I have two X10 motion sensors in my entry hallway. Whenever one of them is tripped (by either light or motion), my linux machine logs it and sends an email to my Blackberry pager.
If I get one of these messages while I'm not home, then something is obviously wrong. I have my local police department on speed dial on my cell phone. If I get a motion detection message when I shouldn't get one, I step outside, call the police, and get them to my abode ASAP.
The great thing about it is that the X10 equipment cost me less than $100, and everything else I already had for other reasons.. and I can monitor my home from anywhere in the US (nationwide coverage on both the blackberry and the PCS phone).
Eventually, I'll add cameras, but they're expensive.:)
..that the people implementing the ban (the "sysadmins" at your school) don't know what they're doing. I've noticed a *lot* of media coverage referring to Napster as "a website that allows people to [blah blah blah]". I think it's perfectly possible that the facts are just not being checked.
Darn, now everyone will know that it really wasn't me who wrote "Stairway to Heaven"...
Sure.. that's a problem, but you're missing the REAL flaw in this tool:
"By throwing away all of the 'uninteresting' parts of the signal, the software is left with only the characteristics that uniquely identify the track."
This means that every N'Sync, B2B, and Backstreet Boys song will have the same fingerprint! What a disaster!
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Ordered the stuff the week before Christmas, and received it all two days later, on the same day that the UPS tracking number arrived in her inbox. She says they were also extremely polite.
Cheers to thinkgeek! I LOVE the black penguin polo!:)
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It -doesn't- get super hot. It's no hotter than an incandescent.
It's brighter than an incandescent.
It replaces incandescents in the same socket.
It's only about $3.00 (US) at your local Home Depot (tm).
It's only 100 W.. a lot better than those ordinary halogens.
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So, here's my perception of all this.. see if anyone else agrees with me.
We all know M$ is deep in their DoJ trial. Check.
They are in this situation because of bad (illegal?) marketing practices which prevent competition (Yes, I saw it up close and in person).
One of their biggest "defenses" is that Linux is "competition" to them.
We've probably noticed that M$ has let up a little on their OEM restrictions since this trial began (e.g., we're now actually seeing some OEM's selling linux boxen).
Now.. consider this article, and Ballmer's statements, and also the article earlier today on MSNBC about *BSD.
Right in the middle of the *BSD article, they placed a link to "Discuss Linux and BSD on the BBS", opening up a forum for the less tactful Linux advocates to do their less-than-tactful Linux advocacy.
This latest article portends to cast a shadow of competition behind Linux, taking some heat off M$.
Get to the point!! Okay. Consider what's going to happen if the DoJ -does- by Microsoft's claims of competition from Linux. Consider also that having a lot of money (which Bill Gates has more of than anyone else in the world [except maybe that one sultan of somewhere.. right? ugh]) can get you a LOT of bonus points in the American "Justice" system. So, let's suppose that M$ gets out of this anti-trust suit with a "not guilty", or whatever the equivalent ruling. Or even suppose that they get off with a slap on the wrist.. then what? Then they dive head-long back into their anti-competitional business while they still have a majority of market share. OEM's and customers alike still depend heavily on M$ because they haven't had the time to switch strongly to Linux (and let's face it.. Linux isn't quite ready). Next step? M$, using their traditional brute force, retakes the market share they've lost in the past few months, summarily crushing the "Linux Movement". Wow.. don't I sound paranoid? Probably, but that's honestly how I see it. Anyone else agree? Zeitgeist
That letter at hackernews.com is not PGP Signed, as his first, highly publicized letter was.
Just a thought. There's a reason for PGP.
Zeitgeist
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If I'm not mistaken, didn't they fire him? Wouldn't their happy intellectual property clause in his contract terminate with the contract? If they manage to get this out of him, it will just further my distaste for the "wonderful" place we call America.
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I have two X10 motion sensors in my entry hallway. Whenever one of them is tripped (by either light or motion), my linux machine logs it and sends an email to my Blackberry pager.
