Wii balance board could be used in fruitless airport security effort
By Darren Murph 
posted October 10th 2009 10:02AM
posted October 10th 2009 10:02AM
You know that sweeping feeling of guilt that comes over you every time you're pulled over as part of a "standard traffic stop?" Yeah, those natural emotions are about to make you look incredibly suspicious on the way to your next flight -- or it will if the FAST project is ever turned into reality. The Homeland Security-funded Future Attribute Screening Technology effort, which has already ate away at $20 million in taxpayer dollars, essentially hopes to let flyers keep all of their clothes on while forcing them to stand on a Wii balance board (or similar) and have an array of sensors watch their every reaction to a battery of questions. The problem? Every innocent person on the planet's going to start sweating and shaking just being in that kind of scenario, and only the trained terrorists of the world are apt to be able to put truth aside and fake the machine into thinking everything is cool. Oh sure, we're being a little dramatic here, but seriously -- maybe the TSA should just require a complete life history as a prerequisite to boarding.[Via Popular Science]
seeing as I have an inner ear infection at the moment and my balances is somewhat screwed I take it I should not travel to the USA incase the airport Nazi's think I am a terrorist. Stupid
Because of this kind of BS I don't fly anymore... fuck the man!
Some folks claim that we need the TSA because they protect us from further terrorist attacks. Actually, the terrorists have already won and don't need to attack us again--ever since 9/11 we've been eating ourselves alive out of fear. The only purpose the TSA and its security theater serve is to remind us that we're supposed to be afraid. If we stop, and start behaving rationally, the terrorists will have to attack again to put us back into the downtrodden place we now occupy.
So, be afraid... Be very afraid...
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I dont think that will work in US because when i bought the Wii Balance Board on back it is written MAX 130kg ...so in USA 2/3 are overweight that means very very very very and VERY FAT....All will be broken in 1 day , but that is not a problem will start a new war with Iran or Columbia and make there some new factory and we are back on the track...
Why? Why force people to do this? Why can't I have fingernail clippers on a plane? Why not scissors? Yesterday a guy came into my store brandishing a knife. We hit him with a computer box (if it was on a plane, could've been a piece of luggage) and sat on him until the cops came.
9/11 happened because no one thought it could. When the terrorists got onto the plane, then got up and got into the cockpit, people were initially completely unaware of what could be happening. Today we have US Marshalls on flights and bomb sniffers at airports. That is enough.
What is next, anal probes?