On 18 August 2010 23:57, Jacob Meuser <jake...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:28:57PM +0300, Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My post was not intended as a direct hit for the article. I told my >> opinion to misc@ because undeadly ask for subscription, no more >> anonymous coward post. Am I wrong ? >> >> I target airport behaviour with my comment. I use the airport for 6 >> flight until now, no problem at all with security teams. I was quick >> and polite in answers and the time with them was short. Most of them >> have the "nose" to see what they are dealing with. > > bullshit. sorry, but that is not true. > > I regularly get picked on by "authority", but it's alwasy just been > a pointless hassle. I'll never forget the time a cop stopped me > in my own neighborhood, in the rain, for walking against a signal, > when his car was the only moving vehicle within a half mile. the > best part was when he dropped his papers in a puddle.
Flying from Melbourne to Sydney, at the Qantas baggage scanner I was very sternly challenged as to what exactly an item was on my keyring (a rubber Corsair Flash Voyager GT 16GB thumbdrive). Before I could answer, she said "is this an MP3 player!?", as if it was a crime. "No, it's a thumb drive storage device", "oh okay then". Seriously. I'd hate it to have been one of the new Corsair Padlock2 drives, complete with number pads and blinken lights that blinken with key presses without the need for power from a computer. I'm sure it would have been taken for a wireless detonation device. Then when I carry on lots of explosives (spare Li-ion laptop batteries on account that we can't courier them any more with laptops between offices!), nobody blinks an eye! Even though I now know that I had too many of them. Shane
