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Is anywhere safe?

LevLev Posts: 182
edited 2013-08-06 00:18 in General Discussion
Don't just take this news sitting down. Build a Faraday cage!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23575249

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  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,451
    edited 2013-08-05 19:19
    Ooooh an attacker could flush you into water bill bankruptcy. Maybe better to buy a toilet that doesn't have bluetooth. Mine doesn't and I feel perfectly safe on it.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-08-05 19:19
    Funny stuff.

    Reading that high-tech bathroom humor somehow makes me want to trademark the word "bluetoothbrush".

    Can't explain why.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-08-05 20:16
    The toilet doesn't have to be high-tech to create a water-bill Cat-tastrophy:

    Fortunately, this is a trick that Browser, in his 16 years of sharing my bathroom, never caught onto -- even though he was mesmerized by the swirling waters.

    -Phil
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-08-05 20:19
    erco wrote:
    ... makes me want to trademark the word "bluetoothbrush".

    That's the one reserved, not for teeth, but for cleaning under the rim, right?

    -Phil
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2013-08-05 20:31
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    That's the one reserved, not for teeth, but for cleaning under the rim, right?

    -Phil

    Nope, that's the one I saw just before I asked my wife if Donnie and Marie were visiting.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2013-08-05 20:35
    BTW, the toilets with automatic flushers can create a water bill catastrophe. On average they must flush 4 or 5 time before your business is finished. Perhaps more sanitary but definitely not conserving water.
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,566
    edited 2013-08-05 21:05
    "The toilet doesn't have to be high-tech to create a water-bill Cat-tastrophy:" ... Unless you happen to have a shrink ray ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhVxezfo30
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-08-05 22:33
    Many years ago I had a cat that I actually managed to train to use the toilet bowl to "do his business". Never could get him to flush though.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-08-06 00:18
    Is anywhere safe?

    Not any more: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4509
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