Also, all they need is to route traffic over their hardware. Sure, you can use SSL and TLS, but I recall an article about the NSA have a majority of the keys from Certificate Authorities. Even if they do not have the correct CA key, I am sure they have a farm of computers ready to brute force crack the key and get the information they need. And no, this doesn't give access to data stored locally on your hard drive, but if you ever upload that data anywhere it can be captured.
Please don't, Microsoft, I deal with outlook and exchange everyday. From Office 2003 through 2013, server 2003 through 2012, exchange 2003 - 2013, noting but a giant hunk of crap taking up rack space. Nothing but problems, problems and more problems. The little linux server tucked away at the bottom of the rack with a little layer of dust on it? Never has a problem. But those windows servers? Countless hours of sleep lost by all employees because of how often they go down. Please don't include outlook, it hardly works with your own exchange server and works far worse with technologies not developed by you. For the sake of what hair is left on my head, PLEASE STOP.
WOW . . . that place sucks.
Could someone post a list of common CCTV cameras with microphones?
It can be difficult to say on which cameras have microphones and which do not. For example, most analog cameras do not have a microphone, but you can place a microphone anywhere and associate it with that camera. A good deal of IP cameras that are on the market and coming to market have microphones built into them. The problem there is you have no real way of knowing if the mic is enabled on that IP camera without looking at the DVR and its configuration or the web interface of the IP camera and its configuration. The new HD-SDI cameras that are starting to come to market in the US have microphones in them as well. Even if the IP cameras or HD-SDI cameras do not come with a microphone, most(not all) have an audio in port where you can connect an external microphone to the camera.
This is a victory for the people. I worked for a CCTV company for over a year and a half. Every move you made and conversation you had was recorded and the management did go back and listen and watch. If you didn't give 110% and say anything that could be remotely offensive to the management, you got called into the office and dealt with. A perfect picture of where we are heading as a nation and as a planet. I will say it again, the CCTV cameras getting turned off is a victory for the people and personal privacy.
If being in posession of chemicals, that when mixed together can cause an explosion, gets you arrested then I am in trouble. I walk around with a deadly concoction in my bowles everyday.
Seriously, I don't see what Rachel has done wrong here. The world sucks when a person is punished for being the victim of someone's insanity, insecurity, and inability to cope with the real world. When I read about incidents like this I don't want to live in this world anymore.
Motion activation is easy, just about any DVR does that, and it is crazy simple stupid how it is done. The DVR or the Camera(both can do motion detection) will keep a number of video frames in memory and compare a couple in a series and if too many pixels change between images the change will trigger a motion event. Super simple, and super effective to the point you can have anything like a cars lights driving by set it off. False positives will happen, but it is better to have a surveillance system than not have one at all.
I happen to work with Geovision and Avermedia. Of the two, Geovision has more features but Avermedia is the one that is simpler to use. Depending on how far away the cameras will be and what type of detail you are after will depend on the type of camera. If you suspect people coming on your property then you will want vandal resistant cameras. If you go analog then you will want to go 600 to 700 TV lines. The type of lens you need will depend on what you want to see. A lens that is 3.8mm will have around a 1:1 aspect ratio the higher the mm lens the closer the view and tighter the angle, the smaller the mm lens the smaller the aspect ration but the wider the angle. If you want some serious detail then you will want to look into IP cameras or into HD. While the IP camera will have only a slightly better image when looking at it in the DVR Software, the true beauty of the IP camera comes when you go to use digital zoom. The IP camera is a Megapixel camera, and the higher the Megapixel then higher the amount of information it will captuer, the higher the amount of information you capture then the closer you can zoom in on objects before the image will become pixilated. A 1.3Megapixel camera is comparable to a 700tvl camera, the 1.3 megapixel camera is a little better. However, when you go to IP cameras, because of the increase of recorded information per video still, your cost of storage space will dramatically increase. I believe a 1.3 or 2 mp camera will average 3+ gig/day. That number really is pulled out of a hat also, the amount of space really depends on how much motion the camera will see, the type of codec used for encoding, the FPS the camera records at, the MP of the camera. I have seen systems with IP cameras on them go through 6tb in a day or two.
If you go PC or standalone on the DVR will depend on how the alarm events are done (such as a door opening). For products such as Geovision you will need to get additional cards such as the GV-NET I/O and the GV I/O 12 IN card. If you go standalone, many have the RS-485 connections already there for the alarm events.
