I'm a 40-something, and I used to handle maintenance on my car as well, but it's simply not cost effective anymore.
My car takes 6 quarts of SAE 5W20 - estimating a cost of $5.00/qt for semi-decent cheap oil, that is $30 right there. Add the $8 oil filter, and we're up to $38. Not counting my time, or costs of driving to purchase oil and dispose of it, we are now at almost $40.
I drive my car to the same shop, about 6 miles away from my house. In addition to the oil change, they top off the other fluids and check my brakes, hoses, belts, lights and even rotate my tires as part of a standard 'service visit'. All that for a 'package price' of $29.99. It was only $19.99 fifteen years ago, but cost have risen a little. The guy that owns the shop, and his small staff always pay attention to what they are doing, so I have had exactly zero major incidents with their quality of service.
I replaced the battery in my car recently and I ended up having to spend $20 on tools just to get to and remove the dead battery. The only reason I did that was because the shop was closed the week of Christmas and I didn't feel like bugging the owner.
Now, when it comes to electronics, I'm all over it. I've repaired a few televisions, my refrigerator, washing machines and several other electronic items around the house. Many smaller devices, however, seem to be designed to become basically scrap when they break.
I read the title as "Dell Streak Kills 7, Bails On Android Tablets" - and here I was expecting to read about some kind of story about a Lithium battery explosion.
Citrix is overused in some deployments I've seen, but can be a real boon for specific applications. On my network, workstations and users are locked down tight as a drum, users can install apps, but only from a list of specific offerings, for everything else the must call *me* first. The majority of our applications on our network are installed locally, installed and updated via Group Policy and some fancy scripting. All machines are loaded from images via RIS/WDS. The network runs smoothly and is extremely stable, with workstations running for 3-5 years without so much as a hiccup.
However, my company has a handful of problem apps though that cannot be used at remote locations:
(1) An accounting package that requires so much bandwidth for it's file/database traffic that it could easily saturate a 10Mbps pipe by itself. (No we *can't* change, it's an industry-specific package that would cost my entire annual IT budget to replace, and that's *before* the soft losses like training and wasted employee time)
(2) A collection of HR Management software that refuses to install or update properly without full admin access.
(3) Full remote desktop access for remote users needing direct access to their files in a centralized network document store. There are "Offline Files" users syncing their files over high-bandwidth VPN connections, but that doesn't help when you need to work on a shared Access database or other file that cannot be synced for some reason.
Standard Windows Terminal services can probably do much of what we need *now*, but when the system was deployed, Citrix was *required*. The accounting and HR systems specifically - they simply didn't function correctly over standard NT 4.0 Terminal Services. We keep using it because we own the software and it works smoothly, so why break something that's working?:)
Performance-wise, the primary applications actually load significantly quicker than they would on even a Gigabit LAN-connected machine (The Citrix servers are are on our network backbone). Because the majority of the network traffic is confined to the core switches, they require minimal bandwidth outside of the core. We limit LAN users to 768kbps, but WAN users are limited to 256kbps, with no ill effects - in fact, they rarely use all that bandwidth.
Citrix/Terminal Services, like any other tool, has it's applications - used incorrectly it's just another source of problems, but in the right situation, it can be a godsend.
Back on topic, our current IT Staff:Users ratio is 75:1, and we spend most of our time handling user requests or teaching.
Yes, I'm OK with my coffee intake, I only drink coffee when I want to. I happen to love the taste of strong fresh-brewed coffee, and I drink it black. If I go a day or two without coffee, no big deal, I don't get headaches or have any trouble sleeping. I've gone on vacation for two weeks without a single cup of coffee. I really enjoyed that first cup when I got back though.
My coffee intake is balanced out with good water intake (rarely below 2L day), natural fruit juices (orange and cranberry are my favorites) and a generally good diet. I rarely drink soft drinks, and when I do it's normally diet (sucralose - I'm allergic to aspartame).
When I was young (5-12) I had a massive problem with insomnia, staying awake for 3-5 days straight. I actually started sleeping better after I began drinking coffee. I became sharper and more alert during the day, and slept longer and deeper at night. I also had asthma as a child, but when I began smoking, it just disappeared. When I finally quit smoking (a couple weeks before my first child was born), the asthma came back with a vengeance - even on a drug plan, my medication costs more than cigarettes would, but I don't want to be a smoker anymore.
