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You know, it's cool tech but I hate it when an obviously non-technical person is the "chief technical officer":
The new type of device being tested, called a "millimeter wave" machine, doesn't use radiation ... Instead, it uses electromagnetic waves...
Umm... WUT?

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Umm... Look out!!! PARTICLES!!!
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Reporters were only shown an example of a female body image, which was a three-dimensional image of a very fit woman in her brassiere and underwear. TSA describes this as similar to a "fuzzy photo negative."

Privacy advocates say the images are more graphic than that.
Realistically I feel bad for whoever has to look at the images produced by this thing. Last time I was in an air port the ratio of hot bods to everybody else was pretty pathetic. The average person in an airport looks a little more like you. Or your parents. Now picture working an 8 hour shift looking those naked bodies.
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Arathena wrote:Umm... Look out!!! PARTICLES!!!
They may as well say "the new device uses EM waves instead of photons".

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Ddrak wrote:
Arathena wrote:Umm... Look out!!! PARTICLES!!!
They may as well say "the new device uses EM waves instead of photons".

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