screeners

Netflix Mails "Do Not Rent" Screener Disc To Customer

Netflix Mails "Do Not Rent" Screener Disc To Customer

I just got “The Rules Of Attraction” from Netflix and it’s a screener disc. As a matter of fact, 3 or 4 times through the movie, 5-10 minute sections of the movie have “This is the property of Lion’s Gate Films, This disc is not to be sold or rented”. Interestingly, it was a 2 sided DVD and when I watched the 2nd side, it was a test pattern. No extras, no subtitles, no language options. Just the movie with legal disclaimers overlaid throughout.

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A TSA screener contaminated a 14-year-old boy’s sterile backup feeding tube in the name of national security: “If I can’t open it, I can’t let you on the plane.” [WFTV via BoingBoing]

Man With Loaded Gun Slips Past Ronald Reagan Airport Security

Man With Loaded Gun Slips Past Ronald Reagan Airport Security

A man carrying a loaded gun passed through the security checkpoint at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport without incident this past Sunday, apparently because the gun wasn’t floating in a shampoo bottle or hidden in a shoe. He then remembered he was carrying it and brought it back to the TSA authorities, who promptly charged him with “possessing or transporting a firearm into an air carrier terminal where prohibited, a misdemeanor, and released him.”

Newark Airport Screeners Fail To Find Hidden Weapons In Federal Test

Screeners at Newark fail to find ‘weapons’ [The Star Ledger via Mere Rhetoric]