TSA Does Something Good, Flight Attendant Union Complains

[280plus]

What if I choose Rock 

Curses! 

[RevDisk]

What if I choose Rock 

Well played, sir.

[Balog]

http://www.smartertravel.com/travel-advice/you-vs-tsa-how-to-choose-between-body-scanners-and-pat-downs.html?id=7307216

Addresses nothing. I'm still waiting for the video of you mocking the sexual assault victims who think that getting felt up by the TSA was invasive. You're always so big on internet tough guys putting their money where their mouth is, let's see you do the same. Or are you just willing to say that online instead of to their face like the "heroes of the revolution" you like making fun of so much?

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Addresses nothing. I'm still waiting for the video of you mocking the sexual assault victims who think that getting felt up by the TSA was invasive. You're always so big on internet tough guys putting their money where their mouth is, let's see you do the same. Or are you just willing to say that online instead of to their face like the "heroes of the revolution" you like making fun of so much?

i m not much into abusing the already abused.  might suggest the scanner to them.

[ArfinGreebly]

Is there not a smidgen of irony in the above?

[erictank]

i m not much into abusing the already abused.  might suggest the scanner to them.

So that they can have someone(s) leering at an image of their naked body, instead? One detailed enough, as the saying goes, to determine a male's religion?

Yeah, there's no good choice in what you seem content to offer them.

[Balog]

So you're willing to mock people on the internet, but not face to face? Sounds about right.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

So that they can have someone(s) leering at an image of their naked body, instead? One detailed enough, as the saying goes, to determine a male's religion?

Yeah, there's no good choice in what you seem content to offer them.

have you seen the actual scans?
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4679900388000396&pid=15.1

or you like this one better?
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4995820960810345&pid=15.1

like milking a mouse  lots of activity lil result

[erictank]

have you seen the actual scans?
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4679900388000396&pid=15.1

or you like this one better?
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4995820960810345&pid=15.1

like milking a mouse  lots of activity lil result

Yes, in fact, I have - and not the hoax photo you posted in the first link (debunked within minutes of first appearance, years ago), or the derezzed sample which followed either. Benefits of being a member of FlyerTalk.com's Travel Safety and Security board, I guess - the people there have a vested interest in such things, and tend to turn up the actual goods. Try these instead: http://www.nudeoscope.com/Brochure/5a.pdf  Like I said, when you can see nipples, labia, and whether or not the man's circumcized, I'm pretty satisfied to call that a nude image. Think that might be a little traumatizing to a sexual assault victim? How about the "resolution" followup groping which appears to result between a third to a half of the time ANYWAYS, which those who submit to the Nude-O-Scope cannot opt out of?

These images (on the brochure) were, IIRC, available on TS&S in *2008*. Note that the lower-res image to the right on the first page, which is still quite sufficient to give one an eyeful, is now *7* years old - what resolution are the scanners working at today, I wonder? The more-detailed one at the left, specifically stated by official sources (this was on the TSA's website for a while, though I don't believe it is any longer) to be "reduced resolution" - so the REAL picture was even more detailed - was IIRC a 2008 release. And that "software fix" they've been going on about? It's a crock - the machine's still taking, and storing, a nude image of the subject - it HAS to, in order to do the scan. Oh, they don't store it, the machines can't store the images? Proven a lie, by TSA's own requisition order. But then, they've ALWAYS lied, as their initial position on the Nude-O-Scope was that it would *NEVER* be the primary screening tool, you'd ALWAYS be able to choose the walkthrough metal detector and if necessary hand wanding. How's that working out again?

I'll agree that there are so many other reasons to detest the Terrorist Support Agency - but the above is still a valid one.

[Fitz]

There's a blog by a former tsa employee that says that although the screen on the scanner shows an obscure photo, there exists a control room with no surveillance that shows the nudie image

Taking sense away is the name of the blog

[Ben]

And now a Congressman wants to introduce a bill to force TSA to reverse their decision.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/12/mass-congressman-submitting-bill-to-keep-knives-out-airplane-cabins/

[zxcvbob]

I ordered a folding knife with a 6 cm blade just so I can carry one when I fly without a checked bag.  A Buck 385 "toothpick" (1/3 the price of a Case), and it got here yesterday.  I didn't realize how tiny it would be! and this idiot thinks they should be banned again.  A fountain pen or knitting needle (never were banned) would be more dangerous.