misterchief117

Is this the new Celebrity Deathmatch reboot we’ve been waiting for?

@printerjammed Simply put, this is bad for so many reasons. Since you’re likely going to reject any direct reasons why this is bad, I’ll give you an analogy.

I’m going to take “and never update it” almost literally and assume you guys haven’t installed security patches since you first installed it, or stopped at some point long ago.

You’re essentially driving a 15 year old car that hasn’t had an oil change, brakes changed, or tires changed. There are known MAJOR safety recalls on the seat belts, airbags, and seats. You have refused to take your car in for free servicing under the recall and basically said, “It’s working fine now. It’s not worth the hassle scheduling an appointment at the mechanic. I’ll take my chances.”

But hey, “The car still gets me around and fits in my garage” you smugly think to yourself. “Why should I do anything different? It’s MY car and I’m only endangering myself here.”

Nope. Your car is endangering everyone else on the road. Bad brakes and tires are major risks for everyone around you. You can easily lose control and hurt or kill others on the road.

Bad seats, seat belts, and airbags means that occupants of your vehicle (your companies clients) can be injured or killed if they fail. Even if only YOURS fails, well…you’re the driver. Also, if you do crash and your seat belt fails, you’re now a projectile in the car and can injure or kill other passengers. I’ve seen this happen too many times as a firefighter and an EMT. Unseatbelted occupants are an enormous hazard.

Suffice to say your company is a vector for major attacks and vulnerabilities that not only will affect you, but your clients and potentially countless others who have nothing to do with your company since your server could be part of a botnet for all you know.

“bUt We HaVe OtHeR sEcUrItY cOnTrOlS aNd PrOpEr PrOtOcOlS fOr…” I’m going to cut you off here and straight up say: No. You don’t. The fact you still have Windows Server 2008 installed and refuse to even update it tells me enough about your entire IT department and policies.

@snixyz

@waspentalive

The biggest risks with a dying microwave aren’t you being blasted by microwaves (although this can happen). It’s fire because the magnetron coils heated up and melted their insulation and shorted out.

If a fire occurs INSIDE the microwave DO NOT OPEN THE MICROWAVE! Leave it closed and unplug it or pop your circuit breaker.
Smaller fires will typically burn out inside a microwave due to lack of fresh air.

Once it’s unplugged, you can use a Class ABC (or Class K) fire extinguisher and then open the door and blast it IF it seems like the fire might not be dying down or is growing. This can be pretty dangerous as a giant plume of fire and smoke will shoot out if you open the door and can cause the fire to spread rapidly so use your best judgement.

For fires in an oven, just leave the door closed. It will burn out due to lack of oxygen. Have a fire extinguisher on the ready though.

When in doubt, leave the area and call for your fire department.

In terms of microwave leakage, this is highly unlikely unless there are obvious holes in the microwave. Modern microwaves have pretty substantial shielding and safety mechanism to prevent microwave leakage.

You’d also know pretty quick if you’re being hit with microwaves. The areas where it hits you would heat up and be pretty uncomfortable.

Another telltale sign of excess microwave leakage is it kicks everyone off 2.4 GHz wifi because it over-powers the signal. This was actually a pretty frustrating problem back in the day when wifi was new and wasn’t able to handle interference as well, lol. You’d know someone was microwaving something because your signal would drop substantially.

The second risk is electrocution. Microwave transformers are no joke and you should never ever take a microwave apart unless you know exactly what you’re doing.

If you’re getting a new microwave, look for one with “inverter technology” as these allow for actual variable power output instead of just altering the duty cycle. In other words, with the “inverter technology” the microwave uses less energy to emit lower energy microwaves. This will ensure your food is always being hit with microwaves and actually heats better and more evenly.

This is contrary to your run-of-the mill boring microwave which uses “duty cycles” which is a fancy way of saying “how long is the thing on emitting full power vs. how long is it not” which will heat up food unevenly.

@imaqtpie “What term would you use to describe their users?”
Nazis, probably.