I wonder if Garmin even sells the iQue in China. Chances are good they don't, and they probably don't have a trademark for the name there. Even if they did, the devices are in two seperate markets, and could easily coexist with the same name.
Sounds like the cartridge might be flashable, then? If so, it's a cheap way to get a flash cartridge, if we can figure out how to program it.
Is the real time clock in the cartridge itself? It must be if you can use the game on one gameboy, then resume gameplay on another gameboy. Could make for some interesting hacks.
I couldn't neuter the link, so the best bet for everyone to see this particular drive is to search for the SKU, which is 5720419. Another click on the listing in the search and you're there.
It's a Digital Research 4x +-, with 2MB buffer. Prices is $149 with $20 instant savings, and a $30 rebate, making it $99 + tax (though the tax is actually on the $129 price) in the end.
Too bad it isn't circuit city - I love their printed rebates. So easy to fill and send...
I get 1500/128 service from SBC now for $29/mo with no price increase later. It's only specced for 768 down, but apparently they simply let the modem connect at its highest speed. Futhermore, they gave us an ADSL modem/router with both ethernet and wireless (and power line) routing built in.
I would like higher upload, but that's where the kicker is. Most people don't need it, and they can sell hosting services (ie, sell the upload and download seperately - double your money)
I imagine that it'll continue to drop as equipment becomes standard and they don't need to keep buying new equipment. Startup costs for the infrastructure and advertising are what caused the initial high prices. Now that the infrastructure is in place, you'll see more advertising about lower prices and better deals.
tapewyrm writes "I took the 50,000 images my doctor made of my intestinal tract (by hacking into the receiver belt - see the details here) and made them into a panarama view! I think it's the largest digital image made of anyone's digestive tract. I also made it into a 3d shooter, and am looking to sell the rights to my guts. Any takers?" This one $#$@ load of pixels, but is there really a market for such an intimate portrait? We've already got goatse...
This should be in "Your Rights Online" since it contains my personal information:
Age, DL#, SSN, and even my IP! (19216801)
Obviously it's a thinly veiled ploy to steal my identity! I'ma gonna have to sue the student who found this. Be sure to check if you're in there! Luckily they don't have my credit card numbers, but I bet the next big prime is going to have all that and more.
IIRC, phone taxes historically were created two support the poor (as phones were eventually determined to be a basic service that should be available to all) and later to support the 911 emergency location service.
I would be willing to support the frugal application of these two taxes to internet phone usage, except a little more broadly: 911 service given to anyone with an internet connection, and additional phone taxes to cover the cost of providing basic internet connections to the poor.
There may be additional taxes required to regulate the industry (support the FCC a tiny bit, etc) so companies don't completely fleece consumers.
But in the end, the reality is that phone service is so cheap, and internet service so cheap, that to complain about an additional $1/month or less in taxes is being petty.
What? It's $7.00 per month? Well then, fight to the death for your $82/year!
Of course the real issue is that the internet allows anyone to become a phone company overnight, even offshore, so collecting such taxes is going to be practically impossible. Best to go to the local ISPs, turn them into basic phone service providers put a small tax on the internet (flat rate per line/connection regardless of usage or bandwidth) and get rid of the concept of a 'phone company' or 'cable company'. You have connection providers and content providers. Levy the 911 and subsistance tax on the connection. Cellular providers will simply become ISPs, each cell phone a computer, the 'line' between counting as one internet connection. Each person will typically have 2-5 lines (cell, office, home, etc) Since content providers must have a connection, then they too will be taxed. Anyone can become a content provider.
And what better way to say, "I need a new ID" than with the gift of a name, birthdate, address, and other personal information of a convicted felon.
I mean, who'd believe them anyway?
I'm all for sex offender registries, but I think a 'need to know' attitude should be adopted. I don't need to know the sex offenders in the next city, nevermind a completely seperate state, unless I'm visiting for an extended stay with my children, in which case those I am visiting, or the resorts/theme parks, will have access to that information.
Don't make it so easy to abuse, but don't make it so hard that it's not worth the effort for the worrywarts.
#1. That was not a review. It was a promotional
article for the movie. Although the person writing the article appears to have seen the movie, he does not present his opinion about its quality.
#2. No where is the phrase "two thumbs up" used, this being something only done by Ebert & The Other Guy, who are not newsweek columnists.
