more on YUP!! results of uk ban

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers () cs utexas edu>
Date: August 10, 2006 6:01:10 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] results of uk ban

From reading the restrictive lists, it appears that you can't even  
carry on a book to read, or a notebook to write in.

This amounts to being sentenced to spend a trans-Atlantic flight  
watching television or movies, or listening to the airlines' choice  
of listening matter.  Shades of "1984", where each citizen is  
required to own a television set, which it is illegal to turn off!

Ben



At 3:26 PM -0400 8/10/06, David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Dan Gillmor <dan () gillmor com>
> Date: August 10, 2006 2:24:29 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Digest 1.1101 for ip
>
> Laptops coming out of Heathrow are going into luggage you're  
> forbidden to
> lock in the first place. Then your luggage in the hands of poorly paid
> airline employees (many of whose wages have been cut by 25-50  
> percent in the
> past few years) and government workers (some of whom may also be  
> interested
> in what's on your hard disks). Phones and other handhelds, not to  
> mention
> various kinds of valuables no longer allowed in carry-on bags, will be
> especially prone to pilfering.
>
> A lot of folks coming to the U.S. will be inclined not to fly via  
> London if
> this system stays in place, and not fly, period, if it spreads to  
> other
> airports. It's hard to imagine much business travel surviving in  
> such an
> environment.
>
> > In the UK, they've banned people from taking electronic equipment on
> > planes: that means laptop computers, mobile phones, and iPods among
> > other items.

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Benjamin Kuipers, Professor         email:  kuipers () cs utexas edu
Computer Sciences Department        tel:    1-512-471-9561
University of Texas at Austin       fax:    1-512-471-8885
Austin, Texas 78712 USA             http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers


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