I have a problem with them--they're hugely expensive and not very useful. I also have a problem with the screeners supplying misinformation to the traveling public, muddying the waters of the discussion of safety issues, efficacy of scan, etc.
Contrary to your experience, my wife and I frequently are "offered" the non-magnetometer scanners. Perhaps it's the times at which we fly?
I was going to complain about the fact that no one at the newspaper caught that obvious error in the quote, but I guess we can't expect that kind of thing from The Tennessean:)
I just hope that the resistance to these scanners will soon reach the point that someone decides to stop wasting money on them.
“No, it’s not an X-ray,” she told Abbott. “It is 10,000 times safer than your cell phone and uses the same type of radio waves as a sonogram.” (emphasis mine)
What. The. Fuck. I was told almost the opposite, but still wrong at BWI--that the mm-wave scanner was sound waves, not EM. How is this getting twisted? Is there some statement that the mm-wave is "as safe as a sonogram" and the agents are mixing and matching at will?
I don't expect the security screeners to be physicists, but they really need to know what the equipment they operate emits. At this point, I barely trust their magnetometer to not blast me with ionising radiation.
There's no real reason for that functionality. It's easier to simply select both circles when you're sharing something. Your previous selection is set as the default for your next post, so you don't get frustrated with having to click the same buttons over and over.
I've found that for whatever reason, I can't watch embedded Vimeo videos. If you click through to the source page, it works just fine. I'm on Linux with Firefox 5, latest version of Flashplayer for Linux.
Yeah, it really sucks to be able to tell the difference between denominations with a quick glance or by touch.
I do note your smiley, but plenty of USians are serious when they object to different colored notes. I live in Chile, where they are rolling out new notes for all denominations--in plastic. I think they're great. They look cool and seem really durable. The different colors make it super easy to tell what value it is. One way in which that's useful is when people throw money into the pot to pay for a group dinner--guests sometimes don't get the exchange rate and will accidentally substitute a $1000 bill for a $10000. The former is green and the latter is blue. Easy.
I also think it really says something about priorities when you still have the same people on the bills all the time. Why not have American scientists? That would be awesome.
I'm by no means an expert, but I remember an article a while back about offshore medical transcription services being used, and the transcriptionists not being native English speakers. This led to confusion over homophones and differentiating 15 and 50, etc. I think that we already have the problems that you're worried about. If the speech recognition displayed the transcript immediately, it could be corrected in real time.
In 2050, when you whippersnappers are 70 and 80, all the 'kids' will be ragging on you geezers about how you don't 'get' the new-fangled brain-silicon interface, with the 3DHD corneal implants.
You know, I don't think so. My mom said something similar to me when I got frustrated with my grandmother's inability to understand the Apple IIGS's "learn to use a mouse" game. I've thought about it and I have decided that the increased pace of technological development has set us up to maintain plasticity in a way that the old people of today don't have.
I don't think that we'll have the opportunity to get so set in our ways that we won't understand the tech of the day, whatever day that is.
On another note, I have an ongoing problem with getting my mom to understand files and directories. For some reason, for her, the metaphor does not work at all. My dad has set her up with one directory into which she puts all of her files, which she uses. She uses good filenames, so she can find stuff later. Using folders to organise her stuff just doesn't occur to her. Does anyone have an idea of how I can help her understand?
Why don't you have the packages delivered to your office? Both UPS and FedEx will make sure that they deliver to a business during its hours of operation, so there's no worry about missing a delivery. They'll never get left on your porch in plain view, either.
It's not just import tariffs; Mercedes has an ultra-efficient gasoline engine that they won't import to the US because our gas (not Diesel) has too much sulfur. (link)
And then we have the massive resistance of USians towards Diesels in cars. Part of that is the cash-grab that the States go for by taxing the hell out of Diesel fuel, intending to get a piece of the interstate trucking money. Part of it is probably backlash from the horrible gas-to-Diesel conversions from US automakers in the 1980s.
I don't know why there aren't more Diesel-electric hybrids--Diesels are great at turning gensets, and the people who buy hybrids are certainly more likely to accept a Diesel.
I was thinking that the phone-wearing men avoid impacting objects with the phone-side hip. Bones require mechanical stresses to maintain density, so if they avoided hitting their hips, that could be the cause. Your idea is a much better control and would help to clarify the nature of the effect.
I think your parent was alluding to the current trend of using land that would otherwise be used for food production being used for fuel production. I agree with this sentiment, but not that biofuels are not a good idea.
Growing oil algae in saltwater ponds in the desert is a great example of a biofuel that not only doesn't take land away from food, it doesn't even use a food crop.
Indeed, I recently refused to go through an active millimeter-wave scanner and therefore was subject to the "enhanced pat-down". The agent took longer to explain to me what he was going to do than doing it, and there was no ball-handling.
I don't know the reasons or the laws, but I do know that I had a prescription that was dispensed in the same bottle that was shipped to the pharmacy. The bottle had its own expiration date, while the prescription info sticker had another, much shorter one that was based on the date that I bought it. Perhaps this indicates the life of the product once the bottle has been opened, but it was not clear.
