Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van

Velcroman1 writes "In August, Slashdotters learned that full-body scanners were roaming the streets in vans: 'The same technology used at airport check points, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on US streets where law enforcement agencies have deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs. Fox took a ride in one of the $800,000 vans, videotaping the entire event — and continues the debate about security, privacy, and health risks."

Comments

Re:Easy to detect

[operagost]

That's because you never leave your parents' basement. The rest of us have to sometimes change out of our "Cool Ranch" Dorito-stained bathrobes, take a "shower", put on "dress shirts" (you know, the ones that have "buttons") and "slacks", and go out into "meatspace".

Re:How does this happen?

[Archangel Michael]

Obama is just as bad as Bush. For different reasons than Bush, but just as bad. Just because you think Nationalized Health Care is swell, and you have a piece of paper from Chancellor Hitler saying he won't invade any more countries.

Nuclear warhead don't scare me nearly as much as Black Panthers intimidating voters.

As for the two wars, I happen to agree that we shouldn't be in either place for as long as we've been. We should have made both into parking lots and left the smoldering mess as a warning to anyone not to mess with us. Additionally, we shouldn't have been at "war" unless congress declared war against a declared enemy, per the constitution, and then bring full force upon said country/leaders until they cry uncle and surrender unconditionally.

Trying to appease petty dictators and terrorists never works.

But the two wars don't compare to Obama's Health Care debacle (which it will be), and Obamanomics which are a continuation of the worst aspects of Bush's economics.

So, yeah, just as bad.