like sweating too much, or acting nervous. But that's okay, because the system won't alert anyone until it sees a 'combination of signs,' instead of just one stray expression, or they might accidentally catch a lot of people who are afraid of flying or of being watched."
because perpetrators wouldn't ever be calm or completely resigned to their fate/choice.
guess I have a use for all those old 3oz bottles of white out now.
The A380 is a long haul aircraft and there isn't a lot to do up front with automated cockpits. So in the interests of "security", the pilots will probably "monitor" the cameras ...
keeping a particularly close eye on attractive females.
And how long until the first footage of the Mile High Club shows up on YouTube?
One of my all-time favorite "caught in the act" via webcam was Duncan Grisby using the opensource motion program to catch a burgler in his flat - technical details of his setup.
Speaking of cams, here is a nifty BirdCam of House Finches - look for baby chicks.
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thats all I have to say.
aren't most airplane washrooms near the front and back of the plane? Last thing I want is to get busted as a "TERRRRIST!" just because I was in line to pee and they are both full
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Find what makes it tick and have as many people do "facecrime" or whatever gobbledygook they call it. 30 people doing something weird (not illegal and not evil) would do some funny things on an airplane.
I'm thinking of something like that Improv group in New York City and their shenanigans.
Sales of Sharpies and other black magic markers that can be used to black out airplane seat cameras increased in the EU today.
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Wow, sounds like a sure fire way to keep people from flying. Already flying is becoming too much of a hassle for many people flying for both business and pleasure and the competition will be trains, automobiles and the Internet. Generally speaking flying outside the US has been more pleasant until recently, but I may try and fly even less from here on out both foreign and domestic.
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Well, we all realize it's very important for everyone (especially young children) to learn that being watched at all places and all times is normal and important for the functioning of civilizations. Airplane cabins are a convenient place to start since some people are sufficiently scared of flying to accept surveilance there.
How does it deal with people who are upset at being watched and have to pee? (there's usually a bathroom up by the cockpit)
I'm always angry when I have to fly, mainly because I'm really tall and the seats are really close together. And then some jerk that's 4 feet tall somehow manages to get the exit row and I'm stuck with my knees stuck in the back of the tray table in front of me because the jerk in front of me is too inconsiderate to sit up for a little while.
1. How much does all of this equipment weigh?
2. If it detects a terrorist attack, what can anyone do about it while the plane is in the air?
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finally, a way to discover those who are thinking criminal thoughts!
I bet it even works 5-10% of the time.
Although the world does seem to be turning into 1984 in general, we do seem overly obsessed with aircraft and airport security.
Ok so a successful attack was carried out using a plane, doesn't it seem likely a different attack vector will be chosen, *especially* because of the focus on air travel surveillance.
a lot of false positives. I can't imagine they getting a reasonable ratio of true positives to false positives. (and false negatives vs. true negatives.) we're talking about maybe 1 or 2 plane-hijackings per year vs. millions of passengers.
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Vandalism will put a rather swift end to the seat cameras.
On many airplanes, there is a toilet right next to the cockpit door. What about passengers that really needs to use the toilet, and it's busy? They may act nervous and sweat and behave otherwise unusual.
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Would "air rage" be the rage I feel after I've had my laptop and bags rifled through, a full body-cavity search, and after having my toothpaste confiscated and after pouring my water in a big bucket?
Better hope you're not susceptible to airsickness...or overly concerned about making your connecting flight...or mildly allergic to the airline peanuts...or worried that Big Brother might just single you out for having the wrong hair/skin color, or for "suspect behavior", and make an example of you, with no chance of appeal or redress...
I'm so glad my profession does not require large amounts of air travel...I would have to get another job.
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Sky marshal pulls a gun on me thinking I'm a terrorist just because after two hours of the little bastard behind me screaming and crying and kicking my seat, I finally get the wrong combination of facial expressions when my mp3 player battery dies...
An I.T. motto in the hands of an idiot is a dangerous thing...
I bet you'll get a felony "attempting to defeat a security device" conviction for blocking the seat-back camera, even inadvertently. Don't keep your face turned to the window either, that's suspicious activity.
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> The EU is actually testing a prototype system of cameras in airplanes to monitor passengers' facial expressions in order to detect both terrorism and 'air rage.'
A couple of years ago I heard on the BBC World Service that one of Her Majesty's Weapon Labs had developed technology to detect 'passengers wriggling nervously in their seats'. The BBC Interviewer didn't realize the stupidity of what the interviewee was saying.
So It's official. Our governments have seriously lost it. Lets get rid of the quivering-lipped ninnies who scream 'Fear! Fear! Code Red!' every day when the sun comes up.
I better not read /. while I'm on the plane, then. Wouldn't want them thinking that my facial expression due to some troll posting idiot comments was really me wanting to bring the whole show down!
Seriously... the last time I took a reasonably long flight (4 hours) I had a pretty lasting scowl on my face the entire flight. Why? I was trying to fix a bug in a piece of software I was working on and it had to be resolved before I met the client I was visiting. Sounds like terrorist motives to me!
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A camera in every seat back is another example of the government's efforts to identify and then marginalize nose pickers.
Amazingly it turns out the system finds that there is a high correlation between having one or more screaming babies on a plane and terrorists on the same plane.
So don't get on a plane if there is a screaming baby in line. The plane is bound to have someone on it the system thinks is a terrorist!
Dumbest technology ever.
What's stopping anyone from putting a piece of tape in front of the camera?
You'd better believe i wouldn't let someone spy on me for any reason.
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Prototype EU Airplane Toiletcams are next.
The more we do shit like this, the more the aliens will laugh at us when they land.
...and move all air travel over to the Mr T model: dope the passengers senseless at the airport, pack the unconscious bodies in like sides of meat and wake 'em up at the destination airport.
Oh, wait - you wouldn't be able to sell them duty free & Skymall would go out of business. Darn.
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... So, some sort of Post-It note with a smiley face on the back may be in order.
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Oh, great. I have panic attacks on planes, and the one thing that keeps me calm and distracted is playing my DS. So not only do I look nervous, every time I start to get really freaked out I start fiddling with a strange little electronic device! This will not make flying more fun for me.
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Looks like I'm in trouble the first time they charge my wife for a second suitcase.
I am nervous and sweaty every time I get loaded on to a 20 year old cattle car that has undergone substandard maintenance. And air rage? Well that's just a given these days. Personally, I look forward to saluting my new overlords at Guantanamo (or the EU equivalent) next time I fly.
You know, the EU and friends have been making all of these wonderful monitoring technologies to stop terrorism from happening. One of these days a major terrorist event is going to happen, and there won't be a blamed thing any one of their spycams can do about it. I can only hope they'll realize their "solutions" aren't solving anything... but I'm not too optimistic about that.
My grandfather was commissioned into the Navy in 1936 as a pilot. My great uncle flew the China Clipper and was a Pan-Am pilot for 30 years. My father is a retired airline pilot with over 20 years. I took flying lessons from when I was 12 to when I was 17 (I was supposed to solo the Saturday following Sept. 11, however that fucked everything up and I never got my lesson).
I even have some time logged behind the stick of a DASH-8 that my dad snuck me in to ferry between Newport News and Norfolk airports one time when I was 13 (only crew members on board, no "passengers").
Its not that I don't like flying. However, I **HATE** to fly commercially. The seats are uncomfortable, the air is stale, babies scream, people cough and sneeze, etc.
I always look pissed off on airlines and in airports, because I usually am. Of course, most of the flights I've taken in the past were as a non-rev and the crew knew my dad, so I was nice to them and they were nice to me, too.
Frankly, I think the people who **DON'T** look like they're about to kill someone are the ones you need to watch out for. There is probably something wrong with them as they clearly enjoy pain and discomfort.
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While they are at it they should install cameras in the restrooms too. After all thats where terrorists typically assemble their weapons before an attack. As an added benefit, you can catch people who do not flush and people trying to join the mile high club.
They should install it in cabinet offices as well.
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Feed the live performance of Hocus Pocus by Focus into the system, watch the computer explode.
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This is like looking for a pin in a stack of needles.
Do terrorists, even specific types of terrorists, have some sort of uniform, identifiable facial expression right before they attack? I imagine some would be enraged, some would be peaceful, some would be resolute, and some might even be happy.
here is a cheaper easier way to prevent a person form taking over a plan. it may be old school but some times low tech is better... a metal wall dividing the pilots from the passengers. give them a separate "door" to the out side. (not a door to the cabin) Thus making it impossible for them to seize the plane. they might be able to take a hostage at most, but at least a steerable missile(the plane) would be not be in there control.