I was on a flight recently on which the announcement stated pretty much exactly what you suppose: The electronics don't cause problems for the aircraft, but we need you to be paying attention to us.
Laptops being out is a non-problem--you're not allowed to do anything to restrict your movement on landing or takeoff.
Interestingly, the rules in South Africa are very strange--once the plane lands, you are allowed to use cellphones but not other electronics. This baffles me. Would my iPod touch be okay? Would I need to add some RF power to it to be within the rules? I suppose it's some oddity in the rules--what's the opposite of a loophole?
It's not just the activity--the feed really makes a difference. Americans are trained through lack of alternatives to like the mild-cum-bland taste of corn-finished beef, and are slow to accept what many claim to be a "gamy" flavor of grass-finished animals. Personally, I love it and am happy that Argentina is just over the Andes from me. You have never eaten beef until you have eaten Argentinian beef cooked by an obsessive Argentine. They are all obsessive.
I hate stickers with an OCD fervor, so I have become an expert at removing them. I have found that one of the most effective methods is to use the adhesive itself--most of the time when you peel a sticker off, some of the adhesive stays on the sticker. If you put that patch on the adhesive that stayed on the surface and make a small twisting motion, you can remove the residue quickly and without solvents or much heat build up.
You have to be careful about that. For example, the mini display port --> DVI adapters for Apple laptops don't pass the analog signal, requiring you to spend another $30 and carry two full adapters, rather than being able to use a cheap DVI --> VGA adapter.
I (fairly unscientifically) experimented with waving the rim of my wheel over the wire, using the theory that the faster I moved the conductor, the more I would affect the fields. The intersection in question was not usually empty during my commute, so my data are pretty noisy. That said, I think that it might work.
The court also limited its decision, ruling that users could not be expected to constantly update their wireless connection's security -- they are only required to protect their Internet access by setting up a password when they first install it.
You should be protected if you have any password. Of course, this isn't the actual statute, so the wording could be more specific. Even if it is, are they going to codify the amount of entropy that you must include in your password? It seems like you could leave it as "password" and you're legally protected.
Indeed. When I needed a new battery for my cell phone, I noticed that the LCI had tripped. I checked the LCI on the new battery when I bought it, and it was already tripped. I asked for another one, but it seems that every battery in the store had a tripped LCI. The CSRs brushed it off. Luckily, I never had to find out if it would void the warranty.
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I have a problem with them--they're hugely expensive and not very useful. I also have a problem with the screeners supplying misinformation to the traveling public, muddying the waters of the discussion of safety issues, efficacy of scan, etc.
Contrary to your experience, my wife and I frequently are "offered" the non-magnetometer scanners. Perhaps it's the times at which we fly?
I was going to complain about the fact that no one at the newspaper caught that obvious error in the quote, but I guess we can't expect that kind of thing from The Tennessean :)
I just hope that the resistance to these scanners will soon reach the point that someone decides to stop wasting money on them.
“No, it’s not an X-ray,” she told Abbott. “It is 10,000 times safer than your cell phone and uses the same type of radio waves as a sonogram.”
(emphasis mine)
What. The. Fuck. I was told almost the opposite, but still wrong at BWI--that the mm-wave scanner was sound waves, not EM. How is this getting twisted? Is there some statement that the mm-wave is "as safe as a sonogram" and the agents are mixing and matching at will?
I don't expect the security screeners to be physicists, but they really need to know what the equipment they operate emits. At this point, I barely trust their magnetometer to not blast me with ionising radiation.
There's no real reason for that functionality. It's easier to simply select both circles when you're sharing something. Your previous selection is set as the default for your next post, so you don't get frustrated with having to click the same buttons over and over.
I've found that for whatever reason, I can't watch embedded Vimeo videos. If you click through to the source page, it works just fine. I'm on Linux with Firefox 5, latest version of Flashplayer for Linux.
Yeah, it really sucks to be able to tell the difference between denominations with a quick glance or by touch.
I do note your smiley, but plenty of USians are serious when they object to different colored notes. I live in Chile, where they are rolling out new notes for all denominations--in plastic. I think they're great. They look cool and seem really durable. The different colors make it super easy to tell what value it is. One way in which that's useful is when people throw money into the pot to pay for a group dinner--guests sometimes don't get the exchange rate and will accidentally substitute a $1000 bill for a $10000. The former is green and the latter is blue. Easy.
I also think it really says something about priorities when you still have the same people on the bills all the time. Why not have American scientists? That would be awesome.
I'm by no means an expert, but I remember an article a while back about offshore medical transcription services being used, and the transcriptionists not being native English speakers. This led to confusion over homophones and differentiating 15 and 50, etc. I think that we already have the problems that you're worried about. If the speech recognition displayed the transcript immediately, it could be corrected in real time.
In 2050, when you whippersnappers are 70 and 80, all the 'kids' will be ragging on you geezers about how you don't 'get' the new-fangled brain-silicon interface, with the 3DHD corneal implants.
You know, I don't think so. My mom said something similar to me when I got frustrated with my grandmother's inability to understand the Apple IIGS's "learn to use a mouse" game. I've thought about it and I have decided that the increased pace of technological development has set us up to maintain plasticity in a way that the old people of today don't have.
