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Do these people even have a life?

Or are they - gasp! - androids? Maybe they're jealous of new technology? I'm going to listen to Mr. Roboto from Styxx now.]]>Mar 10th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Apr 24th 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
i think that the problem was that they didn't see a hard drive in the x-ray machine. u know, that uber advanced piece of technology for looking through things whose user never makes ANY mistakes?]]>Mar 10th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 11th 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
I don't think it was a question about believing or not that was a laptop, it was just the fact that the air had edges thinner than accepted.]]>Mar 10th 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/You can't do that since the bomb's USB-connector is too big for the MacBook Air USB-port.]]>Mar 10th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Guess you'll have to link it up wirelessly then... wait.. can't do that on a plane.. :P]]>Mar 10th 2008 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/you need to stop believing in terrorism and terrorists. they don't really exist, and aren't going to pop up from around the corner either. it's just what the government wants you to believe.]]>Mar 11th 2008 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 13th 2008 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
ohh well...take that! Macbook Air will only give ya headache's...in head and wallet....

After this i hope he got a free ticket in first class...]]>Mar 10th 2008 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Sometimes i am glad i don't live in a country with such abusive measures......losing cause TSA inspectors are dumb...]]>Mar 10th 2008 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Checked luggage is most certainly checked. That's why they wipe the little swabs around it before you check-in. They're looking for explosives residue. (This might just be my local CHS - but then again it certainly speeds things up by bringing the screeners to the line instead of vice-versa) ]]>Mar 10th 2008 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Carts of checked baggage go through a roll-through, high-powered X-Ray machine.]]>Mar 10th 2008 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Even if they do cotton swab the outside of the luggage, couldn't whomever that was inclined just WIPE the OUTSIDE of the luggage before entering the airport? This airport security check seems kinda easy to bypass... maybe we should be looking for more stringent tests?]]>Mar 12th 2008 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 16th 2008 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Apr 11th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
What bothers me about this sensationalist story is that it not only points out how stupid TSA is, but, its going to make more technology dummies out there want one. This is the "race to the bottom" the Sony executives mentioned. ]]>Mar 10th 2008 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Why assume I'm from the US ? I don't have to contend with the TSA or any of the security restrictions they impose. ]]>Mar 10th 2008 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/ I could fix the macbook air with a simple redesign in which I'd add a port expander on its spine.

ooh.. and then I bet you'd add a floppy drive, an RS232 port, and a parallel port, to talk to your Epson dot matrix printer.

/fool]]>Mar 13th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Just FYI, but one must book a flight using a hub outside of the US rather early as they're booked out faster than the alternative(i.e. to fly through the US). Almost everyone I know does their damndest to avoid the US because of the possible hassles.

Here are some nice bedtime stories for you (BTW, I know where I am NOT going for a holiday, as there's always Disneyland Paris & Tokyo):

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10470890

http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/gen/34108prs20080213.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/weekinreview/14preston.html?_r=2&ref=weekinreview&oref=slogin&oref=slogin]]>Mar 10th 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Who are you? Are you Jonathan Ive?
Though I don't understand why it would drop firewire port, I don't think this is a "poorly contrived piece of crap" because of an insufficient of ports.

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So is my HTC Touch. Laptops are generally meant to be more productive and full-featured than phones, aren't they?]]>Mar 11th 2008 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 13th 2008 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Or my personal favorite: "Totally Stupid A$$holes!"

They should all be fired!]]>Mar 10th 2008 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/-Haven't experienced TSA: check

Unabashed, ill-informed, biased Apple hating: check]]>Mar 10th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/
Sure SSD manufacturer's could do the same. Overall, I think it's part of corporate responsibility - from "cradle to grave" so to speak. Or perhaps the TSA agent was sick on new techie gadgets training day (if such a thing exists)?]]>Mar 10th 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/Mar 10th 2008 8:14AM