There go my chances of joining that club .... what with it looking for unusual expressions and sweaty faces - I would get caught in the act. Drat!
1. Security specialists are worried about poeple doing mischief on planes and want to spot them before something happens.
2. They tell the airlines they have to watch the passengers better.
3. Turns out you need actual people for this, who may or may not even be able to spot that casually.
4. ??? aka Technology fixes everything!
5. PROFIT (I guess some company will earn a good sum developing this)
- false positives
- privacy concerns
- accusations of defeating a security device
But testing a system doesn't mean it's going to become a reality.
Although it does seem like a waste... because even if technically the system functions perfectly, the public won't accept it.
And it will just raise prices, for the equipment, monitoring, weight/fuel.
So how would you know what to look for. It's not like we know every sign of a terrorist who is just about to blow himself up.
Privacy is terrorism.
>sweating too much, or acting nervous
First time flyers! Shitty for them as they're gonna bet burnt at the stake.
How many think this is only gonna be used against dark skinned people.
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Least we'll know where to go for the world's largest collection of bums (butts) and boobs pictures.
Time to print out a happy-face mask and put it on before boarding.
I hope I don't get arrested for that panicky "Oh my god I'm going to explode" face I get when I need to use the bathroom and they are about to take off or the damn cart is blocking the aisle.
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Will come in handy yet again. Or I can just read the newspaper in its full unfolded neighbor annoying glory.
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The facial recognition will be happy.
Seriously though, I get the feeling this is just research, not a real plan (though the "cameras in the isles" is perfectly believable...)
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Lets use the cameras to take the images, then find the seat number of the passenger, then download all of his passport information via the RFID chip.
I'd really feel safe then. (sarcasm)
Um, not to sound racist or anything, but wouldn't the terrorist just send their women to blow up the planes then? You know, the ones that cover their faces with veils? Epic fail.
Word up: bring a tiny bit of modelling clay in your pocket, and then when you sit down, put it on top of the camera lens.
Or just sit there and pick your nose for THE ENTIRE FLIGHT.
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And here I thought the US was stupid.
What about people afraid of flying?
They tend to sweat more and look anxious and it's rather unlikely that they want the plane to go down.
Or what about people with an ugly mug like mine?
is that like, picking your nose?
To play pocket poll on my next flight. Wonder if they can guess what I'm doing...
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Better not do that.
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I have a much more elegant solution, so listen up SAFEE.
I would think it much more effective to put the cameras in the cockpit, and if there are signs the plane has been taken over by terrorists then
1) lock the controls in the cockpit so they are useless to the terrorists
2a) close and lock the cockpit door if its still intact
2b) gas the terrorists
3) go on autopilot
4) alert a pilot on the ground to fly the plane just like they do with the Predator
5) deploy a welcoming party of authorities and security officials to help the unconscious terrorists off the plane after it lands.
Now it seems to me this would serve to meet a lot more security objectives. If every plane had this sort of capability it would render airplanes much less a terrorist target, as they couldn't be used in attacks like 9/11. The most a terrorist could hope to achieve would be to blow up the plane in flight, and in todays terrorist environment that is a pretty lame accomplishment. I dare say it might not even deserve martyrdom. That being said, it shouldn't be too improbable to come up with some technology (like explosives screening all luggage) that would eliminate even that security risk. Maybe there is hope we can do a way with the TSA and all that airport screening!
You really think they're going to respond to hundred of false positives caused by nervous flyers, people anxious about being late, and mildly irritable people? Perhaps they'll actually test it based on typical traveller behaviour rather than making wild guesses. And perhaps they'll use actual sensible precautions such as getting a human to observe any flagged passenger.
Honestly - I doubt this will work, but I don't expect a lot of privacy crammed with a couple of hundred other people on a plane.
You'll get arrested as soon as you make a "dangerous" face.
George Orwell got it right.
Think of the number of passenger flights made every year, and think of the number of attempted hijackings every year, and you'll realise that this is yet another measure which will be useless due to the number of false positives, which will overwhelm the few genuine hits.
