On Milwaukee man shot, robbed in his home

Posted on November 24 at 5:06 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

It's time for another exciting round of contrapositive fill-in-the-blank:

If I was a criminal and i thought everyone around me had a gun, I would /not/ think twice before _____ing them first.

Survey says!

On Deadly intersection defies safety efforts

Posted on November 24 at 5:01 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Build a bridge. This intersection has been dangerous for several decades already.

On Virus exposes computer system in need of major upgrade

Posted on November 16 at 4:16 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Wow.
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Here's the money quote:
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"One project that did get done was to activate the Microsoft security updates on all desktops. Before this summer, those automatic updates were turned off. Bunton could not say for certain whether they were ever turned on.

"The reason for not having updates activated was because the staff and the computer network could not handle them, Bunton said."
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U-N-A-C-C-E-P-T-A-B-L-E-!!!-!!!-!!!
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A network admin who does not know what is going on within every single machine on his network should have been out of a job long ago.
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Another issue: earlier articles have stated that the virus was on district servers. If the district really has servers, why are the classroom machines anything more than thin clients? I highly doubt that even the physics or chemistry department are doing any serious number crunching.
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Updates, whether operating system, application, or virus patches should be pushed out to the clients. If there is not enough bandwidth to do even that (at night when no one is using the machines!), then the classroom machines should have been physically prevented from having access to even the intranet let alone the rest of the world. That should have been an easy enough job to do from a central location as well -- just prevent access for whatever subnet the classrooms are on... or if the network was so badly designed then just prevent the MAC addresses from getting outside the sandbox. This is networking 101 guys and gals.
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The district is surely at fault for part of this negligent and extremely unprofessional behavior due to the lack of funding over the past 13 years.

On Cocaine discovery prompts investigation

Posted on November 5 at 6:09 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

... and the 4th covers individuals' rights, no matter where the crime is alleged to have occured.

On Cocaine discovery prompts investigation

Posted on November 5 at 6:06 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

It's only probable cause if you know or suspect whose it is... :D

On Cocaine discovery prompts investigation

Posted on November 5 at 4:38 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

> Besides, if you have nothing to feel guilty about, what's the difference?
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lol, just this...
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

On Cocaine discovery prompts investigation

Posted on November 5 at 4:36 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

nurse4u - I hope you voted and if so, I hope it was not (in your singular case) for a Republican candidate -- if you truly believe that social programs are of equal or more importance than defense and technology.
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To everyone else, I apologize for what appears to be a sweeping generalization.

On Cocaine discovery prompts investigation

Posted on November 5 at 4:32 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Test everyone? Unconstitutional and un-American. Apparently you are so far removed from the concept of "innoncent until proven guilty" that it truly boggles the mind.
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Suppose everyone were tested and the result was inconclusive? Now what?

On Cocaine discovery prompts investigation

Posted on November 5 at 12:28 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

And nurse4u, what about false positives? Any test has a failure rate, say it is only 1 in 10,000. If you randomly tested 100 teachers every month, someone would be falsely accused once every eight years and four months.
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Again, we are back to a situation in your worldview where someone innocent would have to prove their innocence.
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That, my friends, is UNAMERICAN.

On Cocaine discovery prompts investigation

Posted on November 5 at 12:25 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

"We spend so much on war and space"
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Ummm... no. We have spent more in Iraq in seven years than has EVER been spent on NASA in its entire fifty year existence.
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In 2008, you and I and every one else spent:

NASA:..................................................... $17,000,000,000
DoD, Intelligence, DHS, Border: .... $ 719,000,000,000