From TFA : "The mistake was an âoeisolated event,â Lakshman said, and promised a detailed review, which would include a discussion about compensation."
"A small number of our customers may be experiencing a minor problem with..." is standard big provider boilerplate for "between some and most of our customers are having a major problem with..."
Until proven otherwise, when I hear "a small number of...", I immediately translate that into "a few have yet to complain to us about..."
It's illegal to use a VPN that the government can't decrypt and monitor the traffic on. And they're not just wanting access "in case they need it", they run software 24/7 that flags "items of interest" for human review. If they find you're breaking any laws, as defined by their legal system (clerics and thousand year old books), or doing anything that threatens their control over their sheep (not the hoofed variety) then they lock you up or behead you or whatever they feel is appropriate.
Considering the broadness of their laws, the harshness of their penalties, and the almost complete lack of legal protection the average (non wealthy) citizen has over there, it's basically dangerous to use the internet over there, for any reason. A week of monitoring you, regardless of what you were trying to do or not do, and they are likely to have enough dirt to hang you (literally) if they feel like it. It's a scary place to live.
Web search for some goat milk recipes. Click a link. Wow look at that, the banner ad on that page is showing titties! Your computer has just downloaded porn, which is illegal to possess. That's all it takes over there to lock you up. I can't imagine how you'd go about actually using the internet over there without setting yourself up. It's a shame really, all these controlling countries (be they religious or just plain dictators like NK) are forced to create an environment of stagnation to maintain their control, and they care more for that then the future of their country. Quite sad for the people. I look at it and it's like being in the supermarket and watching some mother just scream at her kids, treating them like crap, and wishing you could do something about it, but you can't. Depressing to watch.
"Patient responds well to placebos" "Patient is a looney hypochondriac, but has lots of money. Recommend all possible expensive tests." "Patient is an addict, faking symptoms in order to get painkillers."
My knee-jerk reaction to this is of course "there's NO good reason to withhold my medical information from me!", which was only made worse by the surprising statistics of doctors that wanted to keep it hidden from my view. But you raise some very good points.
Perhaps what's needed here is a two-section medical record. Things that should be shared with the patient, (which should be the default behavior) and things that should NOT be shared with them, for their own benefit. The patient should not be able to determine if the "not to share" section contains information or not.
But as for the 2nd of your examples, yes a hidden feature is abusable. But this is your DOCTOR we're talking about. They are in a position of trust. If you don't trust your doctor, you need to find a new one. If you're a doctor and you've proven yourself untrustworthy, you need to be delicensed. It should be safe to assume you can trust your doctor. Given that, they should be allowed to selectively hide information from you for your benefit.
Like the old saying goes, there are two people in life you should never lie to: your doctor, and your lawyer. Because it's their exclusive job to represent and protect your best interest. And you need to be able to completely trust them both, because your health and your freedom are on the line, and they're the ones you're relying on to protect that.
I don't like the idea of filibusters, it's a way to take advantage of the system and prevent legislation with majority support from passing. That said, I don't care for the drone strikes either. So I don't know which is the lesser of the two evils.
Do I support the filibuster, based on the contemptable bill it's trying to block, or do I condemn it since it could just as easily be used tomorrow to prevent passage of a bill I'd like to see pass and that has majority support? I suppose in the end, if the rest of the system were working correctly, (and often it's not) then majority should rule, and filibusters should be illegal. I can't support something that's bad in principle simply because it's convenient for me this time.
Shows why you need to embrace and innovate in new areas as technology advances. Too bad Kodak didn't figure out this lesson, we see where they went. Bravo, Canon! I hope they put that in their powershot line, I'm on my 3rd powershot and it suits me very well.
with another summer coming up, Japan has been hurting for power after the shutdowns. Such a small land mass and so many people, nuclear power is really their best option. It takes a LOT of power to AC that many people on a sweltering Japanese summer day.
space is at an extreme premium in those drives. There's a reason they feel so heavy/dense. Given the quilting layout of the chips, adding a single cap would prevent several memory chips from fitting. So you may as well then fill that remaining space with more caps. But you will reduce capacity, and that's what sells SSDs.
There's already a substantial amount of circuitry in them, far from "basic". It's essentially a CPU. I'd be interested to see some numbers as to average power drain during idle, read, and write.
The ones that did the best during the power blips probably did have caps and a bit more in their power system to handle it though. It certainly does surprise me that the mid-range, not the high-end, were the best performers in this test.
