[ale] Fwd: Jim - cannot post this message to ALE, please post for me

[Lightner, Jeff]

If you don't mind spending hours sitting in detention while they verify you are NOT a terrorist or them simply deciding to blow up your device you could put in a boot script that starts a large countdown display.  :-)

Of course you'd have to make sure it was innocuous enough to allow for plausible explanation (e.g. I swear it was just a countdown to start of my WiFi).  Putting a message in the countdown like "10 seconds to detonation" would surely get you arrested for "terroristic threats".

I remember several years ago when there was a high alert for the Unabomber in California.   They couldn't find the owner of one suitcase right away so they blew it up on the tarmac.   The next morning I had to fly out with the briefcase full of connectors, RS232c tester, cables etc... I had blithely checked through on my way to California.  You can be sure I carried that one on board on my way home and made them search it in my presence to avoid such "precautionary blasting".





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:41 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Fwd: Jim - cannot post this message to ALE, please post for me

On 05/08/2012 11:17 AM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> Use common sense. Don't take tax records and sensitive data about on
> your laptop. Don't expose high value items to high risk situations (like
> theft!) Go with a basic laptop with what you need and nothing else. Keep
> it simple and you won't likely have any problems...

I just wonder though, if they ask you to fire up the laptop and it boots
into Linux rather than the familiar Windows they expect.  Especially if
rather than a boot screen, you have it scrolling through the boot process.

I suspect that might freak them out.

--
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson
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