Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 09/24/2008 View Tue 09/23/2008 View Mon 09/22/2008 View Sun 09/21/2008 View Sat 09/20/2008 View Fri 09/19/2008 View Thu 09/18/2008
1
2008-09-24 Home Front: WoT
New airport screening 'could read minds'
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by tipper 2008-09-24 12:01|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 No it can't. Say, I have a stuffed head and ringing in the ears from antibiotics. I am not sure what I am thinking in that state. A machine couldn't know what I don't.
Posted by 3dc 2008-09-24 12:26||   2008-09-24 12:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Downside...TSA would have to send the results outside the agency for analysis.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-24 12:30||   2008-09-24 12:30|| Front Page Top

#3 credited to the Eeevil Joos™ in 5... 4... 3...
Posted by Querent 2008-09-24 12:40||   2008-09-24 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 "According to our readout, that guy is either sexually aroused, late for his flight, a terrorist, a football player or fan thinking about a game, losing money on the stock market, has recently had too much coffee, or may be psychically controlling us to make us think he is thinking those things. We had better search him."
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-24 12:53||   2008-09-24 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Question.
Wouldn't people with those symptoms also be, sick, tired, horny, pissed off, stressed out, having a bad day, ect?
That's going to be a bout 1/3 of everyone walking through an airport security screening station.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-24 13:26||   2008-09-24 13:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Basically the same thing Anonymoose just said.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-24 13:27||   2008-09-24 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Waste of money by Homeland Security.
Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-24 14:42||   2008-09-24 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Bigjim-ky, you are wrong. That's about 80% of the people walking through airport security. The other 20% are comatose.
Posted by AlanC 2008-09-24 14:43||   2008-09-24 14:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Waste of money by Homeland Security.

Redundant.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-24 15:06||   2008-09-24 15:06|| Front Page Top

#10 New airport screening 'could read minds'

Quick, get the Japanese to miniaturize it and make it portable. I can see selling about 50 million units to guys who've spent their lives just trying to 'read minds'. This is going to beat the CERN accelerator in discovering the greatest mystery that men have faced since creation. :)
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-24 18:27||   2008-09-24 18:27|| Front Page Top

#11 A frown could get you a cavity search.
Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-09-24 18:39||   2008-09-24 18:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Last Breath Farm Resident: But it could turn that frown upside down.
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-24 20:00||   2008-09-24 20:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Anonymoose speaks from experience :)
Posted by Ebbavins the Wicked1478 2008-09-24 21:29||   2008-09-24 21:29|| Front Page Top

#14 See if it can guess what I'm thinking NOW.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-24 21:57||   2008-09-24 21:57|| Front Page Top

#15 In a Homeland Security video showing the system in action, targeted subjects are asked questions such as "are you attempting to smuggle an explosive device"...

Oh, yeah. I can see how this will go:

TSA: Are you attempting to smuggle an explosive device?

Passenger brain: Oh my god terrorists there could be terrorists on my plane I was trying to forget about that why did you bastards have to remind me die kill death pain Mommy!

Adrenal glands: Red Alert! All hands to stations!

Sensors: Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

TSA: Step this way, please. Jose, full body cavity search for this one.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-09-24 22:55||   2008-09-24 22:55|| Front Page Top

#16 Do you really want to see what's rolling around a liberal's mind (or worse yet.. a moonbat's...).
Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-24 23:35||   2008-09-24 23:35|| Front Page Top

23:50 KBK
23:43 trailing wife
23:36 FOTSGreg
23:35 CrazyFool
23:32 trailing wife
23:25 bigjim-ky
23:22 trailing wife
23:19 Sonny Glusoque3834
23:15 FOTSGreg
23:02 Flitch the Imposter aka Broadhead6
23:01 Flitch the Imposter aka Broadhead6
22:55 Angie Schultz
22:53 Ptah
22:36 Frank G
22:20 plainslow
22:12 djh_usmc
22:03 DMFD
21:59 Skunky Glins 5***
21:57 OldSpook
21:56 OldSpook
21:55 Skunky Glins 5***
21:54 jeremy
21:54 Skunky Glins 5***
21:52 Abdominal Snowman
Merry-Go-Blog










Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com