Leave it to the TSA to come up with new ways to check out what you're
packing. In this case, those body-scanning machines we've known about for some time are being installed in 10 airports. They are already being used in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque, and New York's JFK. Later this month, the TSA will add the bum-looking devices to major airports in Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, and Miami. By bouncing millimeter waves off passengers, the scanners produce a black-and-white image that's detailed enough to see the sweat on someone's back (among other things). The program is aimed at detecting objects such as plastic and ceramic weapons that aren't normally picked up by traditional methods. The technology does have a couple drawbacks, however: it can't see through plastic or rubber materials that resemble skin. Keep that in mind the next time you wear vinyl pants on your next trip to Mars, kids.
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posted Jun 6th 2008 4:55PM
Is that a golden shower ?
I don't even want to speculate what's going on there.
At least she's giving some sort of hand signal warning. "stay back!"
Looks like I'm going to be wearing all-rubber from now on.
this picture nearly turned me gay
Americans are so obese now, I don't think I'd wanna be able to see through their clothes. Not even in the interest of National Security.
this picture nearly turned me urophilic
Can't wait for the "throughskirt" sites to appear.
cool, it is in 3d
And can see through your pants...
Do they sell Vinyl undies?
Oh, naive young kids.
Just google "rubber fetish underwear" and you'll do fine.
Personally, I'm looking forward to attaching some extra rubber as I pass through JFK next week.
"Sir, you're going to need to submit to a search."
"Why, because my penis hangs below my knees? Jealous, much?"
Stuff the knife in the infants diapers!
Yes, they do make 3D in 3D now.
Warning! Harmful gas emissions detected!
Get your ass to Mars.
Get your ass to Mars.
Get your ass to Mars.
Get your ass to Mars.
Get your ass to Mars.
/end Arnold
In case anyone needs a crash course in "Get your ass to Mars":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wgzpfHVgIc
are those nipples I see!? Yeah, I don't want some fat slob lookin at my wife's chest. No can do.
But I love your wife's nipples!!!!
@alexander,
Thats called the frightenned timid fool attitude. Its not right to do any of this.
Yeah. If you were secure, you'd let GW, Cheney and Uncle Sam gangbang your wife. You must hate freedom, ethan.
Better to have them see them than feel on them. Seems like a reasonable alternative if you ask me..
what about the gay, fat slob checking out your junk?
@ Alexander ...
I read that as "T&A Security check"
Alexander, Why don't we just let the government install security cameras in all our rooms in all our houses, even in the toilet. Have every word we speak, even while sleeping, be heard by the government. Everything we think about, they know. Wouldn't that be good because then the guy behind you would have been caught long before. Ever heard of Ben Franklin? He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
WTF? Is that a tail?
I think the answer to what was going on there is too disturbing for our minds
Damn, bitch has a weak bladder.
I dont want someone looking at my junk. Way too invasive!!!
I don't want them giving my junk cancer. Not until the second date, at least.
Any particular reason for the bathroom incident in this photo?
You'd pee in your pants too if the TSA said "HANDS UP! WE'RE GOING TO SEE THROUGH YOUR KNICKERS!"
Yes it is what the camera can see of the dress.
i think john is implying that you wear knickers
It's interesting that they've blurred out the cranial region. Is it possible to reconstruct the face based on what muscle and bone structure shows up in these images?
Hasn't El Al not had a hijacking/terrorist incident since the 70's all without using multi-million dollar equipment like this?
I want answers dammit!
In short, no, that is not likely or possible. The blurring is done by a piece of software that is part of the system and placed against the raw image. And since the images are not stored in memory, the likelihood of anything being 'recreated' is non-existent. As someone who has seed the unfiltered image, I have to say that you would not recognize the individual that was scanned even if you did see them, which you never would due to protocol restrictions. IMHO, this is FAR less invasive than a physical pat down not to mention faster and more discreet.
There was one successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft in 1968. Several attempts were later made in the 70s, but none were successful.
Well, yes, but I'm afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid I have something of a mess on my hands.
i just took a flight out of BWI yesterday and i'm nearly positive i saw a sign advertising this while going through security.
Wow, did you think of that all by yourself?
FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP
And I was about to write 'at least they've made it as un-sexy and sterile as possible.'
Nothing would finish that off better than a big "oh yeah".
OH YEAH
Giggity.
Truly invading a person's privacy. It seems like movies such as Gattaca and Minority Report are becoming more real everyday. Watch out! Someday you may not even be able to go to the bathroom without the government's approval.
