The AC who also responded got it right. The repetitive data is not in the transport stream, 8VSB does a great job of maintaining the integrity of the data it carries.
I'm a hard person to impress, but every time I learn more about 8VSB I am amazed. The engineers who devised that system are freakin brilliant. It is... amazing to run an 8VSB signal through a device that can add interference and see just how much RF crap you can create before your signal even hiccups.
Furthermore, within the actual demodulator part, there is a fair amount of extra working done to determine which taps are which
One way to determine the signal quality of an 8VSB signal is to plot a constellation graph which ideally should look like a set of 8 vertical bars and with your points lining up along one of those bars. Just last week we were working with a new Broadcom chip that was decoding a signal which, according to the constellation graph... was garbage and should not have been able to be decoded. It did an amazing job of filtering (as is the job of the demodulator, not an external device).
Provided INDUCE doesn't pass... such a device could be sold legally, hell, we already sell systems which can do this and much, much, much more, but at 30-50k a pop, it's overkill for a consumer (albite everything we manufacture and sell is overkill for a consumer.)
The trick of selling this device would be labeling it as a packet restamper, allow a user to specify what pids to restamp and to what. Yes, you could use it to remove the broadcast flag from OTA transmissions, but that would be illegal.
Hence, you could argue substantial non infringing use, however for such an argument you'd need to show some reason as to why you'd want to restamp pids in a transport stream and nothing else.
Broadcasters do pid restamping all of the time, however they also modify the pat and pmt's accordingly as well... the solution mentioned above would be incapable of that as described, however a little extra Veralog code could do it.
As I do not know electrical design at all, I've been meaning to plug a couple of PCI card solutions we sell (cheapest of the 2 runs 2k) and have someone build me a new Xilinx load (~1 hour of their time), this will get me by provided I can find some old prototype boards.
I should mention another drawback of this device... it would only work on one channel at a time, and every time you change the channel on your receiver, you'd have to do so on this device in order to see programming.
I work for a company that builds systems for use with digital television and when I 1st read of the proposed broadcast flag and it's implementation I had a very easy to do bypass method devised in a matter of minutes. In fact, beating this broadcast flag will be child's play and will not even require 'hacking' a receiver or any modifications to it.
The OTA digital tv signals you receive in your home contain an ATSC Transport Stream, based on an MPEG-2 Transport Stream, as part of the ATSC standard, (A/53 I think) where the broadcast flag was mandated.
Within the transport stream, there are packets each of 188 bytes long; the broadcast flag carries a packet PID of 0xA0, (again I could be wrong but it has been a few months since I looked into the specific pid values).
In order to beat the broadcast flag, one would need a simple box with a pair of 8VSB tuners with a Xilinx (or other FPGA) in the middle. The 1st tuner would demodulate the signal and pass it into the Xilinx whose sole job would be restamping pids, should it come across a packet with the pid denoting that it is carrying a broadcast flag, it could simply change the pid of this packet to 0x1FFF (a null packet). On the other end, the 2nd tuner would modulate the signal back into 8VSB and to what ever you might have receiving. The beauty of this solution is that null packets carry no payload in a transport stream, thus would be ignored by anything down stream.
All in all, a device like this would cost about $100 (even in mass production) as tuners and FPGA's are generally not cheap.
I heard a former Russian engineer respond to a thought like that once... that the shape was governed by aerodynamics, that there are only so many configurations a functioning craft like that could take and they too independently came up with a similar one to the Americans.
I had also heard a NASA engineer respond a little later saying that if the Russians asked for the plans for the shuttle, that he doubted that NASA would have said no.
MailWasher Pro from Firetrust has an option similar to that known as FirstAlert, you sign up for a year membership and use their app to submit spam type messages to them, later, a human verifies that the e-mail is indeed spam and adds it to their database. Once added, any MWP users using FirstAlert will hit the database, see that the message is there and act accordingly (often times deleting without even showing it to the user). It works... ok, about 30% of my spam is nuked this way, the built in Bayesian filtering catches another 40% or so, and the DNS blacklists catch most of the rest. Of the last two groups I verify manually, but have come to trust FirstAlert... it's just a shame it's not getting the high %'s it used to.
