Probably one of their highly trained security experts lost the only key that checkpoint was issued, or doesn't care to walk to where the key is, or is just a jerk who likes the "pop" when the bolt cutters go through the lock.
You should be glad they don't just use shears to go through the side of your luggage.
erm. The purpose of the lock isn't to prevent people from taking stuff out of your luggage; it's to prevent people from putting stuff INTO your luggage. Contraband, explosives, that sort of thing.
As for cutting the locks off instead of using their key... that seems to be an authoritarian thing. When I was in high school 40 years ago, the school issued special school locks to each student, with one key. The lock could be opened by that key or with a master key.
Every few months, you'd walk into a locker bay and see rows of lockers standing open, cut locks on the ground along with all the lockers' contents, which had been raked out onto the ground. And then your parents had to cough up money for a replacement lock. No explanations were ever made.
Isn't there a similar case ongoing in the District of Columbia, which has also asserted copyright on the law and filed suit on someone who posted it openly?
I'm pretty sure I ran into something similar at a chain restaurant a year ago. A friend and I have lunch there occasionally. On that particular visit, it had been more than six months since we had been there.
When the waitress took our order I started to tell her how I wanted my sandwich prepared. She broke in and rattled off my usual extensive substitutions and additions. I said OK.
It's a high-traffic restaurant, they have a high employee turnover, it had been more than six months since I'd been in there, I'm not particularly memorable, and I'm pretty sure I'd never seen that waitress before. And I'm a cash customer; they've never had my name.
I figured a simple system could be pieced together out of off-the-shelf software. With a hit, the server knows your previous orders and tipping percentage before she comes to your table. If you've paid by card, she knows your name. Personalized service is likely to boost customer satisfaction and create more visits.
It wouldn't have to be 100% accurate, just good enough to give the waitstaff an edge.
...except when it's a "grinder", or a "torpedo", or a "hero" sandwich... while there may be some foodies who have some kind of specific definitions to fit each name, what I'm served is always a sliced roll with meat and vegetables inside; as far as I'm concerned, they're all interchangeable.
If it was me... I'd contact Sylvester Stallone's agent and ask if they could get an official endorsement to call it the "Stallone Run" or something similar.
> While all federal documents in the US are under the public domain
I don't know your definition of "federal documents", but Congress asserts copyright on the Congressional Record, and the US Government Printing Office asserts copyright on all sorts of public documents.
Not only that, the Fed often incorporates private documents into law. For example, much automotive safety law simply references copyrighted (and expensive) publications of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and you have to purchase those documents to make sense of the publicly-available part. I believe this is common through many industries.
We got our first mall in the middle 1970s. It was a cool place for a while, and saved a lot of driving... but it kept getting harder and harder to get around inside, as the once-generous walkways filled up with booths, vendor carts, fountains, etc. The pedestrian traffic jam was so bad we started just driving somewhere else if we could.
Later, the "youths" (gangbangers) pretty much took it over, walking with arms interlocked, six or eight abreast, and shoving people into the wall as they passed by. I decided I'd had enough.
The closest mall is still technically open. The next two, further away, got the gangbanger problem bad, stores moved out, and both were demolished a few years ago.
I had to write cursive in elementary school and junior high. I never learned how to read it past puzzling out individual characters.
Cursive came about because lifting an inked quill from the paper would cause a blot. When writing with a pencil or ball point pen that's not an issue.
I had one teacher who rhapsodized about the wonders of cursive, but had no answer when I pointed out that all of our schoolbooks, including the teachers' manuals, were in block characters.
Cursive had a place once, but it has been obsolete for half a century. It needs a stake through its heart.
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You should be glad they don't just use shears to go through the side of your luggage.
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As for cutting the locks off instead of using their key... that seems to be an authoritarian thing. When I was in high school 40 years ago, the school issued special school locks to each student, with one key. The lock could be opened by that key or with a master key.
Every few months, you'd walk into a locker bay and see rows of lockers standing open, cut locks on the ground along with all the lockers' contents, which had been raked out onto the ground. And then your parents had to cough up money for a replacement lock. No explanations were ever made.
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When the waitress took our order I started to tell her how I wanted my sandwich prepared. She broke in and rattled off my usual extensive substitutions and additions. I said OK.
It's a high-traffic restaurant, they have a high employee turnover, it had been more than six months since I'd been in there, I'm not particularly memorable, and I'm pretty sure I'd never seen that waitress before. And I'm a cash customer; they've never had my name.
I figured a simple system could be pieced together out of off-the-shelf software. With a hit, the server knows your previous orders and tipping percentage before she comes to your table. If you've paid by card, she knows your name. Personalized service is likely to boost customer satisfaction and create more visits.
It wouldn't have to be 100% accurate, just good enough to give the waitstaff an edge.
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...like what every local PD wears.
Sounds plenty suspicious to me!
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Michael Crichton, 1972: The Terminal Man
Not one of his better books, but Crichton was both an MD and a Computer Science grad, which gave the story technical versimilitude anyway.
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If I understand it correctly, the District of Columbia asserts copyright over its laws.
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I don't know your definition of "federal documents", but Congress asserts copyright on the Congressional Record, and the US Government Printing Office asserts copyright on all sorts of public documents.
Not only that, the Fed often incorporates private documents into law. For example, much automotive safety law simply references copyrighted (and expensive) publications of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and you have to purchase those documents to make sense of the publicly-available part. I believe this is common through many industries.
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Later, the "youths" (gangbangers) pretty much took it over, walking with arms interlocked, six or eight abreast, and shoving people into the wall as they passed by. I decided I'd had enough.
The closest mall is still technically open. The next two, further away, got the gangbanger problem bad, stores moved out, and both were demolished a few years ago.
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Cursive came about because lifting an inked quill from the paper would cause a blot. When writing with a pencil or ball point pen that's not an issue.
I had one teacher who rhapsodized about the wonders of cursive, but had no answer when I pointed out that all of our schoolbooks, including the teachers' manuals, were in block characters.
Cursive had a place once, but it has been obsolete for half a century. It needs a stake through its heart.
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