LOTD: 2007-07-24
2007-07-24 / 23:38 / dave
- An article about Gary Trudeau. Excellent. Of course, I stopped reading Doonesbury when I came to college and the paper stopped showing up every day. Where’s the RSS feed? Oh wait, maybe I should just STFG. There seems to be one.
- A pilot on airline security (via Bruce Schneier’s blog). The system is broken:
What is TSA’s fault is their abject failure to embrace more robust approaches than high visibility inspections, and their accommodations to the Air Transport Association’s revenue interests at the expense of true security, while largely ignoring the recommendations of the front-line airline crews and air marshals who have no direct revenue agenda and are much more familiar with airline operations than are the bureaucrats (remember government ignoring the front-line FBI agents who tried to warn them about 9/11?).
but somewhat self correcting:
This threat is mitigated by the fact that pilots, flight attendants, and ramp agents now routinely inspect the aircraft before flight each day, and this provides a measure of security.
Though you’d wish for a bit more security for those tax-payer billions. I mean I’m sure the crews were already on the alert after 9/11; unlike the bureaucrats, they have skin in the game
- Vinokurov doped? Everyone seems to have condemned him, but I’ve always been skeptical of the anti-doping tests. The “zero-tolerance” policies condemn athletes unfairly. But if he did we’re all doomed… DOOMED!