That's ok, he also isn't aware that HDD mfgrs use the 1000 instead of the 1024 way of counting. He's wrong all over the place &/. "editors" are too busy creating things like/. TV.
Yeah, because gun rights vis-a-vis self defense, media bias, and a grand outpouring of racism... these have no interest to nerds, because everybody knows that the only thing nerds care about is whether or not Raspberry Pi has been released or not.
You sound like Kristopeit with your obnoxious "slashdot != relevant." What's next, a 40 page discourse (with links) on the benefits of proper whitelisting in your hosts file, a la APK?
For fuck's sake, stop being such an asshole.
Why the fuck don't we add fucking parenting stories?
I mean, I'm sure most of us have kids now.
Hey, let's add some stuff about what's a good soccer mom van to buy!
Let's not leave out the rich 1% of us... we need a good article on what's the best yachts.
Why? Cause nerds like more things than tech. They have kids, they drive, they enjoy their Martha Vineyard weekends.
OR... maybe nerds know how to find that type of news ELSEWHERE AND COME HERE FOR THE FUCKING TECH!
Now, how about YOU FUCK OFF ASSHOLE.
-AI
And don't ever fuckin compare me to Kristopeit, he doesn't own that word. Grow some balls too and reply with your account. Or do you not have karma to spare?
I'm standing my ground... this stupid news, is NOT NEWS FOR NERDS.
There is nothing technical, electronic, digital, computerized or other electron driven implementations to speak of here.
Advertisers, when you wonder where the readership is going, this is the answer. About the only thing guaranteed on here anymore are the daily slashvertisements, the increase in ask slashdot which are either shills, or could have easily been answered with a googling and old, old, news.
At one time, I could stay abreast of the most important news to nerds. Now I count the hours which stretch into days from when news occurs to when it appears on/.
And yet, this year... I went back to all wired ethernet.
Rather than try to figure out which household was causing my packet drops and then think up what to say to them to cause it to stop, I went back to tried and true copper.
No more stuttering streaming and dropouts... plus I can move files at gigaspeed.
This sounds like a great idea until someone decides to embed DRM into it.
But Smart Sand DRM is there to protect the end user... to protect them from someone they don't know making a copy of someone else's smart sand.
Of course, because of Smart Sand DRM, now you have to buy smart sand for your car, and for your home theater and even to carry around in your pocket. Even though your one pile of smart sand would work just fine in each place. And even though you already paid for your smart sand once.
Miniaturize them far enough, so they can float in the air and still communicate and grip, and you have what's termed a utility fog. Such a fog would be tremendously useful, provided proper authentication and encryption could restrict control to authorized persons: tools could be formed freely and to unheard-of precision, in real-time, {snip}
I can see the new ambulance chaser commercials.
Do you have mesothelioma caused by utility fog? Did ThunderBird Enterprises put you or a loved one in danger? We're here to help.
It won't be great, and you will end up sorting through a pile of false positives, but if cheap and fast are priorities, and good can wait this is how I would do it.
goto ebay, type zmodo in the search box, choose between 4 cameras w/o (sata) hard disk for $160 (4 cameras, recorder, wires, power supply) to around $300 for 8 cameras, recorder with hard disk, wire and power supply
$40 cameras FTW!
Yes! I'm gonna protect THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF STUFF... with a $40 camera.
Sigh, this is why I got out of the security biz. Cheap ass people.
I have a foscam wireless camera that will upload to an ftp server of your choice. It was inexpensive (~$60 on amazon). Can be set to take an image on some time interval. You can then collect the images into a movie for that day ( use 'convert' from Imagemagick).
Let's see some pics from that bad boy... of a face at about 15 ft.
I'll give you a $1 for every facial point you can extract beyond 5.
All of that said, night pictures with infra-red are extremely clear. You may get a much better picture from one of these than a cheap DVR. The key word there is *may*. It depends on a lot of factors.
Night pictures with infrared will leave out A TON OF CLUES! Race of thief. What they were wearing. If they had a car, what color was the car.
If you do not want to get robbed at night... first thing you do, is throw about 1000W equiv light on your property... then you have the highest resolution, lowest lux camera you can afford, with an auto-iris. Then you multiply that by 6.
Get a hunting trail camera. Takes pics on an SD card. Not networked, but is designed to be outside and it should get you the information you seek relatively cheaply.
Showing pics to cop after crime...
Cop: Yep, that's a person, definitely not a deer. Owner: Can you get them? Cop: What am I going to do, put out a bolo for a smudgy blob?
... is a motion activated 'critter cam' covering the areas where you suspect your visitor to loiter. No monitoring, no alarm, but you can get pics of the suspect (as long as they don't notice and steal the camera).
You could also leave a few scraps of yellow crime scene tape and a chalk outline of a body in front of your house. Give them something to think about.
I frequently leave my garage door open... it gets hot in AZ.
I have my most recent paper target, a human silhouette taped to the garage door, leading in the house.
At the top corner, in large red marker, is where the range officer signed off on my 2" group @ 25 yards. Centered right on the heart triangle.
