"Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration... the Jericho."

Exactly. I can't think of one good reason a regular consumer would want one or how they'd even use it. Far be it the day that we have to wear shades in public out of fear that kids are running amuck with these thing. Although I have a really strong urge to affix one of these on top of my pet shark...

Sure, pacemakers and insulin pumps may run closed-source software. But there have got to be countless systems running critical aspects of infrastructure or even the military using closed-source software as well. Wasn't the Navy using Windows at some point in its ships?

Seems that the stakes are much higher in the latter although given the pace of medical technology/wetware innovation, having some sort of review or 3rd party testing worked into the approval process now rather than later would be prescient.

Seriously. This is slashdot. All problems must be resolved using overly complicated technical solutions requiring minimal socialization skills. When he can interface to the PTA using SOA, THEN we might have a better solution.

you lost me at "Canadian researchers"

definitely tag this one "aprilfools".

It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.

Not only is it hard to tell, it's scary that we can't tell the difference anymore. Just looking at yesterday's news:
* Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control
* Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet

Fact or fiction? Maybe for whoever submit these stories it already was April 1...

I've had large 2GB+ processes (i.e. VMWware) slow down my system due to being constantly swapped out of the 2GB user memory space.

There was no obvious offensive metric that would have clued me into this. The solution was to increase the user memory space to 3GB.