#3. The word 'installment' has two Ls.
[ Pause ] You've got pages and pages there. And those are all mistakes they've spotted?
I went with a 36' Toshiba 4:3 format screen and it definitely rocks.
Did you have to remodel to fit the 36' screen in your house, or did you just install it in the back yard and look out the window? Does a thirty six foot screen require its own concrete pad?
-Adam
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Eventually IT will become a simple, cheap, commodity service. All the work that can be performed elsewhere, such as tech support, manufacturing, designing, etc will be farmed out to other countries. The only work performed here will be replacing bad computers. Computers will become like cell phones and other embedded devices. Bad ones will be thrown away or sent away to be repaired. Eventually saying "I work on computers" will be equivilant to saying "I clean houses." It isn't a bad thing, but it isn't the innovative, problem solving work most of us really enjoy.
So what's to happen to us geeks? Many will go into design and project management, and liasons. Many will continue to work for a long time in interoperability. Those with PhDs will make patents so companies that don't actually produce anything can make money. Lots will support other growing fields that need custom work, such as bioelectronic technology, nanotechnology, and those other 'pie in the sky' technologies.
Many will go into programming and hope they can sell their vision/idea to the few major content providers - who'll take it and have it developed further by programmers in lower slobovia.
One field programmers can do very well in is the off-shore liason. I was recently asked if I'd like to lead the team of programmers doing the work while making sure it was implemented correctly as well as making sure the specs were correct before actually being sent.
Management likes to deal with people face to face. They also like a buffer they can blame if something doesn't go right.
Well, we've had viruses on the planet for as long as we've been around, and they mutate constantly. Yet, we're still here. Our immune system might have some small part to play in this. Besides, there's nothing inherent in a man-made virus that would make it accquire a taste for human flesh any more than natural viruses do.
I just like doing a cost/benefit and risk analysis before deploying something. If that's a luddite, then I suspect you may have a very broad definition of that term.
Your sentence says, in essence, "Mann can create nothing worse than what nature has already created." and "Man can control it's creations once let loose."
I suspect that this re-wording puts your position in a new perspective for you. Nature created radioactive materials, man made them explode. Nature created viruses, man made vaccines stronger than the virus (with the help of the natural immune system) Nature creates bacteria and modifies it all the time - man creates tragetted antibiotics.
Man creates a bacteria that would not have evolved naturally. He does so before he really understands exactly how what he created operates.
Now you say, "If it mutates, it will be as innocuous as anything else mutated by nature up until now." No, it will mutate differently, and since it was not naturally created, it will not mutate according to the mutations seen up until now.
Sure. It's unlikely that anything we create is going to be dangerous to us now or in the future. Like DDT.
Go ahead. Create your bacteria, get it to do what you want, but don't assume that just because we created it that it's safe.
Please note that when they say, "From scratch" they mean that they created a synthetic genome (probably from portions of other genomes - I doubt they know enough about the base pair sequences to actually have done it base pair by base pair) and inserted it in a 'living' cell.
The cell then started reproducing. They didn't create the cell. They probably didn't design the genome as much as patch one together from other genomes (though they may have 'created' it - physically manufactured it)
They say it's safe because it only infects batceria. Unfortunately, humans depend on bacteria to survive, so it's not nearly as innocuous as one might like to think.
However, these are nano-machines that might do real work safely (cleaning up chemical toxins, etc) - I'm just worried about mutations and how they will develop. You can't create life and expect it to reproduce itself without change over time. Pretty soon it'll discover that human skin is much more plentiful than the chemical toxins it was eating, and it'll change its diet.
Red Hat Linux 9 was installed using mostly default installation options (you can download the ISO images for this GNU/Linux distribution free of charge from redhat.com). The exceptions to the default installation choices are listed here:
* Custom (as opposed to Personal Desktop) installation type.
* Automatic Partitioning.
* System Clock uses UTC.
* No Firewall.
All your robot are belong to me, baby. Oh, I'm sorry, you didn't want to be woken up at 2am to learn about the new FDA approved, no prescription needed Viagara alternative?
So sorry. Won't happen again. At least not for another hour...
You want to cut back on the 100W of heat being released by today's processors?
100W?
I piss 100W when I get up in the morning.
