First Internet-Connected Pacemaker Goes Live

The Register is reporting that a New York woman has become the first person to have her pacemaker wirelessly connected to the internet for full-time monitoring. "The device contains a radio transmitter which connects to receiving equipment in New Yorker Carol Kasyjanski's home, using a very low-power signal around 400MHz, to report on the condition of her heart. Any problems are instantly reported to the doctor, and regular checkups can be done by remotely interrogating the home-based equipment — the pacemaker itself doesn't have an IP address, fun as that would be."

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Niggers (You love that word just admit it)

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In africa they were tribal stone-age primitives when the white man found them (FACT). they can't handle civilization beyond tribal units so they turn destructive. thats why they have the lowest income, highest crime rates, lowest test scores, and highest rates of births out of wedlock (FACT). racism just dont explain that. i can hate your race but that does not force you to commit crimes or to have bastard children (FACT). they dont act like equals but they wanna be treated like equals (FACT). they dont even want to speak proper english and instead speak a kind of pidgin or broken english indicative of a low intellect (FACT).

reminds me of that saying, if my great-granddad knew things would turn out this way he'd have picked his own cotton.

now go mod me down instead of telling me why this is wrong. thats all you can do when you know its the truth.

Re:Niggers (You love that word just admit it)

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want to talk about Africa you're welcome to submit a story and if it hits the front page we'll all stop by and discuss this like civilized human beings. This story is about pacemakers.

you and me both know that no honest dialog about race and the shortcomings of blacks in america when compared to any other minority particularly asians is ever going to hit the front page. it will be censored and suppressed. because of that i mention it where i can. nice try, suggesting a totally unrealistic alternative as though it was a real choice.

you know what i wanna see? i wanna see black people stop acting like their own worst enemies. i want to see them take care of their own internal problems, stop glorifying violence against women and the use of drugs, reject thug culture, stop telling each other that getting an education is "acting white", stop having children they don't intend to parent (particularly the fathers), start speaking proper English. then and only then would it make sense to concern ourselves with what little racism still remains in this society. if i hated black people i would want them to stay just the way they are. think about that, you knee-jerk PC types.

the only minority that is going down the same path as the blacks are the so-called "latinos". that is mostly because they are adopting the same fatherless thug-worshipping gangsta culture as mainstream blacks.

You 7a1l it

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