My family has a history of long-lived smokers and drinkers of coffee, most males living well into their 80s, women into the 90s and beyond. Most have high blood pressure, myself included, but heart attacks are actually quite rare in my family.
My point is that these substances affect individuals differently, I apparently have a gene that allows caffeine to make me sharper and more alert but to stave off the unwanted effects until extremely high doses.
I would tend to agree - I drink more coffee than that before 9am. I drink coffee all day long, even into the night. I have done so for more than 25 years with no hallucinations (as far as I can tell) or baseless paranoia.
Once upon a morning a long time ago, at an ISP now long since defunct, I drank 4 espressos, 6 double cappuccinos and a full pot of my regular strong coffee. I also had a "coffee bean" candy bar in addition to a couple really rich chocolate eclairs. I actually got a nose bleed, but no hallucinations.
OTOH: My sister and one of her friends once drank 3 cans (each) of Jolt cola, a 2L of Mountain Dew (each) and then split a few full 1lb bags of Plain Chocolate M&Ms. The hallucinated for at least an hour until they crashed - and hard. Probably needless to say: they both felt sick for a full day afterward.
I'm not an antenna designer, but by the looks looks of it, the design is basically a miniature on-chip waveguide, efficiently channeling the RF energy toward the external antenna, minimizing wasted radiation.
Wires radiate RF like mad unless they're heavily shielded, which is something you really can't do effectively in tight spaces. Of course, testing was done at 5.2GHz, so it will be interesting to see how it works at cellphone frequencies - packaging size might become a factor at lower frequencies.
Seriously though - back in the day, I used CheckFree to accept membership fees for my BBS (Bulletin Board System for the young-uns). Their "online" check processing engine was pretty slick for the time (pre-WWW), but times have changed - there are far better choices for online payment processing.
I was not really impressed with their quality of service then - and I'm not particularly thrilled about the fact that two of my bills support online payment only via CheckFree service. They always operated a little too "fast & loose" for my taste and their customer service has always left something to be desired.
If the publishers would spend more time pushing out innovative games (not the most recent installment of the flavor of the month) and provide a reason to purchase a genuine copy, then maybe they wouldn't need to be in the business of criminalizing their own customers.
Spore is at least innovative and provides some value to the original owner of the game, in spite of the stupid DRM. IMO, it would be nice if they could transfer those rights to the secondary market though.
These systems were far from the actual fire, but were completely doused with water (and were off at the time).
I've been recovering electronics like this for a couple decades - people just give me the stuff. I'll rework boards with shorted/blown parts and combine parts from multiple systems if needed.
I would never sell the stuff I salvage, but I do give it away to relatives If I don't use it myself. A little work and a bit of patience can pay off in cool gadgets, or at least a bunch of spare parts.
I've had a lot of luck cleaning mold and other contaminants from electronics by disassembling the item as completely as possible, cleaning each peace with a gentle liquid cleanser of some kind (i.e. Windex) and a soft brush, then rinsing it thoroughly with distilled water.
I was recently able to recover a number of computers that had been in a fire and had been sprayed with water from a fire hose. They were a mess, but so far they all work (10 months and counting)
I have a feeling that there may be a significant number of people out there that have a 28 hour circadian rhythm, I've heard it from several people in person. Look around on/. even, it seems to come up. We're all probably alien sleeper agents, no pun intended.
I feel like crap when I work a "normal" 9-5 schedule for more than a week or so, but when I let my internal clock run, my day snaps back to a 28 hour cycle and I feel sharper, more alert and very creative. When I was self employed, I was able to make my own hours, and I did, on a 28 hour cycle, essentially 6 of my days in the 7 normal days. I only worked afternoons on Fridays, but the rest of the work-week seemed normal to my clients.
I've had this "issue" my entire life, and it can be very bizarre when you have to interact with others on the flip-side of the cycle, they're all tired and you're fresh as a daisy.
All of us geeks were probably the hardest hit by the actions of NVidia and ATI/AMD, we're the ones that actually buy the cards like they're going out of style (because they do). None of us are likely to see more than a couple bucks out of it if we even bother to reply to the form letter they'll be mailing to us.
This is basically a slap on the wrist and we all know it. The behavior will continue, just maybe not so formally, and we'll all still get screwed buying bleeding-edge video cards at [insert favorite online store here].
I did some research and I guess these things cost like 10M each. Musk supposedly dumped 100M of his own money into the company, but they've apparently got contracts with NASA and the DOD to toss stuff into space. I'm guessing they're not exactly strapped for cash - this may be a throw-away rocket to them.
