Karen Sandler of the GNOME Foundation (and Software Freedom Law Center) called attention to this exact problem in 2010 after she had a Medtronic defibrillator installed.

http://www.softwarefreedom.org...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sending, really? What, down a modem, via email, on a webpage?

Reporter Sam Varghese did slightly misstate things in that sentence, but then quoted me a couple of sentences later with the full picture:

Remember the 'Pentium Processor Invalid Instruction Erratum' of 1997, exposing all Intel Pentium and Pentium MMX CPUs to remote security attack, stopping them in their tracks if they could be induced to run processor instruction 'F0 0F C7 C8'?

You know, reading with context with improve your life. Give it a try: Even Slashdot pseuds can summon up the attention span, on a good day.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

I'm not sure I understand the point of this article.

Condolences. But if you ponder long and hard, you might spot the pattern

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

So 2^20 then? 1048576 is a lot of cab rides.

And Bruce, I love you for it. Big thanks from me.

Funny thing is - now I don't have to learn Morse, I'm learning it for fun on lcwo.net!

I've written a little Android app that updates a webpage with your location. I've thought that people with an expensive sports car might like to use it by leaving it in their glove box when their car is serviced, and seeing if the garage takes it on a "Ferris Bueller" style jaunt around town.

I didn't think this was possible (as I run NoScript, Firefox and Linux), but apparently it might be, under IE on Windows, with WMI.

var locator = new ActiveXObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");
var service = locator.ConnectServer(".");

// Get the info
var properties = service.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration");
var e = new Enumerator (properties);

Jesus, that looks horrible. I would hope that you have to add sites to your Local Intranet zone or whatever it's called these days before it'll work.

Your MAC address isn't visible outside your local subnet. Slashdot has no way of knowing your MAC address. (Unless perhaps you're using IPv6 without privacy extensions enabled, but I'm guessing Slashdot is years away from IPv6.)

Interesting - so an amnesiac would also be amnesic? Are there any other words that have similar examples like this?

I think we need an OS written entirely in Java...

The Amnesic Operating System. Shouldn't it be amnesiac? Or is this another English/American English difference like aluminium?

And it's Slashdotted.

And how do you know where anonymous money has come from?

I wouldn't want to be Mark Karpeles at all. He's going to have annoyed a lot of dodgy characters who want their money back. I think he'll be looking over his shoulder for the rest of of his life.

Well, that's what I get for jumping to conclusions!