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Comment Re:Christmas is coming early this year (Score 1) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @10:50AM (#47399599) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

Can you even do that? If I remember correctly you can't just stop in the middle of security procedure and go back. So your $500 precious is going to some happy TSA goon anyway.

Comment Re: Land of the fee (Score 2) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @09:10AM (#47398831) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

Be happy you are *still* allowed to keep your trousers on.

Comment Re:Actually makes good sense (Score 2) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @09:09AM (#47398825) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

Of course I would care if my bomb was stolen! It takes quite a lot of money and effort to build one so I would be very unhappy if it went missing.

Comment Re:No it makes no sense at all (Score 1) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:44AM (#47398617) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

I honestly do not get what this "powering on of electronics" is supposed to achieve. Only the most idiotic of plots would be foiled by this.

- please turn on the laptop
- [it powers up, truecrypt prompt shows up]
- come with me please, you have been randomly selected for additional screening

Comment Re:Actually makes good sense (Score 2) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:33AM (#47398543) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

Well, I hope your luck holds. You might be careful when flying from these airports: The Top 20 Airports for TSA Theft

Comment Re:Actually makes good sense (Score 1) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:30AM (#47398525) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

Well, it is your problem if you miss the flight, not theirs. And don't act as if you are in great hurry, they might take you for more in-depth check just for the hell of it.

Comment Re:Actually makes good sense (Score 2) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:20AM (#47398449) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

Are you kidding? Checked baggage is scanned as well. Actually if you put electronics (or any valuables) in your checked baggage, you have good chance of never seeing them again.

Comment Re:Actually makes good sense (Score 5, Interesting) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:12AM (#47398407) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

And if I can power my laptop up (for 5 minutes should be good enough), how can they tell that 90% of battery is not packed with explosives?

Comment Christmas is coming early this year (Score 5, Funny) 702

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:07AM (#47398381) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

All those free phones, tablets, laptops, etc. - it is great to be working for TSA!

Comment Re:This is so incredibly stupid. (Score 1) 415

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @04:25AM (#47397907) Attached to: Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory

You do realize how suspicious this behaviour is?

Comment Re:Sooo (Score 2) 415

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @04:00AM (#47397841) Attached to: Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory

Fornicating underage squirrels? Of course dog would recognize it.

Comment Re:Any Memory?? what judge will go on just that? (Score 1) 415

by qbast on Monday July 07, 2014 @03:57AM (#47397835) Attached to: Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory

5. There is always old but good 'I smelled marijuana'

Comment Re:Are we sure it's about boredom? (Score 1) 333

by qbast on Friday July 04, 2014 @08:50AM (#47382969) Attached to: Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts

During 15 minutes? Maybe his hand was twitching from a shock.

Comment Re:Legal Precedent? (Score 1) 495

by qbast on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:18AM (#47358859) Attached to: Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains

If Microsoft abuses this, judges won't be so inclined to grant such requests in the future.

Have you read the summary? MS is already abusing this. As another commenter mentioned, this makes as much sense as seizing all AWS equipment and handing it to Amazon's competition to 'sort problems out'.

Comment Re:Let's sure Microsoft over Windows insecurities (Score 1) 495

by qbast on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:11AM (#47358825) Attached to: Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains

Microsoft does not think so - they went after no-ip after all.

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