Reminds me of freshmen year of high school. There was an unscheduled fire drill, so being good students we filed out of school in an orderly fashion as the fire dept. was coming in the front doors. It seems an AP chemistry experiment got out of control, so the fire dept and haz-mat squad got called. Once it was determined that the experiment was under control we were allowed back in school. It made for a "guess what happened at school today" story. Now I guess the news crews would show up and scare the hell out of the parents with the obigitory "my baby is in there" sound bite (note: we were all on the football field), the school would need to send e-mails/texts/ letters to the parents explaining in detail what happened, fire the teacher, and charge the student with trying to blow up the school.....

Obviously someone needs to get this memo to our local school board (they are literally bought and paid for by the teacher's union, but that's another issue) Our middle/high school students start homeroom at 7:40 and the grade school kids start at 9:05 (so the buses can be recycled) of course we also have forced desegregation of the school system (unconstitutional but they gave it a different name and tweak it every time they get sued) so there are children who do not arrive home until after 6:30 due to playing musical buses. I went to private school and start times for me were 8:30 grade/middle & 8:00 high school, I always felt bad for friends that went to public school talking about waking up at 6:00 or earlier in some cases to get to high school.

Then as now gasoline inherently has water in it which below 0 Celsius has a nasty habit of freezing, especially in exposed fuel lines. I witnessed mechanics push out 13cm (5") long pieces of ice out of gasoline fuel lines during extended cold weather periods Around -10 C (13 F) for several days. Considering the terrible conditions they were refueling the vehicles in, it's likely that the fuel was even more contaminated with water than our current rather sanitary conditions; i.e. covered fuel points, secure gas caps, side fueling locations that help reduce ice/snow falling into the tank, gas nozzles that generally fill the gas tube, better refineries, etc.

And then, you should try to gain some insight into what the hippies were and the legacy you now enjoy.

Like the proliferation of STDs because they were banging everything that had a hole? Or perhaps the increased trafficking of illegal drugs..the hard stuff not the weed, the coke trade by the CIA (don't let anyone fool you kiddos the CIA controls the coke trade in the US) exploded after the love-ins and other types of "Free Expression" or is it the porn industry which sees the 70s & 80s as it's "Golden Age" before STDs that would kill you became an issue...gee those hippies brought us so much I don't know where to start...yeah there were a few tree-huggers here and there along with the ones who spit on and threw things at the GIs returning from overseas duty that most did not volunteer for..oh in case you think I'm some young brat who knows nothing...all those hippies are old enough to be my parents...I was born in the 60s, my babysitters were the younger hippies, and I watched and paid attention to what happened in my neighborhood as a child...

So how does the school feel about 30 6 meter CAT5 cables strung across the classroom...no hazards there....

I learned this when I was a young Marine. I am pretty sure it is standard practice.

That explains why the Navy provides corpsmen to the Marines...A good corpsman won't need to do that, however civilians working for the Corps can & will do that.
I think what most people are missing is the Littmann Cardio III is a very expensive ($200+) scope, think of it as a Swiss watch or a Cadillac with all the options. Along comes a 3D scope for less than a buck that outperforms a Cardio III...A dollar store watch or a Kia that outperforms the standard of the industry. So the question begs overpriced stethoscope or 3D printing that change medicine in poor countries? Stethoscopes aren't just accessories around the neck of docs and nurses, literally a $3 stethoscope can help determine blood pressure, but a Cardio stethoscope can allow you to hear heart murmurs, pulses in limbs to determine if blood flow is stopped, and allow a doc/nurse to listen for lung sounds that can determine pulmonary issues at an early onset, stuff my $3 scope can never try to do, that why it is stuffed in the bag with my BP cuff. If I could buy a $1 scope that does what the Cardio III does you can bet I'll be interested.

Really? I'm not sure which three letter agency you worked for, but they need to be investigated. I spent about 6 years working for the DoD and I can't tell you the meetings I never attended, the people I did work for and things I never did because of "national security" I'd wager 3/4 of that was later declassified especially when the inventory shows that things were used or issued and the logs don't show the date of use (99% was considered expendable and none were considered sensitive items.) We had people come into my workplace who never signed the visitor log, were never screened but were immediately ushered into our senior officer's office and he was notified he had a "guest" in his office if he wasn't in. The vast majority I found out later were simply couriers who had things that only he was allowed to view/handle, so in reality we would have treated them like any other courier and wouldn't be in the building long enough to sign the log, but I did escort a couple of people to an exit that was not visible from the front of our building & was used almost exclusively as a smoking area. Each time I was asked if they signed the log, did you write down/note anything. if I did it had to be turned over to the officer. When I was brand new to the job, I had to turn over a duty log and rewrite it with no mention of a certain person who entered and exited from a normally unused door. This post is intentionally vague as I don't want folks in suits knocking on my door (which they do have my address although I no longer work for DoD) asking about what I posted on /.

