I for one won't be using it while their terms of service explicitly states that HIPAA doesn't apply to Google.
I don't trust Google. I'm of the opinion that companies have to obey the rules/laws of government. I'd rather "trust" the government if they said that HIPAA doesn't apply to Google rather than Google saying that HIPAA doesn't apply to them. There is a part of me that actually hopes that Google gets slapped by the government for violating HIPAA.
Quick Conclusion: We now have the potential to create an X-ray like device that could be deployed in airports and other travel hubs that could be used to monitor the public without harming the public through this observation. More benignly, they could also be used in hospitals for "persistent monitoring" of patients with tumors or internal bleeding, because they seem to have lower power requirements and risks of side-effects.
Just wait for the tech to drop to $50-500 and some one to figure out how to hook it up to your next PS or Xbox for both daily med scans and home security.
The fact that German companies complied with Nazi government decrees and laws was not a shield to prosecution at Nuremburg. Which US firm will be the first I.G. Farben?
Great you've just Godwin'd the entire thread! On as side note, I'd actually say that companies should do what the countries tell them to do. It doesn't matter of the government is run by Hitler, Stalin, elected like in the US. If the government makes a rule/law, those companies doing business there have 3 choices. 1. Follow the law. 2. Don't follow the law and pay the penalty that the said government has for non following. 3. Seem to follow the law and make lots of visible effort to follow said law while actually lobbying as much as possible to get the law changed so that they don't have to follow it.
If you really think that any company should be able to come in and do business how they see fit without following any local laws, then there is nothing stopping a foreign company from setting up shop and doing what ever it wants to. What's to stop "slave's are us" from moving in and making those that complain into slaves for what ever market that's willing to buy them? Oh, it's illegal here, but those have been saying its o.k. for a business just to come in and to what's o.k. for them or in their homeland without the foreign government being able to rule them. Well, if you really believed that then there is nothing that the US government could do to stop/slow "slave's are us." Businesses have to follow government laws.
However, what the people of China believe due to large-scale brainwashing is really not that interesting to the subject of Evil, because of its very subjectivity. The very fact of the cultural brainwashing that instructs the Chinese to do as they are told is Evil by our standards in the Western world, where we value individuality and choice.
And we in the west aren't brainwashed by our public education, cable TV, various churches, and internet? Our brainwashing is just different from theirs brainwashing. I tend to call it our culture is different than their's though it's much more polite.
What this man was convicted of may have been a crime in his country, but in the United States, Europe, Canada and most other places in the free world what he did would be protected under freedom of speech.
What I really dislike about the liberal slashdot is that they think Google and all other US companies should some how abide by some vague US moral law while operating in foreign countries. While here is a clue, "freedom of speech" isn't universal and doesn't mean the same all over the world. If Google or other US companies wish to do business in a country where it is understood "freedom of speech" doesn't include bad mouthing and of that country's leaders, their government in general, or various religious leaders where there doesn't exist a operation of church and state, then Google and other US companies have to conform to said countries ethics/laws or be liable to be jailed/fined/blocked by that country.
I guess the key difference is that Solitaire and Pinball are usually found preinstalled on most systems. I find that when I'm preparing workstations I tend to leave them on there. When I walk by and see somebody playing solitaire it doesn't bother me, if I saw somebody playing the Sims or some fps there would be a problem.
I agree. I've found it impossible to really do anything other than a game like the Sims or an FPS. They take almost total control of the desktop and its not just a matter of hitting minimize to get back to work. I have to admit those default MS games are fairly good in a work environment in that if you have 5 minutes to kill than you can get through it or if anything unexpected happens, you hit minimize and are quickly back at work.
Now tell me how quickly that you can pause and switch apps into the office app of your choice or just pull up an existing document from within a game like the Sims or any FPS. It seems like a damn long time doesn't it. That's another key reason why those MS games are played more.
I'd like to be able to have exit polls and if they get a high enough disapproval rating there is the death penalty for being stupid in office. It would take something drastic like that to at least make them think a tad before passing this crap.
Actually, it would take something even more drastic. Any government official submitting/making/altering any new laws/rules can and will instantly have the death penalty applied by any citizen though government officials are allowed to remove laws/rules.
