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on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:
University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.
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UPenn Professor Solving DiffEQ on Scratchpad Causes Plane to Return to Gate
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @12:23AM
Shouldn't that math-illiterate tattletale get fined, or something? If she had paid a little bit of attention in high school math she would realize what algebra (etc) looks like. Or, you know, broken the ice by asking, "Gee that looks interesting, what are you working on?" Sheesh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @08:12AM
Or publicly shame her; give us her name!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 10 2016, @02:56PM
yes, she's a mindless rat but the staff she contacted should have been able to make a slightly better determination as to the threat. When i used to fly(shortly after 9/11) they would act like i was the jackal or some shit. i don't have anything serious on my record. one time some jackass who had mentioned that he had just returned from a whole list of disease ridden countries hacked all over me. i made a face like "wtf is wrong with you" and some stupid lady looked at me like i was some sort of asshole. she probably ratted me out for whatever her ignorant-ass suspicions were b/c when i got to the plane door, the pilot and two staff had blocked the entrance. the pilot realized fairly quickly that i was no threat and made the decision to let me in. then an air marshall sat behind me watching me the whole freakin' flight like i was a prisoner being transported. the airports are full of pigs and rats. @$% the airlines for letting the airports and planes be turned into occupied checkpoints and prisoner transport or all the well-to-do douche bags who kiss ass, rat and act like turning our country into a dystopian nightmare is just fine by them.