:)
If I get one of these messages while I'm not home, then something is obviously wrong. I have my local police department on speed dial on my cell phone. If I get a motion detection message when I shouldn't get one, I step outside, call the police, and get them to my abode ASAP.
The great thing about it is that the X10 equipment cost me less than $100, and everything else I already had for other reasons.. and I can monitor my home from anywhere in the US (nationwide coverage on both the blackberry and the PCS phone).
Eventually, I'll add cameras, but they're expensive.
..that the people implementing the ban (the "sysadmins" at your school) don't know what they're doing. I've noticed a *lot* of media coverage referring to Napster as "a website that allows people to [blah blah blah]". I think it's perfectly possible that the facts are just not being checked.
Darn, now everyone will know that it really wasn't me who wrote "Stairway to Heaven"...
Sure.. that's a problem, but you're missing the REAL flaw in this tool:
"By throwing away all of the 'uninteresting' parts of the signal, the software is left with only the characteristics that uniquely identify the track."
This means that every N'Sync, B2B, and Backstreet Boys song will have the same fingerprint! What a disaster!
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My girlfriend went to thinkgeek for me this Christmas, and spent a half-hour Christmas morning raving about them.
:)
Ordered the stuff the week before Christmas, and received it all two days later, on the same day that the UPS tracking number arrived in her inbox. She says they were also extremely polite.
Cheers to thinkgeek! I LOVE the black penguin polo!
Zeitgeist
If you like halogen light, but are concerned about the power consumption or the heat, Sylvania (tm) makes a bulb that goes in a normal incandescent socket but is a halogen bulb. It looks mostly like an incandescent, but the glass is much thicker. I love this bulb for a few reasons:
No, I don't work for Sylvania. :) I just wanted to share the wealth gleened from my quest for acceptable lighting.
Zeitgeist
- We all know M$ is deep in their DoJ trial. Check.
- They are in this situation because of bad (illegal?) marketing practices which prevent competition (Yes, I saw it up close and in person).
- One of their biggest "defenses" is that Linux is "competition" to them.
- We've probably noticed that M$ has let up a little on their OEM restrictions since this trial began (e.g., we're now actually seeing some OEM's selling linux boxen).
Now.. consider this article, and Ballmer's statements, and also the article earlier today on MSNBC about *BSD.- Right in the middle of the *BSD article, they placed a link to "Discuss Linux and BSD on the BBS", opening up a forum for the less tactful Linux advocates to do their less-than-tactful Linux advocacy.
- This latest article portends to cast a shadow of competition behind Linux, taking some heat off M$.
Get to the point!! Okay. Consider what's going to happen if the DoJ -does- by Microsoft's claims of competition from Linux. Consider also that having a lot of money (which Bill Gates has more of than anyone else in the world [except maybe that one sultan of somewhere.. right? ugh]) can get you a LOT of bonus points in the American "Justice" system. So, let's suppose that M$ gets out of this anti-trust suit with a "not guilty", or whatever the equivalent ruling. Or even suppose that they get off with a slap on the wrist.. then what? Then they dive head-long back into their anti-competitional business while they still have a majority of market share. OEM's and customers alike still depend heavily on M$ because they haven't had the time to switch strongly to Linux (and let's face it.. Linux isn't quite ready). Next step? M$, using their traditional brute force, retakes the market share they've lost in the past few months, summarily crushing the "Linux Movement". Wow.. don't I sound paranoid? Probably, but that's honestly how I see it. Anyone else agree? ZeitgeistThat letter at hackernews.com is not PGP Signed, as his first, highly publicized letter was.
Just a thought.
There's a reason for PGP.
Zeitgeist
If I'm not mistaken, didn't they fire him? Wouldn't their happy intellectual property clause in his contract terminate with the contract? If they manage to get this out of him, it will just further my distaste for the "wonderful" place we call America.
Zeitgeist