Even the "run down" pictures look better than my working conditions.
Well, I took a look at the picture. My impression? Damn that would make a nice office or apartment. IF they can't make it as a museum, then on one wants to spend how ever much to look at WWII decrypting stuff. It was important so what. It isn't important right now or the British would fund it. I'm sure the British have a much newer code breaking office complex some where else that they actually consider important.
Come on there were lots of offices that had "important" work done during WWII. It doesn't mean the average person will think that any given office complex should be made into a museum and pay admission to look at it though.
I thought it would make a nice bed and breakfast. Maybe that's what your average British person thinks it is when passing by it? I mean unless you told me it was a museum; I wouldn't really guess it from the outside. Of course, I wouldn't guess that there were actual offices in there either.
I'd say if the locals don't think its good enough to be museum, then the buildings need to be something else than a museum there. My small town supports two local museums that really the only time I ever went by either was grade school field trips. If our town can manage to keep its two little museums open, then I don't see why that local town can't do the same.
I'd go as far to say that 99.99% of humanity thinks that censorship is a good thing as long as they get to pick what is censored from the rest.
Everyone wants the government to be their censorship tool. The government will happily censor stuff. It's just various groups want different things censored and want to be allowed to view their chosen content.
If Hawking wants to get money for this sort of thing, he needs to make it into a reality show and get a TV network on board. Some ideas:
The really sad thing is that it would work. O.k. remove the feeding them to the lions if they do wrong. I think it was a Saturday night live where they were just offering bags of food to those that got it right. Well, offer a years supply of food for those that win the chemistry, math, physics, or what ever other subjects that you want them to compete in. I don't know how much "the years supply of food" would cost, but a first world cable station should be able to afford it and just let the locals compete.
The really bizarre thing is that companies could use this as a brain drain lure. The top winners get to have a US min wage job for a year!
Like a robot that builds a house or so. A bit more useful too... Robotics challenges are usually somehow tied to military objectives such as navigating a certain terrain, rarely do they focus on something constructive and creative.
Humans are much, much cheaper and easier to program than robots. You can hire illegal immigrants that can barely speak your language, yet they'd know enough to ask the going rate to mow your yard/clean your house or whatever and can find your home on a set schedule. I'd love a robotic lawn mower or maid, but they just are not as flexible as the stupidest/cheapest humans are. Those robotic mowers are really expensive. I can pay a neighbor kid $15-20 to do it and they'd mostly do a good job.
Here is a thought for you. Why the heck do we still have humans on garbage trucks? Because that task is currently far too difficult for robots to do. The same thing applies to truckers that just drive from point A to point B and don't do the loading/unloading of their truck. Why isn't that task automated? Because we don't have AI smart/safe/cheap enough to drive a commercial truck on interstate and refuel at the correct spots.
Why do people still drive? Well, we've discovered that task is very difficult to automate.
What idiot came up with that idea? If you really wanted to implement it, then you'd try to combine the student ID into a watch or cell phone and assign them to students. I'd say some type of Cell Phone ID card would allow you to pack the most instruments in small form factor for your "students."
Let's see, you could actually bill it as a PDA/ipod type of thing for the students productivity and give them limited student to student/faculty/parent communications. You get GPS tracking for everyone that takes you up on the offer and if you offer to backup all their PDA/ipod data you could have all that as well. You could have cameras/video/audio recorders built in and spy on their activities that way as well.
The US DoD didn't built the GPS system so civillians can navigate - the civillian version can be turned off in regions where the US is at war with a technologically sophisticated opponent and the military version left on so only US forces have access to precision location information. This is why China wants it's own GPS system, in case of a major war with the US.
Why does everyone think it's China that would start something? Really, if all the civilian GPS units in the US could be turned off by any other country (be it Russia, Britain, Canada, China or India), we'd be trying our hardest to build our own system that was independent of that foreign power's system. This is why Europe wants its own GPS system and no surprise China wants its own as well. It's not that they are planning a war with the US. It's in case the US ever decides to bitchy and threaten areas that now depend on GPS about the civilian GPS being turned off that both Europe and China are doing this.
