First I tried DSPAM, but they refused to train it so the results weren't good.
Which is precisely why you're supposed to train it under a global account with the dspam corpus. I trained mine with a corpus of ~3,000 ham and ~3,000 spam messages before I let it loose under user accounts.
In 5+ years of using it now, I haven't had a single user complain of spam in their mailbox, ever. Not a SINGLE spam. Sure, they get false positives from time to time, but training those back with the web interface is ridiculously simple.
dspam is, hands-down, the best anti-spam tool I have ever used, and I've used a lot of them, including blackholes.us, firewall blocks, SpamAssassin, and 13 RBLs in Sendmail. Nothing works as well as dspam, IME.
Well, that's kind of to be expected: when you get right down to it, the whole premise of Linux was a reinvention of the wheel. It's a clone of an operating system that already existed -- it doesn't get much more re-inventive than that.
I'm sure you've been corrected on this point already, but if not, I'll reinforce it.
Linux the kernel was probably a pseudo-clone of the minix kernel, but the surrounding operating system (often called "Linux"), was most-certainly not a reinvention of anything that existed at that time. It was a culmination of the GNU project's efforts, wrapped around the Linux kernel because the GNU kernel wasn't functional at that time.
Please don't confuse Linux (the kernel) with (GNU)/Linux (the operating system) in this way. It only makes the situation worse when the media gets involved and pollutes it for the masses who don't understand the big picture.
I became suspicious when I read the phrase "nano bits of silica". Nano technology my big toe: that's a marketing flourish.
(emphasis mine)
nano-
pref.
often nanno- Extremely small: nannoplankton.
One-billionth (10-9): nanosecond.
YOU added the "nano technology" bungle, but nano as used in TFA is correct. Please don't confuse readers by inferring something which did not exist in the parent article.
Of course this isn't new. We are at war. We have always been at war. Oil production is up 13% this year...
You're probably right about everything except the part about being at war. Since Congress has not declared war, we are not at war. Period. No matter how much the media or this administration trouts it out, we are NOT at war until Congress declares it and issues a statement to that effect.
do you assume that if one police thug is violating your rights, that another one he works with is going to respect them (or you for that matter). Or do you mean you have to go to another juridiction for help? In the new amerika, there is no other jurisdiction.
No, I assume (well, I know) that the second call to bring in "proper" authorities will be logged, and retrievable by the courts, should your case get that far. They can subponea the 9-1-1 call (or whatever other number you called to reach the precinct), and see what happened.
"Hi, my camera equipment was just stolen by a police officer without my consent. I did not consent to any search, nor was I arrested. I would like to file a complaint and speak with an officer who can help straighten this situation out."
Seriously, I know this is a fucked-up country now, but words do not do anything, action does. At the very least, a second call to your local newspaper to have a reporter there when the second officer arrives to talk with the first, would be valuable.
I assumed all along you were talking about when the police do it.
I was.
It is against the law for them to seize your camera, film, or equipment, or to damage it in any way, unless you have been arrested of a crime INVOLVING THAT EQUIPMENT. They can't seize your film if you're being pulled over for speeding. They can't seize your film (or erase it) if you've been found with drugs on you.
If an officer of the law, or someone representing an officer of the law, a security guard or any other "authority" figure, demands your film... politely tell them that you haven't been arrested, and that you haven't waived your rights to your property. If they take it, they have stolen your property, and that is against the law. If an officer does it, call in another officer, and make sure you file charges.
I much prefer the one located over here, because it actually has quoted legal precendent, case law, writs and other legal materials to refer the officers and courts to, should you end up taking it that far.
The other one is written by a lawyer, but does not cite any actual case law or legal documents at all. That would be laughed at when used in a court to defend yourself against a case involving photography.
Personally, I'm willing to spend a couple days in jail if a situation like that comes up. When it's all said and done, there's very little chance I will get charged with anything, and there's zero-chance I'll get convicted (it's also unlikely that they will follow-through with obtaining a warrant to search). I can do a night or two in jail standing on my head.. but taking away my right to privacy? That doesn't fly.
Meanwhile, they'll just search your house while you're in jail and can't stop them from doing so (or even know they did).
Think I'm joking? Years ago (long before 9/11), I was pulled over by a cop for failing to have my headlights on at 4pm in the afternoon. He wrote me a $285.00 ticket and let me go.
