High Tech Baby Monitoring?

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Posted by michael on Monday October 4, 2004 @12:03AM from the i-spy-with-my-little-eye dept.

MrGibbage writes "I'm a long time geek and about to be a first time father. I'm setting up the baby room now, and I'm looking for a high-tech (and low cost of course) baby monitoring system. I'm already running a linux web server over DSL and I'd love to push the video to that in order to see the video on my cell phone when we are out and the babysitter is home....uhh....babysitting. How will I watch the video while in our house? What about on my iPaq? Laptop? Something else? What about audio? Any systems that integrate both? The Baby-R-Us systems are ridiculously low quality and not expandable at all and therefore not really an option. The last slashdot article about video surveillance is a few years old."

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Re:An old standard by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 00:20 · Score: -1, Troll

How about using a "Mother"? They are very good at taking care of children while you work to support the family. Of course, you may have found one (hint, it is the woman who gave birth to the child).
Don't do it! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 00:33 · Score: -1, Troll

Have kids, I mean. They are expensive piss and shit factories. Once you have one, you're trapped.

Getting my wife pregnant is the WORST mistake I ever made.
Even Better Idea by w.p.richardson · 2004-10-04 00:53 · Score: -1, Troll

Take care of your own children, and sleep better at night.
Work out a schedule whereby a parent is always with the child. Better for child, better for parents mental state too.

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Re:No need by GigsVT · 2004-10-04 01:04 · Score: 0, Troll

SIDS is not unexplained, people just don't want to accept the explanation. It's just an early form of Darwinism. If you are too stupid to figure out how to roll over if you start suffocating, you are taken out of the system.

I fear a world when they "cure" SIDS, it'll be a much stupider place.

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MOD PARENT DOWN!! by gmhowell · 2004-10-04 02:53 · Score: -1, Troll

Mod parent down. Parent is obviously not very good, as the poster doesn't even know the gender of his/her/its child. Notice the frequent use of multiple pronouns so as to avoid specifying gender of child. I suspect the poster isn't even married, unless in one of those unGodly homosexual unions. Alert Homeland Security at once.

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I like good jokes. by Futurepower(R) · 2004-10-04 04:07 · Score: 0, Troll

I'm not against jokes, only against immature jokes.

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Re:i call bullshit by Dogtanian · 2004-10-04 04:14 · Score: -1, Troll

In either case though the quickest way may be to go with an X10 setup (yes, THOSE guys).

Hmm... sounds like you do want to spy on the neighbor's teenage daughter? (Specifically, see exhibit F; sick, but funny. However, Exhibit E is also pretty incongruous, if not ropey; WTF is that girl doing in the kids' room?)

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what is it with you people? by chegosaurus · 2004-10-04 05:30 · Score: 0, Troll

why do you have to bring freaking linux into everything?