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Old May 28, 2008 | 9:15 am
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Originally Posted by whirledtraveler
Just to be clear: whether the Kindle is a computer and whether the TSA thinks it is a computer are two completely different questions. Yes. It is a computer.
So is an ipod, pda, cell phone, digital watch, gps, smart-chipped credit card,
etc.

Really the question isn't 'what is a computer', but instead, 'what isn't a computer?'.
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