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TSA Forces Woman To Use Naked Body Scanner Three Times Because of “Cute” Figure

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:20:46 -0800

New legislation will force TSA to install “passenger advocates” at every airport

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Female passengers say they are being targeted by TSA screeners for sexual harassment, with one Texas woman being forced to pass through a naked body scanner three times so chuckling male TSA workers in a back room could get a good look at her “cute” figure.

The incident occurred at DFW International Airport earlier this month. Wife and mother Ellen Terrell was asked by a female TSA screener “Do you play tennis?” When Terrell asked why, the screener responded, “You just have such a cute figure.”

Terrell was then told to go through the naked body scanner not once but a second time. She then heard the TSA screener talking into her microphone saying, “Come on guys, alright, alright, one more time.”

After Terrell was forced to undergo a third blast of radiation from the body scanner, the male TSA agents in the back room who were obviously enjoying the show tried to send her through yet again to see more images of her naked body.

“Guys, it is not blurry, I’m letting her go. Come on out,” the female TSA screener said, finally ending the ordeal.

“I feel like I was totally exposed,” Terrell told CBS 11. “They wanted a nice good look.”

An investigation by CBS 11 News has prompted New York Senator Charles Schumer to introduce legislation that will mandate the TSA provide “passenger advocates” who will be on duty at all times to respond to complaints at every airport in the country.

The investigation found that female travelers are victims of a “peep show” by TSA workers who are using naked body scanners to target attractive women.

“CBS 11 News dug through more than 500 records of TSA complaints and found a pattern of women who believe that there was nothing random about the way they were selected for extra screening,” states the report, which lists numerous examples of men forcing women to pass through the scanners in a clear pattern of sexual harassment.

“Going through security at our nations airports should not be a humiliating or degrading experience,” remarked Schumer after hearing about the investigation. “Because the TSA has refused to put passenger advocates at our nation’s airports, today I’m introducing legislation that would force them to do so.”

However, critics argue that the position would just be filled by another TSA worker, and that such a program will only be worthwhile if the advocate is independent.

A far better solution would be for airports to take advantage of a newly passed law that enables airports to apply to have TSA screeners evicted altogether.

As we have exhaustively documented, TSA workers tasked with operating naked body scanners have found themselves embroiled in an epidemic of criminality, abuses of power, and sexual perversion, with new cases appearing on an almost daily basis.

These people are the least suitable candidates to be providing security at America’s airports, which makes threats by Democrats and people like Joe Lieberman that a “new 9/11″ will occur if the TSA is marginalized all the more asinine.

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OK Go Turns Chevy Sonic Into an Instrument

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:32:36 -0800

Remarkable!

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RIM: It's okay, we have superheroes -- Engadget

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:13:01 -0800

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/31/rim-its-okay-we-have-superheroes/

RIM: It’s okay, we have superheroes

It’s a common human trait that, when faced with a series of calamities, the brain will retreat into a fantasy world in which everything is the exact opposite of reality. Could this be the inspiration for RIM’s four new cartoon characters, which the company hopes will spread its “Be Bold” marketing message? The pattern certainly seems to fit. From left to right: there’s GoGo Girl, who “saves the day with a brilliant strategy” (translation: we don’t have a strategy). Then comes Justin Steele, who’s “always ready to stick up for his friends” (translation: we don’t have friends). Trudy Foreal “isn’t afraid to call it as she sees it” (translation: our shareholders are complaining). Finally, the adventurous Max Stone is “able to jump out of a plane” (translation: we’re going to crash).

Update: RIM has provided a little update stating that this is “not a new ad campaign.” Still, it’s fun to imagine what might have been.

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RIM is Still Way Off Track

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:20:25 -0800

http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/01/30/rim-creates-4-cartoon-characters-to-spread-…

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Amazon Kindles 'go unused' after Christmas - Telegraph

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:02:21 -0800

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/9028439/Amazon-Kindles-go-unused-after-Christmas.html

Amazon Kindles ‘go unused’ after Christmas

The Kindle is the market leading e-reader

Photo: Getty Images

Last Updated: 9:29AM GMT 21/01/2012

Amazon’s Kindle e-reader was among the most popular gifts at Christmas, but many have gone unused, a survey has found.

More than a fifth of those who received a Kindle said they have not used it.

The main reason was that owners had failed to download any e-books, the survey found.

The Kindle was one of the big hits of Christmas 2011. A separate survey found one in 40 British adults was given Amazon’s e-reader.

Those who received an Apple iPad meanwhile, which costs around four times as much as a Kindle, were more likely to have used it. Only nine per cent of new owners said their tablet had remained untouched.

All gadgets beat the classic unused Christmas present, however. Some 91 per cent of 1,461 respondents surveyed by MyVoucherCodes.co.uk said they had not used “smellies and toiletries” they received.

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Another one bites the dust as Google closes Picnik Daniel...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:21:14 -0800

Another one bites the dust as Google closes Picnik
Daniel Cooper, engadget.com

Given the spate of closures, abandonments and wound-up projects, we can’t help but suspect Google’s mantra switching from “don’t be evil” to “sic transit gloria mundi.” Mountain View’s winding up online-image editing site…

Google continues to shutdown their past random acquisitions. Guess the Google developer lottery era has come to a close.

Shark Fin Soup: Horrible cruel farming

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:01:16 -0700

Shark Fin Soup: Horrible cruel farming:

You must see this Gordon Ramsey video. Shocking.