Wow. Sounds like something the "mark of the beast" alarmists would make up. So how long before you're denied any kind of basic service like travel, home ownership, car ownership, etc if you refuse to let them drill a hole in your skull and implant a brainwave monitor?
No... seriously. You're right to think that sounds absolutely insane, but what security news doesn't in the last 7 years? This kind of reckless Big Brotherism - no, McCarthyism makes me rage. We should work out some ways to stop arresting and punishing innocent people and THEN worry about finding more ways to incriminate them.
This is either utterly incompetent or more threatening than terrorism. The ones we really have to worry about are pathological, and aren't going to show that craziness outwardly. Ultimately, this isn't based on real risks.
completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world.That's from a typical definition of psychopath. Basically, a skilled liar right down to the subconscious, someone this camera system would never catch.
Catching actually dangerous sociopaths (rather than, say, annoying jerks) requires sociocultural skills, not geometry. This will just make life more miserable for the decent folk.
Damn those pesky terrorists
I hope noone ever flies while being constipated... that's a sure sign of being a terrorist!
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At least when you're in jail you'll have plenty of volunteers to help break up the clog...
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"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
A couple quick sticks with a needle before you board and your face will be immobile for the rest of the flight! No suspicious facecrimes from you! And you've never looked younger! Or more embalmed!
If I ever see these things, I'm going to have fun. I'll be sticking out my tongue, blowing up my cheeks, bugging out my eyes, and making any other Jim Carey-ish face I can at them. The ultimate goal, of course, is to get someone to come to my seat and tell me, "Sir, please stop making faces at the camera. Our software can't tell what you're thinking." Win!
The real reason this won't happen? Weight... Do you have any idea how much a system like that would weigh? Airlines are some of the most greedy and most cost-sensitive businesses in the world. They won't haul around thousands of pounds of surveillance gear for nothing. They'd much rather stick a few more sheep in some more tiny seats and charge them out the ass for everything. Or, better yet, load up an extra thousand pounds of cargo... That being said, if it somehow gets legislated into existance, PLEASE give us access to the feed up front... Do you KNOW how much fun we could have with that from the cockpit? PA: "Will the woman sitting in 13E please turn a little to the right?... niiiiice... thank you"
Funny, that would seem to be true of most "principled stands". That fear may cow you into submission, but I suspect that's not true of most people who would resist.
Then there's your tacit assumption that the people doing this would be imbeciles. Nothing you said there has any real bearing on how an intelligent, motivated individual would engage in an act of resistance where one of these setups was present.
Nothing to worry about here, at all. The cleaning crew will fix it just fine.
They way airline cleaning crews work, the lenses of those cameras will be smeared with grease and dirt within just a few flights. If they ever clean them, at all, it will be done by wiping a single greasy dirty cloth across all of the lenses in the whole cabin. With only 15 minutes to de-trash and clean the whole cabin, they probably won't even do that.
When the pilots do the pre-flight check list, they might notice that some of the cameras are not working. But those cameras are not on the essential equipment list for the airframe, so they won't ground the airplane to get them fixed. They will just take off anyway -- just like they do when a coffee maker doesn't work in the galley.
The sharp, clear pictures of the grease and dirt smudges will be analyzed by the software. I doubt it will ever identify any terrorists.
Watch me as I demonstrate the power of a free market economy and not fly on any plane that has a camera in every seat-back to watch all of its passengers. I will pay extra to avoid this intrusion on my privacy.
There, problem corrects itself, business world moves along fine without this horrible idea.
(Airlines cannot afford to keep their planes fueled and repaired. Do you think their going to pay to install new seats?)
Say you're a terrorist when they won't let you go.
If they say "that's not funny" and STILL won't let you off the plane, demand that they sign a letter saying that you told them about a terrorist and they wouldn't get that terrorist off the plane.
CO2 can last a century or two.
How long does a contrail last?
Do the maths.
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"I think it's perfectly reasonable that such a face cam could flag some terrorists, even if it doesn't flag them all. From that limited perspective, it's an effective tool. "
Due to cheer numbers, the false positive rate will generate more people than the positive identification rate, and that is not even counting the possible false negative rate. To give you an example let us say you have 99.99% effectiveness, that is 0.01% false positive. Out of 1 million pax, this is 100 pax. Now let us say you have a 10% false negative (guy trained to not sweat even knowing he will die) which is quite reasonable. If you have 10 terrorist out of 1 million pax, that means you will have 100 false negative, 9 correct, 1 false negative. And that is even really counted in FAVOR of this system. Knowing the number of pax transported by year, and the potential number of terrorist, I would dare say it is more like 100.000 false positive, 9 correct a false negative. In other word a UTTER money waste.
