@NorwoodIsMyHero: You've never worked a job where you are doing things that you might (emphasis on might) be doing things that you think are unethical in order to put food on the table and keep the lights on during an economic hard time?

@Sublethalend: @Moonshadow Kati: @soldstatic

I love the "Just shut the fuck up sometimes" one.

@OMG! Ponies!:

@ThePriceofEggsinMalta: No, I don't think people should actively be assholes. I think they should be professional and polite — but they should call out behavior that is primarily meant to shame and embarrass travelers into the body scanners for what it is. Intimidation.

@JRob Inson: So you've never hung up on a telemarketer before? Ever? Because only a prick would do something like that to a poor telemarketer just trying to do his job.

@OMG! Ponies!: Want to start up on the Border Exception too, or are you done flogging that particular dead pony?

@bdinger: Actually, it's more like McDonald's than you realize. You do not need a highschool degree or GED to be employed as a TSA screener.

So I'm sure that every single one of you talking about how we should politely bend over for the TSA because "they're just doing their jobs!" raptly listens to the entire spiel of a telemarketer and never hangs up on them, never shuts the door in a door-to-door salesman's face, and never, under any circumstances,…

@ThePriceofEggsinMalta: You show deference to, interest in, and never hang up on telemarketers? I mean, that's just doing their job, right?

@TheSuit: The absence of exculpatory evidence is not, in and of itself, inculpatory evidence.

@Tim the Enchanter: Found that she wrote a followup on the source site, apparently before The Tyner Incident:

... and if I need to call 911 because of, I don't know... a car accident, maybe I might want to have a portable communications device capable of summoning the authorities? Heckuva job, LaHood.

@ITLawMan: That's a good point. A lot less immunity for private screwups compared to government screwups.

@Kai Chen: I don't think it was for inciting violence. I think it was for pointing out the disconnect between the angry youth rampages attacking Japanese goods and shops (which the gov't claims they cannot prevent) and their apparent lack of agitation towards the Japanese facet of something (the Expo) that China is…

Methinks the security apparatuses have had their eye on her for awhile. The article mentions her "online activism" and "expressions of support for other Chinese dissidents and activists".

About time. Still would prefer a dedicated app though.

That's more than a little scary right there...

Not to be confused with Google's recently launched Honeypot, a new service baked into Google Places that lets you rate sexy Russian spies, see which ones your friends are selling classified secrets to, and get recommendations of federal prisons to serve out your sentence for espionage and treason.

@Kaiser-Machead v.2.3: Whether they "get off" on them or not doesn't change the fact that if it's accessible, it can be (and likely will be) abused. Or maybe you don't believe any gov't contractor would ever deign to improperly access passport information for then-Presidential-candidate Obama?