On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:49 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: > > > And it won't have a monitor attached, so you can't just > > turn it on and let them see the flashy little lights their pea-sized > > intelligence can barely recognize as not being a bomb. > > As if the amount of semtex that would fit in a CD-ROM drive bay is > meaningless...
My other point is that it would be easy enough to hide semtex or some other explosive in a fully functional laptop. Many laptops have 2 battery bays, for instance, and one of the batteries could really be semtex. And even if they are bright enough to check both batteries separately, it could be hidden elsewhere. The real answer to "terrorism" is not to go fascist and id, probe, pat down, scan, and search every passenger, 99.999999% of which have no intentions of blowing up the plane. The real answers lies with a change in US foreign policy. Oh, well, slipping into politics... -Fred _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
