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Take a look at the picture on the right:

I don't want to move. I'm Hungry! (what a fat SOB) .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

We don't like indians? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Sweet reading list! I think the real question is: "Are some foolish americans itching for WWIII, when we don't even have the military support to complete the war we started in Iraq?" .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Do the concentrators provide enough gains to make up for the (what seems like) drastically reduced available area for cells? What percent conversion for the HT cells? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

I'm not going to fight "professional courtesy". I think we all do it to some degree, regardless of our jobs. Just seemed a little prick-ish to provide name and badge numbers of people that wronged them, you know? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

http://www.copswritingcops.com/home.html comments? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Care to name a few? I'll hope you note that not a single commenting engineer referred to what she built as a "prank". It is about as much a prank as a soap box car, a model airplane, or any other project a hobbyist might produce, be proud of, and be interested in showing off. Further, I think ALL of us (all posters, not just engineers) would identify the device in that photo to have nothing but malicious intent. See, that was easy! .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Interesting fact, how many Americans are killed in the US by suicide bombers each day? This logic has about as much sway as, "if you're not hiding anything, you won't have a problem with us sifting through your private shit". What specific part of this art project puts it over the edge? Was it the wires, the breadboard, the lights or battery? And don't say the sum of those objects, because then I'll ask you to clarify exactly what you think constitutes a "possible risk". If these were stories of success, maybe people wouldn't be complaining and expressing their dissatisfaction. No, it's just harmless, and fun. The words prank and college really have nothing to do with it. Appeal to emotion all you want, the only people you'll find are ones who are just as afraid as you are. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Oh noes, MIT publicly expressed disapproval after Logan airport throws a shitfit? Just like the recent reaction to the Moveon.org Patreaus ad, if you don't condone certain activities, you're against the US and unpatriotic. Don't mistake cleanup publicity for truth. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

There wasn't play doh attached to the device. Read the article. She was playing with it in hand. But like I suggested to Max above, if I was intent on bombing a location with PBX, we all know that I'd hold it in my hands and play with it, rather than getting a primer in it so I could, I don't know, actually set it off. Any person who's not a complete idiot (and is charged with separating real threats and imaginary threats) should have been able to make the following logical deductions: 1.) the wires are contained within the breadboard, there are no wires exiting the board to a "bomb". On top of that, the wiring is covered, it just appears to have the LEDs primarily exposed. 2.) the physical size of the device couldn't contain any reasonable quantity of explosive. (Even if we give you the unlikely possibility that the whole breadboard was comprised of "explosive"). You do recognize that the difference between this and just about ALL common household electronics is a case, right? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

All fair arguments, Max. Any personal opinion on whether or not she should be charged (particularly if she had no humorous/malicious intent)? edited to add: Had to put this up: 6 year old terrorist caught with "Fake Bomb" Hoax Device: http://www.hategun.com/blog/images/liteBrite2.jpg .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

And they would have caught her "bomb" the second she'd gone through the metal detector. So what? As far as TSA being morons, well, come on buddy. Seriously, come on. Seriously? But you guys can all talk about how you're gonna kick some engineer ass around the watercooler on monday. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Alright. You are incorrigible, so this will hopefully be my last post on the matter. "Looks like a bomb" is arbitrary, and completely subjective. Punishing someone for something that is so loosely defined is wrong. Was the initial response correct? Yes. If they didn't know it was a bomb, and then wanted to check her out, then check her out. Upon discovering it wasn't a bomb, she should have been released on her merry way. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

I'm dissatisfied that it wasn't. If it was, that might suggest to me that airport security stopped a legitimate threat to security. Instead, they are hassling and charging an innocent woman when all they had to do was say, "ooops, not a bomb? on your way, miss". Would you call the police if you saw this girl walking in a store you were at? .jim Not much of a threat to an airliner if she's at K-Mart. So it's only threats with airliners you're concerned about? Boy am I glad this wasn't about protecting public safety! Seriously, if you think it's worth throwing such a shit fit in the airport, it should be worth throwing an equal shit fit in ANY public location. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

oh god, that is horrible... I'm buying 1: I'd say I should watch my ass when I'm consulting at the airport, but I live in Colorado (so not everybody is a butthurt, trigger happy, complete moron out here). .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

a fashion crime, maybe. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

I'm dissatisfied that it wasn't. If it was, that might suggest to me that airport security stopped a legitimate threat to security. Instead, they are hassling and charging an innocent woman when all they had to do was say, "ooops, not a bomb? on your way, miss". Would you call the police if you saw this girl walking in a store you were at? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Oh my god! People will think it's ok to walk around with not-bombs on them? Preposterous! No, it makes you questionably successful, while making you look unquestionably stupid. Charging people for a crime that's not really a crime is stupid. She didn't say it was a joke. She didn't say it was a bomb. She didn't say it was anything to try to trick, terrify, or even confuse authorities. She was wearing (get ready for this again because I'm not sure you heard me last time) lights on her shirt: the back of which (once again) suggested that she was in a college electronics course. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

So inspect her and let her on her way. If you are charged with the task of finding bomb's, you should be competent enough to recognize what is not a bomb. When did she say it was a bomb? When did she suggest it was a bomb, or do anything suspicious enough warrant more than verification that it wasn't a bomb, and let her on her way? You recognize that she was basically wearing a homemade light, with wording on the back of her sweatshirt that would suggest she is in a college electronics/CS class, right? Just because she is being charged with "fake bomb" doesn't mean she said the word "bomb". Read the article. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Oh my god, play-doh! Are you serious? What a dumb hoe! Because, once again, if I was a bomber intent on using plastic explosive, we all know that I'd hold it it my hand rather than, oh, I don't know, worrying about having a primer in it so I could actually set it off. On top of that: No, it's not. But it is a place that someone might consider going if they were going to meet a friend who, hmmm, perhaps had been flying in an airplane? (it's all in good fun, max, I'm not trying to bust your balls

I haven't seen a single thing that said that she indicated it was a bomb. Cite? If she didn't say the word "bomb" to anybody, than to me she seems to be nothing more than a creative student who made a lighted display. Wires and breadboards are a "reference to a bomb" in about the same way that a tree is a "reference to a house". Sure I could use the tree to make the house, but I could also use it to make a fucking canoe. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Brilliant relation here. We should check out EVERYTHING, because EVERYTHING might be a bomb! Off with your socks, please. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Whoa whoa whoa, little buddy! (no bacon jokes here) Seriously, congratulations for all you do. Good work for taking on a job most all of us would be too afraid or uncomfortable to do. 20 years is dedication to your craft, and your country. Thanks very much! Respect, .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Exactly, Honeybuns, what does a bomb look like!? My guess is NOT bright blinking lights and a ratsnest of wires. Just a thought. One of my "fun projects" is a high rate gps, 6 axis IMU, and 3 axis magnetometer combined to provide GREAT, cheap location and pose data. It's footprint is smaller than a deck of cards, with lots of guidance power. If I can pack all of that into a 70x40mm PCB, why the fuck would I need a giant breadboard to make a bomb? The people who dislike us aren't dummies, too. So guess what? If you think it looks like a bomb, it's probably NOT a bomb. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC