meh, the risk of letting it sit there is far to high. They may be unpredictable, but they're not totally off the wall bonkers. Well - that's subjective I suppose.

A/C - if they didn't exist, the flight attendants would just file the bomb err robot in with missing stuff for later claiming. Think of the human productivity cost of this entire stupid affair.

If it was a bomb, it would have been blown up midair most likely. So TSA didn't solve anything here, they just acted like assholes and made a bunch of hubbub.

Great job!

My leg is fake, and full of TNT. We should ban all legs from planes. Sadly then I will have to walk to the east coast and that's really hard with my fake, TNT filled leg.

Now that I think about it, we should ban all solid objects from planes, who knows what's inside!?!? Open it? No! What if it's a bomb?!?!? RUN, RUN AWAY!

Isn't the point here that it got on the airplane? That makes the TSA look like they are CYA by making a little show of handcuffing kids. Shouldn't this be a wake up call that the TSA isn't effective? One of dozens this week perhaps? nope.

Of course kids can be trained as terrorists, so maybe they should be shot immediately and the news of such blacked out - so I don't get distracted from buying things and supporting the economy. I dont' want the terrorists to win after all.

Still - remarkably flawed thinking - so flawed I would call it absurdist. Idiotic may be a bit more inflamitory, and therefore, appropos.
If anyone has to point out how this is so, the terrorists have already won, and society is d00m3d

Please, lets just cut out the middleman of elapsed time and seal everyone into padded cells so citizens can be assured of their personal safety. If our children are threatened by these riots, there is no action strong enough to protect their physical safety - even if it means mental enslavement.

Sorry, I took my tinfoil hat off to comb my hair. Never do that again!

So the market looks likes it's going like this - mobile & thin clients for consumers and light producers of content, workstations for people making computationally expensive "stuff", and servers serving up stuff for both groups. Just my opinion, but it's well reasoned.

It doesn't matter what host OS you'll be using for your apps - it'll be over HTTP and everyone knows that linux and friends are the best choice on the server side. :P
Hence, linux is on the desktop - just not occupied with the boring crap of running a browser GUI.

Server is the desktop. It just comes over the "cloud". duh, winning.

OP is a troll though all the same.

Oh dad, get off the network before you tell everyone about your trip to thailand last year.

Hey, tell your dad thanks for putting up with all the garbage and trying to make a difference.

- A. Taxpayer

+1, awesome observation.

I'm just pointing out a major application - that's not so major anymore - Common Desktop Environment uses this acronym :)
Does sound like a neat tool though!

You are of course, absolutely correct.