terry has a post on airport security. Similarly i just got back from Berlin. I never pull out toiletries and place them in the required clear plastic bag and , up until today, have never had a problem. Similarly with cigarette lighters. However, in Berlin Shonefeld flughaven I was caught by security in possession of toothpaste and aftershave. I’d already gone through the scanner and been frisked. The gruff german opened my bag and demanded to know what i was doing with the offending items in my bag. I must, he said, put these in a clear bag. He then made me pay 50 cents for a bag. But i’d already gone through the checks. So i ended up putting them in a bag, then straight away taking them out again and repacking them. madness.
December 14, 2007
airport madness
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Great! I love it.
Also, this is a perfect example of a totally unanticipated ad hoc social network. We need a data architecture that lets us 1) create an attribute that indicates that we disagree with the rule and intend to ignore it; 2) put this attribute onto our own, and others’ user information; 3) allows us to search for people with this characteristic; 4) gives us something concrete to point to that allows others to join.
No batteries or programming required.
Comment by Terry Jones — December 14, 2007 @ 3:35 am