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[JRasnier]

is there anything that can happen if u have a laptop on you and u walk through those detectors of ppl who steal?

 

[sunny]

No, it shouldn't. Electronic tags respond to the transmissions of the gate.

 

[breaking]

" those detectors of ppl who steal"


hehe

 

[breaking]

why not? surely the technology is not that crap that it would fuck your laptop up????

 

[sunny]

Originally posted by melbournian
No, but you are not supposed to put laptops through the things at the airport.

This is an urban myth.

X-ray is a form of EMR: light. Light does not affect magnetic storage (your hard disk etc). But probably a chance it can affect things like flash RAM and EEPROMS.

 

[fatmuscle]

if it screwed up laptops
wouldn't it also screw up video tapes etc... pen drives