Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.
Source: Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies | WIRED
This is total awesomeness! The application of robotics to assist those subject to physical disabilities:
It’s not only engineers who work in robotics
Source: It’s not only engineers who work in robotics | Robohub
My wife recently retired from nursing. She had worked as a Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse, working with spinal cord injury patients, and sometimes with traumatic brain injury patients. She tells me that tremendous advances are being made toward spinal cord regrowth and repair – this is still a ways out but is another exciting development for those with these types of injuries.
Amazon uses 45,000 small robots at about one-third of its U.S. warehouses to automate order processing. The robots look like bread boxes on wheels, lifting modular shelves stuffed with products and carrying the shelves to workers who pick out pieces.
Source: America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs – WSJ
Click the link for the funny cartoon 🙂 Source: 05_klossnerj_internetofthings_03-24-2014-100535431-orig.jpg (1404×1006)
Imagine when you have to reboot the stove before you cook dinner!
Source: ‘Industry 4.0’ comes to B.C.: Smart machines and Internet of Things change the workplace
IOT changes everything for service and industrial businesses. As described at the link, IOT enables smarter machines/automation. But it also means deploying sensors throughout a “work environment” to monitor and detect safety issues, to identify productivity issues, to detect quality problems, to optimize production and much more.
Almost all countries on earth now have Internet of Things devices infected with Mirai.
Source: Internet of Things Malware Has Apparently Reached Almost All Countries on Earth | Motherboard
When the going gets tough, the tough form a committee
Source: The EU’s latest idea to secure the Internet of Things? Sticky labels – Naked Security
Hmmmm …. I guess this is to inform the purchaser or user of a device as to the state of the device’s security. Would this be like the color coding scheme used to triage patients at a major incident?
At a mass casualty incident, responders must quickly sort through the injured and provide care to the worst off (Red) patients first.
For IOT Security, would this be:
We, like many, have been hit by extraordinary price hikes under ObamaCare. ObamaCare began in 2014. Since the first year, our premiums have risen 140% culminating in a 56% price hike in 2017. Obviously, ObamaCare’s nongroup market has failed and is collapsing (so say the insurance commissioners in Minnesota, Tennessee, the editors of the Chicago Tribune and others, former proponent Gov. Mark Dayton (D-MN), and former President Bill Clinton.)
There are ways to escape the crushing burden of ObamaCare’s extremely high insurance rates and rates that are increasing on an exponential trend line. Fortunately, there are perhaps 15-20 exemptions written in to the law. This post addresses only a few of those exemptions
The reason ObamaCare’s nongroup market has failed is due to a design and implementation error in the ACA. This is not rocket science.
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