From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Some of the *alternate* laptop proposals for airlines leave much to be
desired. Rented airline laptops? Can one say trojan city?


"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> 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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