> I think he made a huge mistake in calling out the agent by name on the internet.
What's the point of saying so-and-so is rude if it doesn't warn anyone she's rude? He wanted Southwest and everyone else to know who he was talking about.
She denied non-frequent fliers frequent fliers perks. This is anything but rude. So publishing a statement that someone is rude (on those grounds) is libel. So there's something here that would justify letting the lawyers from their leash.
On the other hand, this is nothing that couldn't have been handled well AFTER the flight.
I kinda agree with you, and kinda really don't. That being said, it's pretty obvious that this was abuse of power, but in no way suggestive that said "air waitress" should not have the power to evict motherfuckers off planes before they take off, especially if they perceive said fuckwad being a problem once the tinderbox is up in the air, and she's facing down the lot of you shitheads solo. Disclaimer: I fly a lot. Airline passengers make me embarrassed for our species.
Yes. And I'd say THAT's what changed over the last 25 years. Flying has been something special and passengers did not see paying for an airline ticket as an invitation to act like jerks. But with Joe Sixpack and his guys taking a plane to their booze trip to Mallorca.
And every passenger should be glad that drunk people or people who insist to smoke or pee on the floor (google for the celebrity...) are thrown out. It's not that the "air waitresses" have gained more power to do so. It's more people acting up like that!
And it's not the "air waitress" who has any power to do so. It's the captain, who is in full command and full responsibility for the vessel. And like captain at sea, this means full disciplinary command over crew and payload (self stowing* or not)
I'd be only worried about them if there is something on the LAN that could be sensitive to outside intruders. Like important data, servers and stuff. But then you have real network infrastructure, and probably don't use Wifi at all. So for those cases, AdHoc-Wifi would be completly out of the question.
Yet, how many people go home and connect their laptops together directly? If people can't figure that out...
Why should they? Until one of those laptops is configured as a gateway (and all other Laptops have to be configured to use it as a gateway) you won't be able to check facebook anyway.
Yes, you COULD create a LAN in AdHoc mode, but what good is an insulated LAN for these days? Back in the days of Quake, Descent and Age of Empires, yes, there was the option to set one up for multiplayer games. But thanks to Steam, WoW or the latest Diablo, LAN gaming has been killed of, too.
And with the current pricepoint of wifi routers that already include DHCP and WAN routing capabilities over anything from twisted pair to LTE, running for hours on battery, that's just way easier than manually configuring network options to create an AdHoc network.
Thus, the state needs to defend itself - for everyone's own good, of course.
That sounds like the standard excuse for building a surveillance state - completly independent of what the actual political system is calling itself. And we're currently seeing it in far too many "democratic" states.
People raised in a country were the government spies on its citizens, encourages selling people out, and kidnaps dissenters are more likely to lie for personal gain..
Wow. You're broadening the definition enough to make it intresting to have people from several other countries tested, too....
With several gouvernment agencies currently ignoring constitutional rights, specific warrents effecting specifically named persons, issued and overseen by judges, are NOT the biggest threat to privacy.
That's exactly the same line of thinking that was (obviously!) ready to be spoofed decases ago!
Adding a "human touch" to something that should be easy as opening a door or using an elevator was what led the Sirius Cybernetics cooperation to develop Genuine people personalities.
Because they're still listed as "free" categorically speaking?
Well... "free" as in you don't have to pay money to play.
But as this holds true for "pay if you like the game and get a free party hat", the "come on, the first shot is free" and the unplayble Nag-A-Thon that starts begging for your money right from the beginning, I doubt that there will be a one size fits all solution.
There are schools much cheaper than the Ivy Leagues with an equivalent education and that's where I'd expect smart kids to go.
At Ivy League, you're not paying for the education. You're paying for networking. And for making an impression at HR types who don't care about education, but reputation.
After all, one of those degrees is the best university degree that money can buy.
As for quitting school to get an above average salary, that's just stupid. That salary is not for life, [...]
But job experience is. And from a certain point on, you will get hired for that. Though you're learning a lot of basic stuff for your formal degree that WILL be actually helpfull and a degree is a ticket into your first few jobs. And it's something that can't be taken from you, so usually it's worth considereing getting one. But it's definitly not the only way to go.