This is by far the most impotent piece of advice I am going to tell you:
Maybe I am missing something and not seeing the bigger picture here, but it just seems silly to bring someone to court over how they initialize an array. IMHO, it is actions like these that really show how broken our(The America) patent system really is.
I am only an individual so I really do not have to worry about having a data farm or anything else like that. I have had decent success with cloud storage. I went with SpiderOak and that haven't been bad. It is fairly cheap (about a $1 per 10gb), has clients that will run in Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, and your data can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection by logging into your account on their site. They claim you data is encrypted before it leaves your PC to their servers and remains encrypted. SpiderOak also claims that they do not have access to your encryption keys so they can never look at your data. What I use is not the best service in the world, they are comparable to Dropbox but doesn't have the features that Dropbox does, but SpiderOak gets the job done. I just needed something that I could keep a backup of my important stuff on and if I need to reformat/reinstall for whatever reason I can get my important data back.
However, I stumbled upon the Cyphertite project the other day and I am considering giving that a try.
I swear I'm one of the only Americans that does not have a smart phone. I am seriously considering returning to a pager. Everyday, as I read more and more articles like this one, I am super happy that I never bought a smart phone and I don't think I ever will. Sure, you can do many wonderful things with an iOS or Android phone, but there are many bad things that can come from them as well.
The company that I work for is thinking of moving off of MS Office because their license is expiring soon and moving towards LibreOffice and Thunderbird. I have been doing the testing for our company trying to work all the "bugs" out and seeing how difficult the migration will be. Now, the company I work for is not very big, just under 50 employees, but it is still a company none the less.
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Also, all they need is to route traffic over their hardware. Sure, you can use SSL and TLS, but I recall an article about the NSA have a majority of the keys from Certificate Authorities. Even if they do not have the correct CA key, I am sure they have a farm of computers ready to brute force crack the key and get the information they need. And no, this doesn't give access to data stored locally on your hard drive, but if you ever upload that data anywhere it can be captured.
This announcement is merely the professional* way for Microsoft to say that they have teamed up with the NSA to bring us Windows 9.
* Professional in the sense of B.S. office politics.
Please don't, Microsoft, I deal with outlook and exchange everyday. From Office 2003 through 2013, server 2003 through 2012, exchange 2003 - 2013, noting but a giant hunk of crap taking up rack space. Nothing but problems, problems and more problems. The little linux server tucked away at the bottom of the rack with a little layer of dust on it? Never has a problem. But those windows servers? Countless hours of sleep lost by all employees because of how often they go down. Please don't include outlook, it hardly works with your own exchange server and works far worse with technologies not developed by you. For the sake of what hair is left on my head, PLEASE STOP.
Agreed.
WOW . . . that place sucks. Could someone post a list of common CCTV cameras with microphones?
It can be difficult to say on which cameras have microphones and which do not. For example, most analog cameras do not have a microphone, but you can place a microphone anywhere and associate it with that camera. A good deal of IP cameras that are on the market and coming to market have microphones built into them. The problem there is you have no real way of knowing if the mic is enabled on that IP camera without looking at the DVR and its configuration or the web interface of the IP camera and its configuration. The new HD-SDI cameras that are starting to come to market in the US have microphones in them as well. Even if the IP cameras or HD-SDI cameras do not come with a microphone, most(not all) have an audio in port where you can connect an external microphone to the camera.
This is a victory for the people. I worked for a CCTV company for over a year and a half. Every move you made and conversation you had was recorded and the management did go back and listen and watch. If you didn't give 110% and say anything that could be remotely offensive to the management, you got called into the office and dealt with. A perfect picture of where we are heading as a nation and as a planet. I will say it again, the CCTV cameras getting turned off is a victory for the people and personal privacy.
If being in posession of chemicals, that when mixed together can cause an explosion, gets you arrested then I am in trouble. I walk around with a deadly concoction in my bowles everyday.
I stuck with Gnome3 for a little while and it did start to grow on me. But then I discovered Cinnamon Desktop and I simply love it.
Seriously, I don't see what Rachel has done wrong here. The world sucks when a person is punished for being the victim of someone's insanity, insecurity, and inability to cope with the real world. When I read about incidents like this I don't want to live in this world anymore.
If you didn't treat your employees like crap then you wouldn't worry about this.