Most ISP's TOSes for home users technically disallow listening to incoming ports from the internet or any "server-like" behavior.
Not from my experience. And I've had around a dozen ISPs over the years. And I have two at the moment.
The ONLY snag I've ran into in the past is having a mailserver listening on port 25, for obvious reasons. One phonecall and that block went away. I've heard of others having issues with outgoing connections on 110 for much the same reason, but traffic levels are low on my server so it's never set off anything. ymmv.
There's really no reason for them to limit you nowadays. Their upstream caps do the job for them.
No, they do not fix everything at once, so fucking what? They are at least trying to fix part of the problem.
Yeah would be nice to have all the worlds problems solved in one go, but you know what, it's much easier to fix it if we solve it one step at a time.
Sometimes a partial fix can make a problem more difficult to completely fix. When they fix one part of a problem, the other parts that remain look much less severe and risk becoming "too low of a priority" / too minor of an issue to get fixed.
So in some cases it's best to get it all, like a weed, get the whole root not just a bit at a time or you'll be at it all day. I think this is such a case, where they should have fully addressed the issue. Now, they've lowered the urgency of the remaining problems, and lost a lot of momentum.
There was very little opposition, this really wasn't an issue where there was a big two-faction battle going on that required compromise. But that's what they did.
addressed here. The other half is where people get patents on stupidly obvious things and sit on them ("submarine patents", like online shopping cart) and then, without ever having attempted to implement the patent, pounce when someone else does something loosely similar.
So it only covers half the problem, only affecting those that buy said patents as fire for their litigation, but this is a good start anyway. This will at least deal with the larger patent trolls that make their entire business model out of buying patents that should have never been issued, and them using them to game the patent system and extort money. They really never had a hint of innovation, even if the original inventor may have.
this is a "build it and they will come" sort of thing. Just the same as the 640k ram issue. Make more ram common, apps will use it, making it more a requirement than an option. Then when that settles down, bump ram again and the cycle repeats.
It's difficult to predict when you're going to hit a ceiling on technical resources like this. Memory, hard drive capacity, processor speed, internet speed, miniaturization, resolution, battery life, peripheral speed. It all works the same. More is better. Then more becomes standard and taken better advantage of, then expected, then disappointing, and so we want even MORE.
They have no point. You can look back a handful of years ago and see dozens, hundreds of arguments like this that evaporated over time. How about multicore cell phones? That's an emerging More right now. It was being laughed at and "why would you EVER need that?" just a few years ago. And now some are available, and suddenly everyone else's phone is "sooo slow." Or how about USB3? I could suffocate in examples so I'm going to stop here. If you still don't get it, you never will.
the ISP here (mediacrap) has a "three strikes" rule. EVERY time they get an infringement letter they shut off your internet until you contact them, starting with the first accusation. They'll turn it back on again after you call them. They also mail you a letter, but unless you were out of town when they pulled the plug, you're likely to have already called and talked with them by the time you get the letter.
After the 2nd one, you have to return the letter signed to acknowledge you got it. After the 3rd notice, they take your service down for a week. There's no throttling involved at any point, just an itchy trigger finger on the kill switch.
The last notice I got from them was for torrenting an anime episode of a series that wasn't available for sale in the US at any price. I'd left it seeding and I think the day it got licensed I got tagged.
Can someone explain to me how they can charge me to review the legality of my case? I realize they're offering to "give it back" if I win, but that's not relevant. I shouldn't have to pay for judicial oversight. Imagine if you got a speeding ticket and had to pay the court to hear your case where it clocked the car that just blew by you? Even if the court refunded your money if you won the appeal, that's still justice that you have to front money for, and it's wrong
Another good example would be public defenders. Imagine if you had to pay for a public defender, and you'd only get your money back if you were found innocent? You shouldn't have to front money to get access to justice.
I will be very surprised if this doesn't go to court real quick. "Guilty until PAID innocent" isn't going to hold up well in court.
I agree with this approach. But I can think of two examples of when I would like to get sound from an inactive tab.
1. when doing those LivePerson chats, that chime when a person replies. They can take minutes to respond sometimes, and I'm frequently off in another tab or window or even another app entirely and need to hear the alert lest I get the "hello? are you there? since you're no longer responding I'm hanging up" and cost me another 20 minutes getting through queue again.
2. I frequently open a series of tabs with videos, and when I hear one start I know it's done buffering and switch to it. So I like to hear when it starts, but it'd be nice to have a sound icon in the tab to see WHICH page has finished loading.
