[IP] more on The Real Reason for Lengthy Airport Security Lines?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>
Date: January 6, 2007 9:40:02 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] The Real Reason for Lengthy Airport Security Lines?


From: IP
> http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_comm_story.jsp?id=news/ 
> ADS01047.xml

My distaste at being subjected to ads during these already  
humiliating and
irritating screenings aside, I thought perhaps the most interesting  
part of
this the glimpse the bureaucratic technical jargon that has now  
emerged for
mundane airport security paraphernalia.  Those trays are apparently  
called
"divestiture bins", from which we can presumably retrieve our items  
while at
the "composure tables".  I don't usually feel very composed after  
making it
through the long security line, so I suppose this will be an  
improvement.

Maybe at least they'll be able to make the "divestiture tables" the  
same heights
as the xray machines (or whatever they call those now) if this happens.

I'd say you can't make this kind of stuff up, but apparently someone is.



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