MacBook Air stumps TSA agents, owner misses flig

Yahoo Tech ^ | Mar 10, 2008 | N/A

[purpleraine]

first mobile computer

[dennisw]

funy funny funny

[Fundamentally Fair]

...but only after he'd missed his flight.

TSA Meets Its Goal!

[al_c]

Misses Flig?

[martin_fierro]

Accidentally left one of these in my briefcase while passing through TSA Xray Security at SJC -- they were a little wigged out by it.

[Andonius_99]

Why does the computer in your photo need a STEERING WHEEL? Where is it supposed to be going?

Duh! Where do you think you install the drivers?

[martin_fierro]

See here

[Freeport]

You first.... Let us know how that sixth cavity search works out for ya...

[Mr. Jeeves]

Is that a Cray?

It's a fake Photoshopped image purporting to be an old IBM mainframe - the wheel is actually from a submarine. It's been kicking around the Internet for while.

[Eye of Unk]

I hear some guy had a cold fusion device built that he was taking to a manufacturer that would allow our cars to run off of coffee grinds but it was mistaken for a terrorist device and blown up.

[gridlock]

I think they are trained to look for spinning drives on the X-Ray. No spinning drives means “suspicious”, as far as the TSA is concerned. The eeePC looks like a big block of battery connected to some electronics, which is not a profile the screener wants to see.

They are going to have to get with the program. Solid state is going to get more and more prevalent. I don't need to haul around a disk drive everywhere I go, when 4GB of flash memory costs $40.

[martin_fierro]

Let us know how that sixth cavity search works out for ya..

Why am I thinking that that's not my belly button.

[ottbmare]

Duh! Where do you think you install the drivers?

Duh indeed! (The OTTB mare smacks herself in the forehead) I should've realized that. Thanx.

[longtermmemmory]

TSA approved?

since when does the government get to approve innovation?

[Fresh Wind]

It’s a Cray model Z.

[Erasmus]

Well it was just one of those fligs
Just one of those cra-a-zy fligs
A flig to the moon on gossamer wigs
It was just one of those fligs

[Erasmus]

I’ve been wondering what it is. Does anybody know?

It looks to me like the controls for a nuclear reactor simulator (seems like a simulator, not the real thing). Judging from the TV monitor, I’d say it’s from the 1950’s.

BTW, the terminal in front is DECWriter, circa 1980. Somebody’s pasted it into the pic.

[Erasmus]

Why does the computer in your photo need a STEERING WHEEL? Where is it supposed to be going?

Even today, your PC is useless without the necessary drivers.

[AFreeBird]

Found it over at Lady Ada's (MIT Geek) website. She calls that little gem: Minty Boost. She also has plans for a Minty Mp3 in a full sized Altoids tin.

If you like to do geeky DIY stuff, she has some interesting projects.

[DPMD]

The wheel gives the supervisors something to do while the computer techs are operating the real computer.