So I think rather than a "frontmost only", I would prefer just an icon on the tab indicating what page is making noise. And make it clickable, to toggle mute for that tab. In safari, when you mouseover a tab, it unhides a [x] on the left side so you can close a tab without selecting it. Just add a [>] speaker box on the right side if the page has a sound element.
Nothing more annoying than getting ambushed by one of those lovely flash ads that starts babbling while you're trying to listen to music. Or just plain won't shut up and no idea where it's coming from and have to close tabs and windows until to gets quiet. And then try to remember what tab it was you just closed, so next time you open it you can deal with it.
but you have to consider, is genetic engineering the next step in the evolution... of evolution?
It's like tools. Tools are an upgrade to evolution - you can improve your fitness without waiting for a generation and random chance. AND you can pass those beneficial 'traits" on to others to benefit from immediately.
Genetic engineering has the same potential as tools, for rapid adaptation and improvement. It's faster and far less random than natural evolution.
Cameras do a lot more than just identify perps. Imagine you get robbed and they catch a guy at the pawn shop with your computer.
"That wasn't me!" 1. shows clear picture of perp at your house, including the same cool tshirt he's wearing today. and that tattoo looks identical.
"I didn't take anything besides this computer!" 2. shows everything he left your house with, including some things the insurance company is trying to say you falsely added to the claim report.
"OK so I took a few things. Pit me, I had no money for food!" 3. cut to near the end when he stops to smoke a rock or two before leaving.
"nope, nobody but me!" 4. shows all three of you at the house hauling stuff off
"they said they'd kill me if I ratted them out, but it wasn't my idea, they made me come with them!" 5. shows a willing participant, that even appears to be giving directions to the other two, so who's really the mastermind of this theft?
"I didn't break that, that antique table was like that when we got there, you're just trying to blame me for your busted furniture!' 6. no, it was fine until you jumped up on it and danced a jig while drinking that bottle of vodka you found in the fridge. And we're adding that to the list of stolen items now, thanks for reminding us about that.
"ok so I broke a few things. it wasn't on PURPOSE!" 7. then how do you explain your lighting a rag and tossing it on the carpet just as you leave? fortunately it smoldered and went out and didn't catch the place on fire."
"ok you got me. but those other places you're trying to pin on me, I had NOTHING to do with those other hits!" 8. nice list you got out at 22:15, I see you drawing a line through one on the list. We've got forensics working on the image to see if we can get a positive match on the others that are crossed out, some of them are pretty clear even from that distance. Oh wait we found that list in the alley behind your house, good thing we can positively link it with you now, add five more robberies to your docket.
I could go on for awhile with different sorts of examples of how criminals try to weasel out of things and how cameras can extinguish reasonable doubt, but you get the idea.
oh everyone's having fun with that word today. My take: "'destabilization' of the outdated, abusive-to-the-public, outdated business model still being relied on by a large portion of the software industry, including us.'"
If he had a DVR security system and multiple cameras.... well, they'd be gone too, wouldn't they?
depends on a lot of factors. If they have all weekend while you're gone visiting relatives, they can be pretty thorough about finding such things.
OTOH, if you have a few discrete cameras feeding a DVR box on a dark shelf downstairs above the washing machine and they're more interested in grabbing the low hanging high-dollar fruit and running with it, (most likely) then the DVR will go unnoticed and untouched.
My cameras aren't discrete, but finding the DVR itself would actually take them awhile even with a sledgehammer and drywall saw. I would be getting an email shortly after the break-in anyway, so even if the cops are slow to get there, I very much doubt they'd have found my DVR by the time they have my house surrounded.
Most houses have small places that are well protected and make good hiding spots for DVRs. If you've lived in a house long enough, you should be able to think about it for awhile and start realizing where these "hides" are at. In a pinch, most DVRs will easily fit between studs in a wall. Just make a hole, run power and the camera wires down through the floor into the basement to route, and then screw down a cover plate and shove a dresser in front of it. Following wires between floors can be challenging even when you're familiar with the house. Odds are a determined burglar that realizes he's been recorded will have to bust into a number of walls before finding your DVR.
And of course offsite copy of video will spoil their efforts. If they're sophisticated enough to cut communications lines before B&E then you may be outgunned anyway. My fav video to watch was of a couple on vacation that remoted into their webcam at home to WATCH people burgling their house. They recorded the video on the computer they were watching from, whist calling the police. Priceless.