I'm sorry, but I can't put this in the that country is evil for doing it column. I'd put it more in the that country has sane leadership and forward thinking enough to secure themselves against possible enemies.
Hey, the US has defense plans just in case we ever go to war with Mexico, Canada, Britain, or the entire EU. Just because we have those plans doesn't mean that we'd ever have to use them though.
Just in the last several years, they have been launching new attack subs and SSBNs at a rate of at least 1 / per year each.
You call 12 a year, which would be about 60 over 5 years a massive buildup? Damn, I'd figure 1 a day or 10 a day a build up. This sounds like routine military upgrades to me. Face it China is now currently the other global super power. We don't buy our cheap stuff from Canada, Russia, or India; we buy it from China. We'll support them as long as they leave South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan alone. In 30-50 years, we might really consider just letting them have Taiwan if they can get it without a military grab.
Do we want the laws obeyed and enforced 100%, or do we want to live some "wriggle-room" for the dystopian future, when it will be needed to fight some kind of oppression?
Um, I'd like "the laws" to be obeyed and enforced 100%, but I'm thinking "the laws" should also be limited to the secular parts of the ten commandants. You know theft & murder are about it. Of course the rest of the ten commandments were thought crimes so that's not a good place to start. I'd like "the laws" to be simple and to be limited to some thing that we can have tattoed on our arm or the back of the hand. Anything more than that is too much to expect the population to actually remember, follow and the morals of the population generally change every few years any way so only some crimes could be considered really bad.
Of course, would we want to throw the book at ID thieves, spammers, or those telemarketers that can people on the do not call list?
I believe the easiest option for Amazon would be to simply drop all affiliates in New York. Refusing to sell to New York is financial suicide for them, but dropping all affiliates wouldn't cause too much grief from the public.
Amazon could live quite well without selling to New York. As long as they have a profitable market some where, they can afford to not do business in areas that are counter productive to them. They could just as easily say that they aren't doing business in either Canada, Europe, China, Russia, Iraq or North Korea. It wouldn't have any effect if they don't already do business there and as long as they still have a home base market that allows them to exist.
There are no such laws. The fact that everyone just happily assumes there are laws behind movie, music, and game ratings is one of the more unsettling aspects of life in twenty-first century America.
I'd much rather the various industries self rate rather than the government or my wife's or father-in-law's church rate the media. It's when the government gets involved that scary parts can happen. It's those churches/groups that like to define things obscene to just get non members viewed as evil/sinful that are the problem.
Both political parties would love to label political stuff that would get you to vote for the other party as obscene. Would you want an R, I, D, G, C, S rating to be applied to all your political media? (Well, maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea.)
The cameras were also in plain sight, and he was especially brazen in how he went about it all. Technology won't solve the problem.
Police also hate dealing with bike thefts. Did you have SN or identifying marks on the bike to prove that it's yours? Well if not, even if some other police department recovers it, then there isn't anything in NCIC to notify your local police department that yes the bike was recovered and you such and such person can pick it up.
I don't think "bike thefts" are pretty trivial for those that want to do it to go about it. Unless you have some one actively monitoring the area that knows the bike isn't that guys, then no one would stop the guy. Video is all after the fact and help to put the guy in jail if he is found though.
On a side note, ask your police department if they've recovered unclaimed bikes and if you could have one of those.
Skip the expensive cameras. Are they really going to save you money? Or is this a vindictive side of you, the side that might put a "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot twice" sign on your fence?
Honestly, yes. Why do you think we even have "crimes" or a "justice system" in the first place? If we weren't vindictive and wanted these people removed from the population we wouldn't have police around now would we?
Actually the prices for these are coming down. They are around 1.5K-2K for a DVR setup with four cameras. That's expensive to me, but to many people that's not an expensive security investment at all. If the prices of them fall down to $150-200 for a 80 GB DVR with say 6-8 cameras out at Walmart, then everyone would start buying these things. (Heck if they were that cheap, I'd buy one to put on my car just to record the cops and in case of an accident that I'd have video on my side.)
Get a dog. The TCO may be higher than the camera, but the deterrence factor is way higher (and it's better to not be broken into at all, than have footage of your breakins afterwards).
