The real issue here is lack of police action. If the police wanted too and put the required resources into it. they could get all the evidence, conduct a full investigation and track down and apprehend the criminal involved.
Exactly... and I'm going to mention it AGAIN on your post as well.
480line resolution cameras, DO NOT PROVIDE ADEQUATE RESOLUTION TO SEEK A CONVICTION. Unless the thief was completely stupid and walked up to it, full frame face.
A cop will NOT look a grainy/lined image of a person and try to figure out who it is.
And cops DO NOT HAVE that far-fetched software you see in the CSI's.
And if you haven't noticed... they only break out the CSI's for capital crimes. Not someone stealing your 1st world problems.
I appreciate your anecdotal evidence, but I'd like some actual analysis. I had an experience that was the exact opposite, thieves spent probably close to an hour, by police estimate, trying to break in.
Bullshit... either you don't have glass on your house?
or you have a ton of gold they wanted to get to.
No thief is going to spend more than 5-10min to get into an "unknown" house. Now, if the thieves knew you, or had cased your house and knew of something that was particularly valuable. MAYBE.
Considering its price, the DVR works quite well, and has decent quality/framerate (30 fps / camera, 352x240). The bad thing is that the remote client software (optional usage) is Windows-only and buggy as hell.
Well, it works for us.
Uh huh... til you need it really work, ie... try to show a cop a 240 line video of someone stealing your stuff. See if they look at it. See if they care. See if they stop writing the report they are going to file and forget.
You're talking about using NTSC/PAL analog video here -- which is completely inadequate if you'd need to actually identify someone. Even if you're lucky enough to get the perps face(s) looking straight into the camera (which you won't -- the angle you're going to have the cameras at will make it more than likely their faces will be covered by a baseball cap or something), there just isn't enough going to be the resolution necessary to be able to ID them, especially with cheap cameras from DX over long runs of cat5. Maybe IP cameras at higher resolution would be better? Just don't cheap out with low end toys (e.g. the Dlink DCS-903L I have has disappointed me).
I know, right? Lol... someone suggested a $20 camera on here... LOL!
For all these people to be nerds and geeks... you'd think they'd know that scan lines on a camera is just as damn important as when you are watching TV.
480 and less lines, DO NOT CUT IT FOR PROSECUTION!
Hell, 480 is barely enough to recognize your neighbors... and you know them! Try to recognize someone you've never seen before.
Best camera to get, is the kind that take actual jpg (or other) images, not line-scan cameras. If you can't afford that... Get at least 520 lines, min. 600's obv better... and 720 is pretty nice. Want to be serious? Full 1080p jpg recording. http://www.worldeyecam.com/store/vcc-hd4000-high-definition-zoom-day-night.html $1,124.99
Dual Codec High Definition At the heart of this camera is a 4 megapixel CMOS imager cranking out a resolution of 1920 x 1080p in H.264 mode and 2288 x 1712 pixels in JPEG mode. What all these numbers mean to you, is that you can set the camera further back in your establishment and cover the same area normally requiring the installation of multiple analog cameras. And by starting off with such a high resolution, you can magnify the picture many times over and still get the image clarity needed to correctly identify people and objects.
A camera is about $20 for a decent night vision one, and the balun set (8 baluns to run 4 cameras) were about $25.
Once you've got your hardware all set up, you can use either "motion" or "zoneminder" for the actual surveilence. Both will do what you want. I use motion, but zoneminder is a little more polished in the UI department.
If you are reading the posts for info, all of his prices are about 1/4 the cost of actual prices. I'm not sure where the fuck you're getting a $20 camera, new, worthwhile enough to protect anything of value. 360 lines in black and white don't cut it son.
My cheapest cam, was $60... and it's JUST BARELY ABLE TO RENDER A FACE FOR PROSECUTION. And I use it solely for the door. It's close to their face, they see it... it sees them.
My most expensive was $170 and it has auto-iris... for when the thieves try to flood the sensor. Wireless so they can't unplug it. Super low lux so all the ambient light is enough to get a face to resolve. A microphone and a gimbal so I can track with it.
Someone who spends $20 on a camera... is NOT interested in the job that camera is supposed to do.
HANG ON, I'M GETTING MY GUN!" "ONE MORE MINUTE (damned the law which requires I keep my ammo separate!)... OK, FOUND THE CLIP. FULLY LOADED. I SUGGEST YOU LEAVE NOW.
you might want the most reliable, fast and simple gear. So some of the people we see with old style gear might have more advanced prostheses at home or at work for tasks that benefit from them.
