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michaelleung: What about Al Kyder?
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Ois: That was just for you (and any other Chaser fans) to see if you would spot it :)

Ha, that was a funny one though. You'd get stabbed if you did that today though.
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michaelleung: What about Al Kyder?
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Ois: That was just for you (and any other Chaser fans) to see if you would spot it :)

Lol you guys are awesome. Its good to see there are some people who know chaser on here.
Wow, I'm a terrorist. I'd always be afraid of being taken out just because it is possible, even though I don't do anything wrong. Then knowing how some air travel companys are, and after looking Mayday and having a natural fear of flying in a plane, I'm surely afraid each time I travel via plane - which was not once in the past five years.
So yeah, I'm a terrorist by that system. Just one more reason to be afraid of air travel.
But then I'm a gentleman. Gentlemen will walk but never run. Too bad I dislike traveling per ship even more...
Well, honestly. I am a terrorist! I killed the whole world in Pandemic II, including Madagascar!
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Ois: That was just for you (and any other Chaser fans) to see if you would spot it :)
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SirCabbage: Lol you guys are awesome. Its good to see there are some people who know chaser on here.

Damn them for ending it!
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Protoss: I killed the whole world in Pandemic II, including Madagascar!

How you bastard?!! that bloody island shuts its goddamn port at the earliest sign of trouble
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michaelleung: Damn them for ending it!

They plan to be back in some other format. Controversial skits will be back sometime in the future :)
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Protoss: I killed the whole world in Pandemic II, including Madagascar!
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BladderOfDoom: How you bastard?!! that bloody island shuts its goddamn port at the earliest sign of trouble

Either really carefully, or by restarting until you begin in that country. Frustrating indeed.
Though, with everything being tracked online, part of me expects us gamers gaming habits will be used as part of the profile.
On that off-topic note, start on Greenland (important), buy all resistances to I, Moisture II, Drug IV, sell your first illness, wait until the whole world is infected (at my third attempt I got all countries) and then buy everything that can be lethal and expose people, at first Kidney Failure and then most from Tier I and II. I read that on a guide on a big flash website and it worked.
Now back to topic!
Post edited October 07, 2009 by Protoss
Airport security will stay very strict and might even become more stricter.
In order to save money and time they'll probably try to do more things online, like checking in and do a first passport control.
It's possible to hide a bomb in someones rectum and detonate it using a telephone.
A suicide attack has already been done that way, see http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/10/06/french_warn_of_body_bomb_threat
Post edited October 07, 2009 by HertogJan
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Aliasalpha: Fidgetting, increased heart rate, temperature changes and subtle facial expressions... the characteristic marks of a terrorist.
Or a nervous flyer.
Or someone sick

Bingo. This kind of automated behavioral profile is idiocy of the first order. Even actual people trained to do this kind of thing have pretty poor hit rates, and trying to automate the process results in even worse results. Additionally, if you're using an automated system and looking for a very, very small number of people among a very large group you need very high accuracy or the system will be completely swamped with false-positives. Even if the system being proposed had a 95% accuracy rate (hahahahahaha... whew, that was a good one), it would end up being wrong over 99% of the time it flagged someone and basically be doing nothing but generating false positives. In short, these kinds of proposals are just incredibly stupid security theater.
I'm going to go with the general consensus here and express my concern about this technology.
I also can't imagine the Department of Homeland Security actually abandoning any existing screening mechanism, even if the new technology does work out.
I expect the future of such a system would mean more questions while you go through security, more cameras zoomed in on my face, extra wait times, and a higher ticket fee on account of increased airport security.
On a positive note, I've seen quite a few signs at US airports talking about the technology research they're doing on existing x-ray screening, which may mean that we're allowed to keep our shoes on and leave our laptops in our bags anyway.
I figure people afraid to fly will be labeled terrorists, along with people afraid of dogs when them drug hounds pass right next to you. Oh, and you better not run to try and catch your flight or your heart rate and temperature change will SCREW YOU.
What happens if you manage to sneak something illegal into someone else's luggage, clothes or what have you? The carrier would be totally unaware of it. Doing it this way obviously excludes the carrier's rectum as storage space though.
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El_Caz: What happens if you manage to sneak something illegal into someone else's luggage, clothes or what have you? The carrier would be totally unaware of it. Doing it this way obviously excludes the carrier's rectum as storage space though.

Hehe that depends how drunk you get them surely
They need SOMETHING new. If it's correct that that guy in saudi arabia blew himself up with an internal bomb that wasn't caught by any metal detectors.... that essentially means that all airport security is worthless now. :-(
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soulgrindr: They need SOMETHING new. If it's correct that that guy in saudi arabia blew himself up with an internal bomb that wasn't caught by any metal detectors.... that essentially means that all airport security is worthless now. :-(

If by "worthless" you mean that someone particularly determined can get a bomb onto a plane, then airport security is, always has been, and always will be worthless. Current airport security is particularly weak surrounding the access that mechanics, baggage handlers, etc have, but as these people need this kind of access to do their jobs there's not all that much that can be improved there. Passenger screening is also fairly laughable, as while they're busy confiscating your water bottle they're still letting plenty of knives and even the occasional gun slip through (there are quite a few recorded instances of people inadvertently having these things in their bag, only to realize it after their flight). And yet despite all of this, we're not having planes hijacked or blown out of the sky left and right, because people going after planes are actually pretty damn rare, the existing security provides a fairly strong deterrent as it is, and good old fashioned police work can nab most of these plots while they're still only in the planning stages.
However, none of this stops people from freaking out (with the help of the government most of the time) every time some incident or near-miss happens, and exclaim "OMG, we're not secure enough. Someone needs to do SOMETHING!" And as a result we get some new security measure that's flashy, inconvenient, and actually doesn't increase overall security in any meaningful way. It's all just security theater, designed to convince folks who don't understand security that SOMETHING is being done.
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soulgrindr: They need SOMETHING new. If it's correct that that guy in saudi arabia blew himself up with an internal bomb that wasn't caught by any metal detectors.... that essentially means that all airport security is worthless now. :-(
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DarrkPhoenix: If by "worthless" you mean that someone particularly determined can get a bomb onto a plane, then airport security is, always has been, and always will be worthless. Current airport security is particularly weak surrounding the access that mechanics, baggage handlers, etc have, but as these people need this kind of access to do their jobs there's not all that much that can be improved there. Passenger screening is also fairly laughable, as while they're busy confiscating your water bottle they're still letting plenty of knives and even the occasional gun slip through (there are quite a few recorded instances of people inadvertently having these things in their bag, only to realize it after their flight). And yet despite all of this, we're not having planes hijacked or blown out of the sky left and right, because people going after planes are actually pretty damn rare, the existing security provides a fairly strong deterrent as it is, and good old fashioned police work can nab most of these plots while they're still only in the planning stages.
However, none of this stops people from freaking out (with the help of the government most of the time) every time some incident or near-miss happens, and exclaim "OMG, we're not secure enough. Someone needs to do SOMETHING!" And as a result we get some new security measure that's flashy, inconvenient, and actually doesn't increase overall security in any meaningful way. It's all just security theater, designed to convince folks who don't understand security that SOMETHING is being done.

But they need to do SOMETHING!!!