I am a bit of a fan of the comments of Raymond Chen on blogs.msdn.com and follow it closely. You can find it at http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/
Even if you are not a fan of Microsoft due to it's products, ethics, morals, connections, etc, it is still quite the interesting read and applies to many things.
I always take it as a complement when someone attacks something like that rather then the content of what I said. Thank you for agreeing with my earlier statement.
When quoting that episode we must not forget 2 important quotes:
"We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
Not to mention:
Kang: "Abortions for all!" Crowd: *boos* Kang: "Very well, Abortions for none!" Crowd: *boos* Kang: "Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!" Crowd *cheers*
Shhh, don't say that too loud. Let the Linux zealots think that theirs is a superior operating system that never crashes.
I'm still running 2k and the only time I ever BSOD is because of hardware issues, such as those I've been experiencing lately. (even with tested clean installs of different OSs(including linux), the system still goes down).
That case was regarding unbundling and resale of OEM software.
As you have not agreed to the license within you are free to do (within reason) what you want with it, including selling it.
This is not unlike buying a package of mini Hershey bars, each of which are labeled "not for individual resale", however there is nothing stopping you from selling them individually.
Most companies today still run windows for their desktops and work stations. Cutting costs by using linux instead of windows would not win them enough support to make it a viable product.
Just as the old line went, "No one got fired for choosing IBM", now days it's "No one gets fired for choosing Microsoft". Like it or not, that is just the reality of the world today.
Did practically nothing to me? I cannot speak for you, but I am extremely protective of my property and can be quite an ass regarding the simple act of someone wanting to borrow a DVD.
My home means the world to me, it is mine, paid for through my labors, so I am a bit proud and protective of it. I don't care about the stolen money; I can replace it in no time. What I care about is the fact that she violated my home.
I don't mean to diminish the horrible crime that is rape, but what she did was a similar use of force for ones own means, with in my most private place, my home. Had she broken in a garage, I'd be far less angry, but my home, where I live, play and sometimes work... that is just too much!
I would expect that you would feel similarly to me if your home were broken into, even if nothing was stolen, just to know that someone you do not know had forcibly entered and acted within with impunity... it's a sickening feeling.
Add to that that she tried to accuse me of a couple serious crimes in order to save her rear when confronted by the police... oh yes, I am looking forward to her being put away for a long time where her lies and thieving hands can hurt no free person.
You misunderstand... I don't care about the stolen money which is petty theft and carries a maximum jail sentence of 30 days in the county jail.
It's the 2nd degree burglary, the act of entering a structure such as a home with out permission that carries the up to 10 years in jail.
To answer your Q of when I think 10 years is appropriate? For just about any second offence crime where a victim has been created. I have a very low tolerance of ANY crime that creates a victim.
Want to smoke a joint or shoot up? Be my guest.
Want to drive a little faster than the posted speed limit or not use your turn signals? So long as you aren't endangering anyone else, go for it!
However the moment you harm someone through your actions in a way that also harms society and violates the law, I'm all for jail time!
Given the fact that this is not the 1st time she has been caught and convicted of illegal actions but also victimized others, I'm all for jail time. Sadly for her though... she's looking at far more then just 10 years currently, if I remember right, she's being accused of 3 counts of 2nd degree burglary and at least 1 of 3rd (breaking into a car).
I agree, there should be better options for dealing with such people, here in South Dakota we have them... and they failed in her case.
Have you ever seen a day time talk show about out of control teens and where they send the kids to a boot camp for a week or two? We have boot camps too, they are run by the state! It give a whole new meaning to the term juve!
Because of events that occurred when she was under 18, she went to boot camp at least once. Did that deter her from committing a crime again? Nope. If she hadn't gone to boot before, she'd be eligible now, but that is now out the window because of her 'repeat' status.
I just posted a slightly larger response to an individual above you in this tread, but I will ask you the question as well... at what point has she run out of free chances? At what point would you not be opposed to her being locked away for a very long time? I sure hope for society's sake your answer isn't "when she turns violent".
Yes, I am very happy that I caught her and that she is going to be spending time in prison. I am equally happy to have some of my tax dollars to go to pay for such incarceration.
This is not the 1st time she's broken into a house, this is not the 1st time she's had a run in with the law. She is what the local police call a "repeat customer" (yes that is a quote from an officer), and what the state attorney's office calls "beyond rehabilitation" (another direct quote).
