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  1. Most Cities Already Have HSA Cameras by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Houston Police Chief Wants Cameras in Homes
    These cameras are in most cities and town right now but you didn't know it. Here is a map of the Homeland Security Agency's WeatherBug camera locations. These and Weather Net are a part of Homeland Security Net. Pictures from these HSA cameras can often be seen on the web and on the local weather report. Every camera can see nearby cameras; there are no dead zones. The cameras can be remotely controlled.

    Most major cities have camera networks or are in the bidding process to get them. Wilmington, Delaware has them all over the city; Philadelphia is going to get them soon (they are used in only certain areas now and are monitored by a 3rd party but have feeds to police command centers). They help people every day: they can assess the field situation seconds after a call to 911 and give proper intel (needed medical responses or more officers to catch and track robbers in the act). They do detect and deter crime.

    For those curious about what weather cameras have to do with national security see The Role of Weather Information in Disaster Response and Recovery.

  2. Most Cities Already Have HSA Cameras by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Houston Police Chief Wants Cameras in Homes
    These cameras are in most cities and town right now but you didn't know it. Here is a map of the Homeland Security Agency's WeatherBug camera locations. These and Weather Net are a part of Homeland Security Net. Pictures from these HSA cameras can often be seen on the web and on the local weather report. Every camera can see nearby cameras; there are no dead zones. The cameras can be remotely controlled.

    Most major cities have camera networks or are in the bidding process to get them. Wilmington, Delaware has them all over the city; Philadelphia is going to get them soon (they are used in only certain areas now and are monitored by a 3rd party but have feeds to police command centers). They help people every day: they can assess the field situation seconds after a call to 911 and give proper intel (needed medical responses or more officers to catch and track robbers in the act). They do detect and deter crime.

    For those curious about what weather cameras have to do with national security see The Role of Weather Information in Disaster Response and Recovery.

  3. Re:Is redhat 2.0x still supported? by smyle · · Score: 1 · on MS-DOS 1981-2002 RIP
    Win95: Have it running our school weather station on a P-133 (you know, where the TV stations report conditions from regional schools http://www.aws.com).

    MeSsy-DOS: Use it for Norton Ghost multicasting.

    WinNT 3.51: Now you're just being sick.

  4. Re:Pocket Quicken and others by beagle · · Score: 1 · on What Are Your Ten Best Palm Apps?
    These are in no particular order, and many are repeats from earlier in the discussion. I went through much of Palmgear when I first got my Visor Deluxe and thought the enclosed list of companies made some pretty cool products.

  5. Re:The AWS "WeatherBug" by Daoine+Sidh · · Score: 1 · on Ideas for High School Computer Projects?

    Just checked on the link above and realised that this link has more information pertaining directly to school participation in the AirWatch network.

    TTYL,

  6. The AWS "WeatherBug" by Daoine+Sidh · · Score: 1 · on Ideas for High School Computer Projects?

    Haven't seen this posted yet: The AWS WeatherBug looks like a nifty project for a high school science class to get involved in. I didn't research it deep enough to determine costs, or whether the students would have to build any interfaces to the system, or even if it's just a turnkey operation.

    But, there are installations in schools across the country that are supplying real-time, or near real-time weather data through the internet to desktop clients.

    TTYL,