http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/ Engadget Comments for Flying today? Say hello to the TSA for us http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/
I agree. I go out of my way to be as quick as possible and have all my crap ready once I get to the head of the line, but there is always some asshole who is running late and being pushy. If they are that late, that's their problem, not mine, and it's likely they have to do the same thing I do, and there are people behind them too. Over time I've learned to ignore them, and on the rare occasion that one of them gets too pushy, I'm ready with an f-bomb and a middle finger. I generally travel with an SLR and a laptop, so this is always a big pain in the ass.



]]>Aug 16th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/On a note. I have NEVER seen anyone NOT take there laptop out at the airport. ]]>Aug 16th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 17th 2008 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 17th 2008 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 18th 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 25th 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/
I really wanted to say, can't you read?]]>Aug 16th 2008 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/I think you guys missed the sarcasm there.
Good job!

Cheers,
Darius]]>Aug 17th 2008 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/
It's interesting to note that the 'checkpoint friendly' are like none of the styles made in the last 10 years that most corporations use. Wonder if someone lobbied for that to make a few million businesses upgrade their laptop bags. I don't know about every one but I don't get a new laptop bag that often, in fact, I've never gotten a new one in the ten years with the company i'm with. I haven't needed one. Sure the laptop changes but the bag didn't need too.

Now, to 'streamline' the process I have to ditch everything I've used for years. Instead of them adapting their process to work on bags people use, they come up with some new shit.

It's just tiresome, and why I switched positions to one where I don't have to fly at all.]]>Aug 17th 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/
Asking why it's okay if bag is on top of laptop as opposed to laptop inside bag was the start of one of my many incidents with airport security -- I'm a smart-ass trouble-maker apparently.]]>Aug 16th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/fortunately now you can choose between the flappy old one or the new slim pack.]]>Aug 17th 2008 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/
--- Benjamin Franklin]]>Aug 16th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/
You know, like tapped phones and emails. That's a big deal to me.]]>Aug 16th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/laptops-can-be-confiscated-and-searched-at-us-border-without-cau/

it's true you don't, technically, have to travel. but when the state
(the TSA) can confiscate your personal property (your laptop) at will
and without explanation, that is generally considered a threat to
liberty. it was a contributing cause of both the english civil war
and the american revolution. something has gone very, very wrong
here.]]>Aug 17th 2008 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/
I don't believe that when Benjamin Franklin lived they had airplanes or portable nuclear devices that could wipe out an entire city on take-off or approach.]]>Aug 17th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 17th 2008 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/I would also settle for cake, but of course I would have to fly Church of England for that.]]>Aug 20th 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/I believe you put your 'of' in the wrong place, before insulting one's fellow man, be sure that your retort is a valid one. ]]>Aug 16th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/flying-today-say-hello-to-the-tsa-for-us/Aug 16th 2008 5:58PM