I agree with another poster. If MS had included such functionality in Vista the Slashdot crowd would have been up-in-arms about the privacy implications, but Apple does it and its suddenly a good thing? I know the average Slashdot reader is incredibly biased and hypocritical to MS, but this one is too obvious.
So in a few years when Al Gore's predictions come through and the entire earth is covered in water we can just start converting it to hydrogen fuel for our boats? Maybe "Waterworld" would have been a bigger success is Costner had incorporated this idea...
Ahh, but so far all the terrorists have been Muslim.
Replace terrorists with airline hijackers and Muslim with Middle Eastern and this statement would be better. I believe this is what the poster probably meant. As this article relates to searches in regards to airlines, in particular airlines in the United States, and history has shown us that hijackers in the United States fit a certain age group and ethnicity, I do not feel it is unreasonable to search more of the individuals fitting that description than say, women aged 50-70.
In regards to the religion of the individuals, it is their motivation, but you cannot racially profile by a religion. And terrorists is far too broad a term to delineate into any particular racial stereotype.
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I agree with another poster. If MS had included such functionality in Vista the Slashdot crowd would have been up-in-arms about the privacy implications, but Apple does it and its suddenly a good thing? I know the average Slashdot reader is incredibly biased and hypocritical to MS, but this one is too obvious.
So in a few years when Al Gore's predictions come through and the entire earth is covered in water we can just start converting it to hydrogen fuel for our boats? Maybe "Waterworld" would have been a bigger success is Costner had incorporated this idea...
Ahh, but so far all the terrorists have been Muslim.
Replace terrorists with airline hijackers and Muslim with Middle Eastern and this statement would be better. I believe this is what the poster probably meant. As this article relates to searches in regards to airlines, in particular airlines in the United States, and history has shown us that hijackers in the United States fit a certain age group and ethnicity, I do not feel it is unreasonable to search more of the individuals fitting that description than say, women aged 50-70.
In regards to the religion of the individuals, it is their motivation, but you cannot racially profile by a religion. And terrorists is far too broad a term to delineate into any particular racial stereotype.