Because cameras aren't usually mobile? And thus people can hide things in dead angles?
If there are dead zones, the camera system installer did not do their job correctly.
The robot cannot enter a prisoner's cell when the door is closed. At night all doors are closed and locked. So, at night, the robot will have large dead zones; fixed cameras (which could be IR sensitive) would have no such problems.
Robots need to move around for full coverage. Prisoners will act completely normal when the robot is near, and go back to doing whatever once it has gone. Robots are louder and more easily avoided than a good guard in tennis shoes.
And, for the price of one robot, you can buy a lot of fixed cameras, which require a lot less maintenance. The cameras work 24/7/365, but the robots will have down time for charging.
Exactly. The government paid for the drives, and pre-paid for their destruction. Presumably you are making money on the contract. Other than trying to screw over the government for a few extra dollars profit, what is your goal?
I'm interested in where you would buy the equipment to do this. Who is selling lots of small networked cell phone receivers that would pull the IMEI from the datastream? How cheap are they that a shopping mall can buy a box full? And are those same receivers also able to listen in to the conversations, or are they only monitoring the control channel?
If a small battery can run the thing for a month, even if it channeled all that power into an intentionally interfering signal, it still wouldn't be a problem.
It has at least one, in some cases two, fully functional UHF radio transmitters.
If they make you turn off your phone, why would they not do the same with your Kindle? The Kindle transmits on exactly the same frequencies, with the same power levels, and has far more battery capacity than a phone.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering a case as to whether GPS monitoring of a car constitutes a search in the 4th Amendment sense, i.e. requiring probable cause or a warrant.>
That is a very different situation in the legal sense. GPS monitoring requires the authorities to attach a device to your car - so they must trespass onto your private property, and leave the device on your private property. They also track you whether you are on public or private property. Their use will, hopefully, be found to be "unreasonable search and seizure".
Cameras, on the other hand, do not trespass at all - they only record from a public location what is happening on public property. Their use in the UK is certainly settled case law; their use in the USA is pretty much settled law as well.
If they leave the drive in the laptop, obviously no issue. It would solve the XKCD lead pipe problem.
If the encryption was in hardware (on the drive controller), also no issue.
*Any* solution will not get around pulling out the hard drive, swapping its controller, and running forensics - but if the key/algorithm is sufficiently strong it would take them a while. The thing is that most computer crime labs try the easy things first - so put in a booby trap at one of the easy steps.
Well, you can get the CPU separately - but it *only* comes in a BGA package. So, it does not fit into a socket, it can only be soldered directly to the motherboard.
Atom CPUs are the same way - below a certain price point, it is pointless to waste the parts cost for a socket. (Rough cost for the CPU is probably $25, a socket would cost ~$10).
Aircraft only use EFIS for secondary controls. The *important* stuff - throttle, control surfaces, flaps - is still done by good old traditional mechanical interfaces.
One reason: Mint's heavy handed tendency to replace the default Google search with a 'Mint-ized' version of Google search
Last time I tried Mint, I typed 'google.com' in the browser and got Google. Have they changed that? Or are you just referring to the easily-changed default home page?
Power users who actually customize don't care what they use as long as they have an equivalent to sh and vi.
Well, first, some distros make it much easier to customize than others. It is nice to be able to get productive with a few small tweaks, instead of starting off by typing 'rm -rf *'.
There also needs to be the basic ability to alter settings. For instance, try getting MacOS to understand the basic concept of focus-follows-mouse.
You sound like a lawyer. I think you're on the wrong web site; this is slashdot - we're geeks here.
Sure, they probably won't be able to sell it commercially with Solaris - but I bet that Solaris runs just fine. Might need a device driver or two, but there's a fully supported DDK to make writing them easy. I think that Fujitsu engineers would be slacking if they *didn't* have a prototype unit running Solaris in their lab.
Yeah, only been out three weeks. Good thing that Apple doesn't do any sort of beta testing - not only do those guys find problems, they also tend to lose the product they're testing in bars.
Many companies have what appears to be great years right up to the point they go bankrupt.
One reason being that they lay off employees in large batches - just as RIM are doing. 2000 headcount last quarter (10%). Lower salaries -> higher profits in the short term, but no long term strategy.
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Because cameras aren't usually mobile? And thus people can hide things in dead angles?
If there are dead zones, the camera system installer did not do their job correctly.
The robot cannot enter a prisoner's cell when the door is closed. At night all doors are closed and locked. So, at night, the robot will have large dead zones; fixed cameras (which could be IR sensitive) would have no such problems.
Robots need to move around for full coverage. Prisoners will act completely normal when the robot is near, and go back to doing whatever once it has gone. Robots are louder and more easily avoided than a good guard in tennis shoes.
And, for the price of one robot, you can buy a lot of fixed cameras, which require a lot less maintenance. The cameras work 24/7/365, but the robots will have down time for charging.
Exactly. The government paid for the drives, and pre-paid for their destruction. Presumably you are making money on the contract. Other than trying to screw over the government for a few extra dollars profit, what is your goal?
