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> Backscatter doesn't pose any health risk to travelers.

In the US, this kind of interference would pose a great deal of trouble for the ambitious functionary.

As others have pointed out, there is little basis for your assertion that "backscatter doesn't pose any health risk to travelers.

I can therefore assert with absolute certainty that my opting out poses less risk to the travelling public than being scanned poses a risk to me.

We've got political commentary trying to pose as analysis.

Great, so as long as we solve six of the major technical hurdles of the day, we can avoid the societal and technical dangers that BitCoin poses.

A thought that is worth possibly spreading: despite protests to the contrary, terrorism does not pose an existential threat.

The mechanisms of advertising networks pose security issues: cross-site JS, iframes, Flash, and Java.

"Or to flip it around, I opt out because I happen to know something that the TSA doesn't: I pose no risk to the aircraft, and scanning me in no way makes the aircraft safer.

But it is not meaningful, in my view, to tell entrepreneurs to run their ventures with the aim of solving social problems as opposed to that of succeeding in a marketplace.

In those days a business traveler could sit down to pose for a snapshot inside the aircraft cockpit, with the crew having no concerns about a person who was not an airline employee being there.

"According to the authorities, the Facebook updates written by the NinjaVideo founder pose a danger to the community.

More generally, the history of technology is littered with arrogant overshoots where risks were dismissed until evidence became overwhelming; while one cannot conclude that backscatter is at a level to be dangerous, one can certainly not conclude that it "doesn't pose any health risk.

The result will be, I believe, that Oracle will get its day in court but will only be able to proceed with a much-stripped-down version of its claims - something that might hurt Google a bit financially but will pose no real threat to the Android platform as a whole and will amount in time to nothing more than a blip on the radar.

Of course, those private schools can also use their greater financial resources to employ better educated and trained teachers, provide teaching in smaller groups, and otherwise exploit opportunities to offer a better education to their pupils, but we're supposed to ignore that because if we can't educate all of our children to that standard then damn it we're not going to educate anyone to that standard.