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Re:The Revival of Concorde by miah_ on Friday September 18, 2015 @07:46PM (#10242701)
Yes. I have to opt-out every time I fly now which adds ~20-30 minutes to my visit to security.
Re:The Revival of Concorde by throwketchup on Friday September 18, 2015 @09:20PM (#10242934)
Just pay for precheck.

It's $85 for 5 years, and realistically, yes, most of that money just goes to line the pockets of the politically connected. On the other hand, you can pretty consistently go from curb to club in 5 minutes, and you bypass the nude-o-scope.

I'm all for standing up for principle, but this one is already lost. TSA doesn't care if 10 ppm of the traveling population opt out. Google "managed inclusion" if you want to understand why organizing an opt-out protest on Thanksgiving (or generally encourage people to opt out) won't change anything.

Re:The Revival of Concorde by hughes on Friday September 18, 2015 @07:53PM (#10242722)
Opt-out of what?
Re:The Revival of Concorde by diyorgasms on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:10PM (#10242773)
Presumably the millimeter wave body scanners, which are both invasive and relatively unstudied in its health effects.
Re:The Revival of Concorde by toomuchtodo on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:13PM (#10242784)
Apparently millimeter wave radiation can be ionizing under the right circumstances. That's sort of terrifying.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294

Re:The Revival of Concorde by oakwhiz on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:58PM (#10242881)
The paper you referred to doesn't make any claims with regards to ionization - the effects considered are mainly having to do with the molecular dynamics behaviors of DNA.