{"id":1505,"date":"2004-09-27T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2018-08-01T08:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:33:20","slug":"1505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/27\/1505\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Department of Unintended Consequences Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pack a large number of disparate people in an enclosed area, moving slowly, and what do you have?  <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=2026&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/latimests\/linesposeriskatlax\" target=\"_new\">A tempting target<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stepped-up screening procedures at Los Angeles International Airport that were designed to make flying safer have created another potential vulnerability: long lines that are a &#8220;tempting target for terrorists,&#8221; security experts said Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer, obviously:  Spend more money:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rand Corp. researchers recommended in a 47-page report that airlines and federal officials spend $4 million a year to add skycaps, ticket agents and screeners to speed travelers through lines in terminal lobbies and on sidewalks and into the secure gate area \u2014 where they would be less vulnerable to attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spend more money ($4 million a year <i><b>to start<\/b><\/i>), add more procedures, and then herd the people into a more &#8220;secure&#8221; enclosed space where they&#8217;ll still be a target.<\/p>\n<p>Man, how can I get paid for bad ideas?  I have a million of them!  At $10 each, I would be rich!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pack a large number of disparate people in an enclosed area, moving slowly, and what do you have? A tempting target: Stepped-up screening procedures at Los Angeles International Airport that were designed to make flying safer have created another potential vulnerability: long lines that are a &#8220;tempting target for terrorists,&#8221; security experts said Friday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21049,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/21049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}