On: Steve Jobs is a Ninja and Carries Throwing Stars

[vessenes]

This is an interesting article, which doesn't explain the answer to a basic question: why does Japan care about personal near-field weapons for passengers in private jets?

It's hard to understand the use cases where these are any sort of a danger to society compared to just ownership of the jet.

[ajscherer → vessenes]

"This is an interesting article"

It is? I'm not a good hacker, but this one didn't gratify my intellectual curiosity at all.

[scrrr → ajscherer]

Apparently you don't carry throwing stars when you travel..

;)

[SRSimko → vessenes]

I think the reason is many companies have shed their private jets for timeshare jets like Netjets offers. The pilots flying these don't always know who their clients are and the planes can still be used as weapons. I doubt Apple has done this but many have and their is no way for gov. officials to know the difference.

[shin_lao → vessenes]

Because you get access to the tarmac which is supposed to be secured.

[ergo98 → vessenes]

They don't segregate private versus leased versus rented versus chartered, etc.

Meaning that Steve Jobs could be some random guy blowing his savings on a spot on a chartered private jet.