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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by RHSeeger on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:19AM (#41579369)
> 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".

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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by pvaldes on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:56AM (#41579802)
A type of people that uses pagers all day is Physicians. Hospital staff.
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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by red-iron-pine on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:24AM (#41579428)
"military grade means 'from the lowest bidder', but can tolerate being a dropped a few times"
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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by verulito on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:00PM (#41582454)
Been a while since I did fmeca work but it used to mean different tolerances for the parts.
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