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Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
Seems to me that the best approach to increasing security isn't to add extra security at the airport but to add extra security to the plane itself. Creating a space free of seats or other obstructions where first class normally...
Commented on Gary Wolf profiles SuperMemo creator in Wired
I read the article in Wired and was intrigued. Having briefly played with the program it seems to me it could be infinitely more useful if the "questions" could be images. Memorizing the constellations for example would be considerably more...
Commented on Air Canada: for $35, we'll let you talk to customer-service reps who can actually help you with a cancelled flight
Two Airlines, two totally different experiences: 1. I showed up late for a Westjet flight a few years ago. The plane was gone and I hadn't even checked-in. It was totally my fault but I needed to get to Winnipeg...

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sbarnes2 commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
Smart thinking! Yay science!...
technogeek commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
+1. Absolutely. Bingo. The terrorists won. They terrified us into damaging ourselves worse than they could ever have damaged us directly -- from economic damage to civil rights damage to international policy and reputation damage. I'm rather disgusted with our so-called leadership at the time for responding in terror, and the largest gripe I have with our current leadership is that nobody has yet had the courage to stand up, declare that we were all idiots, and put us back on a more realistic footing. Bah. Humbug!...
benher commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
RevEng makes a good point - people kill people. The only solution is to ban humans from flight and send robot drones in our place. Perhaps these robots can also go to work for us, flying to our boring meetings and attending conferences while we stay at home eating, sleeping, and loving. Eventually, we will probably have to implement some kind of robot-bill-of-rights I suppose... or some laws governing robot behavior so they don't rise up and kill us...of course we'll probably have robo-terrorists to worry about at some point too... Nah, scrap that. Maybe they could just let humans...
AirPillo commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
Has anyone ever proposed giving optional, government subsidized martial-arts and crisis-handling classes to flight attendants? They're already there on the planes, and many might quite willingly go through the training for their own sakes, let alone those of the passengers if there's a problem on the flight. It's unlikely to tread on anyone else's toes unless an attendant decides to go Chuck Norris on someone, and then they just get arrested for assault =p...
krzys300 commented on Gary Wolf profiles SuperMemo creator in Wired
supermemo.net is free and contains loads of courses published by the users; handles multimedia, rich course standard, unicode, ... what's more SuperMemo for iPhone is almost there, free as well http://www.supermemo.eu/supermemo_for_iphone :)...

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