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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by scruple on Sunday March 31, 2019 @12:15AM (#19533821)
My father has stopped flying entirely. He's got a pacemaker and sometimes needs a cane and has a small list of medications that he legitimately needs to have with him at all times. He's diabetic, as well. Though he's not very overweight, he just doesn't move as well as he once did.

TSA has made flying for him and people like him so incredibly difficult. He's just opted out. I don't blame him, either, though it does make visits more challenging now.

I mean honestly.... Why do people like this have to take their shoes off and manage all of their carry-ons and personals into bins and onto belts and ... The entire farce of the TSA is all so callous and genuinely stupid.

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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by aeternus on Sunday March 31, 2019 @02:19AM (#19534193)
I'd really like to see an analysis of the total number of passenger-minutes that are spent waiting in TSA lines. Divide that by the avg human lifespan and compare it to the number of people killed or injured by a terrorist attack.

When looked at like that, TSA costs more total lifetimes than have ever been taken through terrorist attacks.

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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by fgonzag on Sunday March 31, 2019 @04:58AM (#19534567)
By multiple orders of magnitude proabably. I'm going to go ahead and call 5000 people who have been killed by aviation terrorism events. Assuming they all live to 90 years old, that's 450,000 man years tragically lost.

The FAA website stats that 630,000,000 people fly per year. If each of them takes 10 minutes to cross the line, that's 105,000,000 man-years lost per year...

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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by jcims on Sunday March 31, 2019 @06:41AM (#19534847)
You’re mixing man years and man hours. But it’s still over 11,000 man years spent in lines at the airport.
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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by fgonzag on Sunday March 31, 2019 @06:53PM (#19538969)
Wow, you're absolutely right. Screwed the math hard there. 10 minutes was a very low estimate though, especially in bigger airports like Seattle, SF, NYC.
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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by Scoundreller on Sunday March 31, 2019 @05:17AM (#19534622)
That 630m figure is for US domestic flights.

Otherwise, thanks for doing the math on how much of our lives is killed by security screening.

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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by GordonS on Sunday March 31, 2019 @10:27AM (#19535732)
Check Bruce Schneier's blog, I seem to recall he did some kind of breakdown like that a few years back.
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