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by Brian Leahy, Nov 22, 2010 5:00pm PSTIt's a holiday week here in the United States as we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving with copious amounts of eating, football watching, and gaming. It will be interesting to see if Rock Band 3 or Kinect wins out with the group coming over to my place to the feast. I'm guessing Kinect will start up first so people that haven't seen it can check it out, but then we'll transition to Rock Band as per usual.
Meanwhile, I'm off to record this Friday's podcast early and will be out Wednesday through Friday. Be nice to those left on duty. Oh, and due to some technical difficulties, Xav's comparison of 2D vs. 3D in CoD: Black Ops multiplayer will hit tomorrow.
Gaming News o'the Day
- Donkey Kong Country Returns review.
- Halo: Reach DLC Preview - Noble Map Pack.
- Apache: Air Assault review.
- More details on the first Fallout: New Vegas DLC.
Links from Morning Discussion
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i see both sides. tsa are assholes for the extreme pat downs. protesters would be assholes to other flyers for delaying the entire process. my guess is that not many participate because, while all the new tsa stuff sucks, peer pressure is a stronger motivator than social justice. so i'm curious to see if any shackers are going to opt for the pat downs.
of course, the tsa is warning against it (http://www.startribune.com/nation/110008914.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr) because of the delays, but isn't that part of what the protestors want?
personally i'm ok with the new scanners. the new pat downs sound necessary, but the motivation for the new policy (to deter pat downs) and the real world implementation are definitely cause for concern.
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1. no carryons or personal items whatsoever, if you need breast milk for baby, too fucking bad, do not fly
2. everyone deposits clothes and personal effects into containers for scanning and return after the flight
3. everyone travels in one-use disposable coveralls
4. bodyscans for everyone after the coveralls
5. hand inspection of every item going on the plane, with full luggage search
6. obviously this requires everyone getting to the airport 3-4 hours in advance of the flight
7. also dramatic increase in employees
8. $50 security fee on every ticket to pay for the above
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1. make passengers sign waiver saying they are aware of threat of terrorism and there is a 1 in 1,000,000 chance terrorists will blow up their flight, but if anyone tries to hijack, instructions to passengers are to swarm and disable or else you will all die
2. air marshal on every flight, all pilots armed, keep secured doors, pilots not allowed to leave cockpit whatsoever (no rest, no pee, all this needs to be built into cockpits of all planes), the goal of all of this is just to keep the hijack threat down (it seems solved now)
3. get rid of all the stupid rules that give the appearance of security (shoes on x-ray machines, stupid liquid rules, etc)
We can solve the hijack problem. It *is* solved with passenger awareness and doors that can't be broken into easily for flight deck, and instructions to pilots.
You can't stop a terrorist from blowing shit up. Even if you somehow get them off the planes they can blow up airports.
Intelligence and awareness are the two strongest tools. The rest is reactionary bullshit.
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