Bruce Sterling on Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:07:01 +0100 (CET) |
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*I often wonder about this new space-time continuum we blundered into, after September 11. Surely there's another time-line for 2002 where Americans simply buy dotcom stock and impeach one another, rather than going through these bizarre dystopian rituals. bruces *"The Elderly Cyborg Politician Has To Strip For the Security Scanners" Mich. Congressman Forced to Strip January 8, 2002, 10:18 AM EST DETROIT -- Security guards at Washington's Reagan National Airport forced U.S. Rep. John Dingell to strip to his underwear before boarding a flight to Detroit. The guards at the Northwest Airlines terminal did not believe the 75-year-old congressman's explanation about his metal hip, which he received after a horse fell on him 20 years ago. "They felt me up and down like a prize steer," Dingell, D-Mich., said. "I was very nice, but I probably showed I was displeased." The private security guards made him take off his overcoat, then his suit coat, then his shoes and socks on Saturday. When he still triggered metal detector alarms, the guards took him to a back room and asked him to remove his trousers. U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta heard about the incident and said he would look into it, Dingell said. "I asked Norman to check to see if they treated me like they do everybody else," Dingell said. "I just wanted to be sure that what they did was necessary, that I got the same treatment, no better or no worse, than anyone else." *"The Consumer Goods Are Electronically Fried By the Bioterror Prevention Machines" Anthrax mail cleaning zaps digital gadgets Digital dream gadgets are being irreparably zapped by an irradiation process the U.S. Postal Service has used since October to sanitize mail against anthrax threats, an electronics trade group said on Tuesday. Compact flash memory cards used to store data on many name-brand digital cameras and handheld computers face not just data loss but become entirely inoperable when subjected to electron beam irradiation, the CompactFlash Association said. --Reuters _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold