TSA: We Don't Need to See Your Netbooks, Tablets

[JMcEntegart]

The TSA has published a blog post detailing what customers traveling with netbooks, ereaders, tablets and "other small gadgets" can expect when they're going through security.

TSA: We Don't Need to See Your Netbooks, Tablets : Read more

 

[smacks forehead]

No CPU? What does it run on, magic?

 

[Humans think]

[citation][nom]smacks forehead[/nom]No CPU? What does it run on, magic?[/citation]
Even TSA knows that it is not a real CPU

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]smacks forehead[/nom]No CPU? What does it run on, magic?[/citation]
Magic Faerie Dust!

 

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]smacks forehead[/nom]No CPU? What does it run on, magic?[/citation]

Blood of the innocent.

 

[nforce4max]

Sure just pass it through one of those scanners.


Down with the TSA porn machines aka body scanners.

 

[B-Unit]

[citation][nom]smacks forehead[/nom]No CPU? What does it run on, magic?[/citation]
Freshly harvested livers...

OOPS!

 

[warmon6]

[citation][nom]smacks forehead[/nom]No CPU? What does it run on, magic?[/citation]

the "force". Now if we could only use Jedi mind tricks on apple to lower there prices. :lol: jk

 

[calmstateofmind]

Hmmm, I wonder what that A4 thingy is then...

 

[tsnorquist]

I was under the impression it was powered by Apple juice.

 

[Tedders]

So my netbook isn't dangerous, but my laptop could be. K...??

 

[digitalrazoe]

Seriously ... who picks these people ? No CPU .. are you kidding me ? WE are trusting the security to fly in the US and abroad... They make me take my digital recorder out !!! NO CPU ? TSA PLEASE !!! so .. an intel Atom is NOT a cpu ? REALLY ? I really would like to read what their definition of CPU is ...

 

[sliem]

No CPU... of course, it's a iZombie

 

[digitalrazoe]

Airport security seems to be ran by iZombies... there are a few good ones that actually "gets it" the other 95% of them -- I question their mental metal ...

 

[counselmancl]

[citation][nom]smacks forehead[/nom]No CPU? What does it run on, magic?[/citation]
It runs on dreams and wishes harvested from orphaned children.

 

[dman3k]

If you're a middle-eastern looking person, even your toothbrush will be rigorously examined. You might as well just walk into the airport naked and without baggage.

 

[borisof007]

I'm a huge PC Gamer, and I love taking my full sized tower with me when I go see my brother in Pennsylvania. It's always so awkward though when going through security because.... I mean cmon, who the hell brings a full tower on an airplane?

 

[bayouboy]

Every time I fly, TSA had me take my PMP out of it's case and put into a separate bin because they say it is just like a laptop even though it is a handheld device. My PMP is far smaller than a tablet or a iPad. So, if the TSA is no saying that tablets/iPads don't need to be taken out of their case, I guess my PMP won't need to either anymore. However, until now TSA has told me that all devices were to be treated as a laptop.

 

[nebun]

wow, do you know how much damage you can do with the amount of explosive you can stuff in an ipad or ereader??? trust me, while in flight it's a lot of damage. TSA needs to scan these things and make sure that these things are indeed what they are designed to be

 

[noodlegts]

Ugh... even if you're not going to scan them... don't tell us!

It's like they WANT the terrorists to know where to hide explosives...

FAIL

 

[noodlegts]

Lol @ the guy who says it runs on the force.

"These are not the droids you are looking for."

 

[mcshasta]

Don't Apple products have a history of blowing up?

 

[tvel]

By "no CPU or a hard drive" the security meant "no big metal chunks that can be disguised explosives" they are dumb, but not that dumb.

 

[hp79]

Tablets too? My Thinkpad x61t is a tablet. I have SSD instead of HDD, but I think it has a CPU in it. So, do I have to put it in the separate bin for TSA?

 

[silentq]

I think we can safely blame Apple for 2012 when Osama remotely detonates nuclear bomb from an iPad on a plane.