Can you even do that? If I remember correctly you can't just stop in the middle of security procedure and go back. So your $500 precious is going to some happy TSA goon anyway.
I honestly do not get what this "powering on of electronics" is supposed to achieve. Only the most idiotic of plots would be foiled by this.
- please turn on the laptop
- [it powers up, truecrypt prompt shows up]
- come with me please, you have been randomly selected for additional screening
Well, it is your problem if you miss the flight, not theirs. And don't act as if you are in great hurry, they might take you for more in-depth check just for the hell of it.
Are you kidding? Checked baggage is scanned as well. Actually if you put electronics (or any valuables) in your checked baggage, you have good chance of never seeing them again.
If Microsoft abuses this, judges won't be so inclined to grant such requests in the future.
Have you read the summary? MS is already abusing this. As another commenter mentioned, this makes as much sense as seizing all AWS equipment and handing it to Amazon's competition to 'sort problems out'.
From Silent Circle homepage: "Silent Circle is a global encrypted communications service headquartered in Washington, DC [...] " . This is good enough to suspect that phone is backdoored (even assuming that Silent Circle is not simply NSA honeypot). Nice touch about putting blackphone homepage in.ch domain, it may actually fool somebody.
What's wrong with that? Libertarians should love this - government slashed to bare minimum (or below) and everything in private hands. And as we know, *everything* is better when privately operated. Next step should be deregulating LEC market to enable true competition.
Isn't it great? First you pay for that irritating slow grind, then you pay again to avoid it. Now we just need to way for marketing geniuses to figure out how to make you pay for the third time.
Not all that much faster I think. It has been a while since I played FF7, but I don't remember spending much time 'grinding' - just following the story at its pace.
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Can you even do that? If I remember correctly you can't just stop in the middle of security procedure and go back. So your $500 precious is going to some happy TSA goon anyway.
Be happy you are *still* allowed to keep your trousers on.
Of course I would care if my bomb was stolen! It takes quite a lot of money and effort to build one so I would be very unhappy if it went missing.
I honestly do not get what this "powering on of electronics" is supposed to achieve. Only the most idiotic of plots would be foiled by this.
- please turn on the laptop
- [it powers up, truecrypt prompt shows up]
- come with me please, you have been randomly selected for additional screening
Well, I hope your luck holds. You might be careful when flying from these airports: The Top 20 Airports for TSA Theft
Well, it is your problem if you miss the flight, not theirs. And don't act as if you are in great hurry, they might take you for more in-depth check just for the hell of it.
Are you kidding? Checked baggage is scanned as well. Actually if you put electronics (or any valuables) in your checked baggage, you have good chance of never seeing them again.
And if I can power my laptop up (for 5 minutes should be good enough), how can they tell that 90% of battery is not packed with explosives?
All those free phones, tablets, laptops, etc. - it is great to be working for TSA!
You do realize how suspicious this behaviour is?
Fornicating underage squirrels? Of course dog would recognize it.
5. There is always old but good 'I smelled marijuana'
During 15 minutes? Maybe his hand was twitching from a shock.
If Microsoft abuses this, judges won't be so inclined to grant such requests in the future.
Have you read the summary? MS is already abusing this. As another commenter mentioned, this makes as much sense as seizing all AWS equipment and handing it to Amazon's competition to 'sort problems out'.
Microsoft does not think so - they went after no-ip after all.
From Silent Circle homepage: "Silent Circle is a global encrypted communications service headquartered in Washington, DC [...] " . This is good enough to suspect that phone is backdoored (even assuming that Silent Circle is not simply NSA honeypot). Nice touch about putting blackphone homepage in .ch domain, it may actually fool somebody.
If guard from *private* prison drags you to your cell, is it kidnapping and illegal detainment?
So the only reason why democracy/republic works is that it does not end with -ism?
We already have private prisons. Somehow I don't see employees getting charged with kidnapping, illegal detainment, assault, battery, etc.
You must be true libertarian - your post really sounds all peace-loving. Don't forget to clean spittle from screen.
You are joking, but I can see something like 'number of arrests per dollar spent' becoming a way to compare and select LEC.
What's wrong with that? Libertarians should love this - government slashed to bare minimum (or below) and everything in private hands. And as we know, *everything* is better when privately operated. Next step should be deregulating LEC market to enable true competition.
Isn't it great? First you pay for that irritating slow grind, then you pay again to avoid it. Now we just need to way for marketing geniuses to figure out how to make you pay for the third time.
Not all that much faster I think. It has been a while since I played FF7, but I don't remember spending much time 'grinding' - just following the story at its pace.
So cheat codes are alive and well - they just now start with $ sign.