More people&#x27;s lives have been spent in line waiting to get through US airport security since 9&#x2F;11&#x2F;2001 than died at the WTC on that day.  A rough estimate is 788M passengers&#x2F;year * 15 minutes * 14 years &#x2F; 80 years per lifetime &gt; 4000 lifetimes.  Now if only my Macintosh would boot faster...