The Netbotz unit (a 320 would do) with a fluid sensor on the floor would monitor your house's temperature, humidity, and air speed as well as provide a door contact switch and sense water on the floor. Units with and without cameras are available. A multifloor dwelling would be a bigger challenge, of course. http://www.netbotz.com/
I don't work for them; I just use their products and am reasonably satisfied.
I couldn't stand to live in that suburb of Buffalo, so no, I don't live in the GTA, and at least once a week I express thanks for it.
It's Correctional Services Canada, and the goal is Safety, Respect and Dignity for all. One hopes the "safety for all" includes us on the outside. Don't get too excited about the inclusion of [correctional,corrections] in the title of the department, as virtually all penal systems are termed "correctional" (cf California Department of Corrections). That verbal misdirection is called political correctness, and doesn't have any real meaning.
Now that we've discussed your squad of strawmen, I agree you are indeed off topic as none of the third strike or incarceration discussion has anything to do with police states, which was Lellor's calmly stated (as opposed to your hysterical rant) premise.
Hmm, oddly enough I was recruited here, so I'd say you're wrong.
Let's see: What country has spent billions on registering firearms to no utility? CSIS can wiretap without judicial approval. New legislation proposed this fall will allow eavesdropping on cellular telephone calls and monitoring of internet service. (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=conte nt&task=view&id=935)
While the US has remanded people to Guantanamo Bay as part of the war, Canada, a country which is not participating, has its own "Gitmo": read up on Mahmoud Jaballah.
As you say, these items are common knowledge.
Those "strikes" you mention would be murder, carjacking, rape and similar "strikes". Rather than returning to the street to reoffend (cf. violent recidivism in Canada is 13%; Paul Bernardo may apply for parole in 2008), they remain incarcerated after thrice proving that they are unable to rejoin civil society. Convicted burglars serve sentences three times longer in the US than in Canada, on average, 16 months rather than 5.3. Note that these are not actions of the state against law-abiding citizens, but against convicted felons who have constrained sets of rights, so discussions of third strike laws are immaterial to police state discussions. The US and Canada have similar racial distributions in their prison systems (joined by Australia and the UK).
I've got five of these, and they are nice, but have one fatal flaw if you're contemplating them for Linux or UNIX use:
no case sensitivity in filenames.
So, if you have users who have two files in one directory:
f and F
there'll be hell to pay when they try to retrieve their files. I've brought this up with SnapAppliance, and they don't care, and won't be fixing this problem.
So, Snap servers are fine for Mac and Windows use. Don't purchase them for use in a UNIX environment, unless you know about this limitation and are the only user.
minidisc. Many models when set to mono will record for twice as long as stereo (2x74min) so will record a two-hour class. Much cheaper than the iRiver.
The University of Alberta has over a dozen clusters. Their central computing facility (CNS) has two clusters, Physics has three or more, CS at least one, Chemistry has seven clusters (0.5 THz total cycles), MechEng at least one, EE at least one,...
The U of A (U of Eh?) also participates in MACI (www.maci.ca) and houses three SGI Origin computers, and is involved with the WestGrid project (www.westgrid.ca).
Prof. Schaeffer's point isn't that we don't have "computrons", but that research is increasingly using simulations (see Jaeger's work) and other computational methods, and computational resources are becoming increasingly overloaded as budgets are not growing as quickly as research advances.
The U of A has at least a dozen clusters (Chemistry has seven unto themselves). The central Computer and Network Services group has two clusters: dual Athlon and P4. Physics has three or more clusters, one of which is in Edmonton and Lausanne (CERN).
I read the whole thing, and I fail to see her point. Carol and Ted aren't stealing anything from GreedyCable. Bob paid for the bandwidth you provided him. Carol and Ted and Bob are using what you sold to Bob. They're not using excess IPs from GreedyCable, either. They're sharing about 4 Mb/s of internal network bandwidth (if any security at all is turned on in the 802.11b access point). Bob may or may not get 4 Mb/s from GreedyCable in a download. My experience is that after-dinner bandwidth is about 800-1200 kb/s on cable, far less than the internal NAT'd network provides.
Cable companies, DSL providers, and even dial-up providers all sell bandwidth. Not content. AOL (the author's putative ISP) doesn't sell content. They sell bandwidth and filtering (i.e., they filter what's on the Internet, and spoonfeed it to their customers).
Nothing prevents someone with a dialup analogue modem from setting up an 802.11b wireless access point on their dialup connection (Apple's AirPort even has a modem built-in).
If Bob buys a gallon of milk, and gives Carol one quart and gives Ted one quart, the retailer still has been paid for a gallon. You're implying that Carol and Ted have stolen milk, which is obviously not the case. Water companies sell water by volume, not per-faucet hydronics fees. Cable companies generally have volume restrictions for monthly use, with fees for overlimit consumption.
NOW, if Carol or Ted go back to the dairy or retailer to complain about spoilt milk, THEN she has a point. However, in the bandwidth scenario, they'll call Bob (who's adept enough to help them configure their 802.11b NICs to access his AP).
Gee, now that I think of it, cable companies buy bandwidth from backbone providers like WorldCom, and resell it! WorldCom should be angry: some of their customers are reselling (not sharing) what bandwidth they purchased from WorldCom! The nerve!
