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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by IncRnd on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:30AM (#34092659)
Pre 9/11 to now for air travel is the difference between day and night. It's not even close. This pretend, fake security we have today imposes so many burdens and costs on people who wish to travel. The least suspicious would easily think that the changes were meant to federalize a big portion of many people's lives.
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by eastbound on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:27AM (#34093550)
Plus they’re not banning mobile phones or computers, and the best way to get something on fire is to shortcut a Li-ion battery - how much energy does a macbook contain.
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by CyberDildonics on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:56AM (#34093883)
How many laptops or phones have exploded on planes?
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by sokoloff on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:54AM (#34094624)
I think you might be mis-reading the GP's point. It's not that it's a common occurrence for laptops to spontaneously combust, but rather than an adversary could intentionally cause one (or several) to do so.
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by CyberDildonics on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:24AM (#34095037)
And then what? Is someone going to hijack a plane by setting their laptop battery on fire?
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by sokoloff on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:15PM (#34095749)
Suicide bombers have downed planes before. Bombs have been left in the cabin to go off on the next segment.

It’s not every terrorists goal to walk away from their event.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by CyberDildonics on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:07PM (#34097944)
Do you have a link where a terrorist exploded a battery on a plane? I've never heard of that before.
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by sokoloff on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:01PM (#34101100)
No; no one here claimed that it had been done, only that it's a potential threat.
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by eastbound on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:23AM (#34103150)
Yes. Wrap it in some inflammable scarf/coat to get it going. Or find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time.

Anyway, it’s no more a risk than guns or water on planes since it hasn’t happened yet; but among this security circus, it’s hypocritical to ban water and not li-ion batteries.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by CyberDildonics on Friday December 23, 2022 @04:57PM (#34111055)
inflammable scarf/coat

I think you mean flammable.

find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time

I don't think exists.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by sokoloff on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:45PM (#34112036)
Inflammable and flammable are very close synonyms. Non-flammable is the antonym.
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by CyberDildonics on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:12PM (#34113144)
Non-flammable is the antonym

That doesn't matter here. Clothes might be flammable, but are not volatile enough to be labeled inflammable.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by IncRnd on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:56PM (#34113037)
> I think you mean flammable.

Inflammable and flammable are both adjectives that mean "easily set on fire". They have slightly different etymologies. In the case of inflammable, in- means "into" and is not a negation.

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