I was a manager for a graphic arts publication, my lead graphic artist, had an articulating hook in place of one forearm. Let me repeat... my LEAD artist. He was faster than everyone else and had the least amount of mistakes. Regardless of whether he pushed extra hard to be as good as anyone... he was. And he was not handicapped or disabled in any way.
Yes and Motor Neurones, Spinabifida, MS and a whole load of other conditions aren't disabilities now.
The MIT guy is talking about one small part of a massive group of conditions.
I was thinking the same thing... what an asinine thing to say. And that's literally the way he said it too.
Guy loses both of his legs... and he thinks that is the only type of 'disability' out there. He's obviously not the ego-free individual we want leading the march.
Heres a cheaper and easier way to end disabilities from wars... Stop sending soldiers into war over other people's greed.
While I agree with you intrinsically... you do realize, it's not that easy? Additionally, you do realize that a soldier is a soldier for a reason. To fight in wars. They do not join without the concept of death.
I was going to go in as an EOD Specialist, cause I have some unresolved adrenaline issues and a poorly formed executive center in the brain... =) but... the thought and reality of being randomly shot, rather than blown up... poured cold water on that. I made a choice.
Any soldier can, before becoming a GI. We are not under draft.
As far as I know... there is no other cause of war, besides greed.
And yet decade after decade passes and the cost never drops, it just keeps going up, with the exception of a few prototypes here and there along the way, they all still seem to be wearing the same basic hooks and passive limbs that THEY CAN AFFORD (albeit much improved and lighter versions).
What are you asking? The ONLY answer is buy an extra drive(s) that match the total amount of stuff you don't want to lose, copy it all over.
Problem solved.
Anything less than this answer is less. More is buying double the amount of stuff you don't want to lose and keep a rotation of your backups.
Further, break down each group of stuff you collect each month or quarterly and burn to a DVD.
Don't forget you have to store these either offsite or in a fire-proof storage, or best... both. Otherwise, it's all an exercise in futility.
Did you really just ask this question in Slashdot? Not sure what's worse, plain obvious questions that have been either asked so many times or is answered with a simple google search or obvious promotion of advertisers stuff.
I used to be proud (and snarky of course) when I said that I read/. Now, I don't mention it... it's irrelevant to the newest generation and the current generation I'm sure has noticed that even as an news aggregator/. is failing. Nothing NEW is covered here any more. It's always old by the time it hits the front page sometimes painfully so. It's also obvious what stories get picked up and which ones get looked over. And then, to break up the monotony...
"How should I back up my data that I don't want to lose?"
although it'd be funny to lose karma for this statement.
I'm a buddhist, so the enemy button seems, well, sad.
In order to label any person an enemy, you have to then actively seek them out on Facebook. Sure, they could appear on a friend list of a friend, but you're still going to have to do at least 2 actions (clicks) to make them an enemy.
Why?
Yes, grudges, hatred, retribution. However, if you are $religion I'm sure your religion like most talk about forgiveness. And even if you can't bring to forgive. Forget is pretty good too.
I remember all of my enemies from High School. And currently they are now my friends on Facebook. Even the ones that did some pretty long-lasting bad stuff. I'm sure some were even surprised when I accepted their friend request.
Time heals all wounds... chemically. The sharp edges of a memory get rounded off... and eventually they are whitewashed into the background. That's why even a contentious relationship is remembered with fondness over time.
If you read this far, thank you. It might mean you RTFA too.
Specific to TFA, his enemy button is more social commentary, about how it's become taboo to show dislike or disfavor, since the "social aspect" of the internet is actually directed to marketing. And no one welcomes negativity to their cash cow.
It would even open you up to some potential legal issues when a person clicks someone as an enemy and that person, EITHER OF THEM, end up dead. (IANAL) but anyone that lives in the US, knows what I'm talking about.
They say you can't sell an "enemy click" to an advertiser. But I call BS on that... I'm sure an enterprising person could create an algo that correlates enemies as having traits perhaps opposite enough to make them a selectable demographic. [FWIW, IP claim there, at least until "America Invents" takes hold]
It will be interesting to see if the app gets to stick around. I hope they adhered to ALL of the TOS for apps... because I'm sure that now that this has been/. FB's lawyers fresh off their we'll sue if you ask for FB credentials will be looking into it.
Hey we are leaving stones unturned... the kids are breathing... their parents want them alive... charge for their conversion of Oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. It can be a carbon offset fee.
Google is not required to do business in any single country. Google can not be touched if it just pulls everything out of Germany then de lists all German sites and shuts down its.gr domain. What are they going to do? Demand that Google do business in Germany? Fuck em.
