{"id":258,"date":"2011-07-21T20:08:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-07-21T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:08:29","slug":"when-they-do-the-right-thing-gotta-give-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"When they do the right thing, gotta give credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the people who have tormented us and confiscated our nailclippers since 9\/11, have announced some good news: Airport scanners will no longer make an image of our naked bodies, and will instead &#8220;auto-detect items that could pose a potential threat&#8221; and show the locations of these items &#8220;on a generic, computer-generated outline of a person.&#8221;\u00a0 Moreover, TSA says, &#8220;Passengers are able to view the same outline that the TSA officer sees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty good.\u00a0 Maybe the technology and software have been adapted because the producers feared the full-naked scans would depress sales of their zillion-dollar machines.\u00a0 But at least TSA has agreed to eliminate this particular humiliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the people who have tormented us and confiscated our nailclippers since 9\/11, have announced some good news: Airport scanners will no longer make an image of our naked bodies, and will instead &#8220;auto-detect items that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}