Now go and try this at home. The idea is that little efforts won't get you success. It will require a complex enough effort to get you through it that it will at least discourage a large part of these groups from even coming close to success.

So the question here is: Is it possible you will deter explosives inside electronics? National security experts seem to think so.

I'm sure your enormous amount of experience in national security is why you are so much wiser than the existing members in charge of national security.

Life smaller than money (it didn't take the markup char)

Sure, but most explosive materials are easily visible if not concealed in the LCD screen or the battery itself. What the check does (and my understanding it's thorough) is that the components that CANNOT be checked via X-ray will be hopefully caught using the "turn on" policy. Although the article doesn't specify this, common practice in the past was to only force this extra step on laptops for which the X-ray could not get a good reading on.

TSA is going to get lots of heat for this (same as in the 90s when this process was originally implemented and then removed) and they know it. They would not do this if national security didn't require it. It only affects overseas flights in case you didn't read the article.

Moral of your argument: Life money.

MIND BLOWN!

Any proof of this or you own personal speculation.

how many will it take for it to be a problem. Do we have to wait for a plane to fall from the sky to be pro-active?

There was a shoe bomb. Electronics are hard to screen using the xray. Shoes aren't.

So you don't carry around your charger?

I don't see a problem showing a device is working as intended. If it can prevent even one bomb from going on a plane it's well worth it.
I don't see why people are getting bent out of shape about this. Take a chill pill people.

Another extremely negative person in this world. Who give a F***. We love it and that's it. You can stick to your paper book, we enjoy being lazy and watching a great show and GoT offers exactly that.

You completely missed the point. Speaking of the alternative way to deal with this...

It's not bankrupt. You don't understand what it means. There are other ways to pay back a debt other than to take tax dollars from citizens. The country isn't at the point of bankruptcy.

I agree. We can have people go ape shit because ONE problem isn't being resolved by the authorities or people are being unreasonable. IMHO it's easier to just lower your window and nicely tell them they are causing danger for other drivers and should consider getting a blue tooth device. Sure some will tell you to go F yourself but some will think twice before picking up the phone.

Actually it just shows me MS might be growing out of their shell. In the past they would have avoided doing this by any means but now they have acquired a company and decided that it is somewhat neutral to it's own objectives. This is the best way to move forward as a business.

It's not the point. The point is to take a material that does nothing and to make it useful again. There's only so much plastic you can convert back into carpet and other non critical product. If this isn't BS and the result of the transformation is more fuel than what was used then it's a no brainer. The technology will be adopted and improved which will have even bigger ROI.

Currently we pay to get rid of plastic. This allows making plastic disposal lucrative and that in my books is a positive ROI.

I don't think it has anything to do with courage. Businesses have to be able to leverage the patent to repay R&D cost. I know not all patents fall under this category but many do.

Tesla is niche enough that they can afford to do it because it won't prevent them from recovering their R&D cost. But not all products or business models allow for easy return on R&D investments.