I would disagree with those who say she is no danger to society, she's only 18 and knows the prison and court system pretty well from offences while a youth and has never shown any sign of remorse or
As an example of the quality of a person she is, she gave a reason for breaking into my house? Know what it was? In her written statement she said and I quote: "I went into my neighbors house and took $15:00 dollars in change and went through the window. I was in the wrong. But my Land Lord told my mom that He thought that he did drugs and that there was Blood on the walls so I went into check. and that was when I took the money. I pushed the air conditioner in and left."
Are those the words of a little girl? Of an 18 year old who made a single mistake and will be paying for them for upwards of 10 years? NO! Those are the words of a disturbed individual,
I should also mention that there are a few other break-ins that have occurred recently which she is suspected of, including a break-in at our landlords place of business and a Lutheran church not 1 block away from her house. Not to mention that in addition to the charges she is currently answering for with regards to my case, she is also being charged with SEVERAL other break-ins.
Say what you want, but this individual will be going away for a long time and I for one am happy to see it happen!
Please, do tell the class though... at what point would you consider such a person a danger to society? Do her crimes need to become violent?
Crap, I didn't mean to post that... instead I only wanted to say:
That is a good plan, but insufficient alone. If they recognize the camera and have any sense to them, they'll want to find the tape. Do you think they'd leave a PC intact when they suspect it has a video of them breaking into your house?
A few good kicks aught to do the job, or more if one has time.
I'm running some custom software in my home currently, one of the features of it that I'm trying to get working just right is a reporting feature where under certain circumstances, the app will upload pictures to different locations in case the camera and the machine running it are compromised.
A couple of months ago I had a neighbor break into my house and thought I wouldn't notice. As soon as I got home I did, and on consulting a camera in my living room I found pictures of her where she shouldn't have been.
Video cameras are great, but require lots of tape and can wear out, even digital ones require large amounts of disk space.
I was very happy that I was using a MemoCam that I had picked up in a thrift store back in December. I was very eager to use it as I had a pair of DVD's disappear the month before, and after many months of sitting idle it found my burglar (at least in this one case).
As for the camera, it's a small B&W cam that uses IR to detect motion, when detected it starts snapping pictures to a MMC card. It even supports scheduling so I have it automatically enable motion detection soon after I leave for work and disable it again just before I get home.
With such a device, there is always the risk that it could be stolen, along with the pictures it contains. To help prevent such an occurrence I have since improved my camera arrangement in my home... all I will say is that I now have more than one camera and not even a burglar setting fire to the place could prevent me from having good, usable pictures of the event.
For those who didn't go to the link above, my burglar initially denied everything until she was confronted with the pictures by the police. She's now facing charges of 2nd degree burglary and petty theft, charges that carry maximum jail terms of 10 years in the state pen and 30 days in the county jail respectively.
We are now at 3 months to the day since the break in and still the wheels of justice are turning slow... but at least they are turning, all because I am paranoid enough to have a camera in my home.
That is a good plan, but insufficient alone. If they recognize the camera and have any sense to them, they'll want to find the tape. Do you think they'd leave a PC intact when they suspect it has a video of them breaking into your house?
A few good kicks aught to do the job, or more if one has time.
I'm running some custom software in my home currently, one of the features of it that I'm trying to get working just right is a reporting feature where under certain circumstances, the app will upload pictures to different locations in case the camera and the machine running it are compromised.
A couple of months ago I had a neighbor break into my house and thought I wouldn't notice. As soon as I got home I did, and on consulting a camera in my living room I found pictures of her where she shouldn't have been.
Video cameras are great, but require lots of tape and can wear out, even digital ones require large amounts of disk space.
I was very happy that I was using a MemoCam that I had picked up in a thrift store back in December. I was very eager to use it as I had a pair of DVD's disappear the month before, and after many months of sitting idle it found my burglar (at least in this one case).
As for the camera, it's a small B&W cam that uses IR to detect motion, when detected it starts snapping pictures to a MMC card. It even supports scheduling so I have it automatically enable motion detection soon after I leave for work and disable it again just before I get home.