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Why don't we have a look at why terrorists do what they do? Perhaps the best way to reduce terrorism is to cut out the shit that leads to "blowback" rather than investing large sums of money in gadgets and boondoggle projects that erode our civil liberties.
al-Qaeda formerly know as the Mujahadeen was trained by the CIA. I don't know why people are surprised when these projects come home to roost.
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Really, though. Anybody remember the PSA (I think it was PSA, from around the 80's) commercial with the fun being poked at airlines that charged for going to the toilet? The door latch required EXACT CHANGE, and they guy needing to dump or whiz scampered around (I think he was nearly holding his crotch) asking for change or a dollar....
Anyone needing to use an occupied toilet will linger near one and probably be sweating..... Who's to monitor these? I now wonder if any of the reason for flight ticket surcharges is because of hold-located, pressurized modules hiding quick reaction/anti-hijack personnel.... or some electronics monitoring site.
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I wonder what 'fear cam' will make of Tourette's sufferers or people with tardive dyskinesia (great, the last thing a person being treated with neuroleptics needs is for the flight attendants to start acting strange and having whispered conversations about him)
Suddenly, being ticked off because your "kosher meal" is a stale ham sandwich becomes a federal crime.
Young man, you stay in your room until you quit making those silly faces!
High number of false positive is unimportant, more importantly is how the crew is supposed to react to to the system flagging someone?
Do they immediately divert plane to the nearest airport and invite SWAT to escort poor fella out of the to the nearest prison?
Suppose they send a flight attend. to check him out, then what? If the guy is obviously deranged, you don't need no stinking computer to recognized that. But if it is some subtle stuff, when what they are supposed to do? Handcuff him, just in case?
Two words: MINORITY REPORT
Apparently my brain Dont Work Right and as a result my kinesthetic responses are way abnormal. If this becomes widespread I'll be harassed so much by airlines I may as well be an Arab.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Greeeeaaaat... 87 more big orange stickers on the log-can saying that 100 out of the 146 seatback cameras are deferred. Hell, at my airline they can't even keep the little mechanisms that recline the seats working. I can't imagine maintaining several thousand little cameras will be high on their list of stuff to do.
Or, if flying in England, Guy Fawkes masks.
When you sympathize with stupidity, you start thinking like an idiot.
The rate of false positives would be so ridiculously high its a completly useless project and waist of money.
When I was young and impressionable (and stupid), I was taught that God always watches everything I do, and everything I think, and on judgement day He would throw every single dirty little detail up on a giant screen and hold me accountable for them. This monitoring was perpetual, missed nothing, and could never be escaped by any means.
Not only that, but Santa was busy doing the exact same thing, though he applied his judgements (and punishments in the form of restrained altruism) on a yearly basis.
Having mere mortals set up a few cameras to get in on this monitoring as well seems quite insignificant to a mind thusly prepared.
In my case, I grew out of this conditioning, but I wonder about a lot of people...
not the ones doing this ... the ones letting it happen to them.
The device won't "alert" anyone until a combination of triggers are activated, sure,
but what's to stop the camera/phone from monitoring INDIVIDUALS in assigned seats as they fly?
Every conversation recorded by the inflight phones in the seat back and sent right to Langley.
Or wherever. If they can serepticiously flash your cell phone firmware and monitor you,
this should be even easier on the plane where they control the only access point and network.
You don't even have to make a call now, just smile for the camera and try not to sweat.
This is the future of being in public. Great.
because the godamn "call flight attendant" button is busted, magically the attendant appears anyway...along with an armed flight marshal. Ah the wonders of technology.
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Uhhh, today I'm actualy more anxious of anti-terrorism than of terrorism.
I don't see trains competing with air craft because they just don't go the same places at the same speeds as aircraft do.
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That's brilliant, you gave me the perfect idea!
If you have a nasty cold, it wouldn't be out of line to sneeze a gooey mess of snot onto the lens. Through the blur, no face could be analyzed. To top it off, no one will touch anyone else's germs. Just bring some fake 'snot' in a bottle with you if you don't actually have a cold or flu.
