Given that business executives need their laptops, and that they largely fly commercial across the Atlantic, I suspect that any ban on laptops will not last long. Regards Marshall On Aug 12, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Barton F. Bruce wrote:
Given the new threats and the change in policy with the airlines and traveling in and around the UK, has anyone changed their laptop and portable computing device policy? We are being questioned about the safety of executives traveling with their laptops.
You have just lost a valuable shield and weapon!
No longer will you have an almost closed laptop lid to tuck your fingers under while parrying box-cutter thrusts with the base of the laptop used as a shield.
And no more ULTIMATE frisbee with rectangular corners or hand held blunt hatchet to crunch holes in a hijacker's skull.
And viewing it as a more civilized weapon, you have now been deprived of the means to play for your seat row-mate's enlightenment any of the myriad of 9/11 DVDs, that an ever growing hoard will proclaim prove 9/11 could not possibly have been done by those we have been told did it, or, even better, some of which present compelling arguments that 9/11 was the much desired and occasionally mentioned "2nd Pearl Harbor" to be orchestrated to forward various non publicised but very domestic agendas.
I suspect dumb thin clients are in many of our futures. Rental shops or company branch offices will be well stocked with inexpensive units and whatever you need to run boots up from a DVD or USB thumb drive. It is hard to leave anything sensitive on a machine that has no hard drive.
Pity the folks gearing up to sell internet access on flights. Perhaps per seat video screens double as thin client monitors. Watch the business grow of the first airline offering such service.
Or we will have to wait until the next president, if we are even allowed to have elections under marshall law after a 9/11 jumbo-REDUX someone we should hope is protecting us might even be working on right now.
The single biggest thing that is bypassing a feckless or even "owned" press is the internet, and our job is to keep it as free and as open as possible.