On: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

[RHSeeger]

> Were the pagers military grade

I don't mean to be "that guy", but "military grade" means nothing nowadays. It can mean anything from "made to exactly standards" to "made by the lowest bidder, and likely to fail the minute it's used".

[verulito → RHSeeger]

Been a while since I did fmeca work but it used to mean different tolerances for the parts.

[red-iron-pine → RHSeeger]

"military grade means 'from the lowest bidder', but can tolerate being a dropped a few times"

[pvaldes → RHSeeger]

A type of people that uses pagers all day is Physicians. Hospital staff.