I'm all for learning from my mistakes, but how much do these things cost to build and launch?
You have to admire the dedication though - sinking that kind of money from your own pocket into something like this takes some guts. If he pulls it off, he might have something.
Interestingly enough, my current employer asked me to take a test when I signed up here. It was just a copy of an older A+ exam, but out of a half dozen or so that applied, I was the only candidate that even passed. The only question I missed was one that had the wrong answer on their scoring key, the next highest score was 44%. Did I mention I was the only candidate that held *no* certifications at the time?
Personally, I test my potential staff. Not with a goofy old A+ test, but conversationally. If they can't hold up in a real geek-speak conversation, they don't need to work for me.
Back in the day, I had a project that required the services of several programmers, including women. My code was by far the most cryptic because it did most of the heavy lifting in the system (database code, custom lossless data compression algorithms, data en/decryption and statistical analysis of massive datasets, hooray!) and it had to span multiple platforms. I documented the crap out of it - mostly for my own use. Even so, most of it was almost impossible for the uninitiated to understand - I still consider it some of my best work.:)
Much of the (DOS/Windows 3.0) user interface code was written by a team consisting of two females and a male - documentation was so poor I made them provide me what was essentially an application framework I could "drop my code into".
When I left the military, my weight shot up a little, but I played video games regularly and ate very little. Due to family and work commitments, my gaming has dropped off significantly in the past decade and my weight has shot up. I recently received a copy of Godfather: Blackhand Edition (Wii) and I have been able to play it a fair bit after the kids go to bed, I've already begun losing weight, since I can't eat while I play.
My 3yo boy loves video games, and he's quite skinny. My 5yo daughter is less interested in video games, and has always been slightly overweight. Both are *very* physically active - when they play the Wii, they jump all around even when the game doesn't require it. After 30 minutes or so on the Wii, both get pretty wound up and usually end up chasing each other around the house for a while before returning.
Of course, we rarely eat at McDonald's, we prefer Burger King if we're looking for a quick burger.
We started using time three weeks ago Tuesday - it was a rather painful experience for everyone, so we erased everyone's memory of the process and the preceding non-temporal existence.
New memories were implanted right after the switch. For problem areas having trouble with regular time delivery, we've instituted "Daylight Savings Time" to at least confuse you long enough for us to deliver the time in appropriate quantities.
I know several people that used to crunch for SETI that have already moved onto Rosetta and the World Community Grid.
My mother died of cancer way too young - so I've naturally chosen to donate all my extra CPU cycles to the prospect of curing cancer. While the aliens might be able change people's opinions of our place in the universe, curing cancer will improve life for my progeny right away.
Heh, that explains why I never thought the Segway was all that innovative.
This was in 1986 - and most of the audience thought it was pretty impressive. Unlike the Segway, you could run the cart across a speed bump at a decent speed and the load would remain completely level - that might be a different experience on a Segway!
Is 21 years enough?
I could add that I saw and touched, a no-legged robotic cart capable of balancing a 10ft pole that could withstand a kick without losing the pole. It was part of a graduate engineering student's thesis project at the University of Toronto. He designed a robotic control system that continuously monitored the shifting weight on the cart and compensated in real-time via a system of servos.
It seems to me that Wikipedia was originally conceived to allow for just that sort of freedom - the kind of freedom you cannot have in a traditional encyclopedia. The fact that Jimmy might be playing favorites seems to be part of human nature. A lot of people become jackasses when they're given power...
Prior to being deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990, my (Army) unit went through a refresher course on chemical/biological agents and proper response procedures. After being exposed to CS gas without a mask, and the ensuing hilarity, we were issued a full field set of chemical gear, including the infamous "bromide pills" and 3 sets of atropine and PAM-chloride auto-injectors. As was typical, we had to sit around for about a half hour or so waiting for transport back from the chemical shack.
During this time, a young female computer operator in our unit decided to start playing around with her PAM injector and managed to set it off - shooting the needle *through* her hand - spraying the stuff everywhere while she freaked out. She got herself a quick trip to the hospital, but no real harm done. She ended up not going with us though...
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I'm a 40-something, and I used to handle maintenance on my car as well, but it's simply not cost effective anymore.
