The Zürich airport started trialling such a device a few weeks ago, according to local papers. I don't know if it's the same one, but I certainly look forward to getting rid of this ridiculous limitation in the future...
Who said anything about beating off to pictures of 14 year olds? I said that 14+ is not a pedophilia.
If you'd RTFA, the most active subreddit now banned by Reddit was called
What's up with the moderation to this article? Everyone opposed to trading child porn pictures on Reddit is getting modded down, and everyone defending possession of those pictures is getting modded up. Please tell me Slashdot's moral compass isn't that horribly screwed up.
No, but those of us who agree with you are not logged on to Slashdot 24/7, unlike those who disagree with you, apparently (draw your own conclusions!). Therefore, the initial mods sent you down, but in the time since then you've been modded back up.
Because 2nd grade English class is not a prerequisite for Slashdot editors. We don't learn it that way in school, rest assured.
I'm currently working a contract with Darden Restaurants, the largest full service retaurant company in the world, and as you can imagine they are very serious about security.
Right, that because the restaurant industry is the first one that comes to mind when I think of "serious about security".
The new regulations recently proposed by the European Commision can result in fines of up to 2% of revenues. Not profits, revenues. That's not puddly by anyone's definition.
Additionally, the EU is perfectly willing to prevent EU companies from dealing with non-EU companies who don't comply. If FaceBook doesn't have EU advertisers on their system, all EU users suddenly become a drain on FaceBook resources for no gain. Yet if they leave the market, previously 2nd-rate competitors (such as Google+) get a huge surge in Europe, which may / will help them break into other markets.
In the end, FaceBook will comply.
By that logic, you're defining porn as information. Really, it can be entertaining, but informative? What, was he watching a how-to video (cuz I don't think Debbie Does Dallas qualifies)?
To be fair, the same process works in reverse for "liberals." It's a sad human tendency, but clear.
I think the reason is more simple than that. Some TSA officers probably feel like they have an axe to grind with the Pauls over their anti-TSA statements. This is a simple case of getting even. That much said, both Rand and Ron are right in the matter. I am not really much of a fan of Rand, but his father Ron I'd like to see as the next President. The reality, however, is a long shot.
That's an awfull lot of credit you're giving to the TSA guys. You think they know which politician says what? They watch c-span or read slashdot or what?
...are on the "non-believers".
Religion is the most dangerous thing facing our population, not overpopulation. They all claim to be peaceful, but criticize them - and you'll see their true nature.
Do you realize that you're the first step on a dangerous road? Your generalizations will lead to believers being the next group hunted. I'm an atheist myself, but stating that religion is the most dangerous problem faced by society is both ridiculously naive and dangerous. There are believers who are a problem, but that does not mean that all religious types are nut cases.
that if somehow the USA just stopped meddling in world affairs the rest of the world would stop menacing and grow more peaceful and harmonious... That is so naive it's hard to even want to debate the point.
When was the last time anybody tried to invade Switzerland?
You mean a very poor country that had nothing but hard-to-cross mountains for most of the last centuries? Who would have wanted to? Yes, we're well off these days, but there was little reason to invade in the past, aside from control of trade routes.
That said, the Germans planned to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum
Even the French walked in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Napoleonic_era
So you might want to research your examples better, or perhaps understand that history doesn't show what you want it to show.
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