Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 5, 2012 @05:22AM from the we-have-all-kinds-of-light-waves-to-blast-you-with dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "Boston's Logan International Airport is in the process of replacing its X-ray body scanners with millimeter-wave ones. According to the article, nine of the new scanners have been installed already, and ultimately 27 of these scanners will replace the 17 X-ray backscatter scanners that were installed in March of 2010. The new devices are 'being installed come with software that replaces "passenger-specific images" — or nearly naked views of travelers — with generic outlines that highlight only anomalies such as belts, jewelry, wallets — or guns or bombs.' Perhaps this will help TSA workers avoid being part of a cancer cluster. Some speculate that TSA will ultimately eliminate all of its X-ray body scanners."

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Re:Interesting by TheSpoom · 2012-10-05 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Is that a bomb or are you just happy to see me?

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Re:Interesting by tool462 · 2012-10-05 05:39 · Score: 4, Funny

Touch it and see if it goes off ;)
Re:Looking back at history by Githaron · 2012-10-05 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny

With our luck lately, we will look back at this era as the "good old days" when the TSA was only in the airport and they only irradiated us instead of doing a strip and full-cavity search.
Re:Interesting by Joce640k · 2012-10-05 06:03 · Score: 4, Funny

(the first being "sometimes it just won't fit")
Hint: Girls come in different capacities.
Whenever you hear a girl say "I prefer big ones" she's really saying "I have a cavernous bucket of a vagina". Remember that and you won't go far wrong in life.

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