@38thsignal: ahh yes. i forgot that we are all experts on national security. ceramics and liquids and other non organic materials definitely can be picked up by these. but the truth is you probably know as much the empirical effectiveness of these things as i do. however, nothing is to be gained by reducing this to a…

@Ian Logsdon: and you realize that you have the option to be groped instead of scanned

So we call people crazy for complaining about google streetview which captures pictures of people like outside their homes with their addresses listed, but then yell at the tsa, a government agency capturing blurry images of people in public airports in order to provide better security. cool.

@MayorBloomberg: "Android" and "Google Voice" are completely separate. What percent of people do you think have a google voice account? And even of that small percent, what proportion do you think use it for texting?

@MayorBloomberg: stored locally on your handset, not on their servers. that's like claming microsoft has access to the data on my windows machine.

@MayorBloomberg: text messages?

@izzyskywalker: I in no way implied that these would have stopped 9/11. I am stating that they do provide an additional amount of security that makes it that much harder, to you know, blow up a fucking plane. Additionally I am willing to take some extra discomforts in order to make airports safer.

@potka: False. A lot of them increase the computational time that would be needed to crack a password by several orders of magnitude.

"[H]ow far are we willing to go to prevent weapons or bombs from getting on airplanes? In the past decade, terrorists on airplanes have killed just about 3,000 people — all on one day. Even if the Christmas Day bomber had succeeded, the number would be under 3,500. Those are horrible deaths. But in that same period,…

@bddcuda: i neeeeed a star.

i'm so confused. dead and barren but we still have non recycled white paper to use?

Can't google just send out a firmware update to spoof it as a computer browser. I mean, I can do that with my damn Droid.

@jmiranda10: And for the yellow birds they can obstruct your view of the birds and cause you to miss the point at which you want to launch them

This coming from the same site that profiled the best torrent sites to get all your free media.

@sloanish: preach brother

@dj-hq: Hahah this is how science gets fucked. We nuc ourselves 20 years from now and then 20 million years later some super evolved dolphin/octopus hybrid species makes it to the moon and assumes from the ashes that the long extinct humans inhabited it.

The problem is that Microsoft is no longer the only enemy.

Just get TED. It's automated and awesome.

@Arrr2D2: you win.

@Mark 2000: you angry birded twice today while playing. I'll let it slide this time.