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TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone

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Re: TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone

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Post by plinkplonk »

pritambaral wrote: post #259
plinkplonk wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

when you are transiting you are already inside the 'security zone' so perhaps they don't do another security check? As someone who flies in and out of Delhi all the time, I can assure you that the security check involves such 'tags'. also procedures for security are standardized across all airports, so it is very unlikely that the process is skipped consistently . I encounter this in the tiniest airports in the count…

> Interestingly enough, you can carry your Kindle, phone and/or Ipad in your carry on luggage, but not your laptop I have carried my ThinkPad X250 on flights to-and-from Mumbai, even used them during flight.

sorry for the confusion but I meant you can carry your kindle etc inside your carry on bag and don't have to take it out and put it into a tray etc. Your laptop for some reason has to be taken out and put into a separate tray (in Indian airports)

Re: TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone

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Post by knodi123 »

pritambaral wrote: post #260
knodi123 wrote: post #206

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If you smash two bottles together, do they both break? I would have expected that you'd always end up with one broken bottle, one whole bottle, and (optionally) a fair amount of your own blood.

When two cars collide head-on, does only one of them crumple? I figure the same effect would apply to two similar glass bottles colliding.

Except a car can crumple almost any amount from zero to tiny cube, while a bottle can only be perfect or shattered. Plus, bottles have strong and weak points, and it seems less likely that you'd bang two equally strong portions of each bottle together; more likely you'd be hitting a strong corner with a weak wall.

This is SO off topic, and SO unimportant.... :-)

Re: TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone

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Post by flexd »

microtonal wrote: post #159
gambiting wrote: post #137

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Arq does not offer storage on the cheapest plan(I have no idea what you are paying for then), and even the $120/year plan only includes 250GB of storage. If I signed up with Crashplan I would upload literally all of my data to it - so 4TB of personal backups then.

Arq is actually a standalone (incremental encrypted) backup tool, though they are now also offering their own storage. Arq can be used with Amazon S3, Dropbox, OneDrive, sftp, Google Cloud Storage, etc. E.g. I use Arq with my Office 365 subscription that costs me Euro 1.38 per month (four year academic discount) for 1TB.

Arq only runs on Windows and OS X though. I would prefer to use something open-source, that runs on Linux. I won't be renewing my Crashplan subscription when it expires.

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Post by jvyduna »

MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #146
cognivore wrote: post #143

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>> I don't get why this was deemed an accident. Reading the story, there is this little voice saying in the back of my head, "They don't want to treat it as a crime because they know who has it and they're in cahoots."

I would really, really doubt this. My assumption is that they either: 1. They have statistics that they have to keep up, and having a ding like "a crime was committed on your watch" isn't a good thing, so they try to avoid it, or 2. Classifying it as a crime versus an accident comes with a load of paperwork and hassle for everybody involved that no one wants to do. I really don't think this was malicious in the manne…

This doesn't prove intent or lack thereof, but the author has posted that the woman who received the laptop has contacted him.

https://www.facebook.com/echeng1/posts/10102303567718623

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Post by JadeNB »

jasallen wrote: post #124
mjlee wrote: post #20

Interestingly (to me) the author used the phrase "on accident". I googled it and found this: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215/is-it-correct... As a British English speaker, this stopped me in my tracks. I'm wondering if it had the same effect on the American English readers of this article.

I'm American and it drives me crazy to hear this, but it is regretfully not terribly uncommon.

Heh. Muphry's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law) demands that you use 'regretfully' instead of 'regrettably' (http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/275034) when chastising someone's language.

Re: TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone

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Post by train_robber »

manojlds wrote: post #77
train_robber wrote: post #47

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Yes, I have found this to be very practical, but unfortunately they don't do this at all airports.

Really? I have seen it everywhere I have been - Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Kolkatta.

Yesterday, didn't happen for me in the new Mumbai T2 domestic terminal.
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