EAS is a one-way technology sent to everyone on the same tower, in a broadcast-type system. Get with the times. You didn't verify anything.

Indeed, and part of it is the enlisted troops swear an oath to obey their officers. Officers are assumed to have brains, but not enlistees or non-coms (except Warrant Officers). If enlisted guys thought they could be punished for breaking the law but following orders, they'd be thinking more about their orders and less about just getting them done. Let the officers do the thinking, that's the military way.

Yeah but HIPAA doesn't have a "emergency safety of life" exemption. Sure, the FCC will give us a pass in an emergency, but Susie M. Bovine's lawyer won't and neither will the courts due to HIPAA. So hospitals are increasingly less and less interested in working with ARES groups, and during an emergency we won't be able to include them in coordination of events.

Same was said about SSB ("I need a carrier to tune my AM Receiver!") and Morse Code ("But if you don't know morse code, how can you be a ham?"). You say the ham bands are not for private communication - I agree. But they are, per the FCC, for the public good, and if we can't legally transmit in the clear patient information (e.g. "Found another dead body, ID is Susan Mary Bovine", or "Another plague victim at our evac center, name is Susan Bovine - do not permit entry") then we are useless to hospitals. Already there are some that no longer participate with ARES because we cannot be HIPAA compliant and they don't want the headache or liability.

Even if it's interfering with hams - Part 15 guys are the bottom of the rung. It really depends on what the nature of the interference is. A Florida man was fined because his well pump was interfering with local hams.

No, the NRA wants everyone to HAVE THE RIGHT to bear arms. Totally different.

So... catching up with Mac OSX? Sounds just like the .app "bundles" (really just zips as far as I can tell)

Did Postgres finally join every other database and implement cross-database queries? Call me when they join the new century. My experience with Postgres was that their management interfaces were toe-to-toe as bad as MySql's, no cross database queries, and things like sharding and master-slave had to be implemented in your software.

Or... allow anyone to email their senators without having to only be from their district (as there's a lot of committees, so by current rules only a few states get to determine energy policy for the whole frickin' US because they won't listen to anyone not from their district, but all bills have to go through committee and most don't make it out alive :( ).

They weren't activated, and the ones that were in use during the race (for coordination) were all evacuated and followed those orders (http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-marathon-update-all-hams.html)

You're more likely to find hams helping in inter-departmental capacity, where large-scale (this was so not large scale) events require coordination between multiple police and fire departments, hospitals, etc. This was a local situation where Boston Police (and to a point DHS) were involved, but no other agencies - they can usually handle talking on their own radios to themselves.

Lawsuit wouldn't happen - he lacks legal standing. Unless it's his PRIVATE network. If it's the company's network (which the article rather implys), then they company has standing, but not him (the employee).

Yes - this! Just because they don't want to rock the boat, doesn't make it not a federal crime! And if they decide they don't want to follow up on the legal violation, I would tell me boss that the hospital may not be pentesting officially - it could be a corrupt IT (or even non-IT) person testing their clients w/o the hospital management's knowledge. If it's a major hospital (which most seem to be, these days), there are serious repercussions for doing that to the hospital employee. I would probably block the IP at the firewall and if they complain let them know that, per YOUR standard operating policy, the IP was perm-banned due to a large number of attacks coming from an unauthorized source. I do at my place of business (of course, I'm the CTO and a business partner to boot, so I can make those decisions).

Uh, not if your whole network is virtualized. For example, I don't have a single real physical server running a real OS, we run a virtualization platform and run our public and private servers on the boxes, and a VM running a firewall to manage access.

As far as our laptops, those are in a whole 'nother office, with a separate firewall. But if I deploy something on amazon and want an OpenVPN connection back to other clusters of servers running in other data centers, yeah, I'm going to run pfSense on a VM.

I have to seriously disagree - I'm a part owner (largest minority share) in the startup I work at, I'm CTO, and I work my a** off. I get in at 9am, work through lunch much of the time, get "off" at 6pm, then go home, do dinner with the family, and half of my weeknights I go back to work. I work every other weekend. I have one intern, and I also play "Manager" of most of the company as well as my programming and other technical pursuits. I have to ensure salespeople are hitting their goals, working with them to set reasonable goals, and discussing with my other two partners when those goals aren't met. I am on the hook for a not insignificant percentage of the company's debt, so yeah, I'm gonna be pissed if people are slacking off and I'm paying out the nose for it.

Developers have been aware of this since the beginning! We have had access to this the whole time, some developers just don't care (or are in places where they don't have to remit sales tax).