My car takes 6 quarts of SAE 5W20 - estimating a cost of $5.00/qt for semi-decent cheap oil, that is $30 right there. Add the $8 oil filter, and we're up to $38. Not counting my time, or costs of driving to purchase oil and dispose of it, we are now at almost $40.
I drive my car to the same shop, about 6 miles away from my house. In addition to the oil change, they top off the other fluids and check my brakes, hoses, belts, lights and even rotate my tires as part of a standard 'service visit'. All that for a 'package price' of $29.99. It was only $19.99 fifteen years ago, but cost have risen a little. The guy that owns the shop, and his small staff always pay attention to what they are doing, so I have had exactly zero major incidents with their quality of service.
I replaced the battery in my car recently and I ended up having to spend $20 on tools just to get to and remove the dead battery. The only reason I did that was because the shop was closed the week of Christmas and I didn't feel like bugging the owner.
Now, when it comes to electronics, I'm all over it. I've repaired a few televisions, my refrigerator, washing machines and several other electronic items around the house. Many smaller devices, however, seem to be designed to become basically scrap when they break.
I read the title as "Dell Streak Kills 7, Bails On Android Tablets" - and here I was expecting to read about some kind of story about a Lithium battery explosion.
Citrix is overused in some deployments I've seen, but can be a real boon for specific applications. On my network, workstations and users are locked down tight as a drum, users can install apps, but only from a list of specific offerings, for everything else the must call *me* first. The majority of our applications on our network are installed locally, installed and updated via Group Policy and some fancy scripting. All machines are loaded from images via RIS/WDS. The network runs smoothly and is extremely stable, with workstations running for 3-5 years without so much as a hiccup.
:)
However, my company has a handful of problem apps though that cannot be used at remote locations:
(1) An accounting package that requires so much bandwidth for it's file/database traffic that it could easily saturate a 10Mbps pipe by itself. (No we *can't* change, it's an industry-specific package that would cost my entire annual IT budget to replace, and that's *before* the soft losses like training and wasted employee time)
(2) A collection of HR Management software that refuses to install or update properly without full admin access.
(3) Full remote desktop access for remote users needing direct access to their files in a centralized network document store. There are "Offline Files" users syncing their files over high-bandwidth VPN connections, but that doesn't help when you need to work on a shared Access database or other file that cannot be synced for some reason.
Standard Windows Terminal services can probably do much of what we need *now*, but when the system was deployed, Citrix was *required*. The accounting and HR systems specifically - they simply didn't function correctly over standard NT 4.0 Terminal Services. We keep using it because we own the software and it works smoothly, so why break something that's working?
Performance-wise, the primary applications actually load significantly quicker than they would on even a Gigabit LAN-connected machine (The Citrix servers are are on our network backbone). Because the majority of the network traffic is confined to the core switches, they require minimal bandwidth outside of the core. We limit LAN users to 768kbps, but WAN users are limited to 256kbps, with no ill effects - in fact, they rarely use all that bandwidth.
Citrix/Terminal Services, like any other tool, has it's applications - used incorrectly it's just another source of problems, but in the right situation, it can be a godsend.
Back on topic, our current IT Staff:Users ratio is 75:1, and we spend most of our time handling user requests or teaching.
Yes, I'm OK with my coffee intake, I only drink coffee when I want to. I happen to love the taste of strong fresh-brewed coffee, and I drink it black. If I go a day or two without coffee, no big deal, I don't get headaches or have any trouble sleeping. I've gone on vacation for two weeks without a single cup of coffee. I really enjoyed that first cup when I got back though.
My coffee intake is balanced out with good water intake (rarely below 2L day), natural fruit juices (orange and cranberry are my favorites) and a generally good diet. I rarely drink soft drinks, and when I do it's normally diet (sucralose - I'm allergic to aspartame).
When I was young (5-12) I had a massive problem with insomnia, staying awake for 3-5 days straight. I actually started sleeping better after I began drinking coffee. I became sharper and more alert during the day, and slept longer and deeper at night. I also had asthma as a child, but when I began smoking, it just disappeared. When I finally quit smoking (a couple weeks before my first child was born), the asthma came back with a vengeance - even on a drug plan, my medication costs more than cigarettes would, but I don't want to be a smoker anymore.
My family has a history of long-lived smokers and drinkers of coffee, most males living well into their 80s, women into the 90s and beyond. Most have high blood pressure, myself included, but heart attacks are actually quite rare in my family.
