Wonder how long it will take for the geniuses in the field to figure out that if you create a barrier out of booms, along the width of the beach, you've now effectively blocked off the entire area.

You could effectively totally block several miles of beach by the simple placement of a few 100 feet of boom on either end. No different than a police barrier or crime scene tape. "Do not pass".

Except that's not what they're selling us here, supposedly. 65 feet my ass.

Just a stab in the dark here but here's my theory:

Lab and tech are short-staffed on weekends and make a request of management to have docs not submit requests that can wait until Monday.

Management agrees, says they will have Docs only submit urgent request, and for some boneheaded reason decide the best way to do this is have urgent requests marked "Please" instead of, oh, I don't know... maybe "urgent"?

Docs rightly feel this is stupid, more because of the choice of words than because of the principle behind it. Probably also quite a bit of "If I didn't need it now, I wouldn't request it now" sentiment.

How hard would it have been to include language that forces the DNA sample and any record of it to be destroyed if your arrest does not result in a conviction?

Guess I will stick with my unlimited EDGE for $20/month then, TMO. It may only be a pathetic 20kbyte/sec or so but I can do that speed all month long for $20, no caps.

From TFA: "The images are not erotic or pornographic and they cannot be stored or captured in any way," she said.

Hmm. Meaning, of course, that the scanners have no (obvious) way of doing a "save as".

As usual it'll take about 5 seconds for the average operator to figure out "Hey I could just take a picture of the screen!"

So.. I assume this to mean that employees don't get to bring their camera equipped phones in to work then? Or that THEY are strip searched for digital cameras and such?

Fat chance.

It's a good thing we no longer do things like that. You know, like add tylenol (APAP) to opiate painkillers so that if you abuse them you die of liver failure. Cause that wouldn't be cool at all.