From: Marco Mailand (isaac_at_tele2.ch)
Date: Mon Jul 26 2004 - 14:54:55 PDT
> I was informed
> that due to the fact that the Stylus was made of metal, that
> it would pose as a possible weapon and was told to leave the
> stylus behind or be refused boarding.
...
> The ironic part of
> the whole process was that the elderly woman I sat next to on
> the flight had the biggest set of knitting needles I had ever
> seen in my Life. Go figure !
All this is very close to be ridiculous and chicane, like many other
security issues are. It might be a good idea to replace the TiStylus before
flying by a cheap platsic eMate thing to avoid getting forced to leave it
for nothing. However, on my last four flights a had always the TiStylus in
my MP2k1 inserted and the security people wanted only to see that my Newton
is an operational computer and therefore I had to switch it on. The Stylus
was never an issue, maybe because I flew only to Cuba via Europe :-P
Marco
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