Not true. The FCC has banned listening to the cellphone bands for a very long time now.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Scanner_(radio)#Legal_issues_in_the_US
I'm interested in where you would buy the equipment to do this. Who is selling lots of small networked cell phone receivers that would pull the IMEI from the datastream? How cheap are they that a shopping mall can buy a box full? And are those same receivers also able to listen in to the conversations, or are they only monitoring the control channel?
And then people wonder why Linux isn't more popular in the business world.
Apparently the Prius already does that. I see lots of them 'parked' at 55 MPH in the fast lane of the interstate every day.
You still have to sit behind the wheel ready to take over the moment you spot danger. No reading the paper.
People around here read the paper (amongst other things) while driving *current* cars. I can't see this one making things any better.
If a small battery can run the thing for a month, even if it channeled all that power into an intentionally interfering signal, it still wouldn't be a problem.
It has at least one, in some cases two, fully functional UHF radio transmitters.
If they make you turn off your phone, why would they not do the same with your Kindle? The Kindle transmits on exactly the same frequencies, with the same power levels, and has far more battery capacity than a phone.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering a case as to whether GPS monitoring of a car constitutes a search in the 4th Amendment sense, i.e. requiring probable cause or a warrant.>
That is a very different situation in the legal sense. GPS monitoring requires the authorities to attach a device to your car - so they must trespass onto your private property, and leave the device on your private property. They also track you whether you are on public or private property. Their use will, hopefully, be found to be "unreasonable search and seizure".
Cameras, on the other hand, do not trespass at all - they only record from a public location what is happening on public property. Their use in the UK is certainly settled case law; their use in the USA is pretty much settled law as well.
If they leave the drive in the laptop, obviously no issue. It would solve the XKCD lead pipe problem.
If the encryption was in hardware (on the drive controller), also no issue.
*Any* solution will not get around pulling out the hard drive, swapping its controller, and running forensics - but if the key/algorithm is sufficiently strong it would take them a while. The thing is that most computer crime labs try the easy things first - so put in a booby trap at one of the easy steps.
You use password #1, but if arrested you give up password #2.
Intel isn't just a chip maker (it has oodles of software experience)
Has Intel ever done any software other than to boost hardware sales?
Sure, they write lots of software, but they *are* just a chip maker.
So you will still need your own iPhone 4S.
You don't need your own, you just need a unique ID.
I'm sure that there must be someone you don't like who owns an iPhone? Just borrow it for a sec to "make a quick call"...
Well, you can get the CPU separately - but it *only* comes in a BGA package. So, it does not fit into a socket, it can only be soldered directly to the motherboard.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/nano/
Atom CPUs are the same way - below a certain price point, it is pointless to waste the parts cost for a socket. (Rough cost for the CPU is probably $25, a socket would cost ~$10).
No, don't use knobs .. what's wrong with using a 2nd display .. with a touch based UI.
Touch based UIs only work if you are looking at them.
Car analogy: imagine a car with all of the controls on an iPad, which you put on your lap. Try driving while watching the road.
Aircraft only use EFIS for secondary controls. The *important* stuff - throttle, control surfaces, flaps - is still done by good old traditional mechanical interfaces.
So, in other words, you're agreeing with the OP.
You do know that this is one of the settings you can change, right?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar?s=search+provider&r=2&as=s#w_switching-search-engines
One reason: Mint's heavy handed tendency to replace the default Google search with a 'Mint-ized' version of Google search
Last time I tried Mint, I typed 'google.com' in the browser and got Google. Have they changed that? Or are you just referring to the easily-changed default home page?
Power users who actually customize don't care what they use as long as they have an equivalent to sh and vi.
Well, first, some distros make it much easier to customize than others. It is nice to be able to get productive with a few small tweaks, instead of starting off by typing 'rm -rf *'.
There also needs to be the basic ability to alter settings. For instance, try getting MacOS to understand the basic concept of focus-follows-mouse.
Wouldn't it be smarter to reward the troops with decent employment, instead of hiring them into mind-numbing dead end jobs?
Besides, I'm slightly worried about hiring people who are completely comfortable with guns in the workplace into high-stress positions.
How do you know that isn't the default Mint 12 screensaver?
It cannot and will not ever run Solaris.
You sound like a lawyer. I think you're on the wrong web site; this is slashdot - we're geeks here.
// posted from my x86 laptop running solaris
Sure, they probably won't be able to sell it commercially with Solaris - but I bet that Solaris runs just fine. Might need a device driver or two, but there's a fully supported DDK to make writing them easy. I think that Fujitsu engineers would be slacking if they *didn't* have a prototype unit running Solaris in their lab.
Yeah, only been out three weeks. Good thing that Apple doesn't do any sort of beta testing - not only do those guys find problems, they also tend to lose the product they're testing in bars.
Meg Whitman is just continuing her drive to make eBay successful.
...the most popular vi-compatible text editor.
Isn't vi the most popular vi-compatible editor??
I'm a regular daily vi user. This vim thing must be something new.
Many companies have what appears to be great years right up to the point they go bankrupt.
One reason being that they lay off employees in large batches - just as RIM are doing. 2000 headcount last quarter (10%). Lower salaries -> higher profits in the short term, but no long term strategy.
A significant bad sign is that their executives are running quickly for the exits.