1 exit later on the same highway, literally 1/2 mile away from where I was pulled over the first time, he pulls me over again, for the same offense (note: it was sunny and bright out, no need for headlights).
He wrote me another $285.00 ticket, and demanded I hand over keys to my car. I refused. After he verbally (racially) abused my black passenger (I'm white), he decided to call in a tow truck. I asked him why, and he said because I refused to let him have the keys to my vehicle.
My car was towed, and we drove away in the truck as the cops smiled behind us. At 4am that morning, I got a call from the night watchman at the tow yard (someone I knew). He said the cops had just been there, broke into my car and he witnessed them taking some things out of it.
I went to retrieve my car the next day, noticed that my power locks and windows on the driver's side no longer worked, and saw the vertical scratches up and down the window from the "Slim Jim" tool the cops used to break into my car. Written statements from the tow yard night watchman and my black passenger was all I needed to fight this in court.
They had to fix my car, pay for all damages (several thousand dollars in repairs), and make an apology. I never did get my stuff back, and I never really knew what they took. I do know they took some of my cash from the console, and my electronic organizer (Sharp Wizard thing with names/numbers in it).
I'm sure this kind of behavior has only gotten worse since 9/11.
Except in special circumstances (e.g., certain government facilities), there are no laws prohibiting the taking of
photographs on public or private property. If you can be there, you can take pictures there: streets, malls,
parking lots, office buildings. You do not need permission to do so, even on private property.
Trespassing laws naturally apply. If a property owner demands you leave, you must. But if a place is open to the
public -- a mall, office-building lobby, etc. -- permission to enter is assumed (although it can be revoked).
In terms of the law, trespass and photography are separate events; the former is illegal, but the latter is not.
Only if the use of photographic equipment itself violates a person's privacy (e.g., by using a long lens to look into
someone's private room) might it violate privacy law. Further, while people have a right of privacy, businesses do
not except as it relates to trade secrets.
Subject to specific limits, photographers can publish any photos they take, provided those photos do not
violate the privacy of the subject. This includes photos taken while trespassing or otherwise being someplace they
shouldn't be. Taking photos and publishing photos are two separate issues.
Please read the full PDF here with much more detail. I print copies of this on 4x5 index cards and keep them with me at all times when I'm taking photos in any public place.
Also, if someone demands your "film" or your camera, let them know that it is not legal for them to take it, unless you have been arrested of a crime involving that camera and that film. The crime for someone to demand and take your camera or film, is called theft, and threatening to do so (or to "break your camera"), is called coercion. Don't tolerate either of them, and if your equipment IS taken or broken, call the police and file charges.
Know your rights, and don't tolerate this supression.
I am suprised they aren't mandating backdoors in every piece of costumer electronics.
If it hasn't happened already, you can bet it will soon. Just let them find one "terra-ist" with an iPod using it to hide their activities, and you'll see some serious heavy hands coming down on the industry.
I'm not the only one who downright refuses to hand over encryption keys, there are thousands and thousands of us (just in the US). We used to be called Patriots (standing up for what we believe in and all), and now we're Un-American.
Oh how the Doublespeak times have changed, eh Orwell?
Sourceforge has the occasional problem (CVS stats has been broken for how long now?), but basically it a fantastic site for open source, and easily provides all the services that any OSS project of any size needs in order to function and flourish.
Except for:
Broken mailing lists. They've butchered Mailman beyond functionality, by removing the ability to get the project emails in SMTP format, no archive (mbox) downloads to read offline, broken signup and preference retrieval.
Broken bug tracking. No email accountability when bugs are updated, no escalation and priority, other issues.
Crippled CVS repositories. No branches, no proper deletion of files, no ownership changes of directories, no ACLs. They "crippled" it in the name of security, because they didn't know how to secure it in the first place. Its down more than its up.
Controlling hosting policies. If you decide to move your project elsewhere, they outright REFUSE to remove the entry from Sourceforge, because they claim they want to be sure the code is still available to someone. Not only is this confusing, its downright WRONG (morally and ethically). See my own project as an example. I haven't had code up there, ever, in over 6-7 years now, and the project page still lives on, confusing users every day.