100W will cost you $79 [US] a year if you run it hard and constant every second 24/7/365. ($0.09 per KWH)
In the US, each average family has more power, more cheaply than some cities in other parts of the world.
Furthermore, the energy is still going to be released as heat at some point. Where else does it go??? Sure, you might be able to switch a given transister 3-4 times with the same energy, but once it drops in voltage and current, the transister no longer switches. Furthermore the chips are already being run at 1.x volts, which is barely enough to account for the voltage drop anyway. To get enough energy back after a transister you'd have to put in a greater initial voltage, wasting more heat.
Furthermore, more transisters means more complexity, more electricity, and more speed problems. I'm sure there's some savings, but once you add everything up it simply isn't worth it for mainstream desktop processors.
It may be worthwhile in battery operated, low speed, high efficiency processors, but it'll be a long time before a wall is hit that only this technology can help with.
The reality is that this guy's patent is running out, and he's shopping it around to see if he can eke anything out of it.
"So, are we developing straight for the chip, or what?"
"Well, actually you'll be developing on top of DirectX, which lies on top of a cut down version of XP, which runs on VirtualPC, which runs on a microkernel, which then interfaces with the System Bios and its integrated DRM." ...
"I mean, yeah, it'll be running right on the bare metal, Real Soon Now(TM)..."
"That's what I thought you'd say."
The IBM representative acknowledged that Microsoft is looking at the company's PowerPC technology, the underlying architecture behind the chips in Apple computers. PowerPC concepts will also be the basis of the Cell processor, which will contain multiple chip cores that handle a variety of tasks.
So, MS is going to have to port over a major portion of their kernel, including directx and a few other bits, to the G5? Is this like Apple internally porting OS-X to intel, but never letting the public have it?
Although they have enough problems getting developers to sign exclusivity contracts. They are eating a little of their own pie, by telling developers that you can develop on standard PC hardware and software, then do a straight port over, but you can't sell the PC version for awhile.
Next version better have full-on network multimedia capabilities. I want to run my ripped DVDs on the TV without more than a network cord to me server. My current multimedia computer is too loud, and quiet ones are either too expensive, or too low end (no surround sound, etc)
Except at intersections with medians where all lanes you have access to (from curb to shining curb) have vehicles in them).
The best option is to buy the equipment which allows codes to be changed at will (since most lights have a central link anyway) and cars which can similarily be updated at will. It is currently too difficult to take a snapshot of an emergency beacon and distribute it to other exploiter's quickly enough to be useful if codes could be changed weekly. When it does become bad, change them daily.
Of course, an even better solution is to combine the above with a detector that looks at the light spectrum of the signal and only pays attention when it matches that of a xenon strobe lamp - then it again beceoms a problem of catching people who have strobe lights illegally mounted to their car.
This kind of security thinking is akin to hiding your head in the sand. FIX THE PROBLEM! Don't legislate bans on exploits. DESIGN SUCH THINGS SECURELY IN THE FIRST PLACE! It wouldn't be that hard to have developed it with a cryptographically secure access code system in the first place. Sheesh!
You're right. In fact, I'm going to take your prinicle to heart and exploit the weakness in the locks of your residence. Since you clearly believe that if the lock isn't adequate then the laws shouldn't take effect, I am doing nothing you shouldn't fully expect. Five tumbler locks? Come on! You should have 3ft thick concrete walls, thick steel doors with multiple jamb pins, and a cryptographically secure electric lock which requires something you have, something you know, and something you are. Actually, since that makes you the weak link you shouldn't even give yourself access.
Anarchy is fun to think about intellectually, but at the end of the day I don't want to have to do my own policing, I don't want to make my life cumbersome, and I don't want more than a few percent chance of being robbed/burgled in my life.
Of course, my web server is secured out the yin yang, because police protection does not extend to that area of my life... yet.
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"Using SDSC's prodigious computing facilities, they precomputed 207 billion crypt() hashes in 80 minutes
and are now offering the results on DVD for only $19.99! Call now, operators are standing by!
-Adam
I wonder if Garmin even sells the iQue in China. Chances are good they don't, and they probably don't have a trademark for the name there. Even if they did, the devices are in two seperate markets, and could easily coexist with the same name.
-Adam
Sounds like the cartridge might be flashable, then? If so, it's a cheap way to get a flash cartridge, if we can figure out how to program it.