Why would they shut down their.gr (eece) servers? And not their.de (utchsland) servers?
Meh, the world isn't lacking in area that could be covered with solar panels.
Lol, the young and ignorant.
Here's a slight fact that you seem to forget... all this land you are referring to, hosts some type of flora or fauna that the environmental groups will not allow you to kill or modify the territory of.
And while I'm not at the height of tree hugging... stopping the use of fossil fuels to remedy one issue by creating another one, isn't exactly the greatest of ideas.
Rooftops are the key, that is what this article is about. This company has devised a cheaper method of production and at the same time, made a solar cell that is flexible. That means more rooftop installs. More on the side of water storage tank installs. Farmer Brown gets to make some money cause his corn silos have some solar cells wrapped around them, and there's solar on his barn roof, etc.
The solution to fossil fuel independence, isn't killing indigenous plants and animals to install large solar heaters. It is making each person grid independent. And to get them off of fossil fuels by providing an at-home electrical solution.
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The real issue here is lack of police action. If the police wanted too and put the required resources into it. they could get all the evidence, conduct a full investigation and track down and apprehend the criminal involved.
Exactly... and I'm going to mention it AGAIN on your post as well.
480line resolution cameras, DO NOT PROVIDE ADEQUATE RESOLUTION
TO SEEK A CONVICTION. Unless the thief was completely stupid and walked
up to it, full frame face.
A cop will NOT look a grainy/lined image of a person and try to figure out who it is.
And cops DO NOT HAVE that far-fetched software you see in the CSI's.
And if you haven't noticed... they only break out the CSI's for capital crimes.
Not someone stealing your 1st world problems.
-AI
I appreciate your anecdotal evidence, but I'd like some actual analysis. I had an experience that was the exact opposite, thieves spent probably close to an hour, by police estimate, trying to break in.
Bullshit... either you don't have glass on your house?
or you have a ton of gold they wanted to get to.
No thief is going to spend more than 5-10min to get
into an "unknown" house. Now, if the thieves knew you,
or had cased your house and knew of something that
was particularly valuable. MAYBE.
-AI
Considering its price, the DVR works quite well, and has decent quality/framerate (30 fps / camera, 352x240). The bad thing is that the remote client software (optional usage) is Windows-only and buggy as hell.
Well, it works for us.
Uh huh... til you need it really work, ie... try to show a cop a 240 line video of someone
stealing your stuff. See if they look at it. See if they care. See if they stop writing the
report they are going to file and forget.
-AI
You're talking about using NTSC/PAL analog video here -- which is completely inadequate if you'd need to actually identify someone. Even if you're lucky enough to get the perps face(s) looking straight into the camera (which you won't -- the angle you're going to have the cameras at will make it more than likely their faces will be covered by a baseball cap or something), there just isn't enough going to be the resolution necessary to be able to ID them, especially with cheap cameras from DX over long runs of cat5. Maybe IP cameras at higher resolution would be better? Just don't cheap out with low end toys (e.g. the Dlink DCS-903L I have has disappointed me).
I know, right? Lol... someone suggested a $20 camera on here... LOL!
For all these people to be nerds and geeks... you'd think they'd know
that scan lines on a camera is just as damn important as when you
are watching TV.
480 and less lines, DO NOT CUT IT FOR PROSECUTION!
Hell, 480 is barely enough to recognize your neighbors... and you know
them! Try to recognize someone you've never seen before.
Best camera to get, is the kind that take actual jpg (or other) images,
not line-scan cameras. If you can't afford that... Get at least 520 lines,
min. 600's obv better... and 720 is pretty nice. Want to be serious?
Full 1080p jpg recording.
http://www.worldeyecam.com/store/vcc-hd4000-high-definition-zoom-day-night.html
$1,124.99
Dual Codec High Definition
At the heart of this camera is a 4 megapixel CMOS imager cranking out a resolution of 1920 x 1080p in H.264 mode and 2288 x 1712 pixels in JPEG mode. What all these numbers mean to you, is that you can set the camera further back in your establishment and cover the same area normally requiring the installation of multiple analog cameras. And by starting off with such a high resolution, you can magnify the picture many times over and still get the image clarity needed to correctly identify people and objects.
FOR PROSECUTION!
$20 camera, lol.
-AI
A camera is about $20 for a decent night vision one, and the balun set
(8 baluns to run 4 cameras) were about $25.
Once you've got your hardware all set up, you can use either "motion" or "zoneminder"
for the actual surveilence. Both will do what you want. I use motion, but
zoneminder is a little more polished in the UI department.