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"A small number of our customers may be experiencing a minor problem with..." is standard big provider boilerplate for "between some and most of our customers are having a major problem with..."
Until proven otherwise, when I hear "a small number of...", I immediately translate that into "a few have yet to complain to us about..."
It's illegal to use a VPN that the government can't decrypt and monitor the traffic on. And they're not just wanting access "in case they need it", they run software 24/7 that flags "items of interest" for human review. If they find you're breaking any laws, as defined by their legal system (clerics and thousand year old books), or doing anything that threatens their control over their sheep (not the hoofed variety) then they lock you up or behead you or whatever they feel is appropriate.
Considering the broadness of their laws, the harshness of their penalties, and the almost complete lack of legal protection the average (non wealthy) citizen has over there, it's basically dangerous to use the internet over there, for any reason. A week of monitoring you, regardless of what you were trying to do or not do, and they are likely to have enough dirt to hang you (literally) if they feel like it. It's a scary place to live.
Web search for some goat milk recipes. Click a link. Wow look at that, the banner ad on that page is showing titties! Your computer has just downloaded porn, which is illegal to possess. That's all it takes over there to lock you up. I can't imagine how you'd go about actually using the internet over there without setting yourself up. It's a shame really, all these controlling countries (be they religious or just plain dictators like NK) are forced to create an environment of stagnation to maintain their control, and they care more for that then the future of their country. Quite sad for the people. I look at it and it's like being in the supermarket and watching some mother just scream at her kids, treating them like crap, and wishing you could do something about it, but you can't. Depressing to watch.
to leak something USING the source's computers deserves to get caught. Just sayin'
My knee-jerk reaction to this is of course "there's NO good reason to withhold my medical information from me!", which was only made worse by the surprising statistics of doctors that wanted to keep it hidden from my view. But you raise some very good points.
Perhaps what's needed here is a two-section medical record. Things that should be shared with the patient, (which should be the default behavior) and things that should NOT be shared with them, for their own benefit. The patient should not be able to determine if the "not to share" section contains information or not.
But as for the 2nd of your examples, yes a hidden feature is abusable. But this is your DOCTOR we're talking about. They are in a position of trust. If you don't trust your doctor, you need to find a new one. If you're a doctor and you've proven yourself untrustworthy, you need to be delicensed. It should be safe to assume you can trust your doctor. Given that, they should be allowed to selectively hide information from you for your benefit.
Like the old saying goes, there are two people in life you should never lie to: your doctor, and your lawyer. Because it's their exclusive job to represent and protect your best interest. And you need to be able to completely trust them both, because your health and your freedom are on the line, and they're the ones you're relying on to protect that.
I don't like the idea of filibusters, it's a way to take advantage of the system and prevent legislation with majority support from passing. That said, I don't care for the drone strikes either. So I don't know which is the lesser of the two evils.
Do I support the filibuster, based on the contemptable bill it's trying to block, or do I condemn it since it could just as easily be used tomorrow to prevent passage of a bill I'd like to see pass and that has majority support? I suppose in the end, if the rest of the system were working correctly, (and often it's not) then majority should rule, and filibusters should be illegal. I can't support something that's bad in principle simply because it's convenient for me this time.
another thing I love that I can't eat? they're just throwing more salt in my wound!
Shows why you need to embrace and innovate in new areas as technology advances. Too bad Kodak didn't figure out this lesson, we see where they went. Bravo, Canon! I hope they put that in their powershot line, I'm on my 3rd powershot and it suits me very well.
with another summer coming up, Japan has been hurting for power after the shutdowns. Such a small land mass and so many people, nuclear power is really their best option. It takes a LOT of power to AC that many people on a sweltering Japanese summer day.
Because they don't follow the Dilbert Principle to manage the project schedule.
space is at an extreme premium in those drives. There's a reason they feel so heavy/dense. Given the quilting layout of the chips, adding a single cap would prevent several memory chips from fitting. So you may as well then fill that remaining space with more caps. But you will reduce capacity, and that's what sells SSDs.
There's already a substantial amount of circuitry in them, far from "basic". It's essentially a CPU. I'd be interested to see some numbers as to average power drain during idle, read, and write.
The ones that did the best during the power blips probably did have caps and a bit more in their power system to handle it though. It certainly does surprise me that the mid-range, not the high-end, were the best performers in this test.
Not from my experience. And I've had around a dozen ISPs over the years. And I have two at the moment.