The reason Chrome beats IE on the weekends is because many companies make their workforce use I.E. and other crappy M.S. tools.
Will it blend?
Thanks for sharing! I downloaded Linterna and I'm checking it out right now, so far so good.
I put the car in reverse, check my mirrors, then floor it.
You can replace flash for a couple of big sites right now with FlashVideoReplacer on mozillla. I have been using it for about a week or two now and it's not too bad. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideoreplacer/
Motion activation is easy, just about any DVR does that, and it is crazy simple stupid how it is done. The DVR or the Camera(both can do motion detection) will keep a number of video frames in memory and compare a couple in a series and if too many pixels change between images the change will trigger a motion event. Super simple, and super effective to the point you can have anything like a cars lights driving by set it off. False positives will happen, but it is better to have a surveillance system than not have one at all.
I happen to work with Geovision and Avermedia. Of the two, Geovision has more features but Avermedia is the one that is simpler to use. Depending on how far away the cameras will be and what type of detail you are after will depend on the type of camera. If you suspect people coming on your property then you will want vandal resistant cameras. If you go analog then you will want to go 600 to 700 TV lines. The type of lens you need will depend on what you want to see. A lens that is 3.8mm will have around a 1:1 aspect ratio the higher the mm lens the closer the view and tighter the angle, the smaller the mm lens the smaller the aspect ration but the wider the angle. If you want some serious detail then you will want to look into IP cameras or into HD. While the IP camera will have only a slightly better image when looking at it in the DVR Software, the true beauty of the IP camera comes when you go to use digital zoom. The IP camera is a Megapixel camera, and the higher the Megapixel then higher the amount of information it will captuer, the higher the amount of information you capture then the closer you can zoom in on objects before the image will become pixilated. A 1.3Megapixel camera is comparable to a 700tvl camera, the 1.3 megapixel camera is a little better. However, when you go to IP cameras, because of the increase of recorded information per video still, your cost of storage space will dramatically increase. I believe a 1.3 or 2 mp camera will average 3+ gig/day. That number really is pulled out of a hat also, the amount of space really depends on how much motion the camera will see, the type of codec used for encoding, the FPS the camera records at, the MP of the camera. I have seen systems with IP cameras on them go through 6tb in a day or two.
If you go PC or standalone on the DVR will depend on how the alarm events are done (such as a door opening). For products such as Geovision you will need to get additional cards such as the GV-NET I/O and the GV I/O 12 IN card. If you go standalone, many have the RS-485 connections already there for the alarm events.
This is by far the most impotent piece of advice I am going to tell you:
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
If you buy cheap, you get cheap.
I'm a Christian and I find this completely silly.
Maybe I am missing something and not seeing the bigger picture here, but it just seems silly to bring someone to court over how they initialize an array. IMHO, it is actions like these that really show how broken our(The America) patent system really is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWXf1lAEM
The internet should be more like shirts... :D
I am only an individual so I really do not have to worry about having a data farm or anything else like that. I have had decent success with cloud storage. I went with SpiderOak and that haven't been bad. It is fairly cheap (about a $1 per 10gb), has clients that will run in Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, and your data can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection by logging into your account on their site. They claim you data is encrypted before it leaves your PC to their servers and remains encrypted. SpiderOak also claims that they do not have access to your encryption keys so they can never look at your data. What I use is not the best service in the world, they are comparable to Dropbox but doesn't have the features that Dropbox does, but SpiderOak gets the job done. I just needed something that I could keep a backup of my important stuff on and if I need to reformat/reinstall for whatever reason I can get my important data back. However, I stumbled upon the Cyphertite project the other day and I am considering giving that a try.
omg, i'm such a n00b and fb whore, I tried to thumb up your comment.
Light the paper airplane on fire as you are throwing it.
I swear I'm one of the only Americans that does not have a smart phone. I am seriously considering returning to a pager. Everyday, as I read more and more articles like this one, I am super happy that I never bought a smart phone and I don't think I ever will. Sure, you can do many wonderful things with an iOS or Android phone, but there are many bad things that can come from them as well.
The company that I work for is thinking of moving off of MS Office because their license is expiring soon and moving towards LibreOffice and Thunderbird. I have been doing the testing for our company trying to work all the "bugs" out and seeing how difficult the migration will be. Now, the company I work for is not very big, just under 50 employees, but it is still a company none the less.