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O.M.G. Literally tens of, even a few dozen, people were up in arms over such a scurrilous idea! OH, The Horror!

Same here, Dad loved to go out there not long after they opened, he always took me along.

One thing I've learned after all the years I've shopped there: if you see it and you have any interest in it, put it in your hands and buy it. If you hesitate, someone else will get it and it won't be there next time. Making you regret to the end of your days about your lost opportunity to have it.
Bought an old ISA NIC with connectors for RJ-45, thinnet, *and* thicknet. Makes a great conversation piece mounted on the office wall.

I mean, when /. first started, it was all "embrace, extend, extinguish" with MS using a Borg Gates avatar.
Is this the "embrace" part or the "extend" part of that whole process? Or can we really trust them?

And your manager managed to get a sex-change in the middle of all that?

My large national Fortune 500 company uses both RedHat and Microsoft contracted-service products at very high tiers. Guess which one we hardly ever need the service, yet they provide it in an instant to us? And guess which other usually can't be the least taxed with picking up our phone calls for support? RedHat has been a solid supporter of our IT operations.

Seriously, we want to add a -third- dimension to the driving experience?! Come to Orlando FL, my home town, where when there's not a cop around, traffic laws are just mere suggestions. And the cops don't bother following the same laws. The thought of adding a Z-axis to the average driver's motion range just scares the absolute dog-crap out of me.

Well, there's the problem right there. They're being paid by the contracting company, not FB, so their real beef is with their actual employer. FB doesn't employ them, FB employs the contracting company. FB is using the cheapest bid for food service they could get.

So how are actual FB employees faring at the company?

Just get yourself a large enough lock box and a flare gun. You have to declare your "weapon" (and not even tell them what type of weapon it is), so pack up everything you don't want lost into the lock box, lock it with your own non-TSA locks, chain it to the frame of your luggage, and make your weapon declaration when you check in. You must be present if the TSA wants to open your luggage and the lock box. And your stuff is in a secure box and is unlikely to be damaged or stolen. This is all well within the TSA's own regulations, too. It's a real shame we have to protect ourselves against our own federal airport security just to fly, though.

My little 7" color Nook I rooted? That has *all* my reading material.

If disallowed, it's just one more reason not to fly. And I have zero reasons now.

Nice to see all the old /. greybeards posting!

Any way, for me it was just enough Basic to get to the C= monitor and have fun with 6502 assembly. Later it was 8086 assembly, then enough C on the old MSC compiler to get into a lot of trouble. The first language I sat down and really tried to learn was Modula-2, and later some Oberon.

So /. is now getting article submissions off of Reddit these days? Sad...

Yes, in a theoretical (layman's definition) sense, that's true. Pathologists, the MD/DO educated physicians that run the medical laboratories producing lab tests, are responsible for the results which come from the labs they run. We medical laboratory technologists, along with other medical lab professionals like cytotechnologists, who do the actual manual labor of performing the tests, are the "hands" of the pathologists that would actually be running the tests if we weren't trained to work in their stead. At core, we lab techs all know and understand this, and the med lab field is an ancillary medical field. A lot of medical tech field operate the same same, being the laborers for the doctors for a particular field. Nuclear med techs and radiation dosologists are similar.

I don't know if this is possible yet, but how about when your car is charged your given a leeway time and then if you don't remove your car it starts DISCHARGING the BATTERY. An app could let you know when it's almost fully charged (the time preference would be yours) and then you would be ready to be there when your car is fully charged.

It seems a lot of the posters here really didn't read the article, and/or have no idea just exactly what got hacked.

Disclosure: I work with their major competitor. We have an online app almost exactly like Quest's, as do many of our competitors. Most of these online apps have about the same functionality, more or less, and work very similarly.

Care360 is Quest's online results delivery online app. The app itself belongs to Quest, and is run on hardware they own/lease. Provider offices ask for access to this app to receive their patient results. Typically this access is very restricted and narrow. The provider office only see the results they need to see. Some offices only see a couple new results a day (if any), other offices may see hundreds, even thousands of new results a day. An optional piece of software is an autoprint utility, which allows the office to get results automatically printed to some office printer, or even as PDF files on a receiving computer. Even another option is to have the results automatically received into the office management system with an electronic data interface.

Another part of these systems allows the client to make a test requisition that can either be given to the patient, put into a system that the blood draw centers can receive, or go along with the specimens the office draws themselves. This is what I think got hacked. This requisition making system has all the patient demographics needed to process and bill the patient's lab work, including their address info, responsible party info, and insurance subscriber info including any needed billing info. It is everything the lab needs to know to bill, and in most cases also includes diagnosis codes. It is quite a lot of info for each patient, and has to be current for a successful billing.