You won't need the government approval.
But..
They will know who you are, when you went, and have a full drug / DNA test given every time you go.
What do you mean "someday"? I take it you were never in the military...
don't forget 1984 (the book not movie). Its so scary what they can get away with. Doesnt matter to me much as i dont fly anyway, way too bad for the environment. but still, this is down right wrong. thank you George Bush! and all who support him.
A couple of thoughts:
For some reason the scene from Spinal Tap comes to mind... where Derek Smalls has the zucchini (or large cucumber?) wrapped in foil stuck in his drawers.
Apparently it can also detect the presence of tails.
This is... Hawt?
FURRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
though i think that problem might be solved with saran wrap.
Why panties and no bra? Is she a feminist or a s|ut?
Feminist.
Sluts are bra with no panties.
because it can see THROUGH clothes.. lol
I'll take slut for 200.
Slut for 200? Wouldn't that be a whore?
in any case, children, she is wearing a bra-- the "x" shape of the underwire is visible. but maybe you've never seen one before? a girl, i mean?
Let us dream, damnit.
Fortunately, this chick doesn't need to airport security. She is already modded for flight, and ready for take off a la Rocketman.
Those large panties and ripped abs are totally not turning me on!
That's creepy, especially due to the fact that I'll have to go through security at one of those airports (it's actually spelled Albuquerque) on my way to DC next week. Why don't they just ban the use of luggage on planes and save themselves billions of dollars on this kind of pseudo-legal crap. "But we need it for the terrorists!" Yeah, sure, just like we need cameras monitoring everyone at all times to make sure we're not all pedophiles. 1 in a billion. Actually the pedophile idea would probably catch more criminals than the TSA will ever catch terrorists. So I say we do it, and the Bill of Rights be damned!
OHHHHHHHHHHHH YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!
damn reply system!
Haha, works for me!
@Tobias, could you sign my copy of my "The Man Inside Me"?
i had that book, almost read it, but decided to read a script i found called "New Warden".
That just looks downright creepy
I recently flew across the US and back (just returned this week). Twice my carry-on luggage was screened, and on both instances I was allowed to pass unquestioned with my Guitar Hero controller (both pieces), my Wiimote, and the Nunchuck (plus cable), but they took away the ounce of toothpaste I had in my bag.
I really don't understand the point of screening someone for plastic and ceramic weapons hidden on their body when they let me pass with a big hunk of plastic in my bag. It seems easier to spend 70 bucks on a plastic guitar and stick it in your backpack. Or, you know, use your foot to break the seat back tray off, likely resulting in a sharp pointy object. Or snap the window cover off... maybe the overhead compartment door... you could sneak into the back and swipe a glass coffee mug with burning coffee...
Well, I'm not suggesting YOU do any of that. But when you think about it, taking away someone's ounce of toothpaste in the name of security but ignoring a giant hunk of plastic is REALLY F*#%ING STUPID.
Oh, and according to the TSA's website, you ARE allowed to pack screw drivers 7-inches or less in your carry-on luggage, but not a tiny plastic weapon hidden in your pocket?
Whatever these guys are smoking, I want some!
You got it. It's retard security. It's supposed to make morons feel safe - irrelevant whether or not it would stop determined terrorists.
The liquid ban is irritating but at least I can understand the reasoning behind it. One could bring a large amount of liquid explosives on the plane rather easily otherwise. Also, real wanna-be terrorists had actually planned such an attach (in the U.K.).
But banning plastic objects, tiny scissors etc is idiotic. My carry on luggage is a backpack that has two aluminium re-inforcements on the side, each over a foot long. They would make nice machetes with minimum effort. Never been stopped for that - but the backpack has been searched to no end, turned upside down, etc.
You're all focusing on the smudge that looks like piss...I want to know why she's got a package...
Why not combine both topics? And hence:
Why does this be-breasted man have gonorrhea?
She is Rosie O'Donald's mistress.
I would laugh if this was really a post-op transsexual that you are all fapping to.
It's going to be funny when you see airport security getting a boner over the scans. lmao
Forget that, I want to be scanned WITH a raging boner just to freak them out.
Lmao
You all laugh but just wait until you're the featured scanner model and see what is said about you. Think about it. Like security cameras in the dressing rooms at department stores, there will be a group of people sitting behind some glass laughing there asses off and making fun of you too. Now, you still think this is awesome?