I don't think that we'll have the opportunity to get so set in our ways that we won't understand the tech of the day, whatever day that is.
On another note, I have an ongoing problem with getting my mom to understand files and directories. For some reason, for her, the metaphor does not work at all. My dad has set her up with one directory into which she puts all of her files, which she uses. She uses good filenames, so she can find stuff later. Using folders to organise her stuff just doesn't occur to her. Does anyone have an idea of how I can help her understand?
Why don't you have the packages delivered to your office? Both UPS and FedEx will make sure that they deliver to a business during its hours of operation, so there's no worry about missing a delivery. They'll never get left on your porch in plain view, either.
It's not just import tariffs; Mercedes has an ultra-efficient gasoline engine that they won't import to the US because our gas (not Diesel) has too much sulfur. (link)
And then we have the massive resistance of USians towards Diesels in cars. Part of that is the cash-grab that the States go for by taxing the hell out of Diesel fuel, intending to get a piece of the interstate trucking money. Part of it is probably backlash from the horrible gas-to-Diesel conversions from US automakers in the 1980s.
I don't know why there aren't more Diesel-electric hybrids--Diesels are great at turning gensets, and the people who buy hybrids are certainly more likely to accept a Diesel.
I was thinking that the phone-wearing men avoid impacting objects with the phone-side hip. Bones require mechanical stresses to maintain density, so if they avoided hitting their hips, that could be the cause. Your idea is a much better control and would help to clarify the nature of the effect.
I think your parent was alluding to the current trend of using land that would otherwise be used for food production being used for fuel production. I agree with this sentiment, but not that biofuels are not a good idea.
Growing oil algae in saltwater ponds in the desert is a great example of a biofuel that not only doesn't take land away from food, it doesn't even use a food crop.
Indeed, I recently refused to go through an active millimeter-wave scanner and therefore was subject to the "enhanced pat-down". The agent took longer to explain to me what he was going to do than doing it, and there was no ball-handling.
I don't know the reasons or the laws, but I do know that I had a prescription that was dispensed in the same bottle that was shipped to the pharmacy. The bottle had its own expiration date, while the prescription info sticker had another, much shorter one that was based on the date that I bought it. Perhaps this indicates the life of the product once the bottle has been opened, but it was not clear.
I was on a flight recently on which the announcement stated pretty much exactly what you suppose: The electronics don't cause problems for the aircraft, but we need you to be paying attention to us.
Laptops being out is a non-problem--you're not allowed to do anything to restrict your movement on landing or takeoff.
Interestingly, the rules in South Africa are very strange--once the plane lands, you are allowed to use cellphones but not other electronics. This baffles me. Would my iPod touch be okay? Would I need to add some RF power to it to be within the rules? I suppose it's some oddity in the rules--what's the opposite of a loophole?
It's not just the activity--the feed really makes a difference. Americans are trained through lack of alternatives to like the mild-cum-bland taste of corn-finished beef, and are slow to accept what many claim to be a "gamy" flavor of grass-finished animals. Personally, I love it and am happy that Argentina is just over the Andes from me. You have never eaten beef until you have eaten Argentinian beef cooked by an obsessive Argentine. They are all obsessive.
You could switch the phrase around to be, "You can taste the joy".
Stolen from this excellent article:
http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm
It's a bit dated now in regard to the beer and some other small matters, but it really does feel like you join a cult when you eat beef there.
There are actually 3D printers that can do metal, with a sintering process.
http://www.shapeways.com/about/metal-3d-printing
I hate stickers with an OCD fervor, so I have become an expert at removing them. I have found that one of the most effective methods is to use the adhesive itself--most of the time when you peel a sticker off, some of the adhesive stays on the sticker. If you put that patch on the adhesive that stayed on the surface and make a small twisting motion, you can remove the residue quickly and without solvents or much heat build up.
But they did add lead salts (Lead (II) Acetate) to their wine to sweeten and preserve it.
You have to be careful about that. For example, the mini display port --> DVI adapters for Apple laptops don't pass the analog signal, requiring you to spend another $30 and carry two full adapters, rather than being able to use a cheap DVI --> VGA adapter.
I (fairly unscientifically) experimented with waving the rim of my wheel over the wire, using the theory that the faster I moved the conductor, the more I would affect the fields. The intersection in question was not usually empty during my commute, so my data are pretty noisy. That said, I think that it might work.
But according to this quotation:
You should be protected if you have any password. Of course, this isn't the actual statute, so the wording could be more specific. Even if it is, are they going to codify the amount of entropy that you must include in your password? It seems like you could leave it as "password" and you're legally protected.
That failure rate makes me think that it might be something about you--like your UPS delivery driver or the guys who "pack" his truck.
Indeed. When I needed a new battery for my cell phone, I noticed that the LCI had tripped. I checked the LCI on the new battery when I bought it, and it was already tripped. I asked for another one, but it seems that every battery in the store had a tripped LCI. The CSRs brushed it off. Luckily, I never had to find out if it would void the warranty.
Also, it appeared to me that you _have_ to detach the back to expose the camera's lens. That's not exactly convenient.