I live in the next city over from this whole thing, so it is has been played out on the local news for the past few weeks. When the shooter was arrested the toy and it's camera were returned to the guy who was holding the controller along with the video card and whatever else he was using to record. A few days later this guy reappears and suddenly makes the "unedited" video available to everyone....If I had a few days I'm sure I could alter the video sufficiently enough to make it look like I was Mother Theresa too. The shooter will get off with a fine for discharging his weapon in city limits (all 6-10 streets I can't remember now) because there are so many holes in this and such laughable 'investigation" by the cop, it will be a wonder if the shooter can't get the fine waived by a good lawyer. I'll start with this part...any police officer with a quarter of a brain would have retained the drone after extensive photography of it's location, as evidence, for damage, for forensics of the video, for evidence. As I understand it was handed back to the owner. Typical regretfully of these glorified rent a cops these small cities hire to "police protection" He really needs to go back to running radar on the main street through this subdivision, speed limit 20MPH, when outside the "city" it's 35MPH. Yes he is a revenue source, not law enforcement. Oh the police chief? http://www.wave3.com/story/235...

Why go after the drone? I'll wager the operator is much less maneuverable and less redundant than the drone...A solid punch to the controller or the operator's nose will achieve the same result, and might get better results. If I owned a drone and I saw an angry person headed toward me, my expensive toy might not be the first thing I'm worried about...

Kentucky's line is different because the business powers that be lobbied for and got the ET/CT line moved west of Louisville so that Louisville was on the same time as NY instead of Chicago. The line pretty much moves east, south of Louisville. to meet up with the line in Tennessee. Roughly a 30 minute drive from the county line south or west will put you in Central Time. It's also the reason sunset is 9:30 in the summer and 5:30 in the winter.

Also the gun owner was using a shotgun that according to reports locally (I live about 10 miles from this) was using bird shot, very small pellets. If he was flying hundreds of feet in the air the quadcopter would not have been damaged enough to crash. There was video of the drone with a view under a home's awning, which strikes me as about 10' or so. One last thought, I have had friends ask me to check on their houses while on vacation and I actually went over, made sure everything looked good on the outside, watered their garden and checked out the inside of the house while the garden was getting watered. I don't think the toy could check inside or water the garden. I think these assholes were voyeurs and pissed that the guy broke their toy before they got any "good stuff". To be fair the gun owner was not terribly smart either, that shot although small, had to land somewhere. Talking with some friends our consensus is this guy might pay a fine for discharging a weapon in city limits (this city is maybe two dozen streets in a subdivision) but since the police did not take the drone as evidence or the video, it is going to boil down to he said, he said.

I've seen this happen in companies that I have worked for in the past. There was one employee who was actively trying to convince the technical operations department (in a CATV company) to unionize. A Senior VP (known for his anti-union stance) came for a visit and spoke to the department strongly encouraging them to not follow a vocal minority. Within a few months everyone known to be involved had been fired for violations of company policies. I had a supervisor who actually told us in a team meeting that if he heard that we were sharing our pay information he would do everything in his power to fire us for cause. When someone on our team went to his manager he denied the statement and explained it away. His nose was brown enough the manager bought it and ignored it. Not long after that he started picking off team members one by one for various reasons, starting with the guy who went to his manager. It took him nearly a year but got around to me as I wouldn't play by his rules. I didn't care what anyone else made, I just knew my supervisor was ineffective and made that clear, although not directly. I was told that after me he went after another senior tech, the supervisor was shown the door rather quickly, that tech had friends in high places.

I have a friend who was recently let go by our employer as part of a "restructuring" (read hire a new team lead internally for less money). He was given a small severance and walked to the door. So after filing for unemployment, he immediately updated his resume online. Within 2 days he got calls from 4 different recruiting companies recruiting him for the job he had just been let go from. It was obvious none of the recruiters took the time to read his resume, they only searched for keywords and his name popped up. He said he was sorely tempted to take the phone interview just to see how long it took these idiots to realize he had held the job previously. He simply told them not interested and they went away. It could be this woman fit the keywords, and since the phone interview is almost a waste of time with most recruiters (in my experience they are "technical" recruiters but are clueless about technology) she very easily was called for an in-person interview. I have to wonder if she actually had the same interviewer in any of her 4 interviews?

When I was in the Army, I had an ambulance driver who would get bored and break open a mercury thermometer play with the mercury then toss it into the trash. I used to get pissed but not for any of the reasons you might suspect. First he always would get a thermometer from our ER not from the patient care areas, and second it took forever to get replacement thermometers as our particular facility was low on the list of places that got supplies. The "hazards" of mercury and poor disposal were not even close to being on my radar. Fortunately I was able to send him back to his home unit before he broke all the thermometers...

It's obvious 95% of the posters here have never worked on a real service desk. I spent 3.5 years working as a Security Account Admin and sent every password in cleartext and here's why. End users & their managers are remarkably computer illiterate. If I salted or hashed the passwords as so many have suggested, I would get a reply within 5 minutes saying "my password didn't work." As it was I still had about a 50% success rate with end users actually getting their passwords to work. Another issue I faced was a language barrier. Our work spanned 6 continents and roughly 18 time zones. as a result we provided 24 hour service and to a warehouse worker in Shanghai, my e-mails probably looked like they were written by an alien; which is why their managers were always copied on the e-mails. As a rule to ensure some security, all e-mails were sent encrypted and never sent to a third party address which angered the UPS & FedEx shippers in Asia. I also often copied the regional service desk person, as it was likely they spoke the language of the end user or someone on the service desk spoke it.