But be sure you bring it in a bottle small enough get through TSA security.
Except in the dark? Oh no, we can see you just fine in the dark. Above a whisper? Heck, we can read your lips with no sound at all. And of course we can hear your slightest whisper as well, even through deafening levels of background noise. And your mail. And everything on your computer. And your bank account. And your medical records. Thought police plugging in randomly? Computers that watch all the time, buddy. If the thought police are needed, they'll be called automatically, no worries. Field of vision? The cameras will be everywhere. Everywhere. They cost but pennies to make now. Just a chip. Beach sand. Lenses made of water. Wireless connections to the network. Everywhere.
Everything you say, and everywhere you say it, can be used against you. If that's not sufficient, we'll waterboard you until you confess your crimes. You are guilty as soon as we say you are. That's your first principle; your axiom; your raison d'être.
You gave your liberties up. It was for the children. The 100% surveilled, sexually repressed, mythologically inculcated, minor servants of the state who informed on you for digging that camera-free hole where you could be alone.
For the children. How noble. Thank you, citizen.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
OK, we're in mid-air, I take the gun, that I slipped through customs, from wherever I hid it and start walking towards the cockpit.
What, at this point, is the idea behind the camera?
Last time I flew UK-Malaysia on Emirates, I enjoyed the flat panel screen in the headrest in front of me for a few hours, then turned it off to get some sleep. After a couple of hours stopover at Dubai, right when I should have been deepest asleep, we boarded another plane for the rest of the journey. The flat panels could be switched off, but were switched back on every ten minutes or so for advertisements. I tore the cover off the inflight magazine and shoved it into the gap between the screen and the headrest at the top, so that it hung completely over the screen. Bliss! On second thoughts, maybe this new system would interpret my actions as 'fabricating a device to interrupt aeroplane function'. Maybe it's not the right time to add this to instructables.com...
1. Not much
2. Not much
I have not flown much, but I cannot think of a single instance in which the lousy service, late - delayed - cancelled flights, lost luggage or wasted "show up 4 hours early"time have NOT left me feeling, and presumably appearing, enraged. Perhaps they should screen out the happy patrons, as they must be a)under the influence of the drugs they are smuggling b) imagining the joys of revenge c) thinking about getting laid by 72 virgins. Its still better than Greyhound. Not any faster, but the planes don't smell as bad.
So? The gender of 'penis' in some gendered languages is 'feminine'. I wouldn't take word-gender as a guarantee of biological sex. But then I'm not someone who'd be real trusting about some guy promising me 72 virgins in the afterlife of a polygamous culture that has a systemic shortage of marriageable-age females.
and a little kid keeps kicking the back of my seat, causing me frustration, can't he see that I don't like flying already?, and I am getting red-faced and angry
and the plane is hot, causing me to sweat?
Am I now a terrorist, since I have a 'combination of signs?'
Because it seems that in this day and age, everyone is looked at as a terrorist first, and a citizen with rights second. How long will I be held in detention once the plane lands until they finally believe my story, if at all?
Gremlins on the wing? It was just a kid, anyway. How can you fault a kid? Wasn't I sweating more than one normally would? The flight attendants didn't seem to mind. They seemed to think it was comfortable.
I don't like Linux. This doesn't make me a troll.
Indeed. I love this theory that someone who is mentally prepared to kill themselves is going to break out in a cold sweat beforehand and give themselves away.
How many people are going to be labeled as terrorists because their facial expressions show annoyance due to the screaming baby with the ear infection sitting directly behind them?
Indeed. I love this theory that someone who is mentally prepared to kill themselves is going to break out in a cold sweat beforehand and give themselves away.
How many people are going to be labeled as terrorists because their facial expressions show annoyance due to the screaming baby with the ear infection sitting directly behind them?
Indeed. I love this theory that someone who is mentally prepared to kill themselves is going to break out in a cold sweat beforehand and give themselves away.
How many people are going to be labeled as terrorists because their facial expressions show annoyance due to the screaming baby with the ear infection sitting directly behind them?
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The virgins would be cute but they would stay virgins. That's their job. And anyway that guys that get these 72 virgins first have to blow up any equipment that can be used to change the virgins' status.