Manufacturers have started adding wireless capabilities to many implantable medical devices, including pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators. This allows doctors to access vital information and send commands to these devices quickly, but security researchers have raised concerns that it could also make them vulnerable to attack. A couple guys from the local University of Washington… …showed […]
Tags: culture, hack, health, implant, law, rfid, security
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Something that has always bothered me about working a “corporate job” is the idea of treating your co-workers like customers. The idea of an “internal customer” is everywhere, and is commonly taught at colleges and business schools. Just as satisfied external customers lead to financial success, satisfied employees can also lead to long-term success of […]
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A few days ago, as I sat in my frozen car waiting for it to heat up, I started staring at the frosty flakes on my window. It’s nothing that unusual or out of the ordinary… I just thought I should take a picture of this before it melted.
Tags: driving
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There are a lot of great images from 2009, but what caught my eye today was this image: Why it’s such a surprising tragedy when a bull “fighter” gets what’s coming to him is beyond me. After sticking the bull with several sharp spears, the bull finally gets a shot at spearing his opponent. Too […]
Tags: culture, stupid
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I got my new HP workstation with 9GB RAM and a fancy quad core CPU a while back and it’s been running real spiffy… but after loading VMware Server 2.0 on it, I found the guest machines running on this bruiser of a machine had truly abysmal network performance… I mean Kbps transfer rates on […]
Tags: software
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This post is going to be all about handicapped parking spaces and their abuse by myself and others. Yay! So yeah, ok, I sometimes park in handicapped spaces… much to Jenny’s chagrin. However, I only do that when I know I’m going to be 30 seconds (dumping mail off at the post office drop box) […]
Tags: culture, driving, law, stupid
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This project makes my little passively cooled datacenter project look like amateur-hour (ok, it looked like that before). The entire building was built for 20M$ back in 1965 to house a giant Van Der Graaf generator, but now it’s a pretty sweet looking ultra-efficient datacenter (pdf)! This kind of thing just inspires me because its […]
Tags: green
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I’ve heard a lot of people looking to get an RFID tag implanted by their doctor eventually run into trouble because their doctors don’t have any kind of release that adequately covers the situation. I’ve been asked about it several times but never had the time to dig one up. I was just asked again […]
Tags: health, implant, law, rfid
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Last summer I posted about the possibility of using outside air to cool a datacenter. Soon after posting I set about building a proof of concept. I also started noticing a trend leaning toward things like increasing the baseline temp target in datacenters: Cloudrack turns up the heat Raise the temperature, fight the fans I […]
Tags: green, hack, project
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I went up to the NEXUS office today to do my renewal interview. The interview is just a follow up to make sure my registered information is still current and reiterate the restrictions of the program. After completing the interview, they told me I’d receive my new card in the mail, which was new. The […]
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