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| Thread ID: 107218 | 2010-02-09 00:22:00 | Arrested for joking: In NZ | lance4k (4644) | PC World Chat |
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| 856453 | 2010-02-10 06:59:00 | Drink Waikato when you are one of the lucky ones unaccustomed to it and you will experience a loose encounter of the perpetual motions kind. (Harleys did it better though.) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 856454 | 2010-02-10 07:02:00 | Some of them are powered, however the passport would use passive RFID tags which use the reader as their power source No doubt similar to the way a crystal radio runs without batteries... However the RFID uses the captured energy to power itself long enough to send back the ID code to the reader |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 856455 | 2010-02-10 18:47:00 | Drink Waikato when you are one of the lucky ones unaccustomed to it and you will experience a loose encounter of the perpetual motions kind. (Harleys did it better though.) Harleys, jeeez, I still rate that as the worst beer I’ve ever forced past the tonsils. As for Waikato, well that used to be brewed down by the Waikato River in Hamilton and Cambridge used to pump raw untreated sewerage into the river. Then as the river flowed past the Waikato Hospital the overflow from their settling ponds was discharged into the river and just down stream the Waikato Brewery took their water out of the river. So now you know where the body came from in the old Waikato and it was still better than Harleys. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 856456 | 2010-02-10 18:53:00 | Some of them are powered, however the passport would use passive RFID tags which use the reader as their power source No doubt similar to the way a crystal radio runs without batteries... However the RFID uses the captured energy to power itself long enough to send back the ID code to the reader Fascinating, I must read up on the subject. Yes I’m quite familiar with Crystal Sets having made many of them, but I don’t think I ever got one to transmit. :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 856457 | 2010-02-12 15:31:00 | In Australia it has just been announced that the government is providing full body scanning machines for all the major airports - An operator will sit in an enclosed booth and study the images generated of the travellers passing through the machine. Virtually a nude image of the passenger. It has already been stated that this violates peoples civil rights- but the glib answer is that the face of the passengers will be pixelated out - Perhaps its overdue for the travelling public to say enough is enough and flattly refuse to co-operate with this state sanctioned violation of their civil rights. If everyone refuses , or an overwhelming majority do so, then this becomes a crisis for both the government and the airlines - if enough people defy the authorities and refuse to allow their civil rights to be abused then the politicians and their civil servants will have painted themselves into a corner,and airlines will face disruptions and a customer backlash with consequential damage to their revenue flow. |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 856458 | 2010-02-12 18:58:00 | In Australia it has just been announced that the government is providing full body scanning machines for all the major airports - An operator will sit in an enclosed booth and study the images generated of the travellers passing through the machine. Virtually a nude image of the passenger. It has already been stated that this violates peoples civil rights- but the glib answer is that the face of the passengers will be pixelated out - Perhaps its overdue for the travelling public to say enough is enough and flattly refuse to co-operate with this state sanctioned violation of their civil rights. If everyone refuses , or an overwhelming majority do so, then this becomes a crisis for both the government and the airlines - if enough people defy the authorities and refuse to allow their civil rights to be abused then the politicians and their civil servants will have painted themselves into a corner,and airlines will face disruptions and a customer backlash with consequential damage to their revenue flow. Do what they did in Germany ? just recently, turn up at the body screening point wearing next to nothing or in the nude........ |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 856459 | 2010-02-12 19:07:00 | I'd be more worried about health concerns if these things use X-Rays... I'd be wearing a lead suit. Then their machine can't detect anything, they have to search manually, and they waste their time and find nothing. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 856460 | 2010-02-12 19:13:00 | A full lead suit would be one way to ensure your health worries are short lived, and there's all the fun on the scales too. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 856461 | 2010-02-12 22:14:00 | I- An operator will sit in an enclosed booth and study the images generated of the travellers passing through the machine. Sounds a bit seedy to me, like a private booth at an adult store :blush: But I only know of these things. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 856462 | 2010-02-12 22:39:00 | If your experience of these places is all by hearsay, you might be doing it all wrong. Or so I am told. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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