Follow-up on MacBooks taking bullets

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Remember that Unibody MacBook that took a few bullets last week? Well, it appears there is more information on that.

Learn your Jewish holidays kids! Via PED

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Annoying bitch

I hate that like like shit too, ugh.

 

"Like oh my God, they like totally, like shoot iiiit! I was like no, and they were like yes"

 

 

Probably less annoying than you'd come across if you were getting interviewed in a similar circumstance. And a LOT less annoying than you right now... At least she's not calling people names just because of the way they talk.

She's hot.

You just called a total stranger a bitch. 

You need to grow the hell up. 

I'm a mac fanatic and the sight of this breaks my heart!!!

Seriously? I read the account on her blog, and watched the interview, and I don't see why you're calling her a smart ass. Seems like the IDF folks were the real smart asses.

clearly, they were much worse than that.  

How were the Israelis to know she wasn't a Muslim? The Arabs are a Semitic people, just like the jews are. I've seen Arab girls, especially the Lebanese, who looked like her. She could not sufficiently pass as jewish, so she was suspicious. Why would the Egyptian border guards harass her, if she was living there?

 

If Arab suicide bombers will fake a pregancy ro kill Isrealies, then why not use a notebook computer? The big thing against her was her attitude which was "how dare you stop me."

 

As an American, I could identify her as a smart ass liberal, but the Israelis might be unable to.

What has any of this got to do with destroying a laptop using a handgun? 

Well *that's* important, you "identified" her as a liberal. Well done. 

Oh my god... Your religious prejudice is mind blowing! Persons like you are the reason why Europeans think americans are just bunch of uneducated idiots.

If you'll please detail the prejudice in his post, I'd be interested. I don't think he said anything that prejudged a religion. I think he mentioned some events that are well documented to have occurred. They might be sore spots for you... or you might just be looking for reasons to castigate someone. The reason I was annoyed with the earlier poster was because he was calling names at a girl he never met. Now, if he'd taken exception to her speech as being ungrammatical (which it was) or ineloquent (which it also was), this would have been a different matter. A person should always be able to speak the truth, even when there are other people who don't want to hear it. And you should not call someone a racial bigot when he in fact seems to just be trying to be objective (and what's more, reasonably fair-minded). The last comment might be partisan, but that's all it is. Though I'd be willing to lay 2-1 odds he's right, on bets up to a nickel :).

she wasnt harrased at egyptian border but instead she was harrassed at isrlian airport and she said she was happy living in egypt... and well better carefully read about arabs before you criticise on them ... all you are saying is what you see in media instead you are totally unaware from reality ..... you have no idea what is real deal here .... and you dumb person you passport clearly states that you are from this area and belongs to certain religion.....and you clearly need to read history which you dont now yet .....

The security guards couldn't care less about what her answers actually were to the "are you Jewish" and "do you know the Jewish holidays" questions.  They're observing how you answer, if you're nervous or acting suspicious.  Seems like she was both!

You're right on the money. I used to work in security and we would sometimes ask what appear to be inane questions and make judgements based on HOW the questions were perceived by the interviewed person. We live in less than comfortable times, and she was in a trigger spot part of the world. The Israelis aren't stupid. They're not out to create any more bad PR than need be. Something isn't being divulged here. Maybe she doesn't even know it.

Like, WTF!

O Sad and Tragic Day for poor little "partly Jewish girl"not yet able to recognize security - *Israeli Security* Good G-d - ! - protocols simply for being what they are. They are not "oppressive" simply meant to ensure you (i.e., anybody, Egyptian, American (incl, American Jewish), are not carrying a bomb. "It's the Security, Stupid!" Repeat that until you get it right in your head. Egyptians can let you through their Security, be happy don't worry, because their Egyptian Intelligence has been keeping a sharp eye on you from the moment you entered their country. So you won't, like, bomb them. They have Xrayed your computer probably without your knowing it.

Then, on the other hand, I suppose you think Israel and Israelis should be just as casual as a sunny day, blissfully putting aside the fact that their country and families and cities have been bombed nearly ever day since Israel was founded in 1948. And during the two Intifadas (do you know what those were?) many hundreds of suicide bombers threw their lives away trying to kill as many Israelis (and Americans, and Europeans, etc., what the hell) as possible. And they succeeded in killing more than the number of students attending all your schools, and then some.