C'mon now. How is this [google.com] better than SourceForge? I mean SF.net has its problems (CVS servers in the gunk babeeee!) but they've been honing this thing for years. How long is it going to take Google to get to the level of domain knowledge SF.net has? The folks at Google are smart, but they're not experts at everything.
You're right, Mantis excels and exceeds what Google is providing, and doesn't have that "corporate accountability" edge to it. Its powerful in every way, and ties directly to CVS/Subversion, as well as works with every "big" DBMS out there (Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL). We've been using it for 7-8 years now, with thousands and thousands of entries filed, without any problems.
But Google DOES have smart people, and many of them are developers and contributors on major OSS projects like CVS, Subversion, Mailman and others. SourceForge.Net got it WRONG, by crippling their applications (Mailman anyone? CVS anyone?), and they're peeling off hundreds of users per-week.
Last estimates I heard was that 40% or more of Sourceforge projects are either completely empty (not a single developer assigned), or abandoned completely, before any code was uploaded.
Pitiful and depressing. They should purge them all off, if they haven't been logged into in over 1-2 years.
So basically, they force riders to use all leg muscles and keep them from lifting one leg with the other, wasting energy. Simple, but very effective. It's a nice concept, and I'd love to get a pair even for my commute, but being a niche product they are rather expensive...
You sir, have won my Karma for the day. This is EXACTLY the kind of tool needed to train riders in how to properly "pull up" on their pedaling strokes. I'm always finding myself explaining why the "piston" (down, down, down, down) action of most riders is completely inefficient, and I can see where Powercranks can make my OWN training even better, by really forcing me to pull up, even when I think I'm already doing it.
The biggest drawback is the eclipse framework. Eclipse's java requires sun's jvm which conflicts with gjc. Open Office requires gjc in linux for 100% functionality, sun's jvm won't cut it.
gcj has been building Eclipse for awhile now... you might try using that instead of polluting the system with Sun's JVM where it is no longer needed.
Man installs camera and warning signs on property to thwart future break-ins
Cops arrive at man's house on unrelated issue to talk to 15-year old son
Man is uncooperative and cops try to get into the house by sticking foot in door
After refusing entry, cops promise to return with a warrant
Man reminds cops that there is a camera recording them at the doorstep
Man reports abusive officers to precinct with videotape in hand to prove it
Man is arrested for 'wiretap fraud', a felony in the US of A.
Let's parallel that with another person we all know so well:
Holding over 300 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay prison without charging them with a crime for years on end
Ok'd the illegal NSA wiretap over 30 times, and would do it again. After 5 years of monitoring every single Internet packet, they are exposed and hide the details under the guise of 'State Secrets'.
Signed over 750 Signing Statements, more than double the number of ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS combined
Advocated, financed and supported the torture of innocent people in the name of 'national security', and tries to pass a signing statement to legalize torture.
Funded an illegal war to depose the leader of Iraq, so we could use Iraq as a base from which to stage a local air strike against Iran and Syria for oil. Doing daddy's work, apparently.
Tell me why again, this one citizen, who is protecting his property (yes, he's been verbally abusive to the cops before, but verbal abuse is not a felony or a crime, in fact, unless you directly threaten the safety of the officers or someone else) is arrested, and this unqualified, election-rigging, law-breaking "individual" is still allowed to run this country into the ground?
The other ironic point to this madness, is that the current rhetoric is that this country is 'safer now than it has ever been'. However, the truth is that this country is now more unstable, partisan, fractured than it has ever been.
There have only been TWO terrorist attacks on domestic soil by foreign terrorists in the last 40 PRESIDENTS.. and get this:
Both attacks occurred were under Bush presidency (Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. 10 years later)
Both attacks occurred at the Twin Towers (basement on the first attack, from the air on the second attack)
Both attacks resulted in an immediate deployment to Iraq shortly after (Desert Storm, War in Iraq)
Both attacks resulted in the goal of removing Saddam Hussein from power (second one deemed successful)
Both attacks implicated Iraqis in the scandal (Saudi's attacked TT, not Iraqis)
Both ended up in senseless wars where thousands of innocent soldiers died
The end is near for the Bush regime, thanks to 5 states now signing onto the Articles of Impeachment to get this dropout out of office. Now if we cou
You trust Samba, don't you? That was byte-by-byte reversed from the (broken) Microsoft SMB protocol, and continues to evolve under that context. You send, receive and share files, data, print jobs and other things using Samba, all without a single lost byte. Why wouldn't you trust your account details with the same level of confidence?