My point is that these substances affect individuals differently, I apparently have a gene that allows caffeine to make me sharper and more alert but to stave off the unwanted effects until extremely high doses.
I would tend to agree - I drink more coffee than that before 9am. I drink coffee all day long, even into the night. I have done so for more than 25 years with no hallucinations (as far as I can tell) or baseless paranoia.
Once upon a morning a long time ago, at an ISP now long since defunct, I drank 4 espressos, 6 double cappuccinos and a full pot of my regular strong coffee. I also had a "coffee bean" candy bar in addition to a couple really rich chocolate eclairs. I actually got a nose bleed, but no hallucinations.
OTOH: My sister and one of her friends once drank 3 cans (each) of Jolt cola, a 2L of Mountain Dew (each) and then split a few full 1lb bags of Plain Chocolate M&Ms. The hallucinated for at least an hour until they crashed - and hard. Probably needless to say: they both felt sick for a full day afterward.
I'm not an antenna designer, but by the looks looks of it, the design is basically a miniature on-chip waveguide, efficiently channeling the RF energy toward the external antenna, minimizing wasted radiation.
Wires radiate RF like mad unless they're heavily shielded, which is something you really can't do effectively in tight spaces. Of course, testing was done at 5.2GHz, so it will be interesting to see how it works at cellphone frequencies - packaging size might become a factor at lower frequencies.
Seriously though - back in the day, I used CheckFree to accept membership fees for my BBS (Bulletin Board System for the young-uns). Their "online" check processing engine was pretty slick for the time (pre-WWW), but times have changed - there are far better choices for online payment processing.
I was not really impressed with their quality of service then - and I'm not particularly thrilled about the fact that two of my bills support online payment only via CheckFree service. They always operated a little too "fast & loose" for my taste and their customer service has always left something to be desired.
If the publishers would spend more time pushing out innovative games (not the most recent installment of the flavor of the month) and provide a reason to purchase a genuine copy, then maybe they wouldn't need to be in the business of criminalizing their own customers.
Spore is at least innovative and provides some value to the original owner of the game, in spite of the stupid DRM. IMO, it would be nice if they could transfer those rights to the secondary market though.
These systems were far from the actual fire, but were completely doused with water (and were off at the time).
I've been recovering electronics like this for a couple decades - people just give me the stuff. I'll rework boards with shorted/blown parts and combine parts from multiple systems if needed.
I would never sell the stuff I salvage, but I do give it away to relatives If I don't use it myself. A little work and a bit of patience can pay off in cool gadgets, or at least a bunch of spare parts.
I've had a lot of luck cleaning mold and other contaminants from electronics by disassembling the item as completely as possible, cleaning each peace with a gentle liquid cleanser of some kind (i.e. Windex) and a soft brush, then rinsing it thoroughly with distilled water.
I was recently able to recover a number of computers that had been in a fire and had been sprayed with water from a fire hose. They were a mess, but so far they all work (10 months and counting)
I have a feeling that there may be a significant number of people out there that have a 28 hour circadian rhythm, I've heard it from several people in person. Look around on /. even, it seems to come up. We're all probably alien sleeper agents, no pun intended.
I feel like crap when I work a "normal" 9-5 schedule for more than a week or so, but when I let my internal clock run, my day snaps back to a 28 hour cycle and I feel sharper, more alert and very creative. When I was self employed, I was able to make my own hours, and I did, on a 28 hour cycle, essentially 6 of my days in the 7 normal days. I only worked afternoons on Fridays, but the rest of the work-week seemed normal to my clients.
I've had this "issue" my entire life, and it can be very bizarre when you have to interact with others on the flip-side of the cycle, they're all tired and you're fresh as a daisy.
All of us geeks were probably the hardest hit by the actions of NVidia and ATI/AMD, we're the ones that actually buy the cards like they're going out of style (because they do). None of us are likely to see more than a couple bucks out of it if we even bother to reply to the form letter they'll be mailing to us. This is basically a slap on the wrist and we all know it. The behavior will continue, just maybe not so formally, and we'll all still get screwed buying bleeding-edge video cards at [insert favorite online store here].
I did some research and I guess these things cost like 10M each. Musk supposedly dumped 100M of his own money into the company, but they've apparently got contracts with NASA and the DOD to toss stuff into space. I'm guessing they're not exactly strapped for cash - this may be a throw-away rocket to them.