The ONLY snag I've ran into in the past is having a mailserver listening on port 25, for obvious reasons. One phonecall and that block went away. I've heard of others having issues with outgoing connections on 110 for much the same reason, but traffic levels are low on my server so it's never set off anything. ymmv.
There's really no reason for them to limit you nowadays. Their upstream caps do the job for them.
Sometimes a partial fix can make a problem more difficult to completely fix. When they fix one part of a problem, the other parts that remain look much less severe and risk becoming "too low of a priority" / too minor of an issue to get fixed.
So in some cases it's best to get it all, like a weed, get the whole root not just a bit at a time or you'll be at it all day. I think this is such a case, where they should have fully addressed the issue. Now, they've lowered the urgency of the remaining problems, and lost a lot of momentum.
There was very little opposition, this really wasn't an issue where there was a big two-faction battle going on that required compromise. But that's what they did.
addressed here. The other half is where people get patents on stupidly obvious things and sit on them ("submarine patents", like online shopping cart) and then, without ever having attempted to implement the patent, pounce when someone else does something loosely similar.
So it only covers half the problem, only affecting those that buy said patents as fire for their litigation, but this is a good start anyway. This will at least deal with the larger patent trolls that make their entire business model out of buying patents that should have never been issued, and them using them to game the patent system and extort money. They really never had a hint of innovation, even if the original inventor may have.
this is a "build it and they will come" sort of thing. Just the same as the 640k ram issue. Make more ram common, apps will use it, making it more a requirement than an option. Then when that settles down, bump ram again and the cycle repeats.
It's difficult to predict when you're going to hit a ceiling on technical resources like this. Memory, hard drive capacity, processor speed, internet speed, miniaturization, resolution, battery life, peripheral speed. It all works the same. More is better. Then more becomes standard and taken better advantage of, then expected, then disappointing, and so we want even MORE.
They have no point. You can look back a handful of years ago and see dozens, hundreds of arguments like this that evaporated over time. How about multicore cell phones? That's an emerging More right now. It was being laughed at and "why would you EVER need that?" just a few years ago. And now some are available, and suddenly everyone else's phone is "sooo slow." Or how about USB3? I could suffocate in examples so I'm going to stop here. If you still don't get it, you never will.
I wasn't aware that Kansas City was considered "one of the smallest cities in america"?
all typeos will be hidden despite use of preview button, but will become immediately obvious two seconds after clicking POST.
That 2nd line if you coulnd't figure it out, was supposed to start with "linux: " :P
mac: "The pdf was corrupted and could not be opened. Try downloading again."
mac: "The pdf was corrupted and could not be opened, open in raw text view?"
windows: "This document requires age verification to view. Please verify your internet connection and enter a valid credit card number to proceed."
the ISP here (mediacrap) has a "three strikes" rule. EVERY time they get an infringement letter they shut off your internet until you contact them, starting with the first accusation. They'll turn it back on again after you call them. They also mail you a letter, but unless you were out of town when they pulled the plug, you're likely to have already called and talked with them by the time you get the letter.
After the 2nd one, you have to return the letter signed to acknowledge you got it. After the 3rd notice, they take your service down for a week. There's no throttling involved at any point, just an itchy trigger finger on the kill switch.
The last notice I got from them was for torrenting an anime episode of a series that wasn't available for sale in the US at any price. I'd left it seeding and I think the day it got licensed I got tagged.
Can someone explain to me how they can charge me to review the legality of my case? I realize they're offering to "give it back" if I win, but that's not relevant. I shouldn't have to pay for judicial oversight. Imagine if you got a speeding ticket and had to pay the court to hear your case where it clocked the car that just blew by you? Even if the court refunded your money if you won the appeal, that's still justice that you have to front money for, and it's wrong
Another good example would be public defenders. Imagine if you had to pay for a public defender, and you'd only get your money back if you were found innocent? You shouldn't have to front money to get access to justice.
I will be very surprised if this doesn't go to court real quick. "Guilty until PAID innocent" isn't going to hold up well in court.
I agree with this approach. But I can think of two examples of when I would like to get sound from an inactive tab.
1. when doing those LivePerson chats, that chime when a person replies. They can take minutes to respond sometimes, and I'm frequently off in another tab or window or even another app entirely and need to hear the alert lest I get the "hello? are you there? since you're no longer responding I'm hanging up" and cost me another 20 minutes getting through queue again.
2. I frequently open a series of tabs with videos, and when I hear one start I know it's done buffering and switch to it. So I like to hear when it starts, but it'd be nice to have a sound icon in the tab to see WHICH page has finished loading.
