Don't get me wrong, this TSA stunt is more pointless security theatre and laughably absurd, no other words for it*, however, I'm appalled that it takes some TSA agents to cop a feel for the US citizenry to throw such a hissy fit. Starting a war under false pretenses, suspending habeas corpus, massive illicit surveillance, extending a giant middle finger to all those helping to clean up the aftermath of 9/11 *AND* all recent military veterans (crappy healthcare and re- integration) and soldiers (stop-loss and friends), Katrina, and a fourth estate that is falling to pieces - ALL THAT was evidently less important than this?!? The heck? Compared to all that, getting your balls groped at the gate is a bad joke.
*) There's a price on one human life year. It's called a QALY (quality- adjusted life year). Going rate is something like $50,000 or so. Factor in the economic damage caused by the TSA controls, the cost of running the security operation, and the damage done by those X-Rays (tiny, but it adds up over that many passengers), and the fact that gate security catches very little terrorism, and you're looking at a price per QALY of hundreds of millions. Hence TSA security theatre = mathematically stupid. On Nov 24, 4:25 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM, [email protected] < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > Some of, if not the most, secure airports are in Israel. > > The Israeli model does not > scale<http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/adopting_the_is.html> > . > > -- > Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
