Tell that to the guy who blew the whistle and leaked the information. WikiLeaks merely made available what information was given to it. You know, kind of like how whistle blowers used to hand information over to journalists? There are people doing bad things, people willing to take risks to make those bad things come out in the open and then people willing to have a website that shows the bad things that people leaked. You're mad at the wrong people.

No, now they will spin this as an attack against our economy too.

Insightful? This was a joke. Fanboi-ism at it's finest!

Students really should be hog tied and gagged. This will stop them from using their bodies as weapons (fists, feet, teeth, sheer mass pushing another mass, etc). Also, put each child into a little divider/cubicle so none of them can give "evil glances" that might emotionally harm another student. Completely immobilize and segregate each child, no harm can be passed from one to another!

A bomb sniffing dog is better than any human/machine combo, they are also a lot cheaper. Metal detectors get the obvious knives/guns/etc. Xray machines look at baggage (allow the dogs to sniff that too). What have we left out? Besides the billion dollar security industry profits?

Entirely agree. Good point. Locking the cockpit was a good and most likely effective post-9/11 change. I'd support keeping those in place. Everything else however...

Quick question. How many bombs have made it on planes in spite of the new, post 9/11 security theater and how many have been stopped? That's right, not one, ONE, report of a bomb being found/stopped by security. Passengers on the other hand, they all but kill the "terrorists".

But this is kind of interesting. Why are we drawing parallels between 9/11 and bombs? 9/11 was perpetrated by Saudi's with box cutters. No bombs were used or required. With all of our bomb sniffing/detecting/fondling methods, 9/11 still would have happened. We are not safer.

And the interesting part is, I doubt the passengers will go for that. I'd bet the farm that the passengers would all but kill, if not kill, the assailant(s). The images of 9/11 won't fade easily and until they do no one will risk being slammed into a building.

So, your argument boils down to: if we drop the theater and go back to metal detectors only, then 9/11 style hijackings in the US would be "common" again (mind you they only ever happened once on US soil, hence the date describing them)? Also mind you, they had no explosives, etc. Just box cutters.

Sorry, but no. Case in point, even with "enhanced" security we still had shoe and underpants bomber "terrorists" get through. Security hasn't gained us anything. Awareness of the fact that not all hijackings end up in safe landings has forced the public's hand in dealing with the threat in the air. We all but kill them now.

The attitude shift _alone_ will stop hijackings. Now random bombs in bags, ok, screen bags with dogs and sending them through scanners. Problem pretty much solved, or at least reduced to near zero, just as it was before.

And the amount of people who will die in car accidents to and from the airports will be higher than that, but that is besides the point. I haven't verified the math, but it would be interesting if true that statistically more people would be hurt/killed from the scanners than from "terrorist" events themselves.

Seriously, since 9/11 we have gone from a "let the hijackers land where they want and don't fuss" mentality to a "kill the fucker" sport mentality. Hijackings, at least on US flights are a thing of the past. Sure, ok, finding an explosive is a good thing, but at what cost? The chances of being on a plane with a bomb are so tiny it isn't even worth worrying about.

Lets go back to metal detectors to get the obvious and maybe walk bomb sniffing dogs through often enough to deter would-be "terrorists". Oh, and scan checked luggage all you want, just stop stealing from it, ok?

Nude photos and fondling my (and everyone elses) man bits isn't making me feel safer, it's just making me want to fly less and make me loathe my government even more. I'm spending less and the government is spending more. What a great recipe.

I would love a quake remake! I loved multiplayer in it as well. Couldn't get enough of CTF when if first came out (mod community)!

The problem is, what stops you, as a scalper, from buying out every ticket you possibly can through whatever means necessary, and then jack the prices up? I have no problem with a guy buying 2 tickets and selling them if he can't go. The problem comes up when someone buys them all merely to resell them at a profit. It's the same idea behind the limits on purchases of heavily discounted items like TV's, etc. You can't just go in and buy them all just to turn around and sell them at a profit. With limited quantities (tickets, discounted items, etc) you have to put limits/rules in place or the only people buying them are those that want to profit off it.

No, because if you want into the main market with Android, you play by Google's rules. But _nothing_ stops you from making your own market. There are already a ton of apps located outside the official marketplace that you can go and get. This is the huge advantage with Android. With the iWhatever, you are utterly locked into Steve Jobs Market, that's it. End of Story. As an Android user, I welcome new markets. Sprout them up!

For one, I'm just finishing Battlestar Galactica. I never saw it on tv so this is my first run through. I have watched the whole series (new one, minus the first 2 episodes that are disc only, go figure) on Netflix in HD. It's also a great way to watch random movies without having to sort through torrents, wait for them to finish, upload them to my htpc, etc. Also helps that I only get OTA programming. I also refuse to pay $80+/mo for TV.