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ME TOO - Shevonne Polastre

NEED! - William Harryman

My luck I would put breakables in there and my husband would accidentally shut the thing =/ - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I totally want that. - Melissa

That is awesome! I need to get that - g. warbucks

That's awesome. Great idea. - James Ferguson

Love it! - Michael Forian

want! - .LAG

I find it's busy and heavy.. but neat. - Dino

wantwantwant! - RudĩϐЯaЯïaȵ

I highly doubt it'll be approved to receive a HCPCS code. Interesting thing, though. - Rochelle

sorry rochelle but what is HCPCS? - Live4Soccer

"Wilma, hand me my inhaler." "OK, Fred..." *bam* "Oh, shit. Fred? Honey?" - abacab

L4S: http://letmegooglethatforyou.c... :) - Jemm

All medical devices have to be assigned an HCPCS code by the federal government to be able to be paid for through health insurance. For example, crutches have an HCPCS code but my iPod does not. This device couldn't be covered by Medicare/insurance without a federal HCPCS code. It's really hard to get one of those assigned, though, because the FDA and CMS have to review it and approve it as a medical device. Personally, I don't believe a modified gun is a medical device. It's just an alternative gun. - Rochelle

Heh. If you Google HCPCS, Jemm, you're going to get some massively complex PDFs from the government. - Rochelle

@Jemm: HAHAHAHA! uhhhh, first, SUCK IT....second, I'm too lazy and that's what you all are here for... (But nice one Jemm....savor the flavor of that one...) - Live4Soccer

LMAO@Jemm LOL - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

gotcha Rochelle, thanks....... - Live4Soccer

abacab!! HA! - Yolanda

Looks more like a wine opener. - todd

Yeah, at first I thought it was a modified Advair Diskus: http://www.drugs.com/pdr/image... - Rochelle

This is just what we need: people who's VCRs have flashed 12:00 for 20 years, armed and dangerous. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

i wish they would have done a better job explaining just what the hell a "prescription handgun" is - i'm guessing its an ergonomic personal protection device but the first thing i thought when I saw it was that they had modified it as a pill dispenser - that definitely didn't sound like it would end well - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

The original Google datacenter in '99 :) - Paul Buchheit

One of the consequences of factoring in component failure in your every move: you can save the cases, stuff's going to break anyway ;) - Mustafa K. Isik

This design turned out to be somewhat nightmarish. It was eventually cleaned up (we had a "cabling fest") and by now the designs are quite slick, though still very unconventional. I wish Google would publish more about their hardware, because it's very interesting. - Paul Buchheit

i have! it was even color coded, cables of different colors - Joelle Nebbe

WHEN CABLES GO BAD! I used to have a similar problem and the only way to trace cables was to put a small binder clip over the wire and push it along. - Stephen Pierzchala

Cables Gone Wild! woo hoo! gees that is bad. Paul YES I too wish Google published their IT Infrastructure / hardware info - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

pretty sure their current IT infrastructure involves genetically-modified human brains soaking in some kind of nutrient bath. - Karim

Personally seen much much worse. - Chris W

yap i seen so much worser than this pic .... :D - zos

BTW, I believe this is the same generation of hardware found in the Computer History Museum (they have the jj rack, as I recall). - Paul Buchheit

Paul: I've been inside a Google datacenter. They are a thing of beauty now. I've always wanted to interview the team that is responsible for doing those and get some video. - Robert Scoble

That's how it would look if it was set up at my house. - Gabe

I worked in a server room that look like that too - all those spagetti cabling craziness. - imabonehead

Robert - YES do video interview with Google DC Infrastructure brains! :) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

How long would it take to fix if you pulled out just one cable?Or plugged it into the wrong socket? - Alistair

Neatly labeled I see ;) - Cam MacRae

I've seen worse, much owrse - Amit Morson

Spaghetti anyone? - Håkan Dahlström

Here are some pics of a datacenter I put together for a client back in 2003 with some pretty insane cabling. With this much cabling, it was too hard to manage without automation. So I built some tools that allowed me to plan for rapid growth (i.e 20 server SAN jumped to 120+ while we were building out) http://bit.ly/9Q7O - Jauder Ho

Grunt: OK boss, I've got a new cable crimped. Where do you want it? Boss: Server 99,9999 port 1. See it? I'll see you in a week. Grunt: &^* - Shane

"Employees dismantling sections of Google's original data center discovered the decaying corpse of an engineer tangled in a web of network patch cables, police reported today. The mostly-skeletal remains have not been conclusively identified, though the victim appeared to have been wearing a 'Banyan Vines' t-shirt. While forensic tests have yet to be completed, the County Medical Examiner has estimated the date of death to be 'sometime around the 1999, 2000 timeframe.'" - Karim

"A police spokeperson said foul play was not suspected, adding, 'Unfortunately, this is not the first time we've seen this. The Internet was growing so rapidly back then, these things just happened. Someone goes in to work on a patch panel, and they get tangled up. It's sad. And I don't blame Google for not noticing -- their headcount was growing rapidly too. One or two engineers go missing, nobody notices. I bet the poor bastard is still getting direct deposit on his paychecks.'" - Karim

A spokesperson for Google referred to the grisly discovery as "a regrettable loss, but not a single point of failure," and added that engineers are currently required to use "the buddy system" to work in pairs when cabling servers. - Karim

Karim, you owe me a keyboard sir! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Looks like spaghetti. - Rochelle

I've seen worse. Karim, that was funny! :D - AJ Batac

We'd like to see FriendFeed's datacenter pics! - AJ Batac

Sounds more like general laziness. Just check Giz and use what they have grabbed from somewhere else instead of going to those on the scene. - Robert Miller

300 hours talktime for iPhone 3G? In your dreams...mine needs a recharge every day and so do the 3G iPhones of at least 5 colleagues here. - Ronald

I'm sure he meant 300 minutes talk time :) (5 hours) - Bwana

Yum! - Nicholas Kreidberg

LOVE Indian food - Shey

I love good food. This sounds good. - Michael W. May via twhirl