The images offer a disturbingly accurate view of a person’s body underneath clothing, even allowing Transportation Security Administration officials to distinguish gender or see the sweat on a person’s back. Americans should not be required to expose their bodies in this manner in order to fly.
Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz • Arguing against the use of whole-body imaging as a part of airport security. The new method can detect far more than current metal detectors, including gender and significant amounts of detail. On the other hand, it also means you won’t have to take off your shoes. • source
We meant to cover this last week, but we forgot. Our bad. Somehow, though, seeing the video gives it new life. There’s just so much wrong about this situation.source
After everything is taken into account, a rigorous, highly tested credit recommendation pops out of their risk management engine. They literally have math and statistics PhDs who are in charge of this stuff. Congress seeks to prevent such complex analysis.
The Atlantic columnist Daniel Indiviglio • On the reasons credit card companies policies often lean towards predatory practices, and why Congress’ plan to kill those practices is no good. Indiviglio says that the unintended consequence of the the legislation currently going through Congress is that it will leave fewer people with credit. May we make the argument that this might actually be a good thing? • source
It wasn’t in such a secure location after all. The National Archives lost a hard drive with a massive amount of information dating back to the Clinton administration – sensitive data, social security numbers, you name it. The one-terabyte drive holds enough sensitive info that someone should be sweating over it. But apparently nobody was; it was in a server room that allowed access to both people with clearance and (due to the fact that the door was always open because it got hot in there) support staff passing by. So, if you want to compromise our national security … become a janitor. source
The defense minister told me today that we launched a Sejil-2 missile, which is a two-stage missile and it has reached the intended target.
Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Who announced the successful test-fire of a missile which has the range to hit Israel. Great. Because he’s the kind of guy who should be bombing Israel right now. • source
Ohhh, he’s halfway there. Ohhh, livin’ on a prayer. Vick, the former Atlanta Falcons QB, will go into home confinement in Virginia for the last two months of his sentence for dog fighting, with long-term hopes to, you know, actually make it to the NFL again someday. On the plus side, he’s speaking like a remorseful person, which is helping his cause. source
A statewide referendum vote on the struggle to kill the massive budget crisis in California ended up with only tears, as none of the first five pieces of legislation got over 41% of the vote. source
However, the sixth piece of legislation did – unfortunately for state lawmakers, the legislation caps salaries of elected officials during years where the budget’s bad. Sucks for them. source
