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Re:Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights by irons on Sunday July 06, 2014 @05:04PM (#7995746)
Despite appearing the New Zealand Herald, the story comes with a byline from the Daily Mail, which, for a story related to terrorism, reduces its credibility to zero.

To pick an example from today: http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/daily-mail-journali...

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Re:Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights by rm999 on Sunday July 06, 2014 @05:14PM (#7995797)
And the Daily Mall's only source seems to be "unnamed' TSA officials. And the article lacks any real detail. Also, they threw this obvious false-hood in their article: "The Transportation Security Administration will not allow cellphones or other electronic devices on US-bound planes from now on."

Can we please remove this from the frontpage of HN until we have another source? I know a bunch of people are going to take the headline as fact without researching the source.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2682478/Airports-fac...

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Re:Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights by adamnemecek on Sunday July 06, 2014 @05:20PM (#7995831)
There's an official TSA statement http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2014/07/06/enhanced-securi...
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Re:Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights by ealexhudson on Sunday July 06, 2014 @05:53PM (#7995986)
I guess the news is, a. don't forget your chargers! b. don't forget your power adaptors! c. remember to charge! d. make sure your device doesn't break in some repairable-but-for-the-moment-powerless way!

Otherwise, that Macbook Air is going to have to go in the bin along with the bottle of water and the toothpaste sonny jim, and there's nowt you can do about it.

(Wonder how long that will last - possibly until some celeb has their over-worked iPhone taken off them, and causes a social media stink).

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