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Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn
bluetoad writes "Australian customs officers have been given the power to search incoming travelers' laptops and mobile phones for porn. Passengers must declare whether they are carrying pornography on their Incoming Passenger Card. The Australian government is also planning to implement an Internet filter. Once these powers are in places, who knows how they will be used."
Well there goes my plans to smuggle porn into Australia and use it in a terrorist attack.
Well, I hope the guards are really desensitized because once they search my laptop they will most likely vomit.
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Who knows, but if you thought the lines were long now... On most geek laptops, this could take a while.
What's that you say skippy?
The porn is trapped in the free world!
Back to dream time.
With the new filter, they need to get their porn somehow. This was the best option.
Who knows, but if you thought the lines were long now... On most geek laptops, this could take a while.
No, they're just going to have a third booth for you to go to at customs. One for something to declare, one for nothing to declare, and a third for Pornography. The third one will have a line out to the tarmac.
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I call rule 34 on tarmac pr0n.
Since when has porn been measured in GB? Real Slashdotters (TM) measure it in Libraries of Congress.
Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
alright! i've heard people saying "fuck the world", but actually fucking the tarmac? ouch... forgive me if i don't think too much about the how and why of that one.
Well, if I ever go to Australia, I'll have to remember downloading 1000+ pictures from icanhascheezburger.com, answer "yes" on the pornography question and claim to have a huge furry fetish. I would probably get fined, but it would totally be worth it :D
I've had this fetish for years, but searching any streaming porn site for "hot sticky black" just brings up wholly disappointing results.
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
"Maybe the guy who pushed this rule is actually addicted to porn and wants to create a giant archive of it all, print it out and then roll around in the pages."
Dude... all you need for that is Usenet and a printer.
And on a completely unrelated note, make sure you wear gloves while refilling your printer's continuous ink supply system. Looks like I murdered a freakin' clown...
go fuck yourself, but don't film it
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, re Voltaire
Heh, that reminded me of this:
"Do you have any strong liquor, mind-altering herbs, pornography or material of a lewd and licentious nature ?"
"No"
"Would you like some ?" - Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (I may not have the quotation 100% but it's close enough for slashdot).
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
So they can search for porn. What can they do if they find it? Is porn illegal in Australia now?
What do you usually do with porn you were searching for when you''ve found it?
Forever Nested.
\pr0n\haha just kidding\ then a symlink back to \pr0n
This post shows good understanding of Linux/Unix symlinks but not of slashes vs. backslashes. Weird.
man touch
These inspectors should be required to keep their laptops on site, so that I may search their private information whilst they search mine. It's only fair.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
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- Ordell Robbie
ha ha ha... I was thinking more along the lines of a nice open "porn" folder in "My Pictures" (because if you have linux they won't likely be able to search, and instead just confiscate your notebook). In said folder I'll place pictures of all the different dismembered electronics bits (Geek Porn), and one rick roll video.
I was thinking more along the lines that Goatse, Lemonparty, and Hitler's face photoshopped onto naked women's bodies all constitute porn. Really, after an eyefull of that, they're not gonna go looking for my real porn folder.