So I think rather than a "frontmost only", I would prefer just an icon on the tab indicating what page is making noise. And make it clickable, to toggle mute for that tab. In safari, when you mouseover a tab, it unhides a [x] on the left side so you can close a tab without selecting it. Just add a [>] speaker box on the right side if the page has a sound element.
Nothing more annoying than getting ambushed by one of those lovely flash ads that starts babbling while you're trying to listen to music. Or just plain won't shut up and no idea where it's coming from and have to close tabs and windows until to gets quiet. And then try to remember what tab it was you just closed, so next time you open it you can deal with it.
but you have to consider, is genetic engineering the next step in the evolution... of evolution?
It's like tools. Tools are an upgrade to evolution - you can improve your fitness without waiting for a generation and random chance. AND you can pass those beneficial 'traits" on to others to benefit from immediately.
Genetic engineering has the same potential as tools, for rapid adaptation and improvement. It's faster and far less random than natural evolution.
Cameras do a lot more than just identify perps. Imagine you get robbed and they catch a guy at the pawn shop with your computer.
"That wasn't me!"
1. shows clear picture of perp at your house, including the same cool tshirt he's wearing today. and that tattoo looks identical.
"I didn't take anything besides this computer!"
2. shows everything he left your house with, including some things the insurance company is trying to say you falsely added to the claim report.
"OK so I took a few things. Pit me, I had no money for food!"
3. cut to near the end when he stops to smoke a rock or two before leaving.
"nope, nobody but me!"
4. shows all three of you at the house hauling stuff off
"they said they'd kill me if I ratted them out, but it wasn't my idea, they made me come with them!"
5. shows a willing participant, that even appears to be giving directions to the other two, so who's really the mastermind of this theft?
"I didn't break that, that antique table was like that when we got there, you're just trying to blame me for your busted furniture!'
6. no, it was fine until you jumped up on it and danced a jig while drinking that bottle of vodka you found in the fridge. And we're adding that to the list of stolen items now, thanks for reminding us about that.
"ok so I broke a few things. it wasn't on PURPOSE!"
7. then how do you explain your lighting a rag and tossing it on the carpet just as you leave? fortunately it smoldered and went out and didn't catch the place on fire."
"ok you got me. but those other places you're trying to pin on me, I had NOTHING to do with those other hits!"
8. nice list you got out at 22:15, I see you drawing a line through one on the list. We've got forensics working on the image to see if we can get a positive match on the others that are crossed out, some of them are pretty clear even from that distance. Oh wait we found that list in the alley behind your house, good thing we can positively link it with you now, add five more robberies to your docket.
I could go on for awhile with different sorts of examples of how criminals try to weasel out of things and how cameras can extinguish reasonable doubt, but you get the idea.
oh everyone's having fun with that word today. My take: "'destabilization' of the outdated, abusive-to-the-public, outdated business model still being relied on by a large portion of the software industry, including us.'"
But how they said it is so much shorter.
depends on a lot of factors. If they have all weekend while you're gone visiting relatives, they can be pretty thorough about finding such things.
OTOH, if you have a few discrete cameras feeding a DVR box on a dark shelf downstairs above the washing machine and they're more interested in grabbing the low hanging high-dollar fruit and running with it, (most likely) then the DVR will go unnoticed and untouched.
My cameras aren't discrete, but finding the DVR itself would actually take them awhile even with a sledgehammer and drywall saw. I would be getting an email shortly after the break-in anyway, so even if the cops are slow to get there, I very much doubt they'd have found my DVR by the time they have my house surrounded.
Most houses have small places that are well protected and make good hiding spots for DVRs. If you've lived in a house long enough, you should be able to think about it for awhile and start realizing where these "hides" are at. In a pinch, most DVRs will easily fit between studs in a wall. Just make a hole, run power and the camera wires down through the floor into the basement to route, and then screw down a cover plate and shove a dresser in front of it. Following wires between floors can be challenging even when you're familiar with the house. Odds are a determined burglar that realizes he's been recorded will have to bust into a number of walls before finding your DVR.
And of course offsite copy of video will spoil their efforts. If they're sophisticated enough to cut communications lines before B&E then you may be outgunned anyway. My fav video to watch was of a couple on vacation that remoted into their webcam at home to WATCH people burgling their house. They recorded the video on the computer they were watching from, whist calling the police. Priceless.
"Large corporations want more visa, they claim, because of a shortage of dirt cheap IT talent"
There, ftfy