You're new here, so let me help you with this one:
Q: When will OSS Financial Apps Catch Up?
A: When it becomes a big enough itch to scratch.
Seriously, just because YOU need an application for Linux that doesn't exist, doesn't mean there's a developer out there who is interested in writing one.
You might talk to your vendors who write applications like TaxCut, Quicken, MS Money and so on and ask them if they'll port one of theirs to Linux. Linux is still developed in the spare time of thousands of programmers and community volunteers. They do it because its fun, or because it solves a problem they have.
Once YOU start telling them what THEY should be doing with their spare time, they're going to find something else to do instead.
Try sending a few thousand dollars off to a developer and ask them to write one, or modify the closest alternative. Encourage them somehow. Just telling them that you need it to get off of Windows isn't enough. That doesn't pay the bills, or the spare time needed to write, debug, fix, document, package and distribute an application of this size and magnitude. We're not talking about wallpaper rotaters here, we're talking about a mathematically-complex, financial application.
Some people depend on their computers to feed themselves. If this software screws up and kills a machine and the owner has several days of downtime who's going to compensate them?
Anyone who is on critical life support, and has a computer controlling their feeding intervals, is most-definitely NOT running Microsoft Windows. They would be running a real-time, embedded operating system with failsafe controls, such as VxWorks, Linux, BSD or one of the other systems that is designed specifically for this purpose. You can bet those systems CAN phone home too, in the event of a crisis (call 9-1-1, dial the pharmacy, call the home health aide, etc.)
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Which is precisely why you're supposed to train it under a global account with the dspam corpus. I trained mine with a corpus of ~3,000 ham and ~3,000 spam messages before I let it loose under user accounts.
In 5+ years of using it now, I haven't had a single user complain of spam in their mailbox, ever. Not a SINGLE spam. Sure, they get false positives from time to time, but training those back with the web interface is ridiculously simple.
dspam is, hands-down, the best anti-spam tool I have ever used, and I've used a lot of them, including blackholes.us, firewall blocks, SpamAssassin, and 13 RBLs in Sendmail. Nothing works as well as dspam, IME.
Except that binary kernel modules are illegal, and will not be allowed in, period.
Seen the various talks at OLS a couple of weeks ago? Seen the stance by Novell as a result of it?
I'm sure you've been corrected on this point already, but if not, I'll reinforce it.
Linux the kernel was probably a pseudo-clone of the minix kernel, but the surrounding operating system (often called "Linux"), was most-certainly not a reinvention of anything that existed at that time. It was a culmination of the GNU project's efforts, wrapped around the Linux kernel because the GNU kernel wasn't functional at that time.
Please don't confuse Linux (the kernel) with (GNU)/Linux (the operating system) in this way. It only makes the situation worse when the media gets involved and pollutes it for the masses who don't understand the big picture.
(emphasis mine)
nano-
pref.
YOU added the "nano technology" bungle, but nano as used in TFA is correct. Please don't confuse readers by inferring something which did not exist in the parent article.
You're probably right about everything except the part about being at war. Since Congress has not declared war, we are not at war. Period. No matter how much the media or this administration trouts it out, we are NOT at war until Congress declares it and issues a statement to that effect.
No, I assume (well, I know) that the second call to bring in "proper" authorities will be logged, and retrievable by the courts, should your case get that far. They can subponea the 9-1-1 call (or whatever other number you called to reach the precinct), and see what happened. "Hi, my camera equipment was just stolen by a police officer without my consent. I did not consent to any search, nor was I arrested. I would like to file a complaint and speak with an officer who can help straighten this situation out." Seriously, I know this is a fucked-up country now, but words do not do anything, action does. At the very least, a second call to your local newspaper to have a reporter there when the second officer arrives to talk with the first, would be valuable.
I was.
It is against the law for them to seize your camera, film, or equipment, or to damage it in any way, unless you have been arrested of a crime INVOLVING THAT EQUIPMENT. They can't seize your film if you're being pulled over for speeding. They can't seize your film (or erase it) if you've been found with drugs on you.
