The linked article refers to patient monitoring system, which generally means cardiac telemetry and fetal heart rate monitors. They have to be transmitted in real time, which means they have to be networked. They should be on a separate network that's not connected to the internet, but most hospitals choose to save…

Anyone have a line on a good 802.11n dual-band router deal? My router is starting to act up (a several-year-old D-link single band that's been awesome until lately), but I don't want to pay $150 for a router.

This might be a stupid idea - and I'm sure someone will tell me if it is - but how about putting a filter on airplane windows? Like beefed up window tinting, but designed to filter green lasers only/mostly? Good idea, or likely to cause airplanes to fall from the sky?

Person 1: "Why are you drilling holes in the fruit bowl?"

Oh snap! Is it DenFurCon time already!?

See? Now we understand each other. You're a spineless douche, and I'm a judgmental prick. The world turns.

As the indomitable Levar Burton says, you don't have to take my word for it! Not recognizing that breaking up via text is douchey and spineless is like having a mullet and thinking it's cool - you just wonder how people make it through life without learning what seems like universal knowledge. But I don't expect you…

You're missing out, my friend. They're amazing socks. All my hiking socks are Smartwool, because they're comfortable and moisture wicking. Love 'em!

You're not good at dealing with assholes because you've never had to date you. Maybe one of your exes could give you some pointers?

Did you go to school in the midwest? A friend of mine - she's from Minnesota, or Wisconsin, or something - was telling me the same thing. I love the idea with a few exceptions... a few textbooks I still have on (admittedly the bottom shelf of) a bookcase because I still refer to them occasionally. I guess with all the…

Saying ".40 Glock 22" is no more redundant than "the Glock 22, chambered in .40S&W" - they both present the same information, just in different formats. It might be more clear in your version, but it isn't less redundant.*

Is there anyone who approaches sexism rationally that actually claims men get all the advantages in society? I mean, inequality doesn't mean one gender gets them all and the other gets none, right? It just means the distribution is, well, unequal, all else being equal (that is, same grades, same degrees, same effort,…

And it's so hard to get service at my desk! I eventually had to yell to get someone to come over just so I could ask them to put a letter in the postal box for me. Unbelievable!

I have the number of one underage girl in my phone - a 12-year-old I tutor in reading. She texts or calls to ask what pages she's supposed to read. I'd be kind of worried about this sort of thing, but I think that's got to be really hard to do. I've only ever sent a text to the wrong person once in my life, and it was…

Why would you estimate the Apple Maps works fine for the vast majority of users? I can't say that it doesn't... but then I wouldn't say that it does, either. Because I have no idea, and no frame of reference from which to draw a conclusion about whether it works for the millions of users that aren't me. So I'm curious…

I like to plug everything in my house into one outlet, so I always know which breaker to flip when it blows, rather than having to skim the poor handwriting on the inside of the breaker box door. It seems to happen a lot. I've never had a problem. The manufacturers built in this great feature where all the extension…

Only if you pick an airport at random every time you fly. If the airport you normally fly through is the one where a thief works then your chances are probably considerably higher... but that's just my statistical side talking. I'm also in the "this is what happens when you walk away and leave expensive things behind"…

That's never actually been shown to be true. States with higher gun ownership show the highest rates of gun death (at least according to a Harvard review). Similarly, while gun ownership rates between the US and Switzerland are similar, the US still has five times the number of homicides as our European…

Lowepro makes some good bags all around. When I first started shooting (I'm still an amateur, or sub-amateur...) I was looking for a backpack to take my camera on hikes and ran across site after site and photographer after photographer saying the best, small bag was the Lowepro Slingshot 200 (or 202, depending). For…

Umm, up here in the REAL WORLD we call that added functionality. When you suspend the iShiv it flips over and becomes a toothbrush. Something Samsung hasn't figured out yet because they're too busy making their S-word bigger and more colorful. That's not innovation!