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Old Oct 28, 2015 | 9:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Boggie Dog
The problem is that these devices cannot discriminate between a hand lotion or an explosive.
Which is odd because unless DHS has bought bottom of the barrel machines they certainly can discriminate across those things. I suspect the machines have been set up to trigger on the most general of nitrate and phosphate spikes. Doing that would reduce the need for operator training/capability and also (if you were being really cheap and cynical) servicing of the machines themselves.
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