Posted on 11/29/2017 7:58:42 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
*I put it in a Flaming Hot Cheetos bag and now my PDA is on fire.
"Not my department."
I left my phone in a electrical closet yesterday for four hours and went on a great bike ride then came back and be nattering nabobs down in LA probably have no idea what I was doing
Elaborate? Putting something inside an empty bag and closing it is so easy a liberal could do it.
There are also several other reasons he could have put it in a protective covering.
Or is there no dust, mud or water down there?
And if you put it in a faraday cage, it should be off. The phone doesn't know the signal is blocked, so it pings as loud as it can to find a cell tower. So putting an active cell phone in a foil bag just drains the battery faster.
But in this case, I'm thinking the user was a bit more paranoid than usual. He didn't want to turn it off if the company required him to keep it on at all times. He didn't want to leave it where it might be found, if he was required to keep it with him during working hours. So he didn't want it found without him, or him being found without it, nor having any log entries showing it was off, or that GPS put it somewhere outside of work area.
Thoughtful employee, and might go far if he actually applied that level of thought to his work.
He works in Perth and a cell phone provider has this statement on their web sit.
“Covering WA(Western Australia) with mobile reception as we know it today would be an enormous undertaking, and is unlikely to ever happen.”
So there are probably dead spots all over the place.
It took somebody to narc him out, otherwise he probably never would have been caught...
If you’re going to be a deadbeat dishonest employee, just leave your phone on your desk and forward your calls, dumb-dumb.
If close enough to a gamma burst to need several feet of soil or about one-fifth that thickness in lead sheeting to absorb to a safe exposure, loss of a device due to EMP is the least of your worries.
A seamless container of copper sheet; and, a sufficiently thick spacer providing isolation of protected items from the cage wall by fiberglass insulation should prove sufficient. The fiberglass padding provides non-conducting physical isolation from the copper sheet which would bear eddy currents and associated magnetic fields induced by EMP. Also, the insulation provides a thermal barrier to hot spots created by high circulating electrical currents dissipating energy into the metal sheeting.
I was wondering about that too. I’m guessing all he did was stuff it inside - although later in the article it says he “...create a Faraday cage...”
I don’t see how folding it into an origami would help though.
“A what cage your honor?? I just put it in the bag to keep it out of the rain!”
I put in a GPS tracking map for the local police departments.
I was amazed at how pissed off it made them.
I had to tell them that the data was already available- I was just displaying it on a map.
It was intended to hep dispatchers send the closest cars to an area and help coordinate searches and find an officer in trouble.
But apparently they don’t WANT it known what they do all day (not all of them, just some).
There is NOTHING worse than an asshole with a badge.
That wily rascal! That impish little scamp! 'Michievous!' What a marvelous word!
“Sir, are you aware of what a Farraday cage is?”
“Uh, cert’n’ly, yer honor. It’s a place for electric devices wot blocks the fields so’s Oi can play golf farraday.”
Perhaps the bag with the PDA was also hidden inside a box full of real snacks in his office. That would make it at least a little elaborate.
He was ratted out. He shouldn’t have fudged his score so often and bought a round of beer for his mates once in awhile.
well, he is probably really good at golf now and can teach lessons
...
Sadly, that’s not how golf works. A lot of top golf instructors don’t play that well, and just as many can’t teach either. It’s all about marketing, salesmanship and other BS.
Can they at least show you how to jimmy your score???
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