If that doesn't slow up a crook... not too much will.
You can get a cheap surveillance system with 4 or 8 cameras and a DVR from somebody that sells the Zmodo brand. They aren't the highest quality, but will certainly show you what you're looking for. I have personal experience with the systems and they seem to work well. They usually have motion activated recording, infared for night, and a built in web server so you can pull up the feed from away from the house. If you do a search for packages, you can find stuff from like 250$-600$ and it's relatively easy to install if you can run wires and handle a drill.
Yes! Everyone! Waste your money after being robbed! Get the cheapest system you can get, to fill that void of loss... that void of helplessness.
Or, get a professional to install it... or RESEARCH ON YOUR OWN... which means, don't ask this question on Slashdot, where most of the people have no fucking idea what they are talking about.
If you are REALLY concerned about the future... DO NOT DO IT CHEAPLY.
Get a concealed carry license and keep the gun on you (obviously, learn to use it well, that part can be fun). It won't get stolen.
I agree intrinsically.. but if you want to have a "real job", working for somone else, they usually don't let you carry on premises. That means, either leave gun at home or in car. In car is terrible... very good way for guns to get to criminals. And I'm not one of those that are like... omg... a crook can get a gun... but in a car, not the best idea. And once it's not on your person... it's not doing its job anymore.
FWIW, I do have a CCL and had to carry daily when I was doing courthouse auctions.
Slashdot Mirror
That's ok, he also isn't aware that HDD mfgrs use the 1000 instead of the 1024 way of counting. He's wrong all over the place & /. "editors" are too busy creating things like /. TV.
And coming up with the next Slashvertisements.
-AI
That's pretty bad if the new leader's missle {sic} is only useful for a minute.
I thought he was was younger than that.
-AI
Wrong analogy. Replace "host" with "goose that laid the golden egg". The goose is expendable and/or replaceable.
Citation Please.
-AI
Yeah, because gun rights vis-a-vis self defense, media bias, and a grand outpouring of racism... these have no interest to nerds, because everybody knows that the only thing nerds care about is whether or not Raspberry Pi has been released or not.
You sound like Kristopeit with your obnoxious "slashdot != relevant." What's next, a 40 page discourse (with links) on the benefits of proper whitelisting in your hosts file, a la APK?
For fuck's sake, stop being such an asshole.
Why the fuck don't we add fucking parenting stories?
I mean, I'm sure most of us have kids now.
Hey, let's add some stuff about what's a good soccer mom van to buy!
Let's not leave out the rich 1% of us... we need a good article on what's the best yachts.
Why? Cause nerds like more things than tech. They have kids, they drive, they enjoy their Martha Vineyard weekends.
OR... maybe nerds know how to find that type of news ELSEWHERE AND COME HERE FOR THE FUCKING TECH!
Now, how about YOU FUCK OFF ASSHOLE.
-AI
And don't ever fuckin compare me to Kristopeit, he doesn't own that word.
Grow some balls too and reply with your account. Or do you not have karma to spare?
Stand your ground!
I'm standing my ground... this stupid news, is NOT NEWS FOR NERDS.
There is nothing technical, electronic, digital, computerized or other
electron driven implementations to speak of here.
Advertisers, when you wonder where the readership is going, this is the
answer. About the only thing guaranteed on here anymore are the daily
slashvertisements, the increase in ask slashdot which are either shills,
or could have easily been answered with a googling and old, old, news.
At one time, I could stay abreast of the most important news to nerds. /.
Now I count the hours which stretch into days from when news occurs
to when it appears on
Slashdot != relevant
Monster Kill!
Alien is GODLIKE!
Ultra Kill!
Alien is WICKED SICK!
Oh wait, we're supposed to be RESCUING them?
Ooops.
-AI
Open Street Maps is like most open projects, incomplete.
And when you have a program and it's incomplete, that's one
thing. But an incomplete map is stupid. Because it's useless.
Shouldn't they color code areas that have 'no data'? Like my
neighborhood that's been here since 2003.
-AI
This was news, weeks ago.
WTG /. if it's not a slashvertisement, it's WAAAAAY old news.
-@|
And yet, this year... I went back to all wired ethernet.
Rather than try to figure out which household was causing
my packet drops and then think up what to say to them to
cause it to stop, I went back to tried and true copper.
No more stuttering streaming and dropouts... plus I can
move files at gigaspeed.
-AI
So... half the "stories" today are just bloody slashvertisements?!?
Half? That's damn optimistic.
-AI
Really? I am getting so sick and tired of everything being in 3D nowadays!
-AI
This sounds like a great idea until someone decides to embed DRM into it.
But Smart Sand DRM is there to protect the end user...
to protect them from someone they don't know making
a copy of someone else's smart sand.
Of course, because of Smart Sand DRM, now you have
to buy smart sand for your car, and for your home theater
and even to carry around in your pocket. Even though your
one pile of smart sand would work just fine in each place.
And even though you already paid for your smart sand once.
