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Perhaps you can still use a pacemaker beyond their intended functionality.
For instance, you can influence electronic devices remotely, even if they have no wireless receivers. And a wireless transmitter can also function as a receiver; which would be something useful to put in a pacemaker for collecting raw data on a patient.
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I think they use it to be able to make adjustments without having to cut you open.
I believe these are near-field communications, rather than WIFI like. Although I also believe some mobile devices have been known to interfere with them.
I could be misinformed though, based on articles I read a while ago, but I can no longer identify the source.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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No making it harder to hack is not good enough. It will still get hacked.
Hardware needs to be impossible to hack.
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NeverJustHere wrote: Hardware needs to be impossible to hack. You're asking the impossible. Let's not even try that, as it would fail before we start.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yup. All you need to do is to solve the Halting Problem to prove that it's firmware is bugfree.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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TaaS often takes advantage of private and public cloud platforms in order to deliver automated application and software testing services to organizations when they need it. TaaS can be used for load and performance testing, functional testing, or security testing, or it can include all aspects of testing, including test lab management, test driver provisioning, and orchestration of test runs depending on a solution an organization chooses
Seems like everything is as-a-Service these days. What is next, Developers-as-a-Service?
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Google has built a prototype Android smartphone that can learn and map the world around it. Wow. Nothing creepy about this at all
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It takes 2 [billion] to tango...
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Seems like this opens up a variety of ways the NSA can track you...
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Yeah, down to the room of your house. How convenient for them.
Without even bringing up NSA, just imagine how Google would use this, "Oh, you're looking at your phone in the kitchen at 3am. Here are some coupons for Kraft Dinner and hangover remedies." (I started writing that in another room, but decided on switching to the kitchen.)
TTFN - Kent
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A lot of Not-KSF thoughts are going through my head right now, especially if the man's phone alerts the woman's phone.
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How well do programming maxims stand up when compared with hard data? "But, you see, I never studied law"
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The Boston Globe reports that the US military is exploring passing mild electrical current through the brain as a replacement for soldiers' coffee and energy drinks, especially during long stretches of mind-numbing drone surveillance or data monitoring. Do donuts go well with electrical shocks?
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Microsoft today rebranded its browser-based Office Web Apps, stripped-down versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, as Office Online. 2013: Office 365, Office Web Apps 2014: Office Online 2015: ???
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A new batch of rumored release dates give a glimpse into Microsoft's plans to return Windows to glory. "Linguae centum sunt, oraque centum"
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The operator of a role-playing game site that was knocked offline by denial-of-service attacks has pledged a reward of more than $13,000 for information leading to the conviction of the people responsible. If you can't beat them, pay someone else to beat them
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Browser game CodeCombat teaches you how to code in JavaScript by having you input the commands to play a game. Because spending 21 days with a book is too much of a commitment
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PayPal continues its push to be the payment platform app developers build upon. "THIS IS YOUR GOD"
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Smartphone users who are worried about the increased use of location tracking in airports, malls etc can register their phones on the Smart Store Privacy website, where many of the leading tracking companies will enable them to opt out. Instead, you can be tracked by a site you registered at to avoid tracking
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The social network is throwing down billions of dollars of cash and stock to buy its biggest rival. I don't use either, but in case you care (or can explain why people are freaking out), here you go
Also. $16Billion for a *chat* app? A *CHAT* app? At that rate, Microsoft could double their market cap just by bringing back all the chat apps they've killed.
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Holy cr*p! That's a lot of money. I do use WhatsApp, but only because my wife uses it and she is the only one I ever chat with on WhatsApp.
Besides the regular chat stuff (which works fine, but why wouldn't it these days), you can send voice messages back and forth and the audio quality is quite good. I really cannot explain why so many people think it's great, except that it is available on all the major phones and Facebook is just too heavy if you only need to exchange a few messages.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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It's nice to communicate with friends on the other side of the global via phone without paying exorbitant fees.
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Yes, but you don't even have to go that far. We save money by using WhatsApp and Skype instead of sending text messages when my wife is in Baja and I am in San Diego.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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The group chat are probably the major feature of WhatsApp, and the only reason I have installed it.
Got a group of friends you regularly hang out with? Group chat, invite all the guys, and discuss where and when to meet.
Even my class uses a Group, it's nice to be able to exchange thoughts on non-school days, too.
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen KingDie Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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