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I originally wrote: "The point here is that full body scans are inappropriate methodologically for the task at hand."
To which you replied (rather impolitely, in my opinion): "That is entirely besides the point being discussed." I replied to that: I disagree. Choice of methodology should take into account not only the ability to locate what you want but also the lack of extensive false positives, or "alarms" unrelated to security. A method appropriate for the task at hand will not be gender-sensitive, therefore gender differences will never be an issue. WTMD and ETD are unaltered by gender, while full body scans will hassle persons who are different in ways completely unrelated to airport security. You now claim I am repeating what you said:
Originally Posted by SeriouslyLost
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Am I not posting in English again? You're simply saying what ive already said.
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Originally Posted by SeriouslyLost
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Again, irrelevant. You're conflating two distinct operational acts into one. It simply doesn't matter what gender a person is to the scanner. The bit where you talk about maybe the software scanning differently for boys or girls is simply laughable.
I am not doing anything of the of sort. Just because you want to pontificate and make a bigger point about gender mores in US society does not make the machine any more human. The debate about the feckless nature of NoS (or other inance TSA policies) is one thing, but under current TSA policies the question is valid, just as the age questions are, and those that ask for certain status like military or airline employee which allow certain classes to skip parts of the screening. We have plenty of debates on how to fix the very broken TSA. This is not one of them no matter how much you want it to be. |
I suppose there are no "child" and "adult" buttons. The system presumably adapts in that regard.
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Originally Posted by stifle
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If you meant "the scanners should be able to scan someone without having the option selected (but I am aware that they currently lack this feature for whatever reason)" then ignore this post.
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Originally Posted by FlyingHoustonian
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What blatherskite. I guess it is laughable if one does not know anything about computer programing or physics, which from the above post it would seem not (and that is ok mind you, but one should not bring it up if one does not).
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I am filing a complaint with the TSA. They need to know what this feels like. They need to make some changes. There should be another way to do this, another way to handle those of us who don't conform to gender stereotypes, so that we don't feel less than human. I'll let you know what the TSA says. How awesome would it be if something came of this? He does not seem to actually be on our side, despite this experience. He 'hates' the TSA, but is not advocating their dissolution. Yet another person who would be perfectly happy to see everyone else in the world suffering and being humiliated as long as it doesn't affect them personally. He doesn't want to get rid of the body scanners. He just wants them to somehow magically enable the L3 mmw machines to do their thing without knowing gender. Presumably if L3 could have done that with similar levels of false positives they would have. As far as hating people for perceiving him exactly how he wants to be perceived that is completely irrational. The TSOs certainly don't bear any blame for this situation. (S)He seems to be indistinguishable from a male and wants to be treated as a male...except when he doesn't. |
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