Don't be an idiot, you're too smart for that (though evidently not smart enough not to act like a fool!)

Please forgive my barrage of sarcasm, but I can't stand just how (willfully) ignorant Americans are, and I'm American, though not Jewish. But, yes, you might have guessed it already, I'm a Zionist and proud to say so. Israel has committed many sins, made many terrible and sometimes vengeful mistakes, with tragic consequences for Palestinians. I don't like that many Israeli men can behave so like assholes toward women and non-Israelis who haven't asked for their input. I do believe their should be a free and independent Palestinian state. I regret that the current government is so resistant to negotiating some kind of peace, but then I also regret Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran among others are bent on wiping Israel and Israelis (maybe Jews anywhere in the world, too, please consider, it's happened before and no reason it won't be tried again...and again). I am angry at Israel, frustrated with the peace process that ever goes nowhere. But I know where I stand. I have thought a great deal, and examined my conscience closely, and I am prepared now to say if the day comes when it could make difference for Israel to prevent its destruction, I would go myself to assist any way I can, lose my life in the process if it comes to it.

Please think some more before you upload a sequel to your YouTube about Israel and Israelis. 

The Egyptians don't check because Americans and Israelis NEVER carry bombs into their countries to blow up busloads of school children. Egyptians and other Arabs DO OFTEN carry bombs into Israel to kill busloads of school children, restaurants full of family diners and others.

Egypt's leadership does have to protect itself from Arab extremists who would kill Mubarak at a moment's notice if they could.

 

you need to seriously read the history of what actual arabs were and why they are all angry on jewish know....  but i do say that all those pplz who actually blow themselves with bombs and take other innocent life wit them are not human and neither they belongs to any nations .... and plus dont believe on everything you see in media .. go and actually do your research ... and then talk about it ....

Do you genuinely believe that it's IDF standard practice to shoot holes in a computer deemed a security risk? Other countries confiscate materials(particularly electronic media) with an eye to gleaning intelligence, if possible, and return them if nothing illegal is found. This was nothing less than a crude act of aggression directed against a young woman. I wonder what else the IDF is capable of when not under international scrutiny?

well seems like you dont now the history soo well ..... it was palestine who actually welcome jewish in their home place ... your soo called israel was under palestine which was forcefully taken from them after what happened with jewish in germany ... and even if you read the history thru other prospective, you will come to know that actually german pplz were frustrated by the jewish ways of treating them like third class citizens and not giving them enough opportunities to succeed and then asking them to be their slaves ..... soo you see those pplz have this concep that they are supirior then others and they need to lower their standard down and consider others human as well ... you know even if your converted jewish you are still third class citizen to them ....so first read the real history about what is true and false .....

They couldn't put it through the scanner?

Not on my list of countries to visit.

Put it throught the scanner? A unibody MacBook? Do you have any understanding of physics?

I have a fairly decent understanding of physics and can't see what you think the problem with scanning it could have been? they're not made of lead...

aluminium macbooks should be passed through an airport x-ray scanner just the same as any other notebook/laptop:

http://gizmodo.com/5093133/aluminum-macbook-x+ray-makes-perfect-desktop-...

I have a fairly decent understanding of physics and can't see what you think the problem with scanning it could have been? they're not made of lead...

aluminium macbooks should be passed through an airport x-ray scanner just the same as any other notebook/laptop:

http://gizmodo.com/5093133/aluminum-macbook-x+ray-makes-perfect-desktop-...

I have a fairly decent understanding of physics and can't see what you think the problem with scanning it could have been? they're not made of lead...

aluminium macbooks should be passed through an airport x-ray scanner just the same as any other notebook/laptop:

http://gizmodo.com/5093133/aluminum-macbook-x+ray-makes-perfect-desktop-...

What's with the headline? That seems very bias!

Also this video is quite old, I believe I saw it three days ago, @ engadget already.

When any of you guys live in Israel and have a better understaning of what goes on here you would understand that its not "aggression" its defense. And a beautiful MacBook is a very cheap price to pay!!!

Lived there. Definitely aggression. Defense would investigate, get intel, etc. No value to using firearms against private property (particularly an American tourist) and the political fallout that ensues. No wonder the Israeli government paid compensation to the girl - they don't need this sort of publicity.