If you are reading the posts for info, all of his prices are about 1/4 the cost
of actual prices. I'm not sure where the fuck you're getting a $20 camera,
new, worthwhile enough to protect anything of value. 360 lines in black and
white don't cut it son.
My cheapest cam, was $60... and it's JUST BARELY ABLE TO RENDER
A FACE FOR PROSECUTION. And I use it solely for the door. It's close
to their face, they see it... it sees them.
My most expensive was $170 and it has auto-iris... for when the thieves
try to flood the sensor. Wireless so they can't unplug it. Super low lux so
all the ambient light is enough to get a face to resolve. A microphone and
a gimbal so I can track with it.
Someone who spends $20 on a camera... is NOT interested in the job
that camera is supposed to do.
-AI
HANG ON, I'M GETTING MY GUN!" "ONE MORE MINUTE (damned the law which requires I keep my ammo separate!)... OK, FOUND THE CLIP. FULLY LOADED. I SUGGEST YOU LEAVE NOW.
Simple answer: Move to Texas, or possibly Florida
And Arizona!
Actually it only takes 6 months to get all the representative days since the solar cycle is effectively symmetrical.
Not on Earth.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/08/a_question_of_why_the_analemma.php
-AI
Wait, fixies are passé now? Awesome, I can ride mine without people demanding I wear tight jeans and a sour expression!
I wear my tight jeans on a mountain bike, ironically.
-AI
I was a manager for a graphic arts publication
And yet, here you are, using 600x400 as your screen resolution.
That is 80 column to you good sir. Orange on Black.
Git off mah lawn!
-AI
you might want the most reliable, fast and simple gear.
So some of the people we see with old style gear might have more
advanced prostheses at home or at work for tasks that benefit from them.
I was a manager for a graphic arts publication, my lead graphic artist,
had an articulating hook in place of one forearm. Let me repeat... my
LEAD artist. He was faster than everyone else and had the least amount
of mistakes. Regardless of whether he pushed extra hard to be as good
as anyone... he was. And he was not handicapped or disabled in any way.
Here's to ya José! Thanks for all the copy.
-AI
Obviously you have never read anything about ww11? Don't worry I know what site this is.
It's not World War Eleven
it's World War Two
World War 2
WW2
WWII
Have some respect and common sense you lazy oaf.
Don't worry I know what site this is.
-AI
Yes and Motor Neurones, Spinabifida, MS and a whole load of other conditions aren't disabilities now.
The MIT guy is talking about one small part of a massive group of conditions.
I was thinking the same thing... what an asinine thing to say.
And that's literally the way he said it too.
Guy loses both of his legs... and he thinks that is the only
type of 'disability' out there. He's obviously not the ego-free
individual we want leading the march.
Heres a cheaper and easier way to end disabilities from wars... Stop sending soldiers into war over other people's greed.
While I agree with you intrinsically... you do realize, it's not
that easy? Additionally, you do realize that a soldier is a
soldier for a reason. To fight in wars. They do not join without
the concept of death.
I was going to go in as an EOD Specialist, cause I have some
unresolved adrenaline issues and a poorly formed executive
center in the brain... =) but... the thought and reality of being
randomly shot, rather than blown up... poured cold water on
that. I made a choice.
Any soldier can, before becoming a GI. We are not under draft.
As far as I know... there is no other cause of war, besides greed.
So your statement then is, "Stop being greedy".
Good luck with that.
-AI
And yet decade after decade passes and the cost never drops, it just keeps going up, with the exception of a few prototypes here and there along the way, they all still seem to be wearing the same basic hooks and passive limbs that THEY CAN AFFORD (albeit much improved and lighter versions).
ftfy
-AI
What are you asking? The ONLY answer is buy an extra
drive(s) that match the total amount of stuff you don't want
to lose, copy it all over.
Problem solved.
Anything less than this answer is less. More is buying double
the amount of stuff you don't want to lose and keep a rotation
of your backups.
Further, break down each group of stuff you collect each month
or quarterly and burn to a DVD.
Don't forget you have to store these either offsite or in a fire-proof
storage, or best... both. Otherwise, it's all an exercise in futility.
Did you really just ask this question in Slashdot? Not sure what's
worse, plain obvious questions that have been either asked so
many times or is answered with a simple google search or obvious
promotion of advertisers stuff.
I used to be proud (and snarky of course) when I said that I read /. /. is failing. Nothing NEW is covered here any more. It's
Now, I don't mention it... it's irrelevant to the newest generation and
the current generation I'm sure has noticed that even as an news
aggregator
always old by the time it hits the front page sometimes painfully so.
