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I would be much more concerned about laptop being arbitrarily seized at an airport by customs or TSA personnel, or by law enforcement otherwise, than it being s

I would be much more concerned about laptop being arbitrarily seized at an airport by customs or TSA personnel, or by law enforcement otherwise, than it being stolen per se. e.g. http://www.daniweb.com/news/story218174.html http://www.daniweb.com/news/story218174.html http://ezinearticles.com/?Business-Travel-Tip---Avoid-Having-Your-Laptop-Confiscated-by-Customs&id=3969939 http://ezinearticles.com/?Business-Travel-Tip---Avoid-Having... http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Business-Travel/Travel-Management/Articles/ACLU-Sues-DHS-Over-Traveler-Laptop-Seizures/ http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Business-Travel/Travel-Man... You can lose a lot to thieves, but you can lose even more to state thuggery backed by the force of "law."

abalashov 16y ago
You know, if you disagree, you can reply instead of downvoting.
- dctoedt 16y ago
  Upvoted only because I agree with your comment about down-voting. I do wish PG would separately display up-votes and down-votes.
- gojomo 16y ago
  I agree with your political point, and I downvoted it, because it injects an unnecessary political element to the thread. The OP is worried about thieves and hasn't mentioned cross-border travel. The best comments will be directly responsive to that request, rather than inject another tangentially-related politically-charged sentiment into the thread. Your comment was ranking above other comments that were more helpful to the original poster -- and was at +3 when I voted. (I wouldn't have voted your comment down to 0 -- it wasn't inappropriate -- just less-appropriate than other better comments lagging below it.) I've often suggested comments should have two rating dimensions -- up-promote/down-demote and left-agree/right-disagree -- and some people have said the agree+demote combination would never be used. Well, I would have used it here.
- alextingle 16y ago
  That's not the Hacker News way.

abalashov 16y ago

You know, if you disagree, you can reply instead of downvoting.

dctoedt 16y ago
Upvoted only because I agree with your comment about down-voting. I do wish PG would separately display up-votes and down-votes.
gojomo 16y ago
I agree with your political point, and I downvoted it, because it injects an unnecessary political element to the thread. The OP is worried about thieves and hasn't mentioned cross-border travel. The best comments will be directly responsive to that request, rather than inject another tangentially-related politically-charged sentiment into the thread. Your comment was ranking above other comments that were more helpful to the original poster -- and was at +3 when I voted. (I wouldn't have voted your comment down to 0 -- it wasn't inappropriate -- just less-appropriate than other better comments lagging below it.) I've often suggested comments should have two rating dimensions -- up-promote/down-demote and left-agree/right-disagree -- and some people have said the agree+demote combination would never be used. Well, I would have used it here.
alextingle 16y ago
That's not the Hacker News way.