As I joined the herd going through the Cattle Chutes---no, wait, wrong
story---the security checkpoint
at San Francisco International last Sunday, the standard complement of nonsense
pretending to be
balderdash was heaped upon me. Remove your shoes. Remove your jacket.
Take everything
out of your pockets.
Put your laptop computer and mobile phone in the plastic tray that could
otherwise be employed in
the Food Court for clearing dirty dishes and cutlery . . .
Wait a second, I said to the officious official--- I have two computers.
Where's the other computer,
asked the officious official. Here it is, as I took my iPad from its case.
That's an iPad, blathered the officious official---it's not a computer.
Really, that's news to me. There's a powerful processor in there. It runs
the UNIX operating
system, networking, Cocoa Frameworks, and on and on. Really? Not a Computer?
Right, babbled the officious official. Look inside---there's no computer.
So there you have it people. The straight unadorned load of old cobblers
from a representative
of the United States of America Transportation Security Agency (TSA) with a
ruling that An iPad Is
Not A Computer. All attempts to reason with the buffoon were met with the
same mantra:
Look Inside---There Is No Computer.
Cheers,
. . . . . . . . Henry
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