With such a device, there is always the risk that it could be stolen, along with the pictures it contains. To help prevent such an occurrence I have since improved my camera arrangement in my home... all I will say is that I now have more than one camera and not even a burglar setting fire to the place could prevent me from having good, usable pictures of the event.
For those who didn't go to the link above, my burglar initially denied everything until she was confronted with the pictures by the police. She's now facing charges of 2nd degree burglary and petty theft, charges that carry maximum jail terms of 10 years in the state pen and 30 days in the county jail respectively.
We are now at 3 months to the day since the break in and still the wheels of justice are turning slow... but at least they are turning, all because I am paranoid enough to have a camera in my home.
I fail to see what administrator priveleges have to do with this
You are forgetting who said the above post. Your typical pro Linux, MS bashing troll. Their convo's on/. usually follow the following pattern:
Headline: "Microsoft introducing security feature ____." Troll: "That is dumb, if people ran ___ then they'd be fine. Leave it to Microsoft to add a feature like that to {make more money | block competitors | expand their world domination | try to copy linux | etc}."
The parent Troll is to blinded by hatred to see anything else... simply ignore him.
I agree, in fact such a conversation came up with a co-worker this week... the same one referred to in my above post. Despite the size of the company we work for... he thinks that with a little work (ie not being assigned to any massive projects utilizing the entire department) someone could go for at least a year with out ever doing any real work.
In fact at work, I have a problem... I'm a horrible slacker; I don't do it very often, and when I try I tend to fail.
Years ago when I worked at McDonalds I had a work ethic beaten into me with such phrases as "if you've got time to lean you've got time to clean" and "if you've got time to talk you've got time to stock." A mentality to keep working when on the clock with as little unproductive time as possible.
I'd been an intern at the place for nearly a year before being brought on full time with a salary... and still now that damn ethic is with me.
One of my co-workers this week spoke of 'those days when you come into work and start looking at a few web pages and before you know it it's lunch time and you haven't done any work yet"... I can't say that I know that sort.
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The AC who also responded got it right. The repetitive data is not in the transport stream, 8VSB does a great job of maintaining the integrity of the data it carries.
I'm a hard person to impress, but every time I learn more about 8VSB I am amazed. The engineers who devised that system are freakin brilliant. It is... amazing to run an 8VSB signal through a device that can add interference and see just how much RF crap you can create before your signal even hiccups.
Furthermore, within the actual demodulator part, there is a fair amount of extra working done to determine which taps are which
One way to determine the signal quality of an 8VSB signal is to plot a constellation graph which ideally should look like a set of 8 vertical bars and with your points lining up along one of those bars. Just last week we were working with a new Broadcom chip that was decoding a signal which, according to the constellation graph... was garbage and should not have been able to be decoded. It did an amazing job of filtering (as is the job of the demodulator, not an external device).
Provided INDUCE doesn't pass... such a device could be sold legally, hell, we already sell systems which can do this and much, much, much more, but at 30-50k a pop, it's overkill for a consumer (albite everything we manufacture and sell is overkill for a consumer.)
The trick of selling this device would be labeling it as a packet restamper, allow a user to specify what pids to restamp and to what. Yes, you could use it to remove the broadcast flag from OTA transmissions, but that would be illegal.
Hence, you could argue substantial non infringing use, however for such an argument you'd need to show some reason as to why you'd want to restamp pids in a transport stream and nothing else.
Broadcasters do pid restamping all of the time, however they also modify the pat and pmt's accordingly as well... the solution mentioned above would be incapable of that as described, however a little extra Veralog code could do it.
As I do not know electrical design at all, I've been meaning to plug a couple of PCI card solutions we sell (cheapest of the 2 runs 2k) and have someone build me a new Xilinx load (~1 hour of their time), this will get me by provided I can find some old prototype boards.
I should mention another drawback of this device... it would only work on one channel at a time, and every time you change the channel on your receiver, you'd have to do so on this device in order to see programming.
You mean I have to wait til then to hack it?
I work for a company that builds systems for use with digital television and when I 1st read of the proposed broadcast flag and it's implementation I had a very easy to do bypass method devised in a matter of minutes. In fact, beating this broadcast flag will be child's play and will not even require 'hacking' a receiver or any modifications to it.
The OTA digital tv signals you receive in your home contain an ATSC Transport Stream, based on an MPEG-2 Transport Stream, as part of the ATSC standard, (A/53 I think) where the broadcast flag was mandated.
