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Multiple folks in this thread have asked how the TSA is going to deal with this. The answer is: it won't. These laptops were banned as a "dangerous good" by the
by js2 7y ago
Multiple folks in this thread have asked how the TSA is going to deal with this. The answer is: it won't. These laptops were banned as a "dangerous good" by the FAA. This is separate from the TSA's list of items banned as a security threat.
> The Transportation Security Administration also has rules on "prohibited items" that pose a security threat. Though they sometimes overlap, the TSA security rules are separate from the FAA dangerous goods safety rules discussed here.
https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/ https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/
- krustyburger 7y agoGiven that the TSA has something like a 5% success rate (according to their own internal measures) at identifying things they’re actively screening, I think the best bet in any event would have been to just try to take the laptop through.
- cm2187 7y agoTo those who wonder why you can’t board with a thermometer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdYueB9pY4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdYueB9pY4
- Kuinox 7y agoIn a recent thermometer there is no mercury anymore. By recent i mean in the last few decades.
- daliusd 7y agoYou are a little bit too optimistic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-in-glass_thermometer#List_of_countries_with_regulations_or_recommendations_on_mercury_thermometers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-in-glass_thermometer#L...
- Kuinox 7y agoI just googled for my country (France) and found an article from 1999 (?!) stating that it is forbidden. https://www.lexpress.fr/informations/thermometre-la-fin-du-mercure_632797.html https://www.lexpress.fr/informations/thermometre-la-fin-du-m...
- cortic 7y ago..because if you drill a divot out of the inside of the plain, clean it with hydrochloric acid and break your thermometer on there you might get some pitting.. whoa, dodged a bullet there.
- cm2187 7y agoThe video doesn't say that the reaction won't happen without cleaning the surface, just that it will be much slower. And the hole is just to hold the mercury in place.
- cortic 7y agoThe video literally says the reaction won't happen without cleaning the surface quote; "Under normal conditions aluminum is surrounded by a protective oxide layer" btw; mods, you have no idea how much it bothers me not being able to change plain to plane in my op.
- turk73 7y agoI don't see what the point to any of it is other than some feel-good CYA maneuver. I fully expect that every single Apple laptop will be recalled eventually.