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Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports
suraj.sun writes in with a story about the spread of full body scanners. It reads in part:"Passengers at airports across Australia will be forced to undergo full-body scans or be banned from flying under new laws to be introduced into Federal Parliament this week. In a radical $28 million security overhaul, the scanners will be installed at all international airports from July and follows trials at Sydney and Melbourne in August and September last year. The Government is touting the technology as the most advanced available, with the equipment able to detect metallic and non-metallic items beneath clothing. It's also keen to allay concerns raised on travel online forums that passengers would appear nude on security screens as they had when similar scanners were introduced at U.S. airports. The technology will show passengers on a screen as stick figures of neither sex."
FTFS: The technology will show passengers on a screen as stick figures of neither sex.
This gives a whole new meaning to "obligatory XKCD".
Set your phasers on "funky"!
They may be getting on top of their skin cancer problem, and need to drive some demand.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
The whole damned island is a penal colony inhabited by venomous everything and criminals! Obviously no amount of Security is too much!
I can't understand why Canada would do that! Damn beer drinking, hockey rioting, tuke heads.
I have a mismatched parenthesis in my last post (one less closing bracket than I should have), so for those of you who get driven insane by that, here you go - ).
Why would you go to Australia when you're already in New Zealand?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
What problem does Australia have that this is solving?
Unauthroized export of Vegemite.
"Crikey! This one's actually a kangaroo!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You can't solve paranoia. Give a candle to a man jumping at shadows, and he'll just start panicking about the shadows moving.
You can't solve paranoia. Give a candle to a man jumping at shadows, and he'll just start panicking about the shadows moving.
Yeah, but you can stand there and watch. You have to admit it's quite fun...
What problem does Australia have that this is solving?
Healthcare costs are too low, additional sources of cancer sought.
Bow before me, for I am root.