Dogs are more evil than guns. I'd rather dig a moat around the house and put sharp spikes down in there than have a dog defending the home.
I've never really understood this point of view. If some kid breaks into your home to steal your TV - are you really going to shoot them, potentially kill them? You would potentially kill someone to keep your $1000 TV?
Short answer. Yes. Have a nice day. What is this hang up that human life is sacred or that criminals should live full natural lives?
This is why the world is afraid of the states. In no other first world country do you need to 'defend' your home its purely an american thing. Getting a gun to do so would be entirely unheard of were it not for movies glorifying guns.
If your home is such a big problem that you NEED a shotgun to protect yourself you really NEED to move. Apparently you are living in some sort of post-apocalyptic nightmare where firearms are needed to stop your neighbors.
Actually, it's a great way to move crime to other areas. In towns where its required for everyone to have a gun of some sort, criminals move. It's much safer for them to do crime against unarmed families in other communities than go into a community where everyone is armed and most of them are idiots in their use.
It really comes down to that its a cultural meme. The whole the home is a my castle thing. You can't have a castle without a cannon or moat. Well, cannons aren't practical and we have flooding issues so a handgun satisfies the whole being armed bit. We still depend on the police though there are days where I think that most of us should be trained to take better care of ourselves.
If it's for Exchange support, there are a couple of Linux projects which at least claim to support that.
I can claim to be God. It doesn't mean that I am.
Just because a random Linux project claims to support Exchange doesn't mean that they'll actually have what we consider Exchange support when we need it. Do you have a 100% complete drop in replacement/compatible with Exchange? If not, it's not viable for many people, right now or even for the next say six months. Heck, folks delay upgrading exchange because it's sometimes a nightmare. Do you really think they'll switch products if they aren't 100% sure that their data will convert over in perfectly usable fashion?
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I for one won't be using it while their terms of service explicitly states that HIPAA doesn't apply to Google.
I don't trust Google. I'm of the opinion that companies have to obey the rules/laws of government. I'd rather "trust" the government if they said that HIPAA doesn't apply to Google rather than Google saying that HIPAA doesn't apply to them. There is a part of me that actually hopes that Google gets slapped by the government for violating HIPAA.
Quick Conclusion: We now have the potential to create an X-ray like device that could be deployed in airports and other travel hubs that could be used to monitor the public without harming the public through this observation. More benignly, they could also be used in hospitals for "persistent monitoring" of patients with tumors or internal bleeding, because they seem to have lower power requirements and risks of side-effects.
Just wait for the tech to drop to $50-500 and some one to figure out how to hook it up to your next PS or Xbox for both daily med scans and home security.
The fact that German companies complied with Nazi government decrees and laws was not a shield to prosecution at Nuremburg.
Which US firm will be the first I.G. Farben?
Great you've just Godwin'd the entire thread! On as side note, I'd actually say that companies should do what the countries tell them to do. It doesn't matter of the government is run by Hitler, Stalin, elected like in the US. If the government makes a rule/law, those companies doing business there have 3 choices. 1. Follow the law. 2. Don't follow the law and pay the penalty that the said government has for non following. 3. Seem to follow the law and make lots of visible effort to follow said law while actually lobbying as much as possible to get the law changed so that they don't have to follow it.
If you really think that any company should be able to come in and do business how they see fit without following any local laws, then there is nothing stopping a foreign company from setting up shop and doing what ever it wants to. What's to stop "slave's are us" from moving in and making those that complain into slaves for what ever market that's willing to buy them? Oh, it's illegal here, but those have been saying its o.k. for a business just to come in and to what's o.k. for them or in their homeland without the foreign government being able to rule them. Well, if you really believed that then there is nothing that the US government could do to stop/slow "slave's are us." Businesses have to follow government laws.
However, what the people of China believe due to large-scale brainwashing is really not that interesting to the subject of Evil, because of its very subjectivity. The very fact of the cultural brainwashing that instructs the Chinese to do as they are told is Evil by our standards in the Western world, where we value individuality and choice.