Is the real time clock in the cartridge itself? It must be if you can use the game on one gameboy, then resume gameplay on another gameboy. Could make for some interesting hacks.
-Adam
I couldn't neuter the link, so the best bet for everyone to see this particular drive is to search for the SKU, which is 5720419. Another click on the listing in the search and you're there.
It's a Digital Research 4x +-, with 2MB buffer. Prices is $149 with $20 instant savings, and a $30 rebate, making it $99 + tax (though the tax is actually on the $129 price) in the end.
Too bad it isn't circuit city - I love their printed rebates. So easy to fill and send...
-Adam
I check every so often, especially when I'm downloading and it's noticably slower than 100KBytes/s.
I just checked, and it appears that not only do I still have the 1536, but they've also upgraded me to 256Kb up!
Sweet!
-Adam
I get 1500/128 service from SBC now for $29/mo with no price increase later. It's only specced for 768 down, but apparently they simply let the modem connect at its highest speed. Futhermore, they gave us an ADSL modem/router with both ethernet and wireless (and power line) routing built in.
I would like higher upload, but that's where the kicker is. Most people don't need it, and they can sell hosting services (ie, sell the upload and download seperately - double your money)
I imagine that it'll continue to drop as equipment becomes standard and they don't need to keep buying new equipment. Startup costs for the infrastructure and advertising are what caused the initial high prices. Now that the infrastructure is in place, you'll see more advertising about lower prices and better deals.
-Adam
tapewyrm writes "I took the 50,000 images my doctor made of my intestinal tract (by hacking into the receiver belt - see the details here) and made them into a panarama view! I think it's the largest digital image made of anyone's digestive tract. I also made it into a 3d shooter, and am looking to sell the rights to my guts. Any takers?" This one $#$@ load of pixels, but is there really a market for such an intimate portrait? We've already got goatse...
-Adam
This should be in "Your Rights Online" since it contains my personal information:
Age, DL#, SSN, and even my IP! (19216801)
Obviously it's a thinly veiled ploy to steal my identity! I'ma gonna have to sue the student who found this. Be sure to check if you're in there! Luckily they don't have my credit card numbers, but I bet the next big prime is going to have all that and more.
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
-Adam
How long after production before...
console manufacturers assert copyright protections?
-Adam
IIRC, phone taxes historically were created two support the poor (as phones were eventually determined to be a basic service that should be available to all) and later to support the 911 emergency location service.
I would be willing to support the frugal application of these two taxes to internet phone usage, except a little more broadly: 911 service given to anyone with an internet connection, and additional phone taxes to cover the cost of providing basic internet connections to the poor.
There may be additional taxes required to regulate the industry (support the FCC a tiny bit, etc) so companies don't completely fleece consumers.
But in the end, the reality is that phone service is so cheap, and internet service so cheap, that to complain about an additional $1/month or less in taxes is being petty.
What? It's $7.00 per month? Well then, fight to the death for your $82/year!
Of course the real issue is that the internet allows anyone to become a phone company overnight, even offshore, so collecting such taxes is going to be practically impossible. Best to go to the local ISPs, turn them into basic phone service providers put a small tax on the internet (flat rate per line/connection regardless of usage or bandwidth) and get rid of the concept of a 'phone company' or 'cable company'. You have connection providers and content providers. Levy the 911 and subsistance tax on the connection. Cellular providers will simply become ISPs, each cell phone a computer, the 'line' between counting as one internet connection. Each person will typically have 2-5 lines (cell, office, home, etc) Since content providers must have a connection, then they too will be taxed. Anyone can become a content provider.
3) Profit!
-Adam
And what better way to say, "I need a new ID" than with the gift of a name, birthdate, address, and other personal information of a convicted felon.
I mean, who'd believe them anyway?
I'm all for sex offender registries, but I think a 'need to know' attitude should be adopted. I don't need to know the sex offenders in the next city, nevermind a completely seperate state, unless I'm visiting for an extended stay with my children, in which case those I am visiting, or the resorts/theme parks, will have access to that information.
Don't make it so easy to abuse, but don't make it so hard that it's not worth the effort for the worrywarts.
-Adam
#1. That was not a review. It was a promotional article for the movie. Although the person writing the article appears to have seen the movie, he does not present his opinion about its quality.