She's probably an exhibitionist and signed up for this job knowing full well what it would entail.
actually I DO still think I'm awesome, but that's because my ego competes on a daily basis with my prostate for the privilege of being compared in size to a grapefruit. But more on topic, That's all the more reason why I steal the clothes and take them to a bathroom for fitting and steal them back into the store if it isn't the right size, and the same should be done for security checks at the airport.
At least at the Phoenix airport, if not the rest of the airports where this is deployed, the images from the backscatter XRay machines are reviewed in another building from the terminal. The folks waving you through aren't the ones looking at your spare tire on the screen. And those in the other building see only the picture from the backscatter; they don't see your face.
[p_c_m_d], you really might want to get that checked then. Prostate the size of grapefruit is not generally a good thing.
Only one question: How long for the until the first YouTube video of [pick your celebrity] in one of these machines?
Don't like these things... but hey TSA - aren't those the guys with the nibble piercing procedures?
Can I trade my safety for some privacy?
Can you trade your privacy for my safety?
How can you pierce an action? Or are getting all Shakespearey on me?
p.s. Yeah they do pull you off to the side if your tender-places rings set off the metal detector and everyone in the uniform gets a free look at the gals.
p.s.s. TSA - you owe me some beads.
curse my missing the "Reply" button!...And bad grammar!
*Or are you getting
they'll be profiling hot blondes now. middle easterners are safe!
As if I needed one more reason to abhor airports.
The Airlines have the right to screen passengers! Maybe you have forgotten that they ARE PRIVATE!! In other words they set the rules for ENTRY! If that bothers you walk or swim! Shocking? Well no...it's the truth. No "RIGHTS" were lost.
I thought the TSA is a gov't body/organization?
AND the same laws/morality/ethics we follow the airlines have to as well!
Secondly besides privacy, what health problems does this present?
Asbestos was suppose to be safe, DDT was suppose to be safe, cell phones were suppose to be safe, PCBs were suppose to be safe, and the list goes on and on.
Airlines are private? Are the airlines footing the bill for this thing? I don't think so. We are. Besides, what are you going to tell folks at work when they ask you to on a business trip? You refuse to fly? Good luck.
If it's the airlines that are paying for this machine, and it's the airlines that want it, then tell me which airline(s) is/are involved so that I can go with the competition. That's what a "free" market's all about, right?
later this month in miami...
i guess i'll be one of the first using it, lol, unfortunately...
Upcoming news item:
TSA officials asked to explain unusual spike in additional screening of women aged 18-24.
Official TSA response, "We are protecting freedom. You have to do whatever we want you to do anyway, so why even bother asking? Since we already make people take off their shoes and buy tiny shampoo bottles, we are now looking into making people compete at DDR. Along with requiring everyone to wear giant Mickey Mouse clown gloves and clown noses. Why? Because it amuses us. Oh, and for Freedom. "
The official went on to say, " there has been a further refinement of scanner protocol. As a result, in order for the TSA scanners to work at top efficiency, all women are now asked to not wear bras and panties. If they must, bras and panties must be made of a sheer material and panties must be of the g-string or thong style."
@rip
CEASE YOUR OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION!
Small, small numbers of people have died for acts of terrorism, yet we spend huge amounts of money fighting terrorism. We also give up our freedom and privacy for this non-threat.
The point of terrorism appears to be to REPLACE THE COLD WAR. It keeps everyone afraid, and keeps letting our government officials spend our tax money on overpriced equipment from their corporate friends.
Sad truth.
P.S. I would tell you all the things that regularly slip through the checkpoints, but I do not want to get in trouble. The TSA are totally incompetent, and that is proof that we do not need the TSA.
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The TSA is just genuflection to the police state. It is a physical reminder that we are meant to be afraid.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
[sorry, couldn't resist]
Homeland Security is now a multi-billion dollar organization. As in, a multi-billion dollar company, but with far less legal restrictions.
Homeland security, at this point, NEVER wants to win the war on terrorism. Thousands of people would be out of work and hundreds of companies would lose money. Not to mention losing all the power they now have. While I have no doubt they want to keep people safe, they will ALWAYS want the threat to exist. Because just like a corporation, they want to grow every year, with increased budget and headcount.
FYI, the same logic applies to the DEA.
This is ridiculous. I refuse to show them mine unless they show me theirs.
Careful what you wish for...
I see your Shwartz is as big as mine.
Is she ripping a fart in the picture?
I somehow doubt that's piss, but the machine could be picking up her gas cloud coming out of her ass.