It's also obvious what stories get picked up and which ones get looked
over. And then, to break up the monotony...
"How should I back up my data that I don't want to lose?"
effin brilliant
-AI
I'll take whatever mod hit I get...
although it'd be funny to lose karma for this statement.
I'm a buddhist, so the enemy button seems, well, sad.
In order to label any person an enemy, you have to then
actively seek them out on Facebook. Sure, they could
appear on a friend list of a friend, but you're still going to
have to do at least 2 actions (clicks) to make them an
enemy.
Why?
Yes, grudges, hatred, retribution. However, if you are $religion
I'm sure your religion like most talk about forgiveness. And
even if you can't bring to forgive. Forget is pretty good too.
I remember all of my enemies from High School. And currently
they are now my friends on Facebook. Even the ones that did
some pretty long-lasting bad stuff. I'm sure some were even
surprised when I accepted their friend request.
Time heals all wounds... chemically. The sharp edges of a
memory get rounded off... and eventually they are whitewashed
into the background. That's why even a contentious relationship
is remembered with fondness over time.
If you read this far, thank you. It might mean you RTFA too.
Specific to TFA, his enemy button is more social commentary,
about how it's become taboo to show dislike or disfavor, since
the "social aspect" of the internet is actually directed to marketing.
And no one welcomes negativity to their cash cow.
It would even open you up to some potential legal issues when a
person clicks someone as an enemy and that person, EITHER OF
THEM, end up dead. (IANAL) but anyone that lives in the US, knows
what I'm talking about.
They say you can't sell an "enemy click" to an advertiser.
But I call BS on that... I'm sure an enterprising person could create
an algo that correlates enemies as having traits perhaps opposite
enough to make them a selectable demographic.
[FWIW, IP claim there, at least until "America Invents" takes hold]
It will be interesting to see if the app gets to stick around. /. FB's lawyers fresh off their
I hope they adhered to ALL of the TOS for apps... because I'm
sure that now that this has been
we'll sue if you ask for FB credentials will be looking into it.
-AI
Sure glad global warming doesn't exist... it could have been much worse!
-AI
It really is the end of the world this year.
-AI
mild ribbing aside, kudos, another step in the right direction
Hey we are leaving stones unturned... the kids are breathing...
their parents want them alive... charge for their conversion of
Oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. It can be a carbon offset fee.
-AI
Google is not required to do business in any single country. .gr domain.
Google can not be touched if it just pulls everything out of Germany then de lists all German sites and shuts down its
What are they going to do? Demand that Google do business in Germany?
Fuck em.
Why would they shut down their .gr (eece) servers? .de (utchsland) servers?
And not their
-AI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htm_956k5ps
To slice cars up adjacent to me.
Solves one form of pollution with another. /s
-AI
Meh, the world isn't lacking in area that could be covered with solar panels.
Lol, the young and ignorant.
Here's a slight fact that you seem to forget... all this land you are referring to,
hosts some type of flora or fauna that the environmental groups will not allow
you to kill or modify the territory of.
And while I'm not at the height of tree hugging... stopping the use of fossil fuels
to remedy one issue by creating another one, isn't exactly the greatest of ideas.
Rooftops are the key, that is what this article is about. This company has devised
a cheaper method of production and at the same time, made a solar cell that is
flexible. That means more rooftop installs. More on the side of water storage tank
installs. Farmer Brown gets to make some money cause his corn silos have some
solar cells wrapped around them, and there's solar on his barn roof, etc.
The solution to fossil fuel independence, isn't killing indigenous plants and animals
to install large solar heaters. It is making each person grid independent. And to
get them off of fossil fuels by providing an at-home electrical solution.
-AI
Solar also requires a lot of real estate, while a coal plant can be located relatively close to a city, minimizing voltage drop via long wiring runs.
How many coal plants can you fit on the roof of your house.
By my calculation, exactly one solar plant can be put up there.
I believe currently the score is solar, 1... coal plants, 0.
-AI
Was that really the spirit of what Landauer was considering?
Why not measure the computer memory such as he envisioned?
-AI
A gaming rig that can more than handle medium settings of any modern game shouldn't cost you more than $1000 to build
Holy shit a $1000???
i5-2500K, $200, Mobo, $100, 8G ram, $35, strong ass video card, $200, kick ass case with mega watt PS, $150, 120G SSD, $110
Spending the rest on crack? Weed? Whores?
-AI
You'll spend $50 to see it once in theatres.
The fuck I will
-AI