I'm all for learning from my mistakes, but how much do these things cost to build and launch? You have to admire the dedication though - sinking that kind of money from your own pocket into something like this takes some guts. If he pulls it off, he might have something.
Interestingly enough, my current employer asked me to take a test when I signed up here. It was just a copy of an older A+ exam, but out of a half dozen or so that applied, I was the only candidate that even passed. The only question I missed was one that had the wrong answer on their scoring key, the next highest score was 44%. Did I mention I was the only candidate that held *no* certifications at the time?
Personally, I test my potential staff. Not with a goofy old A+ test, but conversationally. If they can't hold up in a real geek-speak conversation, they don't need to work for me.
Back in the day, I had a project that required the services of several programmers, including women. My code was by far the most cryptic because it did most of the heavy lifting in the system (database code, custom lossless data compression algorithms, data en/decryption and statistical analysis of massive datasets, hooray!) and it had to span multiple platforms. I documented the crap out of it - mostly for my own use. Even so, most of it was almost impossible for the uninitiated to understand - I still consider it some of my best work. :)
Much of the (DOS/Windows 3.0) user interface code was written by a team consisting of two females and a male - documentation was so poor I made them provide me what was essentially an application framework I could "drop my code into".
When I left the military, my weight shot up a little, but I played video games regularly and ate very little. Due to family and work commitments, my gaming has dropped off significantly in the past decade and my weight has shot up. I recently received a copy of Godfather: Blackhand Edition (Wii) and I have been able to play it a fair bit after the kids go to bed, I've already begun losing weight, since I can't eat while I play.
My 3yo boy loves video games, and he's quite skinny. My 5yo daughter is less interested in video games, and has always been slightly overweight. Both are *very* physically active - when they play the Wii, they jump all around even when the game doesn't require it. After 30 minutes or so on the Wii, both get pretty wound up and usually end up chasing each other around the house for a while before returning.
Of course, we rarely eat at McDonald's, we prefer Burger King if we're looking for a quick burger.
They were eliminated like a bunch of "Red shirts"... still bad during the holidays. The site may be scheduled for assimilation.
We started using time three weeks ago Tuesday - it was a rather painful experience for everyone, so we erased everyone's memory of the process and the preceding non-temporal existence.
New memories were implanted right after the switch. For problem areas having trouble with regular time delivery, we've instituted "Daylight Savings Time" to at least confuse you long enough for us to deliver the time in appropriate quantities.
ENJOY!
I know several people that used to crunch for SETI that have already moved onto Rosetta and the World Community Grid.
My mother died of cancer way too young - so I've naturally chosen to donate all my extra CPU cycles to the prospect of curing cancer. While the aliens might be able change people's opinions of our place in the universe, curing cancer will improve life for my progeny right away.
Heh, that explains why I never thought the Segway was all that innovative. This was in 1986 - and most of the audience thought it was pretty impressive. Unlike the Segway, you could run the cart across a speed bump at a decent speed and the load would remain completely level - that might be a different experience on a Segway! Is 21 years enough?
I could add that I saw and touched, a no-legged robotic cart capable of balancing a 10ft pole that could withstand a kick without losing the pole. It was part of a graduate engineering student's thesis project at the University of Toronto. He designed a robotic control system that continuously monitored the shifting weight on the cart and compensated in real-time via a system of servos.
I don't see why not - at least in the US, all religions are supposed to be treated equally.
I personally find it interesting that the moon landing hoax accusations page is actually longer than the moon landing page itself.
It seems to me that Wikipedia was originally conceived to allow for just that sort of freedom - the kind of freedom you cannot have in a traditional encyclopedia. The fact that Jimmy might be playing favorites seems to be part of human nature. A lot of people become jackasses when they're given power...
Just a funny anecdote:
Prior to being deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990, my (Army) unit went through a refresher course on chemical/biological agents and proper response procedures. After being exposed to CS gas without a mask, and the ensuing hilarity, we were issued a full field set of chemical gear, including the infamous "bromide pills" and 3 sets of atropine and PAM-chloride auto-injectors. As was typical, we had to sit around for about a half hour or so waiting for transport back from the chemical shack.
During this time, a young female computer operator in our unit decided to start playing around with her PAM injector and managed to set it off - shooting the needle *through* her hand - spraying the stuff everywhere while she freaked out. She got herself a quick trip to the hospital, but no real harm done. She ended up not going with us though...
Then again, there are those of us that downloaded it, listened to it and just deleted it because they really didn't like it...