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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 27th, 2007 @ 5:45pm

   
   

   yeah, then they'll put it all on a laptop - and lose it.

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   Justine, Apr 27th, 2007 @ 7:27pm

   
   

   I have found the TSA screeners to be extremely polite and courteous. We have a severely handicapped child, and always have to go through an intensive (and intrusive) secondary screening. They know it's bullshit taking apart a four-year-old's wheelchair to search for bombs, and they are also required to do a pat down screening of her entire body. The TSA screeners have been very decent, polite and apologetic to us every time we've had to go through this charade.

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   Jeep Video, Apr 27th, 2007 @ 8:25pm

   
   

   Anything to help train them is worth it.

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   GoblinJuice, Apr 27th, 2007 @ 10:03pm

   
   

   o_O Video games? Technology won't fix anything, when the people and policies are the problem.

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   Pwntastic, Apr 27th, 2007 @ 11:56pm

   
   

   Nah, the video game will just end up making the screeners make their own bombs and kill people. Because we all know that video games induce violence.

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   The Swiss Cheese Monster, Apr 28th, 2007 @ 4:07am

   
   

   What if a TSA agent goes bonkers and kills people standing in line?
   
   Will this video game just become a scapegoat?

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   Chris, Apr 28th, 2007 @ 9:15am

   
   

   Calling it a video game, instead of a virtual simulator education and training tool, is going to give it a bad connotation right off the bat. If the developers of the "game" are able to make it realistic enough to mimic real life scenarios then it might actualy help. I don't hold out much hope for it though. Especially when they allow bigger problems like http://www.flyclear.com/ to exist.

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   A game on Profiling? Awesome

   

   rEdEyEz, Apr 28th, 2007 @ 12:34pm

   
   

   ...I wanna play!
   
   What about extra points for surreptitious cavity searches? congenial groping?
   
   Recruitment numbers are bound to go up!

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 28th, 2007 @ 12:39pm

   
   

   I dont know what the fuss is about, I don't travel often but the few time i have in the past few years, TSA has not given me or my family any problems and we get right through the checkpoints releativaly quickly.

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    The airport makes a difference

    

    Rob, Apr 28th, 2007 @ 1:01pm

    
    

    #9, it really depends on the airport. At smaller, less busy airports, the ratio of screeners to passengers is much higher, and neither the screeners nor the passengers are as stressed out. Also, those airports can be choosier about who they hire. On the other hand, the huge airports like O'Hare, LAX, Dallas, etc., pretty much have to take whatever they can get, and those poor underpaid tortured souls have to deal with huge mobs of impatient passengers.

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    TSA Screeners

    

    Steve, Apr 28th, 2007 @ 5:02pm

    
    

    I've never really had a problem with the TSA screeners when flying in the States. I'd say they're no more surly than the screeners in Canada. Then again, if I had to deal with the number of just plain stupid people who go through security every day, I'd probably be none too pleasant either.
    The TSA guys in Vegas seem to be the best of the lot.

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    Justine, Apr 28th, 2007 @ 6:33pm

    
    

    Interesting web link. Just a question. Does anyone have an ethical problem with someone who can afford to pay an extra fee being able to zip through the security lines at the airport? For a single person, $100 a year isn't too much, but a family of five, who has an extra $500 a year to spend on a fast pass to get through airport security?

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 29th, 2007 @ 3:00am

    
    

    my passport says born in Beirut so i always get extra attention at the airports.
    
    I have to admit the most polite screeners are in the US airport.
    
    Worst being in France.

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    How long

    

    Dosquatch, Apr 29th, 2007 @ 9:21pm

    
    

    until Jack Thompson brings a lawsuit trying to ban it?

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    Nate, Apr 30th, 2007 @ 10:15am

    
    

    The pass is really intended for business travellers who are flying every week and such. I fly over a quarter of a million miles a year and really wish that program would be put into place in Phoenix.

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