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- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Probs with airplanes? I always think of snakes.
J - phidong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Well, on the bright side the screener passed the test. :D
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The only way that you will become proficient is if you treat every exercise as though it were the real thing:
binsed 's/This is a test/Flash Alert: /g' - Galaxion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5bah, bomb scares.
We used to get them all the time in school when the IRA was running amok. It's nothing special really.
If it was Windows, it's worth a digg for comedic value alone though. - Wally2500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm a part-time screener at the airport in Omaha. The operating system for the xray machine is linux.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5A few thoughts;
1. What if a REAL bomb goes through at the same time as a "test"?
2. What if the software could be hacked to make the "test" sign to go away on real tests and make "test" come up when a REAL threat/bomb goes through?
A little worrying to say the least =/ - silo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41. The machine lays an image of a bomb within an actual image of a bag. TSO's have to identify every object in the bag. If the test was on a bag that actually carried a bomb, the TSO would identify the test bomb, the machine would notify him/her it was a test, but it wouldn't say anything about the second bomb, so the screener's red flag would go up.
@jabberwonk: It took them 2 hours because the BOMB DIDN'T EXIST! If the bomb was actually in the bag, the TSO & Supervisor would be able to reach around when the bag came out of the machine and manually screen or rerun the bag through the machine. - sonnysavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Interesting! My mom was stuck in Atlanta on her way home because of this. They were giving everyone in the terminal $10 meal vouchers. Must have been a pretty expensive mistake for the airport.
- skidzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Software bugs that kill people (Radiation therapy machine especially interesting):
http://wired.com/news/technology/bugs/0,2924,69355,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 - saso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hope they don't use this software for the "missile defense shield".
- jabberwonk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Another scary angle to this story is that it took authorties 2 hours to find the device. Think about it - TSA scanner person sees suspicious device in bag, calls the alarm, airport evacuates - and it takes 2 hours to find it? Do they not log which scanner / gate / concourse / employee called the alarm?
- Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2AttroPheed - At the time of this reply, 352 people do. That would be how it made front page.
- Dicer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is it me or does cnn try to make things seem worse than it is? Why can't we just be glad he spotted the "test bomb" rather then complain that people had to wait at an airport. Who hasn't had to wait at an airport.
- ummagummas08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Woo hoo Atl Representin'!
Haha I'm actually not very surprised, that airport is filled w/ a bunch o' imcompetent morons. - AdamCo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since when did a suspicious object in a bag begin to be the same thing as a problem with an airplane?
Maybe that's just an outside of the US thing that I'm not aware of - Spankov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I arrived at the airport as the airport reopened. Someone in my party overheard someone from the TSA (I presume) say that the real reason was that President Bush's plane made a short unscheduled stop there en route to another destination.
- infinity306, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Umm from what I read there was no real device.. maybe thats why they couldn't find it????????
"Hawley said TSA screeners are given tests around the clock to check their alertness. Images of bombs and other suspicious devices that are hard to detect are put up on the X-ray machine, followed after a brief delay by an alert that reads, "This is a test.""
It was just an image put on the monitor.. not an actual device.. - Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is the article accurate in calling this airport the world's busiest passenger airport? I would've thought that would be JFK or Heathrow.
- mchase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, that is accurate. Right below Atlanta is O'Hare in Chicago.
- ndm007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Windows Media Player needed for the video? What about the Intel Mac users....
- amichelleh2008, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I believe that is one problem with having everything done with technology. One day, we'll have to have technology to pee!
- retawd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well, obviously noone cares. Probably because everyone who uses an Apple is gay. Super-super gay. Extra gay. Gay with a side of gay fries. So busy being gay that there is no time left in the day to use Windows Media Player because if it can't be used as a gay sex toy, an Apple user is not interested.
You know who's cool and not gay? People on wicked awesome OSes like what I'm kickin' on my bad-ass TRS-80 and my friends Vic-20
Hey, btw, whats the name of the litttle guy who lives underneath a bridge? He comes out to charge a fee to cross the bridge. I forgot what hes called... - infinity306, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Atlanta is a major international Hub... and the base of operations for Delta.
Heres the list of the Top 10 airports in the world
1. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport - 83,606,583
2. O'Hare International Airport (Chicago) - 75,533,822
3. Heathrow Airport (London) - 67,344,054
4. Haneda Airport (Tokyo) - 62,291,405
5. Los Angeles International Airport - 60,688,609
6. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport - 59,412,217
7. Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport - 51,260,363
8. Frankfurt Airport - 51,098,271
9.Amsterdam Airport Schiphol - 42,541,180
10. Denver International Airport - 42,393,766
the rest of the top 30 are at the below link
http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/busiestairports.htm - SanityInAnarchy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about the Linux users? If they offered a link to the actual WMV file, I could play it in mplayer. I don't have a browser plugin to play the video (64-bit browser and all). So, if I installed Windows Media Player, but not the plugin, I'd still get the same obnoxious message, and no way to actually download the file?
And it wouldn't even be going out of their way. It's LESS WORK to provide a link to a WMV file, which will work for everyone, than it is to provide an "experience" full of browser/OS/software detection. - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1No, it was a test device done by airport security
- bloqmon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1hopefully Flip4Mac will come out with a universal binary soon...
- Jovan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Because, you know, a bomb scare is the _first_ thing that comes onto people's minds when they see problems with airplanes.
Thank god I don't live in the US. - AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1How did this get to the front page? Who gives a *****?
- AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1either that or the 352 tools with kevin rose on their friends list dugg it like blind little monkeys.
- razmech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Hmm I posted in the wrong topic... just ignore this post please. (where's the delete feature)
- gailwin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0i hope that the security os that malfunctioned was a windows pc.
***** it would put a bad name on macs
although steve already gives his machines a bad name with ***** CUSTOMER SUPPORT!!!
yumm $10 meal vouchers...
i hate bush. they shouldn't make everyone else suffer because of that jackass and his "unscheduled" stops.
truthfully i think that the jackass would be safer flying commercially, renting a car, and driving where he needs to go.. ***** security and motorcades. - cdf12345, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I hate "dealys" especially when people say "What the Dealy yo".
They deserve to get stuck at the airport for saying that. - RexKwando, on 10/12/2007, -15/+10Ha! I bet it was a Windows malfunction!
- handeyman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2wow that is kinda funny in a sad kinda way
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http://teenstandup.com - Powerdrift, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5I was gonna say the same thing :P
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