I'm going to be taking my PDA, Laptop with 2 batteries, PS2 and PS1 on the plane tomorrow, wish me luck. :)
I'm going to be using my PDA to read likely, so I won't need the laptop... I'll probably just take the batteries out to make it easier. They're Fujitsu brand batteries though, instead of the Sony ones that have had problems recently.
Really, the problem with US air security is that they're going by the "People don't kill people, do" mentality. It's the same mentality that drives all kinds of things in America including gun control and many of our regulations
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maybe this will be what's needed to push for the creation of an international transoceanic pneumatic transportation tube system. the future is now! or, you know, trains could come back in vogue. (I apologize for my lj icon, but it's the only plane related one i've got!)
I can see this being a real problem, but as I mentioned elsewhere when the air travel industry collectively freaked out after the London plot -- they're going to have to redo the insurance rules and fast if they want to make this work. Currently, passengers are explicitly told to travel with important electronics, and there's small text on ticketing agreements about how the airline isn't responsible, essentially, if you're stupid enough to check your laptop and it gets damaged in-flight. Tough luck, screw you, no insurance coverage the way there would be for a suitcase full of clothes. But if they disallow laptops (and other expensive battery-operated toys) from carry-on without changing the insurance wording, business travelers everywhere are going to rise up in protest
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Yeah, only problem for me is that my family lives a couple thousand miles away. I'd have to spend a total of six to eight days on the road to drive there and back, and I don't feel like burning the majority of my Christmas vacation that way.
The solution, of course, is for everyone I know to move to Seattle.
Six to eight days? Nah. According to Google Maps, it's ~2300 miles. If I can go 1700 in one day by myself, with two drivers, we cna easily get there in a day and a half, even with sleeping. If we don't stop to slepe or anything else, we could get it down to a day and a quarter without even bending speed limits too badly.
My concern would be more that the driving route in question would take us through a hell of a lot of sparsely populated country; if we got into trouble, we'd be pretty well fucked.
But, seriously, 2300 miles is only six tanks of gas in my car. With gas prices putting that around $30 per tank, that's ~$175. (Each way, of course.)
Still, that is a phenomenal waste of time and a pain in the ass. So I second the motion, with a slight modification to "everyone I like."
Virgin Atlantic has banned Dell and Apple notebook batteries. You're allowed to use the notebooks as long as you take the battery out. (But, then, Virgin has power ports at every seat...)
I can't say that I would blame the airlines if they do ban all notebooks. As is typical in the electronics industry, the rush to market means products don't have a long QA cycle before they're released to consumers. These batteries are holding the energy equivalent of a small bomb. Add the two together and ...
Posing here with my laptop in phoenix, US Airways didn't bug me about the laptop at all, it's a Fujitsu though. We'll have to see about American Airways.
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I'm going to be using my PDA to read likely, so I won't need the laptop... I'll probably just take the batteries out to make it easier. They're Fujitsu brand batteries though, instead of the Sony ones that have had problems recently.
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Got a backup plan for if they tell you no electronics at all are allowed?
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Really, the problem with US air security is that they're going by the "People don't kill people, do" mentality. It's the same mentality that drives all kinds of things in America including gun control and many of our regulations ( ... )
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(I apologize for my lj icon, but it's the only plane related one i've got!)
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The solution, of course, is for everyone I know to move to Seattle.
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My concern would be more that the driving route in question would take us through a hell of a lot of sparsely populated country; if we got into trouble, we'd be pretty well fucked.
But, seriously, 2300 miles is only six tanks of gas in my car. With gas prices putting that around $30 per tank, that's ~$175. (Each way, of course.)
Still, that is a phenomenal waste of time and a pain in the ass. So I second the motion, with a slight modification to "everyone I like."
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I can't say that I would blame the airlines if they do ban all notebooks. As is typical in the electronics industry, the rush to market means products don't have a long QA cycle before they're released to consumers. These batteries are holding the energy equivalent of a small bomb. Add the two together and ...
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