Within the transport stream, there are packets each of 188 bytes long; the broadcast flag carries a packet PID of 0xA0, (again I could be wrong but it has been a few months since I looked into the specific pid values).
In order to beat the broadcast flag, one would need a simple box with a pair of 8VSB tuners with a Xilinx (or other FPGA) in the middle. The 1st tuner would demodulate the signal and pass it into the Xilinx whose sole job would be restamping pids, should it come across a packet with the pid denoting that it is carrying a broadcast flag, it could simply change the pid of this packet to 0x1FFF (a null packet). On the other end, the 2nd tuner would modulate the signal back into 8VSB and to what ever you might have receiving. The beauty of this solution is that null packets carry no payload in a transport stream, thus would be ignored by anything down stream.
All in all, a device like this would cost about $100 (even in mass production) as tuners and FPGA's are generally not cheap.
Isn't that the edition which we must buy in order to get a ticket for Episode 3?
I heard a former Russian engineer respond to a thought like that once... that the shape was governed by aerodynamics, that there are only so many configurations a functioning craft like that could take and they too independently came up with a similar one to the Americans.
I had also heard a NASA engineer respond a little later saying that if the Russians asked for the plans for the shuttle, that he doubted that NASA would have said no.
MailWasher Pro from Firetrust has an option similar to that known as FirstAlert, you sign up for a year membership and use their app to submit spam type messages to them, later, a human verifies that the e-mail is indeed spam and adds it to their database. Once added, any MWP users using FirstAlert will hit the database, see that the message is there and act accordingly (often times deleting without even showing it to the user). It works... ok, about 30% of my spam is nuked this way, the built in Bayesian filtering catches another 40% or so, and the DNS blacklists catch most of the rest. Of the last two groups I verify manually, but have come to trust FirstAlert... it's just a shame it's not getting the high %'s it used to.
I did not miss his point at all.
I am a bit of a fan of the comments of Raymond Chen on blogs.msdn.com and follow it closely. You can find it at http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/
Even if you are not a fan of Microsoft due to it's products, ethics, morals, connections, etc, it is still quite the interesting read and applies to many things.
I always take it as a complement when someone attacks something like that rather then the content of what I said. Thank you for agreeing with my earlier statement.
Do you have a problem with programmers being able to spend a little time here and their on their own projects?
When quoting that episode we must not forget 2 important quotes:
"We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
Not to mention:
Kang: "Abortions for all!"
Crowd: *boos*
Kang: "Very well, Abortions for none!"
Crowd: *boos*
Kang: "Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!"
Crowd *cheers*
Shhh, don't say that too loud. Let the Linux zealots think that theirs is a superior operating system that never crashes.
I'm still running 2k and the only time I ever BSOD is because of hardware issues, such as those I've been experiencing lately. (even with tested clean installs of different OSs(including linux), the system still goes down).
That case was regarding unbundling and resale of OEM software.
As you have not agreed to the license within you are free to do (within reason) what you want with it, including selling it.
This is not unlike buying a package of mini Hershey bars, each of which are labeled "not for individual resale", however there is nothing stopping you from selling them individually.
Most companies today still run windows for their desktops and work stations. Cutting costs by using linux instead of windows would not win them enough support to make it a viable product.
Just as the old line went, "No one got fired for choosing IBM", now days it's "No one gets fired for choosing Microsoft". Like it or not, that is just the reality of the world today.
Did practically nothing to me? I cannot speak for you, but I am extremely protective of my property and can be quite an ass regarding the simple act of someone wanting to borrow a DVD.
My home means the world to me, it is mine, paid for through my labors, so I am a bit proud and protective of it. I don't care about the stolen money; I can replace it in no time. What I care about is the fact that she violated my home.
I don't mean to diminish the horrible crime that is rape, but what she did was a similar use of force for ones own means, with in my most private place, my home. Had she broken in a garage, I'd be far less angry, but my home, where I live, play and sometimes work... that is just too much!
I would expect that you would feel similarly to me if your home were broken into, even if nothing was stolen, just to know that someone you do not know had forcibly entered and acted within with impunity... it's a sickening feeling.
