No more flying

TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight from Slashdot by timothy An anonymous reader excerpts from an AP story as carried by Yahoo News about changes stemming from yesterday's foiled bombing attempt of a Northwest Airlines flight: "Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing. The regulations are a response to a suspected terrorism incident on Christmas Day. Air Canada said in a statement that new rules imposed by the Transportation Security Administration limit on-board activities by passengers and crew in US airspace. ... Flight attendants on some domestic flights are informing passengers of similar rules. Passengers on a flight from New York to Tampa Saturday morning were also told they must remain in their seats and couldn't have items in their laps, including laptops and pillows." The TSA's list of prohibited items doesn't seem to have changed in the last day, though. SlashDot

Guy tries to blow up a plane with his shoes and fails. -> X-Rayed shoes

Bunch of guys try to blow up a plane with bottles of fluid. -> No more fluids.

Guy tries to blow up a plane with a bomb in his underwear. -> No one is aloud to move in the last hour of a flight? That makes sense.

This getting out of hand. We have the terrorists telling us how to live our lives. Notice something with all of those "attempted" acts of terrorism? They all failed, yet they all caused pasengers to have to jump through hoops to get on a plane. They don't have to blow up a plane to win. They just have to make flying that bit more ridiculous. This is all they are after.

The running joke is that people will have to fly naked. This last attempt at making people not have anything on their laps during the last hour of flight is just plane useless. It sould not have stopped the guy who caused the stupid rule to be imposed. If he knew he could not do it in the last hour, he would have done it at some other point in the flight. He didn't have a laptop or toy game in his lap. He had a blanket.

What is to stop someone from saying they are diabetic and must give themselves a test and an injection or they will die? What if they put the self same powder under their skin and the shot they give themselves is the trigger? I don't want to be a diabetic in the air for the next couple months.