If an officer of the law, or someone representing an officer of the law, a security guard or any other "authority" figure, demands your film... politely tell them that you haven't been arrested, and that you haven't waived your rights to your property. If they take it, they have stolen your property, and that is against the law. If an officer does it, call in another officer, and make sure you file charges.
I much prefer the one located over here, because it actually has quoted legal precendent, case law, writs and other legal materials to refer the officers and courts to, should you end up taking it that far.
The other one is written by a lawyer, but does not cite any actual case law or legal documents at all. That would be laughed at when used in a court to defend yourself against a case involving photography.
Meanwhile, they'll just search your house while you're in jail and can't stop them from doing so (or even know they did).
Think I'm joking? Years ago (long before 9/11), I was pulled over by a cop for failing to have my headlights on at 4pm in the afternoon. He wrote me a $285.00 ticket and let me go.
1 exit later on the same highway, literally 1/2 mile away from where I was pulled over the first time, he pulls me over again, for the same offense (note: it was sunny and bright out, no need for headlights).
He wrote me another $285.00 ticket, and demanded I hand over keys to my car. I refused. After he verbally (racially) abused my black passenger (I'm white), he decided to call in a tow truck. I asked him why, and he said because I refused to let him have the keys to my vehicle.
My car was towed, and we drove away in the truck as the cops smiled behind us. At 4am that morning, I got a call from the night watchman at the tow yard (someone I knew). He said the cops had just been there, broke into my car and he witnessed them taking some things out of it.
I went to retrieve my car the next day, noticed that my power locks and windows on the driver's side no longer worked, and saw the vertical scratches up and down the window from the "Slim Jim" tool the cops used to break into my car. Written statements from the tow yard night watchman and my black passenger was all I needed to fight this in court.
They had to fix my car, pay for all damages (several thousand dollars in repairs), and make an apology. I never did get my stuff back, and I never really knew what they took. I do know they took some of my cash from the console, and my electronic organizer (Sharp Wizard thing with names/numbers in it).
I'm sure this kind of behavior has only gotten worse since 9/11.
Except in special circumstances (e.g., certain government facilities), there are no laws prohibiting the taking of photographs on public or private property. If you can be there, you can take pictures there: streets, malls, parking lots, office buildings. You do not need permission to do so, even on private property.
Trespassing laws naturally apply. If a property owner demands you leave, you must. But if a place is open to the public -- a mall, office-building lobby, etc. -- permission to enter is assumed (although it can be revoked).
In terms of the law, trespass and photography are separate events; the former is illegal, but the latter is not. Only if the use of photographic equipment itself violates a person's privacy (e.g., by using a long lens to look into someone's private room) might it violate privacy law. Further, while people have a right of privacy, businesses do not except as it relates to trade secrets.
Subject to specific limits, photographers can publish any photos they take, provided those photos do not violate the privacy of the subject. This includes photos taken while trespassing or otherwise being someplace they shouldn't be. Taking photos and publishing photos are two separate issues.
Please read the full PDF here with much more detail. I print copies of this on 4x5 index cards and keep them with me at all times when I'm taking photos in any public place.
Also, if someone demands your "film" or your camera, let them know that it is not legal for them to take it, unless you have been arrested of a crime involving that camera and that film. The crime for someone to demand and take your camera or film, is called theft, and threatening to do so (or to "break your camera"), is called coercion. Don't tolerate either of them, and if your equipment IS taken or broken, call the police and file charges.
Know your rights, and don't tolerate this supression.
If it hasn't happened already, you can bet it will soon. Just let them find one "terra-ist" with an iPod using it to hide their activities, and you'll see some serious heavy hands coming down on the industry.
I hope they have enough room for all of us...
I'm not the only one who downright refuses to hand over encryption keys, there are thousands and thousands of us (just in the US). We used to be called Patriots (standing up for what we believe in and all), and now we're Un-American.
Oh how the Doublespeak times have changed, eh Orwell?
Were these talks streamed somewhere? Or were you actually there to listen to the talks in-person?
Except for:
- Broken mailing lists. They've butchered Mailman beyond functionality, by removing the ability to get the project emails in SMTP format, no archive (mbox) downloads to read offline, broken signup and preference retrieval.
- Broken bug tracking. No email accountability when bugs are updated, no escalation and priority, other issues.
- Crippled CVS repositories. No branches, no proper deletion of files, no ownership changes of directories, no ACLs. They "crippled" it in the name of security, because they didn't know how to secure it in the first place. Its down more than its up.