Add to that that she tried to accuse me of a couple serious crimes in order to save her rear when confronted by the police... oh yes, I am looking forward to her being put away for a long time where her lies and thieving hands can hurt no free person.
You misunderstand... I don't care about the stolen money which is petty theft and carries a maximum jail sentence of 30 days in the county jail.
It's the 2nd degree burglary, the act of entering a structure such as a home with out permission that carries the up to 10 years in jail.
To answer your Q of when I think 10 years is appropriate? For just about any second offence crime where a victim has been created. I have a very low tolerance of ANY crime that creates a victim.
Want to smoke a joint or shoot up? Be my guest.
Want to drive a little faster than the posted speed limit or not use your turn signals? So long as you aren't endangering anyone else, go for it!
However the moment you harm someone through your actions in a way that also harms society and violates the law, I'm all for jail time!
Given the fact that this is not the 1st time she has been caught and convicted of illegal actions but also victimized others, I'm all for jail time. Sadly for her though... she's looking at far more then just 10 years currently, if I remember right, she's being accused of 3 counts of 2nd degree burglary and at least 1 of 3rd (breaking into a car).
I agree, there should be better options for dealing with such people, here in South Dakota we have them... and they failed in her case.
Have you ever seen a day time talk show about out of control teens and where they send the kids to a boot camp for a week or two? We have boot camps too, they are run by the state! It give a whole new meaning to the term juve!
Because of events that occurred when she was under 18, she went to boot camp at least once. Did that deter her from committing a crime again? Nope. If she hadn't gone to boot before, she'd be eligible now, but that is now out the window because of her 'repeat' status.
I just posted a slightly larger response to an individual above you in this tread, but I will ask you the question as well... at what point has she run out of free chances? At what point would you not be opposed to her being locked away for a very long time? I sure hope for society's sake your answer isn't "when she turns violent".
Yes, I am very happy that I caught her and that she is going to be spending time in prison. I am equally happy to have some of my tax dollars to go to pay for such incarceration.
This is not the 1st time she's broken into a house, this is not the 1st time she's had a run in with the law. She is what the local police call a "repeat customer" (yes that is a quote from an officer), and what the state attorney's office calls "beyond rehabilitation" (another direct quote).
I would disagree with those who say she is no danger to society, she's only 18 and knows the prison and court system pretty well from offences while a youth and has never shown any sign of remorse or
As an example of the quality of a person she is, she gave a reason for breaking into my house? Know what it was? In her written statement she said and I quote: "I went into my neighbors house and took $15:00 dollars in change and went through the window. I was in the wrong. But my Land Lord told my mom that He thought that he did drugs and that there was Blood on the walls so I went into check. and that was when I took the money. I pushed the air conditioner in and left."
Are those the words of a little girl? Of an 18 year old who made a single mistake and will be paying for them for upwards of 10 years? NO! Those are the words of a disturbed individual,
I should also mention that there are a few other break-ins that have occurred recently which she is suspected of, including a break-in at our landlords place of business and a Lutheran church not 1 block away from her house. Not to mention that in addition to the charges she is currently answering for with regards to my case, she is also being charged with SEVERAL other break-ins.
Say what you want, but this individual will be going away for a long time and I for one am happy to see it happen!
Please, do tell the class though... at what point would you consider such a person a danger to society? Do her crimes need to become violent?
Crap, I didn't mean to post that... instead I only wanted to say:
That is a good plan, but insufficient alone. If they recognize the camera and have any sense to them, they'll want to find the tape. Do you think they'd leave a PC intact when they suspect it has a video of them breaking into your house?
A few good kicks aught to do the job, or more if one has time.
I'm running some custom software in my home currently, one of the features of it that I'm trying to get working just right is a reporting feature where under certain circumstances, the app will upload pictures to different locations in case the camera and the machine running it are compromised.
A couple of months ago I had a neighbor break into my house and thought I wouldn't notice. As soon as I got home I did, and on consulting a camera in my living room I found pictures of her where she shouldn't have been.
Video cameras are great, but require lots of tape and can wear out, even digital ones require large amounts of disk space.
I was very happy that I was using a MemoCam that I had picked up in a thrift store back in December. I was very eager to use it as I had a pair of DVD's disappear the month before, and after many months of sitting idle it found my burglar (at least in this one case).