#2. No where is the phrase "two thumbs up" used, this being something only done by Ebert & The Other Guy, who are not newsweek columnists.
#3. The word 'installment' has two Ls.
[ Pause ] You've got pages and pages there. And those are all mistakes they've spotted?
This is slashdot. You must be new around here.
I went with a 36' Toshiba 4:3 format screen and it definitely rocks.
Did you have to remodel to fit the 36' screen in your house, or did you just install it in the back yard and look out the window? Does a thirty six foot screen require its own concrete pad?
-Adam
Eventually IT will become a simple, cheap, commodity service. All the work that can be performed elsewhere, such as tech support, manufacturing, designing, etc will be farmed out to other countries. The only work performed here will be replacing bad computers. Computers will become like cell phones and other embedded devices. Bad ones will be thrown away or sent away to be repaired. Eventually saying "I work on computers" will be equivilant to saying "I clean houses." It isn't a bad thing, but it isn't the innovative, problem solving work most of us really enjoy.
So what's to happen to us geeks? Many will go into design and project management, and liasons. Many will continue to work for a long time in interoperability. Those with PhDs will make patents so companies that don't actually produce anything can make money. Lots will support other growing fields that need custom work, such as bioelectronic technology, nanotechnology, and those other 'pie in the sky' technologies.
Many will go into programming and hope they can sell their vision/idea to the few major content providers - who'll take it and have it developed further by programmers in lower slobovia.
But it's still another 10-20 years along.
-Adam
One field programmers can do very well in is the off-shore liason. I was recently asked if I'd like to lead the team of programmers doing the work while making sure it was implemented correctly as well as making sure the specs were correct before actually being sent.
Management likes to deal with people face to face. They also like a buffer they can blame if something doesn't go right.
-Adam
Well, we've had viruses on the planet for as long as we've been around, and they mutate constantly. Yet, we're still here. Our immune system might have some small part to play in this. Besides, there's nothing inherent in a man-made virus that would make it accquire a taste for human flesh any more than natural viruses do.
I just like doing a cost/benefit and risk analysis before deploying something. If that's a luddite, then I suspect you may have a very broad definition of that term.
Your sentence says, in essence, "Mann can create nothing worse than what nature has already created." and "Man can control it's creations once let loose."
I suspect that this re-wording puts your position in a new perspective for you. Nature created radioactive materials, man made them explode. Nature created viruses, man made vaccines stronger than the virus (with the help of the natural immune system) Nature creates bacteria and modifies it all the time - man creates tragetted antibiotics.
Man creates a bacteria that would not have evolved naturally. He does so before he really understands exactly how what he created operates.
Now you say, "If it mutates, it will be as innocuous as anything else mutated by nature up until now." No, it will mutate differently, and since it was not naturally created, it will not mutate according to the mutations seen up until now.
Sure. It's unlikely that anything we create is going to be dangerous to us now or in the future. Like DDT.
Go ahead. Create your bacteria, get it to do what you want, but don't assume that just because we created it that it's safe.
Life is a tricky thing to play games with.
-Adam
Please note that when they say, "From scratch" they mean that they created a synthetic genome (probably from portions of other genomes - I doubt they know enough about the base pair sequences to actually have done it base pair by base pair) and inserted it in a 'living' cell.
The cell then started reproducing. They didn't create the cell. They probably didn't design the genome as much as patch one together from other genomes (though they may have 'created' it - physically manufactured it)
They say it's safe because it only infects batceria. Unfortunately, humans depend on bacteria to survive, so it's not nearly as innocuous as one might like to think.
However, these are nano-machines that might do real work safely (cleaning up chemical toxins, etc) - I'm just worried about mutations and how they will develop. You can't create life and expect it to reproduce itself without change over time. Pretty soon it'll discover that human skin is much more plentiful than the chemical toxins it was eating, and it'll change its diet.
-Adam
Red Hat Linux 9 was installed using mostly default installation options (you can download the ISO images for this GNU/Linux distribution free of charge from redhat.com). The exceptions to the default installation choices are listed here:
* Custom (as opposed to Personal Desktop) installation type.
* Automatic Partitioning.
* System Clock uses UTC.
* No Firewall.
All your robot are belong to me, baby. Oh, I'm sorry, you didn't want to be woken up at 2am to learn about the new FDA approved, no prescription needed Viagara alternative?