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The Netbotz unit (a 320 would do) with a fluid sensor on the floor would monitor your house's temperature, humidity, and air speed as well as provide a door contact switch and sense water on the floor. Units with and without cameras are available. A multifloor dwelling would be a bigger challenge, of course. http://www.netbotz.com/
I don't work for them; I just use their products and am reasonably satisfied.
I'm sure Bill will wait to step down until a tech installs Duke Nukem Forever on a Vista box. Oh, wait....
No comment on the coming legislation, eh?
I couldn't stand to live in that suburb of Buffalo, so no, I don't live in the GTA, and at least once a week I express thanks for it.
It's Correctional Services Canada, and the goal is Safety, Respect and Dignity for all. One hopes the "safety for all" includes us on the outside. Don't get too excited about the inclusion of [correctional,corrections] in the title of the department, as virtually all penal systems are termed "correctional" (cf California Department of Corrections). That verbal misdirection is called political correctness, and doesn't have any real meaning.
Now that we've discussed your squad of strawmen, I agree you are indeed off topic as none of the third strike or incarceration discussion has anything to do with police states, which was Lellor's calmly stated (as opposed to your hysterical rant) premise.
Hmm, oddly enough I was recruited here, so I'd say you're wrong.
e nt&task=view&id=935)
Let's see: What country has spent billions on registering firearms to no utility? CSIS can wiretap without judicial approval. New legislation proposed this fall will allow eavesdropping on cellular telephone calls and monitoring of internet service. (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=cont
While the US has remanded people to Guantanamo Bay as part of the war, Canada, a country which is not participating, has its own "Gitmo": read up on Mahmoud Jaballah.
As you say, these items are common knowledge.
Those "strikes" you mention would be murder, carjacking, rape and similar "strikes". Rather than returning to the street to reoffend (cf. violent recidivism in Canada is 13%; Paul Bernardo may apply for parole in 2008), they remain incarcerated after thrice proving that they are unable to rejoin civil society. Convicted burglars serve sentences three times longer in the US than in Canada, on average, 16 months rather than 5.3. Note that these are not actions of the state against law-abiding citizens, but against convicted felons who have constrained sets of rights, so discussions of third strike laws are immaterial to police state discussions. The US and Canada have similar racial distributions in their prison systems (joined by Australia and the UK).
You're actually north of the border and consider the US a police state??!
Amazing.
As an American who's lived in Canuckistan for 11 years, I can state categorically that you know not of what you speak.
I've got five of these, and they are nice, but have one fatal flaw if you're contemplating them for Linux or UNIX use:
no case sensitivity in filenames.
So, if you have users who have two files in one directory:
f and F
there'll be hell to pay when they try to retrieve their files. I've brought this up with SnapAppliance, and they don't care, and won't be fixing this problem.
So, Snap servers are fine for Mac and Windows use. Don't purchase them for use in a UNIX environment, unless you know about this limitation and are the only user.
minidisc. Many models when set to mono will record for twice as long as stereo (2x74min) so will record a two-hour class. Much cheaper than the iRiver.
The University of Alberta has over a dozen clusters. Their central computing facility (CNS) has two clusters, Physics has three or more, CS at least one, Chemistry has seven clusters (0.5 THz total cycles), MechEng at least one, EE at least one, ...
The U of A (U of Eh?) also participates in MACI (www.maci.ca) and houses three SGI Origin computers, and is involved with the WestGrid project (www.westgrid.ca).
Prof. Schaeffer's point isn't that we don't have "computrons", but that research is increasingly using simulations (see Jaeger's work) and other computational methods, and computational resources are becoming increasingly overloaded as budgets are not growing as quickly as research advances.
The U of A has at least a dozen clusters (Chemistry has seven unto themselves). The central Computer and Network Services group has two clusters: dual Athlon and P4. Physics has three or more clusters, one of which is in Edmonton and Lausanne (CERN).
I read the whole thing, and I fail to see her point. Carol and Ted aren't stealing anything from GreedyCable. Bob paid for the bandwidth you provided him. Carol and Ted and Bob are using what you sold to Bob. They're not using excess IPs from GreedyCable, either. They're sharing about 4 Mb/s of internal network bandwidth (if any security at all is turned on in the 802.11b access point). Bob may or may not get 4 Mb/s from GreedyCable in a download. My experience is that after-dinner bandwidth is about 800-1200 kb/s on cable, far less than the internal NAT'd network provides.
Cable companies, DSL providers, and even dial-up providers all sell bandwidth. Not content. AOL (the author's putative ISP) doesn't sell content. They sell bandwidth and filtering (i.e., they filter what's on the Internet, and spoonfeed it to their customers).
Nothing prevents someone with a dialup analogue modem from setting up an 802.11b wireless access point on their dialup connection (Apple's AirPort even has a modem built-in).
If Bob buys a gallon of milk, and gives Carol one quart and gives Ted one quart, the retailer still has been paid for a gallon. You're implying that Carol and Ted have stolen milk, which is obviously not the case. Water companies sell water by volume, not per-faucet hydronics fees. Cable companies generally have volume restrictions for monthly use, with fees for overlimit consumption.
NOW, if Carol or Ted go back to the dairy or retailer to complain about spoilt milk, THEN she has a point. However, in the bandwidth scenario, they'll call Bob (who's adept enough to help them configure their 802.11b NICs to access his AP).
Gee, now that I think of it, cable companies buy bandwidth from backbone providers like WorldCom, and resell it! WorldCom should be angry: some of their customers are reselling (not sharing) what bandwidth they purchased from WorldCom! The nerve!