As for the camera, it's a small B&W cam that uses IR to detect motion, when detected it starts snapping pictures to a MMC card. It even supports scheduling so I have it automatically enable motion detection soon after I leave for work and disable it again just before I get home.
With such a device, there is always the risk that it could be stolen, along with the pictures it contains. To help prevent such an occurrence I have since improved my camera arrangement in my home... all I will say is that I now have more than one camera and not even a burglar setting fire to the place could prevent me from having good, usable pictures of the event.
For those who didn't go to the link above, my burglar initially denied everything until she was confronted with the pictures by the police. She's now facing charges of 2nd degree burglary and petty theft, charges that carry maximum jail terms of 10 years in the state pen and 30 days in the county jail respectively.
We are now at 3 months to the day since the break in and still the wheels of justice are turning slow... but at least they are turning, all because I am paranoid enough to have a camera in my home.
That is a good plan, but insufficient alone. If they recognize the camera and have any sense to them, they'll want to find the tape. Do you think they'd leave a PC intact when they suspect it has a video of them breaking into your house?
A few good kicks aught to do the job, or more if one has time.
I'm running some custom software in my home currently, one of the features of it that I'm trying to get working just right is a reporting feature where under certain circumstances, the app will upload pictures to different locations in case the camera and the machine running it are compromised.
A couple of months ago I had a neighbor break into my house and thought I wouldn't notice. As soon as I got home I did, and on consulting a camera in my living room I found pictures of her where she shouldn't have been.
Video cameras are great, but require lots of tape and can wear out, even digital ones require large amounts of disk space.
I was very happy that I was using a MemoCam that I had picked up in a thrift store back in December. I was very eager to use it as I had a pair of DVD's disappear the month before, and after many months of sitting idle it found my burglar (at least in this one case).
As for the camera, it's a small B&W cam that uses IR to detect motion, when detected it starts snapping pictures to a MMC card. It even supports scheduling so I have it automatically enable motion detection soon after I leave for work and disable it again just before I get home.
With such a device, there is always the risk that it could be stolen, along with the pictures it contains. To help prevent such an occurrence I have since improved my camera arrangement in my home... all I will say is that I now have more than one camera and not even a burglar setting fire to the place could prevent me from having good, usable pictures of the event.
For those who didn't go to the link above, my burglar initially denied everything until she was confronted with the pictures by the police. She's now facing charges of 2nd degree burglary and petty theft, charges that carry maximum jail terms of 10 years in the state pen and 30 days in the county jail respectively.
We are now at 3 months to the day since the break in and still the wheels of justice are turning slow... but at least they are turning, all because I am paranoid enough to have a camera in my home.
The Pictures.
MaybeI should have checked the preview more carefully next time.
Perhaps... but I contend it's more fun when the criminals don't know the cameras exist and you still catch them.
As an example I present pictures from 2 months ago when a neighbor broke into my house.
I fail to see what administrator priveleges have to do with this
/. usually follow the following pattern:
You are forgetting who said the above post. Your typical pro Linux, MS bashing troll. Their convo's on
Headline: "Microsoft introducing security feature ____."
Troll: "That is dumb, if people ran ___ then they'd be fine. Leave it to Microsoft to add a feature like that to {make more money | block competitors | expand their world domination | try to copy linux | etc}."
The parent Troll is to blinded by hatred to see anything else... simply ignore him.
I agree, in fact such a conversation came up with a co-worker this week... the same one referred to in my above post. Despite the size of the company we work for... he thinks that with a little work (ie not being assigned to any massive projects utilizing the entire department) someone could go for at least a year with out ever doing any real work.
You realize I was joking don't you?
In fact at work, I have a problem... I'm a horrible slacker; I don't do it very often, and when I try I tend to fail.
Years ago when I worked at McDonalds I had a work ethic beaten into me with such phrases as "if you've got time to lean you've got time to clean" and "if you've got time to talk you've got time to stock." A mentality to keep working when on the clock with as little unproductive time as possible.
I'd been an intern at the place for nearly a year before being brought on full time with a salary... and still now that damn ethic is with me.
One of my co-workers this week spoke of 'those days when you come into work and start looking at a few web pages and before you know it it's lunch time and you haven't done any work yet"... I can't say that I know that sort.
Stupid personal ethics!