Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van 313
Velcroman1 writes "In August, Slashdotters learned that full-body scanners were roaming the streets in vans: 'The same technology used at airport check points, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on US streets where law enforcement agencies have deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs. Fox took a ride in one of the $800,000 vans, videotaping the entire event — and continues the debate about security, privacy, and health risks."
Re:Purpose? (Score:3, Funny)
if they can see through cars... (Score:1, Funny)
I guess a tinfoil suit is not going to work, eh?
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Re:Purpose? (Score:3, Funny)
I guess it works. Your statement about 8 million flights without a successful terrorist attack almost sounds like an endorsement.
In unrelated news... (Score:5, Funny)
In totally unrelated news, statistics show that tall, slender and well endowed women are more prone to being terrorists, not young middle-eastern bearded men.
Re:Purpose? (Score:5, Funny)
8 million flights without a successful terrorist attack since 9/11.
Stop these "measures", and attacks will resume. The whole purpose of terrorism is to, well, cause fear, and what's better than having the State do it for you?
The best way to avoid terrorism is to live in fear all the time.
Re:Health risk (Score:2, Funny)
Is that so much to ask for safety???
Re:Dumb to use away from points of entry (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:How does this happen? (Score:2, Funny)
You really believe either of the two parties in power in the US gives a shit about you and your individual rights? Obama is just as bad as Bush was, and Clinton and Bush before them.
The reason why people haven't burned DC down is because 90+% vote for those two parties, thinking that they are different. They are just two sides of the same coin. If you vote, and vote for "change" and yet vote for one of the two parties, and you deserve to get what you get, more of the same.
Libertarians are outraged, but we're also marginalized to meaninglessness. Nobody cares, and that is why DC still stands.
Ahh, but if you're a Libertarian, and someone is burning down DC, you'll need to find out if they've paid their annual firefighting insurance payment before putting out said fire.
(I leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide whether I'm making a joke, social commentary, both, or neither.)
Re:Health risk (Score:3, Funny)
[sarcasm]
There was no problem with the Therac-25. The problem was that the targets being examined had too low of a tolerance to radiation.
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Re:Dumb to use away from points of entry (Score:5, Funny)
What happened to our van? (Score:5, Funny)
"Hey, what happened to our backscatter van?"
"Well, we drove by a container full of parabolic satellite dishes, and our input stages were fried."
It's a dream I have...