SOSReady Sponsors Teens in Tech Conference 2011

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:13:48 -0700

SOSReady is once again supporting the Teens in Tech Conference for 2011. The Teens in Tech Conference is about connecting youth and technology with entrepreneurship, startups and the web; in front of an audience of young entrepreneurs, developers and designers. SOSReady is once again very proud a

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Lake Union Fireworks - Seattle (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:58:06 -0700

Lake Union Fireworks - Seattle (Taken with instagram)

USA Today Journalist Uses iPad 2 for Vacation Video...nice work

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:12:53 -0700

via usatoday.com

Pretty amazing how impressively you can edit a video on this thing.

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RIM PlayBook to benefit Quanta and Foxlink

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:06:45 -0700

RIM PlayBook to benefit Quanta and Foxlink
Yenting Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Thursday 7 April 2011]

As Research In Motion (RIM) is set to launch its PlayBook tablet PC on April 19 in the US and Canada priced at US$499.99, its upstream assembly partner Quanta Computer and connector supplier Foxlink are both expected to benefit, according to market watchers.
The market watchers pointed out that Quanta is currently picking up it pace for the device’s shipments to RIM as Quanta internally sees the device as one of the major tablet PC orders for 2011.
Sources from touch screen panel makers also pointed out that PlayBook shipments were postponed for about a month from the original schedule due to a delay in software testing as well as shortage of touch panels because Apple already booked up most of the available capacity.
Foxlink has also recently started mass shipping its connectors to RIM for the PlayBook. Foxlink is also a connector supplier for iPad 2, the sources added.

via digitimes.com

This shows how remarkably good Apple is on planning for the future. Well played.

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Playmobil Apple Store Play Set from ThinkGeek

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:46:42 -0700

via youtube.com

Apple should license this to Playmobil….brilliant idea. ThinkGeek rocks.

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My Boy's First Voice-Over work on No Agenda!

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:49:43 -0700

My son’s first voice-over work on No Agenda, Episode 292. Direct link to the show here: http://www.mevio.com/episode/275475/na-292-2011-04-03 or listen below:

No Agenda features Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak, who deconstruct the media and bring awareness to the BS.

Thanks to @adamcurry and the @realdvorak

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Microsoft Exec Thinks Tablets Going Way of Netbooks

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:08:30 -0700

Is Microsoft hoping tablets will go out of style?

Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s global chief research and strategy officer, doesn’t seem to have much faith in the future of the tablet.

“I don’t know whether the big screen tablet pad category is going to remain with us or not,” he said, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Mundie’s beliefs run contrary to those of seemingly everyone else in the industry. Aside from the remarkable success of the iPad, virtually every hardware maker in the game has done their best to push out their own tablet. IDC, a tech research firm, predicts tablet sales will reach 42 million in 2011.

Mundie, however, believes that tablets will be stamped out as smartphones and laptops squeeze out the only-temporary tablet. Predicting that the smartphone will become “your most personal computer,” with laptops as a “portable desk,” Mundie noted that “mobile is something that you want to use while you’re moving, and portable is something that you move and then use.” The tablet, however, occupies the middle space.

“Personally I don’t know whether that space will be a persistent one or not,” he said.

His comments contradict not only the general mood of the personal computing industry, but the words of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who ten years ago proclaimed that the tablet was “virtually without limits,” going on to predict that within five years it would be the most popular kind of PC in America.

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Of course, Gates was not quite accurate in his given timeframe—Microsoft’s early tablets failed to find a foothold. But Microsoft doesn’t seem too keen to try again this time round, despite a markedly different environment. The company has been slow to develop tablets up to par with the iPad or the Android-run tablets from others, and has yet to release an OS created specifically with the tablet in mind.

But maybe Microsoft can jump on the as-of-yet unrealized PC innovation Mundie does endorse:

“I believe the successor to the desktop is the room, that instead of thinking that the computer is just something on the desk that you go and sit in front of, [in the] future basically the whole room is the computer and you go in it,” he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/microsoft-tablet-craig-mundie_n_8430…

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Text Exchange with Prospective Craigslist Buyer for my iPod

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:04:01 -0700

+: Do you have the ipod 1:01 PM

Me: Yes 1:01 PM

+: Can we come to a understanding 1:03 PM

Me: Sure. What do you want to do? 1:03 PM

+1: Can you tell me about it first befor i consider buying it 1:05 PM

Me: It’s all in the ad, what do you want to know? It’s a silver 16GB Nano, I bought it new, have all the original box and cables and headphones. Throwing in a case 1:09 PM

+: So how much are you willing to lower the price 1:12 PM

Me: Not sure…what do you want to pay? 1:16 PM

+: Idk i am trying to sell my bike 1:17 PM

Me: Ok. Well let me know what you want to do? $110 would work for me. 2:10 PM

+: For the Nano 2:15 PM

Me: Yes. 2:16 PM

+: I guess 2:17 PM

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Mahalo 4.0 Launch on Vimeo

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:33:12 -0800

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Very cool approach and great use of modern web technologies.

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Mercedes DTM driver Susie Stoddart takes the E 63 AMG wagon for...

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:52:25 -0800

Mercedes DTM driver Susie Stoddart takes the E 63 AMG wagon for a spin (via worldcarfans)

CARTOON: Trading liberty for the illusion of safety

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:18:00 -0800

DAVID HORSEY’S DRAWING POWER
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CARTOON: Trading liberty for the illusion of safety
Grope and go…

Posted by David Horsey at November 18, 2010 1:08 p.m.
via blog.seattlepi.com

Pretty much the way it is…

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Jimmy Fallon Gives "Late Night" Its First Mobile App [VIDEO]

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:19:51 -0800

via mashable.com

Pretty cool…a talk show with an App. Pretty cool looking app, as well.

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Cross-Post Testing

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:57:11 -0800

Listen!

via AudioBoo

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