And we in the west aren't brainwashed by our public education, cable TV, various churches, and internet? Our brainwashing is just different from theirs brainwashing. I tend to call it our culture is different than their's though it's much more polite.
Crime? You sure you want to word it that way?
What this man was convicted of may have been a crime in his country, but in the United States, Europe, Canada and most other places in the free world what he did would be protected under freedom of speech.
What I really dislike about the liberal slashdot is that they think Google and all other US companies should some how abide by some vague US moral law while operating in foreign countries. While here is a clue, "freedom of speech" isn't universal and doesn't mean the same all over the world. If Google or other US companies wish to do business in a country where it is understood "freedom of speech" doesn't include bad mouthing and of that country's leaders, their government in general, or various religious leaders where there doesn't exist a operation of church and state, then Google and other US companies have to conform to said countries ethics/laws or be liable to be jailed/fined/blocked by that country.
I guess the key difference is that Solitaire and Pinball are usually found preinstalled on most systems. I find that when I'm preparing workstations I tend to leave them on there. When I walk by and see somebody playing solitaire it doesn't bother me, if I saw somebody playing the Sims or some fps there would be a problem.
I agree. I've found it impossible to really do anything other than a game like the Sims or an FPS. They take almost total control of the desktop and its not just a matter of hitting minimize to get back to work. I have to admit those default MS games are fairly good in a work environment in that if you have 5 minutes to kill than you can get through it or if anything unexpected happens, you hit minimize and are quickly back at work.
Now tell me how quickly that you can pause and switch apps into the office app of your choice or just pull up an existing document from within a game like the Sims or any FPS. It seems like a damn long time doesn't it. That's another key reason why those MS games are played more.
I'd like to be able to have exit polls and if they get a high enough disapproval rating there is the death penalty for being stupid in office. It would take something drastic like that to at least make them think a tad before passing this crap.
Actually, it would take something even more drastic. Any government official submitting/making/altering any new laws/rules can and will instantly have the death penalty applied by any citizen though government officials are allowed to remove laws/rules.
Even the "run down" pictures look better than my working conditions.
Well, I took a look at the picture. My impression? Damn that would make a nice office or apartment. IF they can't make it as a museum, then on one wants to spend how ever much to look at WWII decrypting stuff. It was important so what. It isn't important right now or the British would fund it. I'm sure the British have a much newer code breaking office complex some where else that they actually consider important.
Come on there were lots of offices that had "important" work done during WWII. It doesn't mean the average person will think that any given office complex should be made into a museum and pay admission to look at it though.
I thought it would make a nice bed and breakfast. Maybe that's what your average British person thinks it is when passing by it? I mean unless you told me it was a museum; I wouldn't really guess it from the outside. Of course, I wouldn't guess that there were actual offices in there either.
I'd say if the locals don't think its good enough to be museum, then the buildings need to be something else than a museum there. My small town supports two local museums that really the only time I ever went by either was grade school field trips. If our town can manage to keep its two little museums open, then I don't see why that local town can't do the same.
I'd go as far to say that 99.99% of humanity thinks that censorship is a good thing as long as they get to pick what is censored from the rest.
Everyone wants the government to be their censorship tool. The government will happily censor stuff. It's just various groups want different things censored and want to be allowed to view their chosen content.
If Hawking wants to get money for this sort of thing, he needs to make it into a reality show and get a TV network on board. Some ideas:
The really sad thing is that it would work. O.k. remove the feeding them to the lions if they do wrong. I think it was a Saturday night live where they were just offering bags of food to those that got it right. Well, offer a years supply of food for those that win the chemistry, math, physics, or what ever other subjects that you want them to compete in. I don't know how much "the years supply of food" would cost, but a first world cable station should be able to afford it and just let the locals compete.
The really bizarre thing is that companies could use this as a brain drain lure. The top winners get to have a US min wage job for a year!
Like a robot that builds a house or so. A bit more useful too...
Robotics challenges are usually somehow tied to military objectives such as navigating a certain terrain, rarely do they focus on something constructive and creative.