So sorry. Won't happen again. At least not for another hour...
-Adam
You want to cut back on the 100W of heat being released by today's processors?
100W?
I piss 100W when I get up in the morning.
100W will cost you $79 [US] a year if you run it hard and constant every second 24/7/365. ($0.09 per KWH)
In the US, each average family has more power, more cheaply than some cities in other parts of the world.
Furthermore, the energy is still going to be released as heat at some point. Where else does it go??? Sure, you might be able to switch a given transister 3-4 times with the same energy, but once it drops in voltage and current, the transister no longer switches. Furthermore the chips are already being run at 1.x volts, which is barely enough to account for the voltage drop anyway. To get enough energy back after a transister you'd have to put in a greater initial voltage, wasting more heat.
Furthermore, more transisters means more complexity, more electricity, and more speed problems. I'm sure there's some savings, but once you add everything up it simply isn't worth it for mainstream desktop processors.
It may be worthwhile in battery operated, low speed, high efficiency processors, but it'll be a long time before a wall is hit that only this technology can help with.
The reality is that this guy's patent is running out, and he's shopping it around to see if he can eke anything out of it.
-Adam
Best Christmas present ever:
Pack of batteries with label: Toy not included.
-Adam
For the next two months, JBoss will license portions of its code to Geronimo's developers and users for half off, only $699!
-Adam
Yeah, that'll go over well with the developers.
...
"So, are we developing straight for the chip, or what?"
"Well, actually you'll be developing on top of DirectX, which lies on top of a cut down version of XP, which runs on VirtualPC, which runs on a microkernel, which then interfaces with the System Bios and its integrated DRM."
"I mean, yeah, it'll be running right on the bare metal, Real Soon Now(TM)..."
"That's what I thought you'd say."
-Adam
The IBM representative acknowledged that Microsoft is looking at the company's PowerPC technology, the underlying architecture behind the chips in Apple computers. PowerPC concepts will also be the basis of the Cell processor, which will contain multiple chip cores that handle a variety of tasks.
So, MS is going to have to port over a major portion of their kernel, including directx and a few other bits, to the G5? Is this like Apple internally porting OS-X to intel, but never letting the public have it?
Although they have enough problems getting developers to sign exclusivity contracts. They are eating a little of their own pie, by telling developers that you can develop on standard PC hardware and software, then do a straight port over, but you can't sell the PC version for awhile.
Next version better have full-on network multimedia capabilities. I want to run my ripped DVDs on the TV without more than a network cord to me server. My current multimedia computer is too loud, and quiet ones are either too expensive, or too low end (no surround sound, etc)
-Adam
Except at intersections with medians where all lanes you have access to (from curb to shining curb) have vehicles in them).
The best option is to buy the equipment which allows codes to be changed at will (since most lights have a central link anyway) and cars which can similarily be updated at will. It is currently too difficult to take a snapshot of an emergency beacon and distribute it to other exploiter's quickly enough to be useful if codes could be changed weekly. When it does become bad, change them daily.
Of course, an even better solution is to combine the above with a detector that looks at the light spectrum of the signal and only pays attention when it matches that of a xenon strobe lamp - then it again beceoms a problem of catching people who have strobe lights illegally mounted to their car.
-Adam
This kind of security thinking is akin to hiding your head in the sand. FIX THE PROBLEM! Don't legislate bans on exploits. DESIGN SUCH THINGS SECURELY IN THE FIRST PLACE! It wouldn't be that hard to have developed it with a cryptographically secure access code system in the first place. Sheesh!
You're right. In fact, I'm going to take your prinicle to heart and exploit the weakness in the locks of your residence. Since you clearly believe that if the lock isn't adequate then the laws shouldn't take effect, I am doing nothing you shouldn't fully expect. Five tumbler locks? Come on! You should have 3ft thick concrete walls, thick steel doors with multiple jamb pins, and a cryptographically secure electric lock which requires something you have, something you know, and something you are. Actually, since that makes you the weak link you shouldn't even give yourself access.
Anarchy is fun to think about intellectually, but at the end of the day I don't want to have to do my own policing, I don't want to make my life cumbersome, and I don't want more than a few percent chance of being robbed/burgled in my life.
Of course, my web server is secured out the yin yang, because police protection does not extend to that area of my life... yet.
-Adam