- Controlling hosting policies. If you decide to move your project elsewhere, they outright REFUSE to remove the entry from Sourceforge, because they claim they want to be sure the code is still available to someone. Not only is this confusing, its downright WRONG (morally and ethically). See my own project as an example. I haven't had code up there, ever, in over 6-7 years now, and the project page still lives on, confusing users every day.
But other than that, sure, I agree.You're right, Mantis excels and exceeds what Google is providing, and doesn't have that "corporate accountability" edge to it. Its powerful in every way, and ties directly to CVS/Subversion, as well as works with every "big" DBMS out there (Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL). We've been using it for 7-8 years now, with thousands and thousands of entries filed, without any problems.
But Google DOES have smart people, and many of them are developers and contributors on major OSS projects like CVS, Subversion, Mailman and others. SourceForge.Net got it WRONG , by crippling their applications (Mailman anyone? CVS anyone?), and they're peeling off hundreds of users per-week.
Last estimates I heard was that 40% or more of Sourceforge projects are either completely empty (not a single developer assigned), or abandoned completely, before any code was uploaded.
Pitiful and depressing. They should purge them all off, if they haven't been logged into in over 1-2 years.
You sir, have won my Karma for the day. This is EXACTLY the kind of tool needed to train riders in how to properly "pull up" on their pedaling strokes. I'm always finding myself explaining why the "piston" (down, down, down, down) action of most riders is completely inefficient, and I can see where Powercranks can make my OWN training even better, by really forcing me to pull up, even when I think I'm already doing it.
Correction, only the House of Representatives can begin impeachment proceedings, not Congress.
Let me see if I get this straight...
Let's parallel that with another person we all know so well:
Tell me why again, this one citizen, who is protecting his property (yes, he's been verbally abusive to the cops before, but verbal abuse is not a felony or a crime, in fact, unless you directly threaten the safety of the officers or someone else) is arrested, and this unqualified, election-rigging, law-breaking "individual" is still allowed to run this country into the ground?
The other ironic point to this madness, is that the current rhetoric is that this country is 'safer now than it has ever been'. However, the truth is that this country is now more unstable, partisan, fractured than it has ever been.
There have only been TWO terrorist attacks on domestic soil by foreign terrorists in the last 40 PRESIDENTS.. and get this:
The end is near for the Bush regime, thanks to 5 states now signing onto the Articles of Impeachment to get this dropout out of office. Now if we cou
You trust Samba, don't you? That was byte-by-byte reversed from the (broken) Microsoft SMB protocol, and continues to evolve under that context. You send, receive and share files, data, print jobs and other things using Samba, all without a single lost byte. Why wouldn't you trust your account details with the same level of confidence?
You're new here, so let me help you with this one:
Q: When will OSS Financial Apps Catch Up?
A: When it becomes a big enough itch to scratch.
Seriously, just because YOU need an application for Linux that doesn't exist, doesn't mean there's a developer out there who is interested in writing one.
You might talk to your vendors who write applications like TaxCut, Quicken, MS Money and so on and ask them if they'll port one of theirs to Linux. Linux is still developed in the spare time of thousands of programmers and community volunteers. They do it because its fun, or because it solves a problem they have.
Once YOU start telling them what THEY should be doing with their spare time, they're going to find something else to do instead.
Try sending a few thousand dollars off to a developer and ask them to write one, or modify the closest alternative. Encourage them somehow. Just telling them that you need it to get off of Windows isn't enough. That doesn't pay the bills, or the spare time needed to write, debug, fix, document, package and distribute an application of this size and magnitude. We're not talking about wallpaper rotaters here, we're talking about a mathematically-complex, financial application.
I've already been using the successor to Windows for over 10 years now... its called Linux!
Why not, its already illegal to withold your encryption keys in the UK, the US is soon to follow.
Anyone who is on critical life support, and has a computer controlling their feeding intervals, is most-definitely NOT running Microsoft Windows. They would be running a real-time, embedded operating system with failsafe controls, such as VxWorks, Linux, BSD or one of the other systems that is designed specifically for this purpose. You can bet those systems CAN phone home too, in the event of a crisis (call 9-1-1, dial the pharmacy, call the home health aide, etc.)