Humans are much, much cheaper and easier to program than robots. You can hire illegal immigrants that can barely speak your language, yet they'd know enough to ask the going rate to mow your yard/clean your house or whatever and can find your home on a set schedule. I'd love a robotic lawn mower or maid, but they just are not as flexible as the stupidest/cheapest humans are. Those robotic mowers are really expensive. I can pay a neighbor kid $15-20 to do it and they'd mostly do a good job.
Here is a thought for you. Why the heck do we still have humans on garbage trucks? Because that task is currently far too difficult for robots to do. The same thing applies to truckers that just drive from point A to point B and don't do the loading/unloading of their truck. Why isn't that task automated? Because we don't have AI smart/safe/cheap enough to drive a commercial truck on interstate and refuel at the correct spots.
Why do people still drive? Well, we've discovered that task is very difficult to automate.
What idiot came up with that idea? If you really wanted to implement it, then you'd try to combine the student ID into a watch or cell phone and assign them to students. I'd say some type of Cell Phone ID card would allow you to pack the most instruments in small form factor for your "students."
Let's see, you could actually bill it as a PDA/ipod type of thing for the students productivity and give them limited student to student/faculty/parent communications. You get GPS tracking for everyone that takes you up on the offer and if you offer to backup all their PDA/ipod data you could have all that as well. You could have cameras/video/audio recorders built in and spy on their activities that way as well.
The US DoD didn't built the GPS system so civillians can navigate - the civillian version can be turned off in regions where the US is at war with a technologically sophisticated opponent and the military version left on so only US forces have access to precision location information. This is why China wants it's own GPS system, in case of a major war with the US.
Why does everyone think it's China that would start something? Really, if all the civilian GPS units in the US could be turned off by any other country (be it Russia, Britain, Canada, China or India), we'd be trying our hardest to build our own system that was independent of that foreign power's system. This is why Europe wants its own GPS system and no surprise China wants its own as well. It's not that they are planning a war with the US. It's in case the US ever decides to bitchy and threaten areas that now depend on GPS about the civilian GPS being turned off that both Europe and China are doing this.
I'm sorry, but I can't put this in the that country is evil for doing it column. I'd put it more in the that country has sane leadership and forward thinking enough to secure themselves against possible enemies.
Hey, the US has defense plans just in case we ever go to war with Mexico, Canada, Britain, or the entire EU. Just because we have those plans doesn't mean that we'd ever have to use them though.
Just in the last several years, they have been launching new attack subs and SSBNs at a rate of at least 1 / per year each.
You call 12 a year, which would be about 60 over 5 years a massive buildup? Damn, I'd figure 1 a day or 10 a day a build up. This sounds like routine military upgrades to me. Face it China is now currently the other global super power. We don't buy our cheap stuff from Canada, Russia, or India; we buy it from China. We'll support them as long as they leave South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan alone. In 30-50 years, we might really consider just letting them have Taiwan if they can get it without a military grab.
Do we want the laws obeyed and enforced 100%, or do we want to live some "wriggle-room" for the dystopian future, when it will be needed to fight some kind of oppression?
Um, I'd like "the laws" to be obeyed and enforced 100%, but I'm thinking "the laws" should also be limited to the secular parts of the ten commandants. You know theft & murder are about it. Of course the rest of the ten commandments were thought crimes so that's not a good place to start. I'd like "the laws" to be simple and to be limited to some thing that we can have tattoed on our arm or the back of the hand. Anything more than that is too much to expect the population to actually remember, follow and the morals of the population generally change every few years any way so only some crimes could be considered really bad.
Of course, would we want to throw the book at ID thieves, spammers, or those telemarketers that can people on the do not call list?
O.k. I've gotten one thing by glancing at the slashdot comments. No one really knows how much a yottabyte of storage will be!
Can some one show me how many kilobytes are in yottabyte?
Will this be unit of measure just for companies like Google or MS only or are we talking about yottabyte flash drives?
I believe the easiest option for Amazon would be to simply drop all affiliates in New York. Refusing to sell to New York is financial suicide for them, but dropping all affiliates wouldn't cause too much grief from the public.
Amazon could live quite well without selling to New York. As long as they have a profitable market some where, they can afford to not do business in areas that are counter productive to them. They could just as easily say that they aren't doing business in either Canada, Europe, China, Russia, Iraq or North Korea. It wouldn't have any effect if they don't already do business there and as long as they still have a home base market that allows them to exist.
