From: Mike N. 

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:34:29 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>In 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Research and Special
>Programs Administration banned cargo shipments of non-rechargeable lithium
>batteries aboard passenger planes, saying they posed a fire hazard when
>transported in the cargo hold, where the fire suppression systems couldn't
>put out the flames.

  It's just a matter of time until laptops are completely banned on planes
anyway.   There will be no way to detect embedded explosives, and no way to
screen them.

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