But usually not released as fast as a hand grenade. You have those precious seconds to fight a burning LiIon battery with a fire extinguisher. (again: usually)
But yes, that stuf is already dangerous in itself.
We were talking about REPLACING part of the battery with something else. Not rewireing.
The power-up test covers replacing the complete battery with some other substance (plus a little electronics), which would not show up easily on an X-Ray.
Replacing part of the battery would show up, as would replacing all the inner circuitery.
Rewiring would not show up, and would even let you add some additional electronic device, but not adding no explosives.
On a higher level, I agree with your conclusion that this whole stuff is theatre. Even Simon Beckett grade theatre, if we consider that this boils down to "Sir, would you please press the big red power button on that device of yours that we're suspecting might be a bomb?"
For that the reading recommendation would be "Snow Crash".bureaucracy has not been gotten rid of, but reduced to some insignificant role while the rest of the world is gouverned not by gouvernments or bureacracy, but "business processes" and coorprations and their three-ring-binders with company procedures.
And a luggage X-ray works with a range of intensities, so while not real 3D or CAT scan, the operator can see through or ignore most materials. So at some point, a discontinuity would show up. And carrying a 10kg bar of lead in your hand luggage may trigger a manual search espescially because the X-Ray can't see through it.
a discontinuity would be obvious on the x-ray, if a part of the battery would have been replaced with other material then the rest of the battery.
I once had to unpack my hand luggage because I mixed two different brands of batteries in a spare battery container. When the different brand label matched the different x-ray signatures, it was no further problem.
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> I think he made a huge mistake in calling out the agent by name on the internet.
What's the point of saying so-and-so is rude if it doesn't warn anyone she's rude? He wanted Southwest and everyone else to know who he was talking about.
She denied non-frequent fliers frequent fliers perks. This is anything but rude. So publishing a statement that someone is rude (on those grounds) is libel. So there's something here that would justify letting the lawyers from their leash.
On the other hand, this is nothing that couldn't have been handled well AFTER the flight.
I kinda agree with you, and kinda really don't.
That being said, it's pretty obvious that this was abuse of power, but in no way suggestive that said "air waitress" should not have the power to evict motherfuckers off planes before they take off, especially if they perceive said fuckwad being a problem once the tinderbox is up in the air, and she's facing down the lot of you shitheads solo.
Disclaimer: I fly a lot. Airline passengers make me embarrassed for our species.
Yes. And I'd say THAT's what changed over the last 25 years. Flying has been something special and passengers did not see paying for an airline ticket as an invitation to act like jerks. But with Joe Sixpack and his guys taking a plane to their booze trip to Mallorca.
And every passenger should be glad that drunk people or people who insist to smoke or pee on the floor (google for the celebrity...) are thrown out. It's not that the "air waitresses" have gained more power to do so. It's more people acting up like that!
And it's not the "air waitress" who has any power to do so. It's the captain, who is in full command and full responsibility for the vessel. And like captain at sea, this means full disciplinary command over crew and payload (self stowing* or not)
*Yes, that's what we are: self stowing payload.
Bq isn't a dose! It's activity.
If you want a dose, you'll measure Sv (Sievert)
That is exactly because of those things you noted. But that doesn't make it worthless. It's just measuring something different.
but what good is an insulated LAN for these days?
...are you serious? What about outside intruders?
I'd be only worried about them if there is something on the LAN that could be sensitive to outside intruders. Like important data, servers and stuff. But then you have real network infrastructure, and probably don't use Wifi at all. So for those cases, AdHoc-Wifi would be completly out of the question.
Yet, how many people go home and connect their laptops together directly? If people can't figure that out...
Why should they? Until one of those laptops is configured as a gateway (and all other Laptops have to be configured to use it as a gateway) you won't be able to check facebook anyway.
Yes, you COULD create a LAN in AdHoc mode, but what good is an insulated LAN for these days? Back in the days of Quake, Descent and Age of Empires, yes, there was the option to set one up for multiplayer games. But thanks to Steam, WoW or the latest Diablo, LAN gaming has been killed of, too.
And with the current pricepoint of wifi routers that already include DHCP and WAN routing capabilities over anything from twisted pair to LTE, running for hours on battery, that's just way easier than manually configuring network options to create an AdHoc network.
Thus, the state needs to defend itself - for everyone's own good, of course.