There are no such laws. The fact that everyone just happily assumes there are laws behind movie, music, and game ratings is one of the more unsettling aspects of life in twenty-first century America.
I'd much rather the various industries self rate rather than the government or my wife's or father-in-law's church rate the media. It's when the government gets involved that scary parts can happen. It's those churches/groups that like to define things obscene to just get non members viewed as evil/sinful that are the problem.
Both political parties would love to label political stuff that would get you to vote for the other party as obscene. Would you want an R, I, D, G, C, S rating to be applied to all your political media? (Well, maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea.)
The problem is that 99% of people are idiots.
That's not a problem, that's a feature!
The cameras were also in plain sight, and he was especially brazen in how he went about it all.
Technology won't solve the problem.
Police also hate dealing with bike thefts. Did you have SN or identifying marks on the bike to prove that it's yours? Well if not, even if some other police department recovers it, then there isn't anything in NCIC to notify your local police department that yes the bike was recovered and you such and such person can pick it up.
I don't think "bike thefts" are pretty trivial for those that want to do it to go about it. Unless you have some one actively monitoring the area that knows the bike isn't that guys, then no one would stop the guy. Video is all after the fact and help to put the guy in jail if he is found though.
On a side note, ask your police department if they've recovered unclaimed bikes and if you could have one of those.
Skip the expensive cameras. Are they really going to save you money? Or is this a vindictive side of you, the side that might put a "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot twice" sign on your fence?
Honestly, yes. Why do you think we even have "crimes" or a "justice system" in the first place? If we weren't vindictive and wanted these people removed from the population we wouldn't have police around now would we?
Actually the prices for these are coming down. They are around 1.5K-2K for a DVR setup with four cameras. That's expensive to me, but to many people that's not an expensive security investment at all. If the prices of them fall down to $150-200 for a 80 GB DVR with say 6-8 cameras out at Walmart, then everyone would start buying these things. (Heck if they were that cheap, I'd buy one to put on my car just to record the cops and in case of an accident that I'd have video on my side.)
Get a dog. The TCO may be higher than the camera, but the deterrence factor is way higher (and it's better to not be broken into at all, than have footage of your breakins afterwards).
Dogs are more evil than guns. I'd rather dig a moat around the house and put sharp spikes down in there than have a dog defending the home.
I've never really understood this point of view. If some kid breaks into your home to steal your TV - are you really going to shoot them, potentially kill them? You would potentially kill someone to keep your $1000 TV?
Short answer. Yes. Have a nice day. What is this hang up that human life is sacred or that criminals should live full natural lives?
This is why the world is afraid of the states. In no other first world country do you need to 'defend' your home its purely an american thing. Getting a gun to do so would be entirely unheard of were it not for movies glorifying guns.
If your home is such a big problem that you NEED a shotgun to protect yourself you really NEED to move. Apparently you are living in some sort of post-apocalyptic nightmare where firearms are needed to stop your neighbors.
Actually, it's a great way to move crime to other areas. In towns where its required for everyone to have a gun of some sort, criminals move. It's much safer for them to do crime against unarmed families in other communities than go into a community where everyone is armed and most of them are idiots in their use.
It really comes down to that its a cultural meme. The whole the home is a my castle thing. You can't have a castle without a cannon or moat. Well, cannons aren't practical and we have flooding issues so a handgun satisfies the whole being armed bit. We still depend on the police though there are days where I think that most of us should be trained to take better care of ourselves.
If it's for Exchange support, there are a couple of Linux projects which at least claim to support that.
I can claim to be God. It doesn't mean that I am.
Just because a random Linux project claims to support Exchange doesn't mean that they'll actually have what we consider Exchange support when we need it. Do you have a 100% complete drop in replacement/compatible with Exchange? If not, it's not viable for many people, right now or even for the next say six months. Heck, folks delay upgrading exchange because it's sometimes a nightmare. Do you really think they'll switch products if they aren't 100% sure that their data will convert over in perfectly usable fashion?