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No computer carry ons???
Lots of serious travelers NEED laptops at their destinations.
Now they need to be packed in the check-in bags, but you can't lock those bags anymore (those travel locks that supposedly can only be opened by TSA personel are a joke!)
So nevermind that many folks travel with highly confidential business data (I guess it could all be encrypted), but what about the value of the hard and software. I have a friend who routinely travels with a CD used for solving micro-wave engineering problems that is licensed out at $50,000 per copy... it's encrypted so it would be unusable to a thief but it costs freakin 50K to replace. So is he supposed to put it in an unlocked bag as he makes a connection in, say, Miami where the luggage handlers have robbed people (including me!) blind even after 9/11?
Are airlines going to be financially responsible for electronic devices that are crushed while being manhandled in cargo bays? There are entire industries that will be immediately bankrupted: in Houston I noticed DVD rental stores providing videos to be viewed with laptops during flights. And what about attorneys who use laptops to work on cases in flight? They'll lose all those billing hours!!!!! C'est la vie.
Lots of serious travelers NEED laptops at their destinations.
Now they need to be packed in the check-in bags, but you can't lock those bags anymore (those travel locks that supposedly can only be opened by TSA personel are a joke!)
So nevermind that many folks travel with highly confidential business data (I guess it could all be encrypted), but what about the value of the hard and software. I have a friend who routinely travels with a CD used for solving micro-wave engineering problems that is licensed out at $50,000 per copy... it's encrypted so it would be unusable to a thief but it costs freakin 50K to replace. So is he supposed to put it in an unlocked bag as he makes a connection in, say, Miami where the luggage handlers have robbed people (including me!) blind even after 9/11?
Are airlines going to be financially responsible for electronic devices that are crushed while being manhandled in cargo bays? There are entire industries that will be immediately bankrupted: in Houston I noticed DVD rental stores providing videos to be viewed with laptops during flights. And what about attorneys who use laptops to work on cases in flight? They'll lose all those billing hours!!!!! C'est la vie.
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