Airport Security OKs the iPad, Thinks it Has No CPU

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]LePhuronn[/nom]She's done it to me again...[/citation]

Has anyone ever told you you're very easily pleased?

 

[Guest]

But my wife can still get on a plane with her metal, pointed, knitting needles....

 

[mdrejhon]

That said, I understand the interpretation. Although it has a CPU, the CPU isn't a traditional CPU. And obviously, the flash memory is not a spinning hard disk.

Modern, high performance CPU's are often pretty big and beefy and show up like a christmas light bulb in an X-Ray. So does the metal-cased HDD. Without those, the X-Ray is less cluttered with an iPad, to the point where it's not going to really obscure other stuff in the bag.

 

[qwed88]

Unfortunately knitting needles are allowed because old ladies and the AARP. They have lobyists who can buy anything.

 

[LePhuronn]

[citation][nom]JMcEntegart[/nom]Has anyone ever told you you're very easily pleased?[/citation]

Yes, actually. But I'll stop the joke right here before I come across as some crazy stalker or something

 

[biscuitsandgravyrecipe]

What else would you expect from a government employee?
What, you think that they are on top of all the new technology??
Yeah dream on.
www.biscuitsandgravyrecipe.net

 

[jsc]

If you want another look at the TSA, read Unsafe at any Altitude by Susan and Joseph Trento.

 

[jbwhite99]

actually, the iPAD may have a CPU and hard drive (or SSD), but anyone who buys one obviously has no CPU.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

maybe they thought it was a modern "Etch A Sketch" :lol: