Oh, no! Now the terrorists know this, too!

Following the link to "Millimeter Wave" the picture shows a blurred body, but the text states "The three-dimensional image of the body, with facial features blurred for privacy...".

So, is this a change from the original promise to blur the body? Will young women be preferentially chosen for secondary screenings?

Reports have said the images generated (not the example on tsahouseoflies.gov) leave little to the imagination.

"You've been chosen for millimeter wave screening."

"And you've been chosen to go pound sand."

I'm not subjecting myself to this device.

Perhaps, I'm mis-remembering or didn't see the germane posts (I'm new here), but I thought another poster saw the explicit images at Sheremetyevo while the TSA was saying their machines would be set to blur body images.

Perhaps the TSA has decided to follow the shining example of Russia.

So do keys, the top of my lighter, my watch band and the frames of my glasses.

Well there's something you don't see every day: use of the word "logic" in the same sentence with "Hawley."

I've already had melanoma once. I'm not about to let anyone subject my skin to x-ray radiation.

Well, I guess I should still get a bigger boat... preferably one capable of doing the 1000 miles to the mainland.. lol.

The 40 miles from Fajardo to St. Thomas are tough in a 26 footer, with the 15 miles to Tortola even worse... I don't wanna imagine crossing to the mainland in that :(

"Not the livestock, George!"

(Apologies to O! Brother Where Art Thou?)

don't you mean ied? ;)

Well that would have worked after the fact I suppose.......

As of today, 11/15/07, we have not begun this procedure at Houston Hobby. Whether or not that shall change is up in the air as policy can change overnight. However, if this is a new system wide process, it makes sense given the recent bad press and fumbles. I'd wager that some of the agents who breached the airport CPs had IED components concealed in electronics that are/were not currently being screened. As a result, we now have to be more thorough and screen these items at the inconvenience of the public. Terrorists and covert agents aren't using ACME Co. gag bombs anymore, the IEDs and methods used to conceal them and their components are more sophisticated than ever. In response, so must be our screening techniques which must correlate with the latest threats. You all can't have it both ways; you want effective security screening procedures but you don't want to endure the process that comes along with it. If any of you all can think of ways to screen for IEDs and their components which cover all the threat areas (liquids, shoes, electronics, etc.) without inconveniencing you the passenger I'd love to hear it and pass it on.

Yes, yes, please do that Spiff. As TSOs are paid hourly you'd only be inconveniencing yourself and fellow passengers. Way to make a potentially long and contentious process that much more long and contentious! Now, tell me exactly how that makes the TSA look stupid?

Ahh, so TSA does know what we want. There's still hope! ;)

Also, welcome !TSA No Play!

Yes, and despite the flying publics unwarranted hatred for the front line TSOs doing their jobs, we do our best to provide effective screening despite the odds stacked against us.

And I graciously accept your welcome.

Unwarranted? maybe you should read a few more threads before you jump to that conclusion...
Before you get all flag waving about it realize that your experience with YOUR home airport may be very different from the experiences of others at other airports.... yours may be fine. I've not been to Hobby recently so I can't say. But some are NOT fine.... not by a long stretch.