-AI
Miniaturize them far enough, so they can float in the air and still communicate and grip, and you have what's termed a utility fog. Such a fog would be tremendously useful, provided proper authentication and encryption could restrict control to authorized persons: tools could be formed freely and to unheard-of precision, in real-time, {snip}
I can see the new ambulance chaser commercials.
Do you have mesothelioma caused by utility fog?
Did ThunderBird Enterprises put you or a loved one
in danger? We're here to help.
Call Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe. NOW!
-AI
At least it's not fucking pink ponies again.
In this case, I'd take the fucking pink ponies. I'm not a Jobs fan, per say, but NO ONE should be posthumously represented by Ashton Kutcher.
Nor, non-posthumously,
-AI
It won't be great, and you will end up sorting through a pile of false positives, but if cheap and fast are priorities, and good can wait this is how I would do it.
So, your solution is the "won't be great" option.
Nice... what's your address again?
-AI
Oh, and get a dog with a loud bark. Most robbers don't want to find out if it is a small dog or big dog!
That's about as ignorant as claiming all Asians look alike.
A dog's voice unlike the "voice" of a person, is very directly
related to breed and volume of lungs/throat/mouth.
If you can't tell the size of a dog from their bark alone... you
need a different job besides house thief.
-AI
goto ebay, type zmodo in the search box, choose between 4 cameras w/o (sata) hard disk for $160 (4 cameras, recorder, wires, power supply) to around $300 for 8 cameras, recorder with hard disk, wire and power supply
$40 cameras FTW!
Yes! I'm gonna protect THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF STUFF...
with a $40 camera.
Sigh, this is why I got out of the security biz. Cheap ass people.
-AI
Interesting, are there any particular or specific setups, model numbers etc that we look into?
http://www.newegg.com/Store/BrandSubCategory.aspx?Brand=1080&SubCategory=521&name=Surveillance-Cameras
First camera I click on... $280 and doesn't list the resolution anywhere.
Must be from their sucker collection.
Lol.
-AI
I have a foscam wireless camera that will upload to an ftp server of your choice. It was inexpensive (~$60 on amazon). Can be set to take an image on some time interval. You can then collect the images into a movie for that day ( use 'convert' from Imagemagick).
Let's see some pics from that bad boy... of a face at about 15 ft.
I'll give you a $1 for every facial point you can extract beyond 5.
-AI
All of that said, night pictures with infra-red are extremely clear. You may get a much better picture from one of these than a cheap DVR. The key word there is *may*. It depends on a lot of factors.
Night pictures with infrared will leave out A TON OF CLUES!
Race of thief. What they were wearing. If they had a car, what
color was the car.
If you do not want to get robbed at night... first thing you do,
is throw about 1000W equiv light on your property... then you
have the highest resolution, lowest lux camera you can afford,
with an auto-iris. Then you multiply that by 6.
-AI
Get a hunting trail camera. Takes pics on an SD card. Not networked, but is designed to be outside and it should get you the information you seek relatively cheaply.
Showing pics to cop after crime...
Cop: Yep, that's a person, definitely not a deer.
Owner: Can you get them?
Cop: What am I going to do, put out a bolo for a smudgy blob?
-AI
You could also leave a few scraps of yellow crime scene tape and a chalk outline of a body in front of your house. Give them something to think about.
I frequently leave my garage door open... it gets hot in AZ.
I have my most recent paper target, a human silhouette taped
to the garage door, leading in the house.
At the top corner, in large red marker, is where the range officer
signed off on my 2" group @ 25 yards. Centered right on the
heart triangle.
If that doesn't slow up a crook... not too much will.
-AI
You can get a cheap surveillance system with 4 or 8 cameras and a DVR from somebody that sells the Zmodo brand. They aren't the highest quality, but will certainly show you what you're looking for. I have personal experience with the systems and they seem to work well. They usually have motion activated recording, infared for night, and a built in web server so you can pull up the feed from away from the house. If you do a search for packages, you can find stuff from like 250$-600$ and it's relatively easy to install if you can run wires and handle a drill.
Yes! Everyone! Waste your money after being robbed! Get the cheapest
system you can get, to fill that void of loss... that void of helplessness.
Or, get a professional to install it... or RESEARCH ON YOUR OWN...
which means, don't ask this question on Slashdot, where most of the
people have no fucking idea what they are talking about.
If you are REALLY concerned about the future... DO NOT DO IT CHEAPLY.
-AI
Get a concealed carry license and keep the gun on you (obviously, learn to use it well, that part can be fun). It won't get stolen.
I agree intrinsically.. but if you want to have a "real job", working for somone else,
they usually don't let you carry on premises. That means, either leave gun at home
or in car. In car is terrible... very good way for guns to get to criminals. And I'm not
one of those that are like... omg... a crook can get a gun... but in a car, not the best
idea. And once it's not on your person... it's not doing its job anymore.
FWIW, I do have a CCL and had to carry daily when I was doing courthouse auctions.
-AI
How does your home get broken into?
Too many windows. Windows are a vulnerability. Have them all filled in. Second of all, get solid steel doors with plenty of locks. There, done.
Now use Gamemaker.
Dammit... going along great and someone brings Microsoft into it.
-AI