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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Open the Pod Bay Door

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:49 pm

We’ve received reports that yesterday, a Belleville school teacher was locked in a bathroom at the High School due to the RFID system malfunctioning. Since school policy is to not allow the use of cell phones, no one knew where she was, or what happened to her until they went looking for her. Luckily, the teacher was carrying her purse, with her phone inside. When her co-workers retrieved their phones to try to call her, they found that she had been frantically trying to call and text people to come help her.
http://nutleywatch.com/758/rfid-system- ... -bathroom/
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#2 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:01 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
We’ve received reports that yesterday, a Belleville school teacher was locked in a bathroom at the High School due to the RFID system malfunctioning. Since school policy is to not allow the use of cell phones, no one knew where she was, or what happened to her until they went looking for her. Luckily, the teacher was carrying her purse, with her phone inside. When her co-workers retrieved their phones to try to call her, they found that she had been frantically trying to call and text people to come help her.
http://nutleywatch.com/758/rfid-system- ... -bathroom/
I know some New Jersey lawyers who would love to take her lawsuit. :roll:

One strange thing in the story: You don't "swipe" RFID cards. They work by radio waves (thus the RF part).
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