I'm with you all the way on the liberty thing, but all we're really talking so far is made some people a bit late and made the flight more boring than usual.
I'll grant you that's a massive understatement and they'd be very late due to security delays and very bored due to not having all the usual electronic toys.
But still, that's probably better than being dead. Or living in Milton Keynes.
To be fair the target aircraft (apparently up to 10 flights were being targeted for timed explosions) where all bound for the US.
Now we have a situation where the only hand luggage allowed is medicines, wallets, baby food (must be eaten/tasted by parent in front of security staff), sanitary products (unboxed), etc. Shoes must be removed and X-rayed.
Anything electronic must go in the hold (laptops, cameras, gameboys, etc)
No liquids are allowed on US bound flights, due to tip off that liquid explosives would have been involved.
The only tricky bit (for tricky read "damned near impossible" (for "damned near" read totally)) would be getting all the manufacturers to work together using the same standard...
If it's not universal if it was to be supported by the media you'd need a couple of inches for the article and another 3 pages for the scanning sections (for Nokia, scan here; For Samsung scan here, etc).
At least bar codes is kind of established... but you'd still need to store a bar code mapping somewhere - in the tinyurl vein perhaps.
I dunno.
Maybe you'd be better off with a java midlet with tinternet support. Then you could remove the manufacturer from the equation.
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I think you were looking for the other topic.
<point>The one over there</point>
About time somebody did the obligatory "I for one welcome..." pun.
Now all we need is an "All your base are..." for the set!
So basically what you're saying is that the moon won't be a moon.
To moon or not to moon? That is the question...
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooning)
I'll still be a human. A dead human, but a human nonetheless...
Unless I get reincarnated. In which case I'll be a three toed sloth. Or a dung beetle. Or... Or... So many karmic possibilities, so few incarnations!
We already did say. Right up the top. One of the first posts in fact.
Other points you may have missed: -
-Flat Earthers
-Sun getting really big and burning everything up
No sign of any "all your base are.." or "I for one welcome our" puns just yet though...
Mmmmmmm..... boogers
And obviously with that happening we'd all be fine...
In fact we'll only be able to take one item of baggage, which will be a clear plastic bag containing essential items only.
And no electronic devices. Or Liquid.
Orbiting balls of rock won't even fit through the scanner.
I was going to attempt to mutter something vaguely amusing about the Earth being/not being the centre of the universe.
:P
But I can't be bothered.
So there.
It's a small NASA movie set!
Plus the human race will have rendered the Earth uninhabitable by then so there'll be nobody to care...
W shld gt rd f thm psky vwls fr strtrs!
Are you a system tester?
Formula/Baby Food must be tasted by the parent/carer in front of security staff in the UK. I dunno if the same applies to US departures.
I'm with you all the way on the liberty thing, but all we're really talking so far is made some people a bit late and made the flight more boring than usual.
I'll grant you that's a massive understatement and they'd be very late due to security delays and very bored due to not having all the usual electronic toys.
But still, that's probably better than being dead. Or living in Milton Keynes.
OtterMan - Half man. Half otter. Scary parents...
Depends if it's a "multiple cell" terrorist operation thingy, and if there's any members that "the authorities" miss.
One plane downed is better than none (in their eyes) so the theoretical "they" could go all lone wolf and try for any result...
Probably best to be over cautious and p*ss off some folks, than to relax and have a few hunder corpses floating in the Atlantic, dontcha think?
For threat level breakdown etc, go http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/current-thr
That made me laugh.
Should be a Monty Python sketch, possible involving an invertabrate or some small harmless mammal.
Quick! Somebody get the poking stick!
Try here: -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Spain
To be fair the target aircraft (apparently up to 10 flights were being targeted for timed explosions) where all bound for the US.
Now we have a situation where the only hand luggage allowed is medicines, wallets, baby food (must be eaten/tasted by parent in front of security staff), sanitary products (unboxed), etc. Shoes must be removed and X-rayed.
Anything electronic must go in the hold (laptops, cameras, gameboys, etc)
No liquids are allowed on US bound flights, due to tip off that liquid explosives would have been involved.
Full info on restrictions
Makes you wonder where they'll be trying to hide explosives next. Full body cavity search for all passengers? It's only a matter of time...
You've done it now!
1. Find place with low crime rate (so relaxed police)
2. Go on a crime spreee.
3. ???
4. Profit
You just commpleted step 1.
Ahh, but it's only a matter of time until they add streaming webcam support for it.
The only tricky bit (for tricky read "damned near impossible" (for "damned near" read totally)) would be getting all the manufacturers to work together using the same standard...
If it's not universal if it was to be supported by the media you'd need a couple of inches for the article and another 3 pages for the scanning sections (for Nokia, scan here; For Samsung scan here, etc).
At least bar codes is kind of established... but you'd still need to store a bar code mapping somewhere - in the tinyurl vein perhaps.
I dunno.
Maybe you'd be better off with a java midlet with tinternet support. Then you could remove the manufacturer from the equation.
Plus the recent Adobe/Macromedia merger will probably result in either: -
-SVG being phased out and replaced by flash
-SVG support being integrated into flash and the flash tools
Since the new Macrobe isn't going to want to support two technologies that are so simliar.