That sounds like the standard excuse for building a surveillance state - completly independent of what the actual political system is calling itself. And we're currently seeing it in far too many "democratic" states.
People raised in a country were the government spies on its citizens, encourages selling people out, and kidnaps dissenters are more likely to lie for personal gain..
Wow. You're broadening the definition enough to make it intresting to have people from several other countries tested, too....
Scandinavia is not icky, nor is france or the netherlands. Not sure about belgium :-)
With several gouvernment agencies currently ignoring constitutional rights, specific warrents effecting specifically named persons, issued and overseen by judges, are NOT the biggest threat to privacy.
Used to have that too. Strange thing was, the PST file only held a few hundered Emails.
At one point Outlook wil probably block the PC for a few hours and do a 6,9GB garbage collection.
That's exactly the same line of thinking that was (obviously!) ready to be spoofed decases ago!
Adding a "human touch" to something that should be easy as opening a door or using an elevator was what led the Sirius Cybernetics cooperation to develop Genuine people personalities.
That's why the removed the automated baggage drop of counters again from the largest airport over here.
Because they're still listed as "free" categorically speaking?
Well... "free" as in you don't have to pay money to play.
But as this holds true for "pay if you like the game and get a free party hat", the "come on, the first shot is free" and the unplayble Nag-A-Thon that starts begging for your money right from the beginning, I doubt that there will be a one size fits all solution.
Yes.. as if alternative launchers for iOS were free.. Wait a moment: alternative laucnerhs for iOS? Oh.. sorry....
intrinsic value vs. depending on a system to tell value from useless paper is a terrible deal.
There is no such thing as "intrinsic value".
There is. But it is usually limited to things as potatoes. There is no intrinsic value in gold as many people are misguided to believe.
if you're considering a large death toll as a terrorist goal, then you're wrong. Terror is the goal, and having people killed are only the means.
There are schools much cheaper than the Ivy Leagues with an equivalent education and that's where I'd expect smart kids to go.
At Ivy League, you're not paying for the education. You're paying for networking. And for making an impression at HR types who don't care about education, but reputation.
After all, one of those degrees is the best university degree that money can buy.
As for quitting school to get an above average salary, that's just stupid. That salary is not for life, [...]
But job experience is. And from a certain point on, you will get hired for that. Though you're learning a lot of basic stuff for your formal degree that WILL be actually helpfull and a degree is a ticket into your first few jobs. And it's something that can't be taken from you, so usually it's worth considereing getting one. But it's definitly not the only way to go.
But usually not released as fast as a hand grenade. You have those precious seconds to fight a burning LiIon battery with a fire extinguisher. (again: usually)
But yes, that stuf is already dangerous in itself.
We were talking about REPLACING part of the battery with something else. Not rewireing.
The power-up test covers replacing the complete battery with some other substance (plus a little electronics), which would not show up easily on an X-Ray.
Replacing part of the battery would show up, as would replacing all the inner circuitery.
Rewiring would not show up, and would even let you add some additional electronic device, but not adding no explosives.
On a higher level, I agree with your conclusion that this whole stuff is theatre. Even Simon Beckett grade theatre, if we consider that this boils down to "Sir, would you please press the big red power button on that device of yours that we're suspecting might be a bomb?"
For that the reading recommendation would be "Snow Crash".bureaucracy has not been gotten rid of, but reduced to some insignificant role while the rest of the world is gouverned not by gouvernments or bureacracy, but "business processes" and coorprations and their three-ring-binders with company procedures.
Things are pretty much shining through:
http://apfelklinik.de/catalog/...
And a luggage X-ray works with a range of intensities, so while not real 3D or CAT scan, the operator can see through or ignore most materials. So at some point, a discontinuity would show up. And carrying a 10kg bar of lead in your hand luggage may trigger a manual search espescially because the X-Ray can't see through it.
50$? Wait.. you're assuming that you can remove the battery from your phone, right?
That's a good one.
REALLY inconvinient if you have an iPhone....
a discontinuity would be obvious on the x-ray, if a part of the battery would have been replaced with other material then the rest of the battery.
I once had to unpack my hand luggage because I mixed two different brands of batteries in a spare battery container. When the different brand label matched the different x-ray signatures, it was no further problem.
This would not prove that the battery has not been replaced with explosives.
Or do so if you want to save on disposal fees....