True, but that’s hardly an endorsement for their safety. Wireless should never be used for critical life support equipment. It is mind bogglingly stupid they did this.

It’s an example of uncertified consumer grade equipment used in a commercial environment to disastrous results, outside of its original designed purpose. It’s one of the most well known examples of why you don’t use consumer grade hardware in a commercial/industrial setting.

It was not brought on board by the conductor or someone else, it was permanently installed in the train in place of commercial grade heaters they couldn’t source. It was installed in the wall during assembly.

I’d argue it is an example of cutting corners, they didn’t want to find / pay more for commercial grade heaters. It was not compliant with the original design nor fire safety standards.

Using commercial off the shelf technology without proper testing and certification is absolutely cutting corners. See: Kaprun disaster.

What kind of fire rating did those COTS parts throughout the interior of the vessel have? What kind of redundancy existed? Would you use a Logitech controller for a spacecraft? The requirements of deep sea submersibles and spacecraft are quite similar. Would any of the submersible certification agencies approved this? I think not.

I see the Logitech controller, the carbon fiber hull, and so many other decisions he made as symptoms of the same corner cutting, “move fast and break things” mentality he had.

It’s not the election process I’m worried about, it’s the critical thinking skills of the voters.

Depends, is that exposure risk cumulative?

What’s the potential impact of this?

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Lithium ion cells do not have high self discharge rates nor do they suffer from the memory effect. I’ve left 18650s charged for years and they work fine, ditto for 14500 (AA sized lithium ion). Sure, they lose some charge, but there’s still plenty of capacity even after sitting for a long time. Can’t say I’ve ever been disappointed with the various flavors of lithium cells, but NiMH was pretty bad until Eneloops came around. Alkaline is still my go to for remotes.

You’re also not going to encounter many situations where alkaline (1.5v)/NiMH (1.3v) can be swapped with lithium ion (4.2v). Certain flashlights are the only things I’ve got where you can swap 1.5v and 4.2v and that’s because they’ve got the circuitry to handle that.

You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?!

This is one of the best cases of “When one of the worst cunts you know of makes a really good point.”

That’s the exact opposite of what was said. Convenience is the point of a phone; having to debloat is not convenient. A phone without bloat is more convenient.

Antivirus didn’t really exist in my script kiddie days in the very early 00s. It was awesome to put Sub7 on someone’s PC, fire up their webcam, pop the matrix screensaver type hack on, chat to them, then open their CD drive. Freaked some friends out really good that way.

After they would log off, I’d pull their AIM credentials and hop on their screen name , message one of their buddies, and ask them to “test out this screensaver I just made”. I’d get their IP from the AIM direct connection used to send the file. Rinse and repeat with the next list of AIM contacts. I had a dozen infected people across the country I didn’t know at all. Never did anything particularly malicious but man it was fun.

Now that I’m thinking about it, I did nuke the HDD of a friend of a friend with a .bat script called hard drive killer pro, that was malicious. That’s the only one I regret doing in retrospect. I just wanted to see if it worked, they didn’t get back online for a year or so.

Edit: I found the hard drive killer, wow. Munga Bunga’s Hard Drive Killer Pro Version 4.0. I’d love to know how this worked, apparently it could cause physical damage. Not sure how valid that is, but it did completely screw up the PC.

When I was frustrated by very early internet filters being turned on at school, I installed keyloggers and distributed the admin password to disable the filters altogether. Good times, probably much harder to do that now.

you may disturb radio stations

Isn’t that illegal, as you’re basically radio jamming? Devices have that little FCC sticker saying it shouldn’t interfere with other devices. During my amateur radio license studying that was mentioned.

I’m curious about the privacy aspect; would someone be able to see my network by plugging in to the neighbors house, perhaps with some exploits involved?

Electron beams scan insanely fast, that isn’t the limiting factor. Getting that much bandwidth across a VGA cable is tough. If you wanted super high refresh rates on old CRTs you’d have to drop the resolution. Same concept.

Changing the resolution on a CRT normally doesn’t make the picture smaller. There is no native resolution, phosphors are not pixels. My Viewsonic would display 640x480 or 1600x1200 on the whole 21” regardless. You can also watch the video, it’s not using a smaller area.

I believe the limitation is bandwidth, not the electron beam.

I disagree. I don’t consent to a doctor having his personal device out recording. Doesn’t seem like either of us will be changing our minds, so I’ll bid you adieu.

I’m aware of the regulations, I’m an Epic analyst and been in the world of healthcare since 2009 (used to be an MLS). Watch me decline right out the door and immediately contact patient relations. Put your fucking phone away. Healthcare has managed for quite a while without them.

Saying a personal cell phone is equivalent to a written notebook is wild. Can you compromise a notebook with malware?

That’s cool. I was going to move over to our integration team but I’m looking into Epic consulting instead. Our integration team was very busy on Friday along with our clinical apps team. We use Cloverleaf for our interface engine, I’ve got a bit of experience poking around in there. HL7 is interesting, but I’d like to learn FHIR. Do you have a Bridges cert?